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26.10.2020
The Anniversary of Gaddafi’s Death and the Current Reality in Libya
“Security problems, political discord, oil blockades, corruption, and Libya’s foreign debt, which has reached 270% of its GDP, all torpedo economic life,” said Central Bank of Libya governor Sadiq al-Kabir. Oil revenues in Libya have plummeted, from $53 billion in 2012 to near zero this year, he added. These words, spoken on the eve of […]
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25.10.2020
More New Troubles are Raining Down on the Americans
While the current leap year 2020 is far from over, there is no doubt that it will go down in American history marked by memories that are less than stellar. And this will undoubtedly have to do not only with the shameful presidential election campaign going on now, where the American people are being forced […]
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24.10.2020
Same Old Fakes Tales Told by US, UK, and Germany about “Damascus’ Chemical Weapons”
The quite frankly disastrous results following military interventions by the United States and its closest allies from Western Europe in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and Syria have made information warfare one of the main tools used by the West, a type of combat operation in which the key instrument to exert an impact has become targeted, […]
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23.10.2020
Will Next WTO Head Impose a Gates and Davos Agenda?
It is all but certain that the next head of the influential World Trade Organization (WTO) will be an African by birth and a woman. But neither is what makes the all-but certain naming of Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala cause for alarm. Rather it is who she is and who she presently is tied to that […]
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23.10.2020
The “Statues of Peace”: Remembrance or Incitement?
One of the important components in the Korean-Japanese confrontation over the issue of “comfort women” is represented by the statues with standardized designs dubbed “Statues of Peace”, which South Korea and its affiliated NGOs are trying to set up not only all throughout the country, but the entire world. Typically, each such new statue causes […]
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23.10.2020
Europe Helps US Destroy Libya, Now Blames/Sanctions Russia
The EU has leveled sanctions against Russia for – among other things – “meddling” in Libya’s ongoing civil war. AFP in its article, “EU sanctions senior Putin aides over Navalny, Libya,” would claim: The EU said Wagner had committed “multiple and repeated breaches” of a UN arms embargo on Libya, where Russia has backed warlord […]
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23.10.2020
Why isn’t China Intervening in the Events Occurring in Kyrgyzstan?
Over the past few years, the lion’s share of the countries in Central Asia (CA) have been undergoing a period involving social, economic, and political transformation. The region desperately needs to put transportation and social projects in place, create new jobs, industries, and energy facilities, and improve the quality of education and healthcare, all of […]
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22.10.2020
America’s “New Vision” of Central-Asia: Just Like the Old One – Only Meaner
“A new vision of Central-Asia”, that’s how the Heritage Foundation think tank frames US policy in many CIS nations. However, the new version of the “vision” is perilously close to the former Anglo European colonial view of what should be in places like Kazakstan. A US State Department announcement of throwing some Agency for International […]
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22.10.2020
British PM has “Other Things On His Mind!”
In English law there is a strange and very expensive device known as the super-injunction. This goes beyond an ordinary injunction in one important respect: not only can no one discuss the issue the injuction concerns, but no one is even allowed to refer to its existence A number of prominent people (journalists, captains of […]
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22.10.2020
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah Visited India and Pakistan
The five-day visit to India that started on October 6th this year made by the physician Abdullah Abdullah, who is the de facto second-in-command with the government in Kabul, is a very remarkable event for a number of reasons. Of these, the first, main one stems from the process that was launched involving sharp changes […]
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22.10.2020
Azerbaijan and the Plans of Israeli Politicians
As the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh mushrooms, the Israeli-Azerbaijani arms trade is flourishing, and in this case Netanyahu’s government is being chiefly guided by economic benefits, with political calculations, or rather miscalculations, in second place after those. It should be pointed out that at present the Israeli economy is experiencing great difficulties due to the pandemic, […]
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21.10.2020
Pompeo: The Man of US Foreign Policy Catastrophe
If a significant part of Mike Pompeo’s job as a Secretary of State was to persuade nations to align their foreign policies with that of the US on issues like China and Iran, he has clearly failed in it. Instead of aligning their policies with the US, even the US’ European allies are making their […]