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As we write, negotiations in Cairo on a potential ceasefire agreement in Gaza have just concluded the second day of what is expected to be a long process. While the intentions of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his co-belligerents are well-known, the Trump administration continues to insist that a mutually-acceptable resolution is possible. Eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries released a […]

In recent weeks, financial media outlets have increasingly warned of an imminent bursting of the speculative bubble and a crisis similar to that of 2008. As the sensitive date of Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year in the U.S., drew near, with the fear of distressed situations in major financial institutions, the tones of the traders became shriller. […]

This week marks the second anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and the taking of hostages, a number of whom remain in captivity today. While many questions on the how and the why of that attack remain unanswered to this day, the Israeli assault on Gaza and increasingly on the West Bank continues, and […]

During the meetings of EU leaders in Copenhagen on Oct. 1-2, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted that the proposals “clearly show that the Brusselians want to go to war”. Whatever one might think of Orbán’s policy, he is on the mark with this remark. Among the usual Russia-bashing, it was discussed to accelerate the arms build-up, to give more […]

Faced with substantial opposition to its war-mongering against Russia among the populations of member countries, NATO is under constant pressure to justify its very costly plans, with reports about acute Russian preparations for an attack on the West. Nonetheless, the Russian-Belarussian exercise Zapad 2025 in September, portrayed by NATO radicals as live preparation for such an attack, concluded with no […]

A massive campaign both inside and outside the Czech Republic by the pro-EU/anti-Russian camp against the ANO party, demonizing it as a Russian Trojan Horse, has failed. In the Oct. 6 parliamentary elections, ANO received just under 35% of the votes. This marks a spectacular comeback for party chairman and former Prime Minister (2017-2021) Andrej Babis, after spending four years […]

President Trump took time out from his self-promotion campaign to win the Nobel Peace prize to join his newly-minted “Secretary of War” in a frightening dressing-down of the U.S. military leadership on Sept. 30 at Quantico, Virginia marine base, which left many among the top brass speechless. Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered the main message, asserting that the adoption by the […]

On Oct. 2, Donald Trump informed the U.S. Congress that the country was in a state of war with South American drug cartels deemed by the White House to be terrorist organizations. While that might seem to be one of the more laudable initiatives he has announced, there are several problems. First of all, legally speaking, the President does not […]

According to a recent report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency, 22 countries in Africa are interested in developing nuclear energy, and some are at various stages of signing agreements with countries like Russia and China for construction projects. The report titled Outlook for Nuclear Energy in Africa was commissioned by South Africa as the seat of the G20 […]

September 28 was the last day of this year’s General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly, over the course of which the voice of the emerging “Global Majority” was heard more clearly and more forcefully than ever before. A large number of government representatives delivered demands for a more just world order, although most of them were scarcely covered […]