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Flags of the United States and Iran backdrop a naval battle scene with a fighter jet and an aircraft carrier amid smoke and explosions near Iran’s map silhouette on the right.

USA-IRAN war: This is not the beginning of the crisis — it is its dangerous transition

Iran’s attack on the oil facilities of Fujairah is not an isolated military incident. It constitutes a deliberate strategic move that shifts the conflict from the level of pressure to the level of destabilisation. And most importantly, it reveals that the next…

6 May, 2026

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Saker interview with Michael Hudson on Venezuela

There is a great deal of controversy about the true shape of the Venezuelan economy and whether Hugo Chavez’ and Nicholas Maduro’s reform and policies were crucial for the people of Venezuela or whether they were completely misguided and precipitated the current…

16 February, 2019

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Council of Europe condemns Sharia councils in UK for contradicting Human Rights

Sharia Law is a legal system which regulates the lives of devout Muslims and is based on religious precepts and the text of the Quran. The exact number of Sharia councils operating in England and Wales is unknown, with estimates varying from…

2 February, 2019

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Venezuela – The U.S. game plan for ‘Regime Change’ and how to respond to it

Yesterday the U.S. recognized a right-wing ‘leader of the opposition’ in Venezuela Juan Guaido as the president of the country. A number of right-wing led countries in South America joined in that move. Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico rejected it. Russia, China, Iran…

2 February, 2019

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Hungary refuses to dance to US tune and step up pressure on Russia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has boasted that he has good relations with Vladimir Putin and opposes EU sanctions against Russia; he has also challenged the EU’s immigration policy and slammed George Soros for his alleged attempts to support illegal immigration to…

2 February, 2019

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“Surveillance Capitalism”: Google sister company to package and sell location data from millions of cellphones

A subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Sidewalk Labs, is using real-time mobile location data from millions of cellphone users collected over long periods of time in order to help urban planners make critical decision on transportation and land use. The program,…

1 February, 2019

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Skopje responds to Bulgarian Deputy PM’s threat over Zaev’s “Macedonian language”

The VMRO leader accused the representatives of the former Yugoslav republic of wanting to “validate a false version of history” The Foreign Ministry in Skopje has responded to Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and VMRO party leader Krassimir Karakachanov’s threat to block the…

31 January, 2019

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FYROM’s name change deal may be an achievement for the E.U., but undemocratic

After the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece’s northern neighbor stole the Greek name “Macedonia”—but Athens refused to recognize it, saying it gave legitimacy to territorial, historical, and ethnic claims over the millenial old northern Greek province of Mace-donia. (Its official U.N.…

31 January, 2019

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Ancient Greek and Roman artifacts found in Alexandria

An announcement from the Archaeological Mission of Alexandria has revealed that an array of Greek and Roman artefacts has been found in Alexandria, Egypt. That date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. The discovery is unique because it was used…

30 January, 2019

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