April, 2024

• 29 April

  UK, NATO LEADERS VISIT POLAND AS TUSK TAKES ON KEY UKRAINE ROLE

  

  The British PM chose Warsaw as the place to announce the UK would significantly ramp up its military spending, with more weapons headed to Ukraine to help its war effort. “I’m announcing that the UK will be increasing defence spending up to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030,” British …

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• 27 April

  IRAN UPDATE, APRIL 25, 2024

  

  Hamas and Palestinian factions are targeting and threatening to target the humanitarian pier in the central Gaza Strip that is meant to distribute aid to the northern Strip. Israeli media report that unspecified Palestinian fighters mortared construction facilities for the US-built pier in the central Gaza Strip on April 25.[1] …

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• 27 April

  Tajikistan Keen To Invest In Iran’s Chabahar Strategic Port

  The deputy transport minister of Tajikistan said her country is interested in investing at Iran’s Chabahar Port in logistics affairs. In a meeting with Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Ali Akbar Safaei, Shayesta Moradzadeh emphasized the interest of her country in making investments at the port in …

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• 27 April

  Reflections On Social Exclusion And Radicalization In The Arab World – Analysis

  

  The independences of the Arab nations in the 20th century brought hope to the Arab masses for better living standards and better future but unfortunately this dream never materialised in non-oil countries. Instead, non-democratic Arab governments adopted neo-tribalism practices, and neo-patriarchy philosophy to perpetuate their regimes and consolidate their power …

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• 27 April

  Why Is Viktor Orban Keeping The 100-Year-Old Treaty Of Trianon Alive? – Analysis

  

  On a hill overlooking Varpalota, a former mining town a 90-minute car ride from Budapest, sits a newly refurbished museum with a single and equivocal message: Hungary was — and is — a victim. With interactive screens, speakers blasting out the sounds of gunfire, the rattle of train tracks and …

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• 27 April

  The US ‘Pivots To Diplomacy’ In Yemen – Analysis

  

  The good news is the United States is calling for diplomacy in the Middle East. The bad news it is because it was bested by Yemen’s rebel Houthis. U.S. Special Envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, bowed to the obvious and admitted, “We favor a diplomatic solution, we know there is …

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• 27 April

  Israel Can Still Drag The US Into War With Iran – OpEd

  

  The Biden administration is breathing a sigh of relief that it has so far avoided a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. But that self-congratulation should be tempered with realization that it was a close call and that the incentives for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hawkish …

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• 27 April

  DEMOCRACY DIGEST: ATTEMPT TO CANCEL NATCON HANDS ORBAN A PR GIFT

  

  Elsewhere, Mr Fiala goes to Washington, Mr Duda goes to New York; Poland looks toward Sky Shield; and new prosecutors needed in Slovakia. Anational-conservative conference in Brussels, featuring populist and right-wing politicians such as Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage and French firebrand Eric Zemmour, would not …

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• 27 April

  China’s Alternative Order

  

  And What America Should Learn From It By now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He wants to dissolve Washington’s network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as “Western” values from international bodies. He wants to knock the U.S. dollar off its pedestal and …

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• 27 April

  The Coming Arab Backlash

  

  Middle Eastern Regimes—and America—Ignore Public Anger at Their Peril Since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the Middle East has been rocked by mass protests. Egyptians have demonstrated in solidarity with Palestinians at great personal risk, and Iraqis, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Yemenis have taken to the streets in vast numbers. …

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