At first glance, there is little that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an Islamist and nationalist, has in common with Dogu Perincek, a maverick socialist, Eurasianist, and militant secularist and Kemalist. Yet it is Mr. Perincek, a man with a world of contacts in Russia, China, Iran, and Syria whose …

Recently, Raisi’s government has talked about signing a memorandum of understanding to invest in three mega-projects in the amount of forty-two billion dollars. These three mega-projects are: The implementation of forty-eight industrial projects in which seven large domestic companies are involved (Naft and Energy site, 6, February 2022)Integrated development of …

America’s allies are hedging against current American approaches to exercise global leadership, mostly in response to its casual abandonment of Afghanistan after two decades of war that cost over $2 Trillion. Adding to their unease with Washington was the abandonment of over $7 billion of military equipment to the Taliban, …

With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany’s playbook: Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Censorship. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. Indefinite detention. These are not tactics used by constitutional republics, where the rule of law and the …

What always astonishing me was and it is a double face and hypocrisy of exactly every politician on the political scene on the area of former Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia (SFRJ or just ex-Yugoslavia). Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo…, are the places where live people …

Russia’s Army Games factsheet, publicly distributed at the centrally coordinated information bureau, documented an increase in the annual purchases of military equipment by foreign clients including African countries. Our monitoring and research show that Russia has traditionally maintained good relations with north African countries especially Algeria and Egypt. Besides that, …

China published a white paper titled “The Taiwan Question and China’s Reunification in the New Era” on August 10,2022 reiterating its claims over the self-ruled island. This is the third white paper, the two earlier were published in August 1993 and in February 2000. Chinese state media said the white …

On July 30 hundreds of supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq’s leading political figures, breached the parliament building in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, forced their way inside, and started a coordinated sit-in to protest at the recent nomination of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani for the premiership. Sixty protesters were injured …

Premier Mitsotakis gibt sich als Reformer, der Griechenland saniert. Tatsächlich regiert er zunehmend wie ein Autokrat. Die EU muss einschreiten. Diesen Sommer haben Millionen Europäerinnen und Europäer wieder die hellen Seiten Griechenlands erlebt, die Sonne, die Strände, die Gastfreundschaft. Griechenland ist eines der beliebtesten Ziele für Touristinnen und Touristen in …

Η χθεσινή παρουσία του πρωθυπουργού στη Βουλή ήταν τραγική. Κι αυτό γιατί ήταν ομολογία και αποκάλυψη της απόλυτης πολιτικής παρακμής. Ο άνθρωπος που διοικεί τη χώρα δεν ήταν σε θέση να εγγυηθεί τη δημοκρατική νομιμότητα, απέφυγε να δώσει ουσιαστικές και πειστικές απαντήσεις στα καίρια ερωτήματα της αντιπολίτευσης, κατέφευγε διαρκώς σε …