August, 2023

• 28 August

  Niger : La fin d’une époque – L’émergence d’un monde nouveau

  

  Pas évident de suivre l’évolution de la situation au Niger. Entre les fausses rumeurs, les vidéos détournées, les audios manipulées, la machine de la désinformation est en marche. Cette vague de désinformation est autant le fait d’acteurs locaux que d’influences étrangères. Il est vrai que les enjeux géo stratégiques sont …

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• 28 August

  How will Israel’s diplomatic snafu with Libya impact the Arab world?

  

  The meeting with Israel may be a controversy that undermines the Tripoli government and contributes to chaos. The fallout from the meeting between Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and Libya’s Government of National Unity Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has been greeted in the Middle East with intense interest and scrutiny. …

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• 28 August

  Wagner chief Prigozhin among passengers in fatal plane crash: Russian state media

  

  Russia’s grey-zone influence in the Middle East and Africa enters uncharted territory amid reports of the Wagner chief’s death. Russian state media claimed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the de facto head of the Wagner paramilitary organization, was killed along with nine other people onboard a private jet that tumbled out of …

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• 28 August

  Russia benefits from Turkey’s tiff with UN, NATO allies over Cyprus village

  

  The UN Security Council will discuss an incident in the Cypriot border village of Pyla, where Turkish Cypriot security forces are accused of manhandling UN peacekeepers over a controversial road project. The UN Security Council was due to convene today to discuss developments in Pyla, an ethnically mixed village on …

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• 28 August

  Syria: Orphan in News Headlines

  

  The Syrian tragedy started with peaceful efforts by a large segment of the population to secure more individual freedoms, a curb on corruption, and better economic opportunities. All the current talk about normalization and reconstruction is a subterfuge to avoid the core geopolitical aspect of this tragedy created by conflicting …

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• 28 August

  Biden’s Disastrous Withdrawal from Afghanistan Still Haunts the West

  

  Putin is nothing if not an opportunist, and the images of American forces and their British allies struggling to contain the surging crowds at Kabul airport who were desperately trying to flee the country will have confirmed the Russian leader’s view that, so long as Biden remained in power, he …

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• 28 August

  Making the USA as Global Greatest Power: From Alaska (1867) to Europe (1917)

  

  Introduction It can be indicated from a historical viewpoint that the USA emerged on the stage of global (world) politics in 1867 (four years before Germany did the same in 1871 after the Franco−Prussian War of 1870−1871). Both these imperial states at the same time exerted extremely influential politics in …

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• 28 August

  Who’s afraid of Prigozhin and Wagner?

  

  There has been an avalanche of western media reports within minutes or hours of the ghastly death on Wednesday of the head of the Wagner organisation of Russian military contractors, Yevgeny Prigozhin, which pointed the accusing finger at President Vladimir Putin as the perpetrator. It is almost as if a …

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• 28 August

  Controversial George Soros’ Open Society Foundations To Curtail Programs In Europe And Lay Off Much Of Its Staff

  

  Controversial George Soros’ Open Society Foundations plan to significantly curtail their work in Europe and lay off much of their staff on the continent, the foundations’ leaders told staff in Berlin, according to an internal email and several current employees, who say the decision is painful and perplexing. An AP …

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• 28 August

  Declaration of the BRICS Johannesburg Summit

  

  Considering significance of the BRICS 15th Summit Declaration, Countercurrents is posting the Declaration’s complete version. XV BRICS Summit Johannesburg II Declaration BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa Wednesday 23 August 2023 Preamble We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic …

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