I found this a thoughtful piece As I’ve struggled with censorship and the ongoing divide in Canada between the extremes of left and right. Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has seen his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine reissued in France after a French publisher pulled it from shelves. He tells RFI that it fits with a broader […]
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There’s really little other in the way of credible alternatives to describe the actions taken by France and Britain, other than as declarations of war against Russia France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are […]
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Iran-Adapts-to-Shifting-Tides-in-South-Caucasus.html Two major developments in recent years – Azerbaijan’s reconquest (retrieval/return) of Nagorno-Karabakh and Russia’s unprovoked (provoked) invasion of Ukraine – created new diplomatic openings for Iran. The changed geopolitical environment has enabled Iran and Azerbaijan to smooth over what for much of the post-Soviet period had been a prickly relationship. At the same time, […]
Link Another major geopolitical shift is happening in Europe, this time in the South Caucasus.. This was stated by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in an op-ed for Le Monde daily, in which he called on Brussels to leave its policy of maintaining neutrality between Armenia, which has preferred the line of the […]
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Does Russia lose Armenia to France?
The relationship between Armenia and France was in full bloom long before Azerbaijan retrieved it’s territory. This article would have you believe otherwise. Don’t. https://www.commonspace.eu/opinion/opinion-does-russia-lose-armenia-france After Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia started to show signs that the country was moving away from Russia’s security umbrella and here France ramped up very quickly the role of Armenia’s […]
The author believes Haiti is finished. If that’s the case how has Haiti been brought to it’s end? What might those of us who live the illusion of the democratic West want to take away from what was done to Haiti and the people? Kenan Malik In December 1914, the USS Machias dropped anchor in […]
Yenisafak Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says Armenia will leave Collective Security Treaty Organization if country’s area of responsibility is not defined clearly Armenia on Tuesday threatened to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) if the six-nation military alliance, which includes Russia, failed to clearly define the country’s area of responsibility. “If the CSTO answers […]
The forest is more than one tree Posted on March 10, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Read entirely at link-‘Novorossiya’ rising from ashes like phoenix ‘Novorossiya’ historically — signifies a major initiative in the Kremlin’s geo-strategy, with global ramifications, as the conflict in Ukraine meanders toward a new phase. What lends poignancy to the occasion […]
This concerns what is known geo politically as a choke point. Many years ago, 13 years to be precise, I’d written one of several pieces about choke points, globally. Does the US led response have the additional goal of restricting Saudi Arabia’s ability to sell/trade/ship oil? https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2010/01/yemen-hidden-agenda-strategic-oil.html url above for one report. Which included a […]
Indian Punchline Armenia no longer disputes that Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan. The prospect of peaceful resolution of a regional conflict ought to be good news, but this is an incredibly complex situation with an external environment where a brutal war is raging with no end in sight, and the protagonists pursue contrarian interests. A settlement […]