Eurasia Press & News
How to Reverse the Inward Turn of Republican Foreign Policy It is hard to think of a more chaotic moment in the history of the Republican Party than the present; perhaps only Andrew Johnson’s 1865–68 presidency comes close. The GOP’s de facto leader, former President Donald Trump, faces 91 felony …
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December, 2023
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8 December
Operation Iron Swords
Updated to 1 p.m., December 5, 2023
The combat arena: The integrated IDF forces extended the fighting in the Gaza Strip,focusing their activity in the Jabalia and Shejaiya areas in the northern Gaza Strip and in theKhan Yunis region in the south. The Palestinian media reported a very difficult night in theKhan Yunis region and in the …
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8 December
Henry Kissinger: Snake Oil Salesman of Gangster Realism
“‘He’ll have ye smilin’,” an old Irish saying goes, “while he takes the gold out of your teeth’.” Charles Glass, London Review of Books, Oct 20, 2022 The obituaries of criminals, masterful or otherwise, are always going to be sordid matters. Either one has time for the deeds, giving column …
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8 December
Infamous War Criminal Henry Kissinger Dead
Infamous war criminal, former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger passed away at age 100 on Wednesday. The renowned diplomat, and infamous to many people in the Third World, died at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, said in a statement. The …
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8 December
The bombing of hospitals and local violence dynamics
in civil warsCan coercive airpower quell a rebellion? Existing literature on the effects of counterinsurgentviolence focuses predominantly on casualties resulting from attacks on civilians. It thusoverlooks the targeting of civilian infrastructure, which is a frequent phenomenon in war. We fillthis gap by examining the targeting of healthcare as one of the most …
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8 December
Azerbaijan Busted A US Government-Funded Information Warfare Operation
Although Azerbaijan and India have different views on Karabakh and Kashmir, they’ve found themselves under similar pressure from the US, and this is precisely due to them being regional multipolar leaders. “The West’s Pro-Armenian Pivot Is Complete After The US & EU Openly Took Its Side” last month against Azerbaijan …
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8 December
Azerbaijan Escalates ‘US Spy’ Rhetoric, Arrests Another Journalist
Azerbaijan’s pro-government media has been ramping up its anti-U.S. rhetoric and the government is publicly musing about banning the activities of USAID, the U.S. government’s international development arm. A campaign against supposed “U.S. spies” continued with the arrest of a fourth media manager in a week’s time. The sharp anti-U.S. …
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8 December
Iran, Saudi Arabia Discuss Regional Cooperation
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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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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