by Emad Abshenass * When the former Soviet Union collapsed, and the eastern bloc called the “Warsaw Pact” collapsed, there was hope to end the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and start a new era of international relations, based on dealings between countries instead of hostility, with the starting point of competition Read more
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In the year 2017, during my visit to Cuba, I met the famous Cuban media personality, Arlene Rodrigues, who has long experience in the field of media and who worked at one stage as a media advisor to Cuban leader Fidel Castro. In an interview with her, she surprised me by saying: Do you know Read more
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Russia’s Complex Challenges: Secularism, Christianity, Islam, Wahhabism, and War For most of the last 1000 years Russia’s rulers have had a complicated history with religion, in general and with Islam in particular. While Islam has origins in the region that go back more than 1100 years, the relationship with the Ottoman Empire, Salafi Islam in Read more
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by Samaher al-Khatib * The Russian special military operation in Donbass constituted a new stage in the history of the modern world, characterized by new concepts, and with the arrival of this special operation to the date of signing the accession of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to the Russian Federation, which preceded the accession Read more
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A meeting among leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, during any other year in the past, would not make the news. This year’s meeting, however, should matters. Yet, it was hardly covered in Western media. There are important reasons for why the world should pay attention to this 21-year-old intergovernmental organization (IGO). Read more
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A global pandemic is generally enough to trigger a broad transformation with significant impact. A pandemic, an “Arab Spring”, a war in Europe, a climate crisis, and a shift in energy sources and consumptions make global change a certainty. That certainty becomes clear when looking at how each nation-state is maneuvering to secure space in Read more
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When four Arab states, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, and Egypt issued an ultimatum in the form of 13 clear demands to Qatar, they did not even wait for it to study and respond. Instead, they imposed land, sea, and air embargo that choked the small nation state. Only two countries came to its aid: Iran Read more
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by Walid Sharara* Whoever doubts that the war in Ukraine is a global proxy war still, should review the positions issued by American and Western officials over the past few days. They no longer hesitate to reveal the actual objectives of the war they are waging against Russia. The revealing statement made by US Defense Read more
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On this platform, the 2011 war in Syria was characterized as a proxy war before it became obvious that it was so. Here, too, the war in Ukraine was characterized as a war between nuclear powers who cannot have direct military confrontation because of the danger of nuclear weapons that can be deployed. Now, with Read more
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When direct military intervention is not a feasible option, US administrations and Western allies always used economic and financial tools to achieve their foreign policy goals. Imposing sanctions has become a reflexive, automatic reaction against any government that resists the current world order—the one dominated by Western liberalism. Such Western addiction to sanctions and embargoes Read more
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