January, 2022

• 13 January

  Iran, Qatar Discuss Afghanistan, Yemen

  

  The foreign ministers of Iran and Qatar talked about a range of regional and international issues, including the latest developments in Afghanistan and Yemen. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian held a meeting with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Doha on Tuesday. The two senior diplomats talked …

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• 13 January

  Surkov Says Russia Must Expand Or Die, The Most Dangerous Of All Possible ‘Prescriptions’ – OpEd

  

  Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin’s former chief ideologist, has published a new programmatic article in which he argues that the solution to Russia’s domestic malaise lies in imperial expansion. Indeed, he says, Russia must expand territorially or die (actualcomment.ru/kuda-delsya-khaos-raspakovka-stabilnosti-2111201336.html). Many Russian commentators have suggested that his analysis of the domestic situation …

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• 13 January

  How GDP Stats Create Illusion Of Fed-Fueled Economic Growth – Analysis

  

  Most experts tend to assess the strength of an economy in terms of real gross domestic product (GDP). The GDP framework looks at the value of final goods and services produced during a particular time interval, usually a quarter or a year. The GDP is formed as the summation of …

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• 13 January

  Will The Crisis In Kazakhstan Affect Putin’s Plans For Ukraine? – Analysis

  

  Russia’s military intervention in Kazakhstan to support the country’s embattled regime was an effort by Moscow to help head off a popular revolt attempting to unseat a friendly autocrat in a neighboring country. And a week after mass protests and subsequent riots first swept Kazakhstan, the Kremlin’s gamble appears to …

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• 13 January

  Politics, Society And Religion In The Middle East And North Africa – Analysis

  

  The Arab world is one of the most volatile regions in the world and plays a central role in global politics today. (1) With its great diversity of peoples, languages, and cultures, it is also home to the fastest-growing religion in the world: Islam. (2) Add to that immense socio-economic …

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• 13 January

  Iran-US: No Exit?

  

  To borrow from that wiliest of ex-bishops turned statesmen, Charles de Talleyrand, George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq was worse than a crime: it was a mistake. Twenty years after 9/11, American military and foreign policy leaders are still struggling to resurrect something of the functionally stable balance of …

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• 13 January

  US, Russia Hold Day-Long Talks Amid Ukraine Tensions

  

  Diplomats from the United States and Russia held day-long talks Monday in Geneva about Moscow’s massive troop buildup along its Ukraine border and Russian demands for Western security guarantees. A U.S. State Department spokesperson said the meeting, the first of several this week, began just before 9 a.m. local time …

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• 13 January

  We Need A Revolution – OpEd

  

  A recent Washington Post/University of Maryland poll found that 34 percent of Americans think violent action against the government can be justifiable. This view is held by 40 percent of Republicans and 23 percent of Democrats. The result may seem surprising since leftists have been responsible for much of the …

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• 13 January

  US-China Sustainable Infrastructure Collaborative Opportunities: Green Partnerships Must Begin In Africa – Analysis

  

  Implementing sustainable farming practices and infrastructure development in Africa has been an ongoing challenge. Foreign resource extraction operations on the continent offer exchanges of raw materials for capital and critical infrastructure development. These infrastructure projects are crucial for cooperative economic development in Africa. However, the inattention to sustainability through the …

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• 13 January

  Hundreds of migrants detained outside of UN center in Libya

  

  The migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers were camping out near the building in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Libyan security forces dispersed and arrested migrants outside of a community center in Tripoli, rights groups said today. The migrants had been conducting a sit-in outside of the United Nations-affiliated center when Libyan police …

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