What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan
Feb 14,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Jeffrey D. Sachs The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our […]
A Year After Putin’s Invasion. How Might the Violence in Ukraine Come to an End?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began one year ago. But how might the war end? Russia seems further from victory than ever, but a Ukrainian triumph is also far from a […]
Russia wants sanctions to be lifted for Black Sea grain deal renewal
BY REUTERS FEB 13, 2023 – DAILY SABAH The Palau-flagged bulk carrier MKK1, carrying grain under U.N.’s Black Sea grain initiative, is seen drifting aground in the Bosporus in Istanbul, […]
More weapons, less refugees: Is Israel a neutral party in the Russia-Ukraine war?
RAMZY BAROUD February 13, 2023 For a whole year, Israel has struggled in its attempts to articulate a clear and decisive position regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The reason behind the […]
Who bombed Russia’s gas pipelines?
February 12, 2023 – TEHRAN- As warring sides trade blame over the Nord Stream blasts, an award-winning journalist makes a bombshell revelation. In September, a series of strong explosions caused […]
UN chief fears world is heading towards ‘wider war’ over Russia-Ukraine conflict
United Nations António Guterres warns in speech to general assembly that ‘chances of escalation and bloodshed are growing’ AFP at the United NationsMon 6 Feb 2023 The head of the […]
Alt-Media Is Speechless After Syria Reportedly Requested Quake Aid From Israel Via Russia
Source: Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter Damascus’ de facto reversal of its official anti-Zionist policies creates an unparalleled narrative dilemma for the Alt-Media Community whose members support Syria largely as a result of that aforesaid stance. They’re thus forced to either go against their own principles by praising President Bashar Assad’s reported […]
Double standards on war crimes, from Afghanistan to Ukraine
by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan April 7, 2022 We need a uniform standard of justice to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes, wherever they may occur. In early April, shocking video surfaced […]
How to access information in censored countries
Inside SWI China, Russia, Iran and other countries with dictatorships and strict regimes are increasingly blocking access to the free internet and are using the web to collect data. This […]
Why Russia sees satanic powers at work in Ukraine
Foreign affairs The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a massive rift within Christian Orthodox communities. In an interview, theologian Stefan Kube, editor of a Swiss journal on religion, explains […]
Human Rights Watch Joined The Ranks Of Amnesty International By Exposing Kiev’s War Crimes
Source:Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter The US-led West’s Mainstream Media is predictably silent and appears to be deliberately ignoring this “politically inconvenient” report. Drawing attention to it would erode the public’s confidence in their perception managers who told them over the past year that all war crimes accusations against Kiev are supposedly […]
Russia Expert Angela Stent”As Long as Russia Has 6,000 Nuclear Warheads, It Will Remain a Threat”
How great is the risk for the West after the decision to send tanks to Ukraine? In an interview, Russia expert and former U.S. government adviser Angela Stent discusses German […]
How Russia misread Germany’s growing influence
CNN Two years ago, Moscow eyed a US-German standoff over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as a litmus test of transatlantic power. Russia had invested heavily in the 750-mile undersea pipeline linking it to Germany and wanted to increase global sales and ramp up economic leverage over Europe and its power-hungry heavy […]
Countries financing Ukraine war should compensate affected vulnerable nations
Jan 11,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen The Euro-centric Western prosecutors of the Ukraine war care little or nothing for the peoples of this region, Africa and Asia who […]
Did the Afghan failure lead to the Ukraine war?
Aug 27,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM — Why did the West’s Afghanistan policy fail so spectacularly? Was it doomed from the very beginning, and have any lessons been learned? More to the point, did the end of one 20-year war pave the way for another? One year […]
Türkiye says 5 million tons of grain shipped to sub-Sahara Africa
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL JAN 12, 2023 Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (L) speaks at the press conference with his Rwandan counterpart Vincent Biruta, in Kigali, Rwanda, Jan. 12, 2023. (DHA Photo) […]
Why EU leaders dread an Ukraine peace process
Jan 09,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Yanis Varoufakis ATHENS — This is not a polemic about whether Russia can be trusted to respect any future peace treaty with Ukraine. Nor […]
Ukraine is in the headlines now. But a whole new world of conflict is about to erupt
Simon Tisdall Taiwan, North Korea, Iran and Palestine are all potential flashpoints that could distract western attention from the invasion in 2023 Sun 1 Jan 2023 It was a good […]
Is this the worst German government in history?
BY YUNUS MAZI DEC 29, 2022 The new German government has failed to fill the gap, worse even, the gap got bigger and more prominent in the current year. (Getty […]