May, 2024

• 3 May

  ‘Peace Gas Pipelines’: Dead Or Alive? – OpEd

  

  Iran and Pakistan have agreed to forge deeper cooperation as they decided to expedite the process of inking a free trade agreement (FTA), convert their common frontier into a “Border of peace and Friendship,” according to the joint statement. They also reiterated the importance of cooperation in the energy domain, …

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• 3 May

  Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Russia: Foreign Fighters – Part 2

  During the past decade and a half, extremist non-state actors in Russia have become a central element of the violent transnational right-wing extremist milieu. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and particularly its re-invasion of the country in 2022 have afforded these actors far greater opportunities to operate and …

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• 3 May

  Iran handed Jordan and Israel an opportunity to improve ties

  

  Some threats simply beg to be turned into opportunities. Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi confirmed that his country’s air force intercepted several Iranian drones between April 13 and 14, helping defend against Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel. The military assistance by the Hashemite Kingdom followed …

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• 3 May

  Another US precision-guided weapon falls prey to Russian electronic warfare, US says

  

  A U.S. defense official would not provide specifics, but is likely referring to Boeing’s Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb. U.S.-provided precision-guided munitions have failed in mission after mission in Ukraine, taken down by Russian electronic warfare. On Wednesday, the Pentagon revealed the latest casualty. A new ground-launched version of an air-to-ground …

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• 3 May

  Crimean Air Defenses Hit by Ukraine ATACMS Strike: Reports

  

  Ukrainian forces have reportedly struck Russian air-defense systems in the occupied Crimean peninsula. Reports from X, formerly Twitter, indicate that Ukraine struck Russian air defenses with tactical ballistic missiles in Cape Tarkhankut, the western tip of Crimea. X account War Translate posted a screen shot of messages from “Russian channels” …

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• 3 May

  On the crisis situation in the theoretical-methodological apparatus of science

  

  PEREL IN THE NINA OF THE NATURAL OF MYTHS With the following methodological requirements, it is usually reduced to the equalment of scientists of the most different profiles to a certain, as authoritative for them as much as authoritative for them, the “conceptual bar” is met by the criterion of …

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• 3 May

  Economic personality

  

  Personality and Individual: The distinction of concepts The concept of a total toiler as a stock figure of the history of the economy can be supplemented by the formula “economic personality.” The economic personality is an all-total (integral) worker. In this case, the focus is on the personality in its …

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• 3 May

  The ideological cocktail poisoning American campuses

  

  Back in December, the eminent historian Niall Ferguson wrote an essay in The Free Press that, it’s now apparent, presaged the tidal wave of demonstrations now inundating college campuses around the country. It was called “The Treason of the Intellectuals” which also was the title of a 1927 publication by …

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• 3 May

  Islamic State Khorasan’s Westward Network Expansion Into Iran, Turkey, and Europe

  

  ISKP’s retooling from regional operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan to a focus on external attacks and operational plots has resulted in a surge of both foiled plots and successful attacks. The Islamic State attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue on the outskirts of Moscow, which killed at least …

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• 2 May

  Benjamin Netanyahu announced an attack on Rafah with or without a prisoner exchange agreement

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that he will initiate a ground attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, regardless of whether a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas is reached or not. Netanyahu met with representatives of the families of Israeli prisoners in Gaza, as …

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