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Iran reveals an underground air force base

Iran on Tuesday revealed an underground air force base, called “Eagle 44” and the first of its kind large enough to house fighter jets, Reuters quoted official IRNA news agency said. The “Eagle 44” base is capable of storing and operating fighter jets and drones, IRNA said. The report did …

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The End of Israeli Democracy?

Netanyahu’s Latest Reforms Come Straight From the Autocrat’s Playbook After winning an unexpectedly large electoral victory in November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu went on to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. Its ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox members don’t agree on everything, but they are united on one objective: weakening Israel’s …

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The Decline of the West: Spengler in Today’s World

Timelessness of thought and vision in world politics is a rare mark of grandeur. Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, written a century ago, deserves this distinction as it reads like it was done yesterday. The German historian-philosopher wrote in 1922 that the centuries old West-European-American civilization was in …

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THE END OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Why It Lacks Resilience, And What Will Take Its Place. The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors. All antiquity recognized that the drive to acquire money is addictive and indeed …

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The End of the so-called Civilised West

The conflict in Ukraine has already exposed the double standards of the so-called western notion of “International Community” that means primarily the western nations with genocidal imperial past. The term ‘international community’ was first coined at the congress of Vienna in 1815, which marked the end of Napoleonic wars in …

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The Notion of “Turan” in Eurasianism of the 1920s

The paired concept of “Iran” and “Turan” has undergone many modifications in history. Its classical use is associated with the medieval Persian epic, in particular, with Firdausi, where “Iran” was understood as a state of sedentary farmers, and “Turan” as a world of nomads of Central Asia (in antiquity—Iranian-speaking, and …

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China Hasn’t Given Up on the Belt and Road

Beijing’s Development Aid Plan Is Less Flashy—but No Less Ambitious In the decade since Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing’s huge infrastructure and investment program has become a defining part of its foreign policy. In the BRI’s early years, dozens of emerging economies in Africa, …

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