Geopolitics
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“My interest in Persia was aroused some years ago by the writings and the speeches of Professor Browne, and my interest to it was attracted because I have all my life thought that one of the greatest outrages against humanity that can be perpetrated is to kill the soul or the civilization of any nation……
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Two significant events have occurred in the South Caucasus in recent weeks. Firstly, the West has thrown its weight behind Armenia’s breakaway from Russian hegemony. Secondly, the Russian peacekeepers, who took up positions in 2020, have begun withdrawing from the Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh. Let us first acknowledge that Nikol Pashinyan has good reasons for…
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The United States has taken nearly 6 months, and the deaths of around 35,000 people, to finally lift its veto for the first time against international attempts at the UN to stop the Zionist slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza. In all that time it has provided the intelligence, missiles and moral/diplomatic cover to facilitate…
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Two years ago, on February 24, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine. This was not the start of the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine, which was a civil war provoked by a US organised coup, had begun in 2014. The subsequent Russian intervention two years ago was prompted by the imminence…
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Samantha Power recently tweeted: “Two months ago, Azerbaijan’s military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh forced more than 100k people to leave their homes & move into neighboring Armenia. The U.S. continues to stand with the ethnic Armenians from NK. Today, the U.S. is announcing an additional $4 million to help these displaced people. We’re grateful for the…
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Today, the attitude of Ireland toward Palestine and Zionism, Government and people, stands in marked contrast to that of Britain and its Government and Opposition. There was once a time when Ireland was an enthusiast for the Zionist project. Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, was both an anti-Semite and Zionist, like his British…
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The strategic reason for the alliance between British Imperialism and the Zionist Movement that was to lead to the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 lay in the British desire to enlist the support of International Jewry in the Great War effort against Germany, and then to manoeuvre itself into control of Palestine, through the use…
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The last few days have seen momentous events in the South Caucasus that few in the West, outside those in power who know, can understand. The last vestiges of the 30 year Armenian occupation of Azerbaijan has collapsed after a day of intense military effort, described as an anti-terrorist operation, was applied to it by…
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At a recent press conference, an exasperated President Putin replied to criticism of Russia from Armenia: “Before the 2020 Karabakh War and since 1994, Armenia occupied Nagorno-Karabakh & 7 other regions of Azerbaijan. All these years, we requested that Armenia return 5 regions back to Azerbaijan but keep Nagorno-Karabakh, plus 2 other regions (Lachin &…
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The peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia proceeds slowly but in the right direction. After the latest instalment in Moscow, on 26 July, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said “the path is not easy,” and summarised the current progress: “There are many complex and important issues to be resolved. The most sensitive of them was…
