Eurasia Press & News
Top officials from Iran and Saudi Arabia weighed plans for regional cooperation between the two Muslim heavyweights at a meeting in Riyadh. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud held talks on the sidelines of a joint meeting of the Organization of …
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December, 2023
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8 December
Moscow Purges Security Officials And Takes Preventative Steps In North Caucasus – Analysis
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a high-level meeting of security officials immediately following the recent anti-Israeli riots in Dagestan and elsewhere in the North Caucasus. Putin’s move is one of only a few indications that Moscow is concerned with the unrest (MR7.ru, November 5). Perhaps more notable is what …
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8 December
Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government (including representative-electoral) coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other. The revolutionaries who overthrew other systems to establish capitalism sometimes meant …
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8 December
Bombing Khan Younis: Israel, USA and Population Transfer
Through the intense bombardment of Khan Younis Israel wants its 1.5 million displaced people that came to assemble here to continue to move further south to Rafah on the border with Egypt. And you can guess why? Eventual exodus maybe! United States Vice-President Kamala Harris said Washington will not allow …
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8 December
Israel steps up ethnic cleansing of Gaza with expansion of ground and air onslaught to the south
Israel’s military reported Tuesday it had reached the centre of Khan Younis in southern Gaza amid what a top general labelled “the most intensive day” of combat since the start of the Netanyahu regime’s genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians. The ground offensive on the city, whose population has swelled over …
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8 December
How Israel’s war is deliberately making Gaza uninhabitable
After nearly six weeks of nonstop bombardment on the densely populated Gaza Strip, it has only recently started to become clear exactly how much of Gaza has been destroyed in the violent Israeli onslaught. Over 14,800 Palestinians, including 6,000 children, have been killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry since …
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8 December
The ‘day after’ in Gaza: What will happen once Israel’s war ends?
Unless and until a ceasefire comes into effect, the Gaza war’s destabilising impact is set to spread further across the Middle East – to say nothing about the horrifying situation inside the besieged enclave. At this point, more than seven weeks after Hamas launched its unprecedented incursion into southern Israel, …
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8 December
A rocky road
Drug trafficking and corruption in central Asia Central Asia lies on the heroin trafficking route connecting supply in Afghanistan with markets in Russia and Europe. Low levels of violence related to the trade point to possible state collusion in the region with traffickers. According to the United Nations Office on …
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8 December
Lebanon’s role in Syria’s Captagon trade
Syria’s degree of involvement in the synthetic drug trade is the highest in the world, but the influence of neighbouring Lebanon should not be underestimated. As the conflict in Syria has rolled on over the past decade, the country’s involvement in the synthetic drug trade has grown, and the country …
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8 December
Defeated Armenia Looks to a New, Post-Russia Foreign Policy
Yerevan does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past by relying too much on a single ally. Armenia is on the brink of formulating a new foreign policy. Moscow’s silent acquiescence during September’s one-day war, in which Azerbaijan seized the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, prompting the flight of …
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