Pepe Escobar You are about to enter the ultimate minefield Let’s start with 28 EU leaders discussing the Western Balkans at a recent summit and blaming – what else – “Russian aggression” in the […]
Making of the Next Nightmare
Stock surge putting Asia’s frontier markets on the map
Investors are increasingly looking beyond the region’s heavyweights and placing their bets on lesser-known sectors, hoping to cash in on rising tides of economic growth and maturing demographics By Nick Westra […]
How Russia, China Brought Washington’s Plan to Destabilize Eurasia to a Halt
Although Moscow and Beijing have managed to upset the US plan to disrupt Eurasian economic integration, the US political elite is not going to give up, Ukrainian political observer Rostislav Ishchenko writes […]
Washington’s Dangerous Middle East Agenda
By F. William Engdahl It’s clear at this point that the recent visit of US President Trump to Saudi Arabia and Israel was about setting events into motion in order to fundamentally […]
A Line in the Steppes: NATO Meets an Expanded SCO
WAYNE MADSEN While NATO leaders were congratulating themselves on the accession of petite Montenegro into the military pact, NATO’s counter-balancing force to the east was welcoming as full members India and Pakistan. […]
Beijing’s new mega airport will challenge Air China’s dominance
News Desk Bloomberg Like ancient warlords, China’s three biggest airlines have dominated their regional cities: Air China Ltd. controlling Beijing, China Eastern Airlines Corp. holding sway in the financial center of Shanghai, […]
Will Obor really reach Southeast Asia?
China has dangled various rich infrastructure initiatives to the region, but few so far have commenced due to tussles over costs, labour and sovereignty By Richard Javad Heydarian Chinese President Xi Jinping […]
Asian firms lead the race to harness AI technology
Baidu is one of Asia’s corporate pioneers that are leading in the race to find applications for an innovation that promises to unleash a revolution By Doug Tsuruoka It is […]
The Day a #Yugoslavia Hashtag Saved the World
BY KCHILD2013 There’s a message and a hashtag on Twitter these days that should become the biggest meme ever. If only Yugoslavia and our world could be put back together again with a […]
Two Years of “Wrong” Votes: The Media Take Aim at Democracy
Jeremy Corbyn has won two leadership contests, and gained the largest vote share for Labour in decades. Hillary Clinton had to cheat to get past Bernie Sanders, and was then humiliated by […]
The Qatar blockade, petro-yuan & coming war on Iran
Dan Glazebrook is a freelance political writer who has written for RT, Counterpunch, Z magazine, the Morning Star, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Independent and Middle East Eye, amongst others. His […]
Shaping the Future: Moscow and Beijing’s Multipolar World Order
BY WKCHILD Source: The Stratgic Culture Foundation, by Federico Pieraccini Once in a while, think tanks such as the Brookings Institute are able to deal with highly strategic and current issues. Often, the conferences held by […]
China Dumps GMO, Turns To Russia For Real Food: Eurasian Economic Transformation Goes Forward
At this juncture it’s clear that the attempt of the Trump Administration and related circles in the US military industrial complex have failed in their prime objective, that of driving a permanent […]
Bill Gates Strongly Suggests Taxing Robots if they Replace Human Labor on the Job Market
Automation is gradually replacing human labor around the world on the job market. Early this year, a study carried out by Oxford University in the United Kingdom revealed how the rapid development of Artificial […]
African Horizons of the New Silk Road
The New Silk Road project (the NSR) mapped out by China in 2013 envisaged the development of a network of land transport routes originating in China and interconnecting Eurasian countries, thus […]
SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) growing importance
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s role in global affairs continues to increase: the bloc has now focused on counterterrorism issues in the Eurasian “heartland” and the US and EU have to take this […]
