June, 2022

• 7 June

  Food Security Now Top Priority For G20 Cooperation

  

  In just over two months, the world food situation has gone from bad to worse. Calls to not panic fell on deaf ears, even as the Ukrainian military put up stiff opposition to the Russian onslaught. If Ukraine somehow wins the war, it will be decades before its economy and …

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• 7 June

  Armenia Limits Bioweapons Cooperation With US Amid Russian Pressure

  

  Armenia’s government has said it will no longer share with the United States samples of biological pathogens and data on disease outbreaks, amid a Russian campaign raising suspicions of American biological laboratories across the post-Soviet space. On June 2, the government announced that it was amending a 2010 agreement between …

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• 7 June

  Iranian supreme leader says Tehran took oil from Greek tankers

  

  Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Iran took oil from two Greek tankers last month in the Arabian Gulf. Helicopter raids were launched in retaliation for Greece’s part in the US taking crude from an Iranian-flagged tanker in the Mediterranean Sea because of sanctions on the Islamic …

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• 7 June

  Le Maire: France in talks with UAE for Russia oil alternatives

  

  French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday that France is in discussions with the United Arab Emirates regarding supplies of oil and diesel. “We have to find an alternative to Russian petrol,” Le Maire said in an interview with Europe1 Radio. The UAE could provide at least a …

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• 7 June

  Who needs a hegemon?

  

  Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the US has been able to exert tremendous influence on other nations through its military and economic power. The world no longer was bipolar with the US and the Soviet Union competing for leadership. Instead, it has been …

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• 7 June

  U.S. Democracy Questioned By Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Congresswoman

  

  U.S. congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) denounced the U.S. political system as an “oligarchy” on Friday, resuming the long-dormant class-war rhetoric that first attracted so many young voters to her campaign in 2018. “When you look at the fact that our elections are bought, that corporations and… powerful corporate lobbies …

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• 7 June

  NATO opens Northern front in war against Russia

  

  On May 16, Sweden and Finland announced an end to decades of neutrality, proclaiming their intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its escalating conflict with Russia. Less than three weeks later, Stockholm, Sweden’s capital, has been turned into a naval garrison with the arrival of a …

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• 7 June

  Iran official says Iran won’t replace Russia in Syria

  

  Iranian leader warns “Zionist regime” that Tehran will strike back Vahid Jalalzadeh, the chairman of Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, gave an interview to Al-Alam TV saying that the Islamic Republic would continue to support the Syrian regime but that reports it was replacing Russians in Syria …

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• 7 June

  Iranian scientist who died this weekend showed Rouhani around oil company – report

  

  Dr. Ayub Entezari, who died over the weekend, reportedly showed former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani around a turbine factory in 2019. Iranian scientist Dr. Ayub Entezari, 35, who died on Saturday after reportedly suffering from food poisoning, met with former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in 2019, Middle East analyst Jason …

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• 7 June

  Iranian dissident journalist disappears in Ankara – report

  

  Mohammad-Bagher Morad fled Iran nine years ago after receiving a five-year prison sentence for “colluding against national security” after criticizing the regime. An Iranian dissident journalist under asylum in Turkey disappeared on May 30 and is suspected of being kidnapped by Iranian agents, according to Iran International, a news agency …

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