When China and Iran, two of the United States’ main adversaries in the contemporary world situation, enter into a 25-year strategic pact, it is pointless to split hairs and speculate whether the development affects American strategies. Of course, it does. The West Asian region is all about geopolitics — starting […]
Month: March 2021
Mozambique’s The Newest Front In The US’ So-Called Global War On Terror
Many observers missed the US’ designation in early March of Mozambique’s “Al Shabaab” as an ISIS-affiliated global terrorist organization and its subsequent dispatch of roughly a dozen Green Berets to the country to aid the national military in its counter-terrorist operations, but this development signals that the Southern African state […]
This Is How Shingles Of Indian Interests In Myanmar Overlap Russia And China’s
India did the right thing by dissociating from other “Quad” members to join the defence attaches of Myanmar’s neighbouring countries and attend the parade on Saturday in Naypyitaw to mark the Armed Forces Day — although pro-American proxies in the media have voiced some misplaced indignation. Evidently, New Delhi attaches […]
Two Ambassadors To Syria With Wildly Different Analyses
In the past few months, Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate has interviewed two former ambassadors to Syria: former UK Ambassador Peter Ford and former U.S. Ambassador Robert S. Ford. The two ambassadors have a common surname but dramatically different perspectives. This article will compare the statements and viewpoints of the two […]
Secretary Of State Blinken Won’t Succeed In Breaking Chinese-EU Bonds
The continual improvement of Chinese-EU relations is irreversible since it embodies the driving force of history, particularly as it relates to the inevitable integration of the Eurasian supercontinent as an outcome of the emerging Multipolar World Order. China and the EU are economically complementary partners and equally rich civilizations that […]
China Resents US Presence In Afghanistan
The “hidden agenda” of the war on terror in Afghanistan has been an open secret. The first inkling of its geopolitical character came when it transpired that even after installing a pro-US regime in Kabul in 2002-2003, Pentagon was in no mood to vacate its Central Asian bases. Finally, the […]
Ukraine: Then And Now
This assessment and comparison of persecutions against the Church in Ukraine by the government today and its persecution by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Brest Unia in the sixteenth century was offered by Archpriest Andrei Tkachev, who was born and raised in Lvov, the center of Western Ukraine and the stronghold of Greek Catholicism (Uniatism).
Antonio Banderas: I Cannot Imagine Life Without Art Or Music
In times of crisis, arts in all forms become the lifeline that unites people, allows artistic expression and brings hope. Even when facing the inevitable demise on a sinking Titanic, the musicians did not stop playing their music making, in some way, the inevitable less tragic. There is no wonder that […]
Can Russia’s S-400 Sale To India Trigger The Quad’s Collapse?
The US-led anti-Chinese Quad alliance of itself, Australia, India, and Japan might be on the brink of collapse according to influential BJP ideologue Subramanian Swamy, who warned that Washington might expel New Delhi from this bloc if it goes through with its planned purchase of Russia’s S-400 air defense systems. […]
The European Union: Unity in Diversity or Unity vs Diversity? (II)
Part I In France, Spain Another example of a cultural restriction is a widely sounded decision in France, where all religious symbols were forbidden in schools. First of all, the human – rights of all kinds of religious groups were violated, the Muslim in the first place, as Islamic professor […]
India’s Agony And Ecstasy Over Quad
A flurry of diplomatic activities through the past fortnight starting with the first-ever summit meeting of Quad on March 12 mark a historic transition in the world order. While the western world has been the locus of international politics for the past five centuries, that is most certainly shifting toward […]
Biden’s ‘Killer’ Remark Backfired, Big Time
President Biden’s recent agreement with an interviewer that his Russian counterpart is a “killer” badly backfired after it earned President Putin sympathy across the world as the latest high-profile victim of American slander, to say nothing of how weak the American leader looked after his spokeswoman declined President Putin’s request […]
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