The sudden flare up between India and Pakistan could not have occurred at a more dangerous moment. The two nuclear powers are engaged in a war of words, with their troops mobilizing and the first missiles fired in Kashmir. At the same time, Kyiv is issuing terrorist threats against Moscow, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced plans to use the […]
Read moreThe international Schiller Institute and the International Peace Coalition (IPC) have launched an extraordinary mobilization to put the Oasis Plan for the reconstruction and development of Palestine on the agenda of the extraordinary conference of the United Nations in New York devoted to the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. Scheduled for June 2-4, the conference is organized jointly by […]
Read moreOn the evening of May 4, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved plans to “conquer and hold” the territory of the Gaza Strip. “No more in and out”, declared Prime Minister Netanyahu. There is to be complete takeover. Israeli reservists are already being called up, and the Cabinet also ratified IDF-controlled logistics for food control in Gaza in the future, allowing […]
Read moreIn an interview given to The Intercept this week, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, called for European Union officials — including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the Commission’s head of Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas — to face charges of complicity in war crimes over their support for Israel during its […]
Read moreThe situation in the Balkans threatens to explode any time now, triggered by the escalating tensions between Bosnian Serbs and the central government. If a civil war breaks out in Bosnia, Serbia will be drawn in, which is already being hit by an NGO-led, EU-backed attempt at regime change. Meanwhile, Kosovo and Albania have signed a defense treaty with NATO […]
Read moreOver the past months, Germany has displayed a marked tendency to violate the very rules of democracy that it has condescendingly preached to other countries for years. Indeed, criticism of the official anti-Russia NATO narratives is condemned as “Russian war propaganda”, while the two opposition parties AfD and BSW (Sahra Wagenknecht Movement) have been demonized as “Putin mouthpieces”. And German […]
Read moreThe blackout that paralyzed Spain, Portugal and Southern France on April 28 is the proverbial “accident waiting to happen”. And similarly, others are just “waiting to happen”, perhaps hitting all of Europe this time. The reason is simple and every expert was aware of it: an electric grid which is massively dependent on intermittent energy sources, such as solar and […]
Read more“Defending multilateralism” was the overriding theme of the Foreign Ministers of the BRICS group, who met in Rio de Janeiro on April 29-30. The group now has 11 full member countries and nine partner countries, which altogether represent over 56% of the world population. Only India’s top diplomat, S. Jaishankar, was unable to attend due to the crisis that had […]
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