GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT IS ACCELERATING AS KOSOVO’S STATEHOOD IS IN QUESTION Clear indications have been made that there is a project for a Greater Albania and it is progressing ahead, especially as […]
GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT
Iran Is China’s Secret Weapon for Killing off the US Dollar’s Global Reserve Status
Federico Pieraccini There is a strong current of change affecting the international political arena. It is the beginning of a revolution brought on by the transition from a unipolar to multipolar world […]
Chinese psyops vs US have been one hell of a success
Some combination of money, flattery and a 10-course dinner is usually all that’s needed with Americans ByGrant Newsham The Chinese Communist Party is a nasty regime. But sometimes one marvels at what […]
Is Vietnam adopting a tough South China Sea posture?
By Xuan Loc Doan Over the past month, some international news outlets have reported that Vietnam is pursuing a strong stance on the South China Sea. Yet a closer look at Hanoi’s […]
US initiative would fail to contain China and put allies at risk
By Ken Moak The January 5 edition of the South China Morning Post reported that the US passed the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) to reaffirm and reassure its “allies” that America […]
How Vietnam lost and China won Cambodia
Forty years after the fall of the China-supported Khmer Rouge regime to Vietnam’s invading forces, Cambodia is now more clearly in Beijing’s than Hanoi’s orbit By David Hutt, @davidhuttjourno Forty years ago […]
Unfettered market fundamentalism has failed to deliver prosperity
By Marshall Auerback We are living in a time of prescriptions for America’s economic woes that carry little meaning. Forget what you hear on TV: Unfettered free trade, tariffs, de facto “open […]
Integrity Initiative: How Media Promote Military Intelligence Propagandist Nimmo
Kit Klarenberg In November hacking syndicate Anonymous leaked internal files from the shadowy Institute for Statecraft and its subsidiary the Integrity Initiative. The explosive documents exposed how the ‘think tank’ was in […]
Working with China is more beneficial than fighting it
By Ken Moak It appears the political and security elites in the United States are preparing for an OK Corral-type showdown with China. On December 1, the US Justice Department asked (some […]
Making China great again
By Jan Krikke Before Chinese President Xi Jinping gave the green light for “Made in China 2025,” he should have consulted Sun Tzu’s classic manual The Art of War: “Move not unless […]
Forty years of reform: China vs Singapore
By Sun Xi This month marks the 40th anniversary of the official beginning of China’s reform and opening-up, when the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of […]
Ex-CIA director: It’s a tech war, not a trade war
And, in 5G, the US is losing by a mile The recent arrest of a top Huawei executive and an escalating US campaign to get allies to stop using equipment from the […]
No matter how it appears, Trump isn’t getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
He’s just shifting the burden to allies and relying more on mercenaries By Stephen Gowans The announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria and the drawdown of US occupation forces in Afghanistan […]
Either the EU ditches neoliberalism or its people will ditch the EU
John Wight has written for a variety of newspapers and websites, including the Independent, Morning Star, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, London Progressive Journal, and Foreign Policy Journal. We live in a world fashioned […]
Starting from the bottom: a tale of the informal economy and inequality
By Namira Samir Of the five administrative cities of the Special Capital Region (DKI Jakarta), East Jakarta has the second-highest number of people living below the poverty line, according to the Central […]
US trade war with China – desperate move to save western empire
By Andre Vltchek Most of those who have had a chance to witness Chinese internationalist mega-projects, clearly understand that the West is near to collapsing; it will never be able to compete […]
It is India vs China amid upheaval in Sri Lankan politics
By Gunjan Singh The recent political turmoil in Sri Lanka brings to the surface the debate on domestic issues vis-à-vis South Asian geopolitics. The turmoil has roots in a suspected plot to […]
Economics, not ‘security,’ likely fueling nuclear arms race
By Ken Moak The US starting an arms race with China and Russia might be motivated by economics, in that defense industries are a major part of the US economy. According to […]
The NATO/EU Rape of ‘Complex’ Macedonia
ALEKSANDAR PAVIC In an interview for the Russia-1 television channel, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed that he had raised the question of egregious Western meddling into Macedonia’s recent (September 30) referendum and parliamentary […]
Erdogan a threat to US effort to contain Iran
Washington needs to find a way to tone down the Turkish president’s assault on the Saudis, which could undermine the push to restrict Iran in Syria, Iraq and Yemen By Stephen Bryen […]
Surgical strikes: what attacks on Yemen and Khashoggi’s demise have in common
By Jefferson Morley It is the hour of CYA in Washington. The apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and ensuing notoriety of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have prompted some self-serving revisionist history […]
Is the US the odd man out on the Korean Peninsula?
Russia calls for five-way talks aimed at ending tensions among Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington By Bertil Lintner Russia, China and North Korea have agreed on the need for five-way negotiations, which include […]
Trump’s misguided policies will displace the dollar
By Jeffrey D Sachs Back in 1965, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s minister of finance, famously called the benefits that the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the world’s main […]
Putin’s visit to Merkel makes the US nervous
Originally posted on Qutnyti:
This article is co-written by Ahmed Ashfaque Shahbaz and Khalid Ibn Muneer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVfqtPdq0g President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has made an official state visit to Germany…
