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Iran Hosting Conference On New World Order – OpEd

Tehran will host an international conference on the emerging new world order on May 10-11, General Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam announced on Monday. Moqaddam, the former police chief who is currently the head of Iran’s National Defense University, said Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf will deliver opening remarks at the conference. …

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War for Profit: A Short History

The senseless slaughter of World War I began with the murder of a single man, a Crown Prince of a European empire whose name no one was particularly familiar with at the time. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria was the presumptive heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire in June …

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Russia Looks East To Trade – Analysis

On 31 March 2023, Russia published its new Foreign Policy Concept. Rapid growth in Asia has fuelled Russia’s drift toward the East and the pivot has now been integrated into official policy. This is a tectonic shift for Russia domestically but the material effects in Asia will be felt gradually. …

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Wagner Chief Again Slams Russian Defense Ministry; Accuses Soldiers Of Fleeing

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin again accused the Russian Defense Ministry of failing to supply his mercenary fighters with enough ammunition and accused Russian troops of fleeing fighting around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Prigozhin’s comments, made in one of several messages released by his press service on May 9, …

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The Military-Industrial Complex Is Now Scarily Huge – Analysis

The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warnedAmericans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it’s consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in his 1961 …

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Putin’s parade on the street, green men in a chest

Hooray – to doom! Moscow has had “cool” celebrations and a military parade. She was joined by Putin with rich fairy tales and classic demagoguery. In short – a perfect picture of the mental world of today’s Russia, which is plunging headlong into decline. Celebrations of victory in the Great …

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Malicious Attacks on Veterans’ Benefits

There is something uniquely despicable about a Democratic strategy in Congress that would turn the urgent need to cut waste in President Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion dollar budget into a political weapon by accusing the Republicans of seeking to cut veterans’ benefits. Let us start with the premise that …

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Iran Says Ready To Arm Syria With Advanced Weapons

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said Tehran is prepared to equip the Syrian military forces with sophisticated weapons and open “strategic defense gear” factories in the Arab country. The Iranian defense minister, who was accompanying the Iranian president during a visit to Syria last week, held a …

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US Banking Crisis In A New Stage Of Contagion? – OpEd

In view of the Fed, American banking crisis is over. Yet, US and European banks face the most acute stress since 2008 and 2011, respectively. Global economy is exposed to new headwinds. Last week, as the Federal Reserve pushed ahead with its 10th rate hike since last March, its chairman …

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