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Who the hell does Klaus Schwab think he is?

Who does Klaus Schwab, the pharaoh of the World Economic Forum (WEF), think he is? A modern-day messiah who will save the world with a new and more sustainable economic system? Or a Dr. Evil-style psychopath with a hidden agenda to enforce a global economic collapse and take over? By Arthur Blok, cartoon by Joon […]

EU heading to an unprecedented economic crash

You do not have to be an economist or a university professor to understand that the European Union (EU) risks heading towards an unprecedented economic crash. Friends and foes agree that the economic policies of the European Commission and European Central Bank (ECB) are disastrous. A deliberate choice or just ignorance and mismanagement? By Arthur […]

EU-backed judicial reforms delay justice in Serbia

“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”, Sun Tzu - a Chinese general, writer and philosopher - said almost 2500 years ago. In Serbia, where many litigations and trials have been around for decades, another concept seems to prevail: “Justice delayed is justice denied”. By Nikola MikovicAlthough the Balkan nation is not […]

EU joins sanctions game against Iran

The European Union will target eight Iranian militia and police commanders and three state entities with sanctions next week over a deadly crackdown in November 2019 by Iranian authorities, three diplomats said on Wednesday. The travel bans and asset freezes will be the first time the EU has imposed sanctions on Iran for human rights […]

Covid-19 crisis affecting China influence in Europe

Just when China influence over Europe seemed to expand into full blast, the Covid-19 crisis seems to have put a serious stop to it. The biggest geopolitical prize in the raising USA – Chinese challenge is the European Union, formerly anchored securely in the Western side but in recent years increasingly uneasy about Trump administration […]

EU denies softening disinfo report under China pressure

The EU denied Monday bowing to Chinese pressure to water down a report on coronavirus disinformation to soften criticism of Beijing. Various international media said that, under pressure from Beijing officials, the EU had delayed publication of a regular report on disinformation trends last week, and toned down the final version. A spokesman for the […]

Markets suffer Trump slump on trade war fears

Donald Trump's controversial decision to slap tariffs on steel and aluminium imports sent world stock markets slumping on Friday as the move fuelled fresh fears of a global trade war, dealers said. Traders, already on edge over worries about rising US interest rates, followed Wall Street sharply lower after the president imposed levies on the […]

Polish president to sign Holocaust bill despite international concerns

Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, announced that he would sign a highly controversial bill Tuesday that will ban most Holocaust accusations against Poles as well as descriptions of Nazi death camps as Polish — likely raising tensions with the United States and Israel, which have criticized the measure. An ally of the ruling right-wing Law and Justice Party who occasionally has been willing to buck the party’s will, […]

Iran's Rouhani raps new U.S. nuclear plan as threat to Russia

Iran accused the United States on Sunday of threatening Russia with new atomic weapons after Washington published a document outlining plans to expand its nuclear capabilities to deter others. The review of U.S. nuclear policy published on Friday has riled Russia, which viewed the document as confrontational, and raised fears that it could increase the […]

Fierce Aden clashes split Saudi 'coalition' in Yemen

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) envoys are set to visit Washington to see debris purportedly from a Yemeni missile that reached deep inside Saudi territory last year, with the US claiming that it was supplied by Iran. The envoys will visit a military hangar in Washington on Monday, where US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley […]

US bid to change Iran deal unlikely to yield positive results: Russia

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says a new US push aimed at changing the terms of the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal is unlikely to bring forth “positive” results. “[Moscow] does not expect any positive developments in the light of such decisions and possible agreements,” Ryabkov told Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Tuesday. Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump extended […]

Trump expected to stay the course on Iran deal but add new penalties

President Trump faces a deadline Friday to say whether he will continue to exempt Iran from a suite of tough economic sanctions under the landmark international nuclear deal he has called an embarrassment for the United States. The administration said Thursday that it plans additional sanctions that are separate from those covered under the international nuclear deal […]

Turkey's Erdogan to discuss Syria with Macron in Paris - source

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Paris on Jan. 5 to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with the conflict in Syria high on the agenda, a source in the French president’s office said on Saturday. Among the regional crises the two leaders plan to discuss, there would be a particular focus on Syria as […]

Why has RT registered as a foreign agent with the US?

News outlet RT has registered as an agent of a foreign government in America, after years of accusations that it was a propaganda arm of the Russian government. So what is RT and why has it become the subject of fierce debate in the US? It was a late February afternoon, when millions of Americans' […]

American sanctions: A war strategy

By Sara Safa “International sanctions” is a new term in international politics and a new strategy or political instrument that came more operational in the early 1970’s after US withdrawal from the Vietnam war amid several challenges and a real economic pressure that the US had to face especially after the first oil shock when […]

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