Eurasian
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President Bashar al Assad has gone, but the problem of governing the state of Syria remains. The Western media (and its alternatives in the Western alt-media) have described the fall of President Assad as an “overthrowing.” It was nothing of the sort. Assad was not overthrown. He was, in fact, fired. The circumstances of the…
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On occasion I have been asked to comment about events or affairs in countries that I know little about. I have always respectfully declined to talk about things I have not read about or studied from a historical perspective. We really should not comment on things we don’t know about. In recent years there has…
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On 15 October the Sunday Times reported that “five former British Defence Secretaries and the ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson have urged Sir Keir Starmer to supply Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow missiles to strike deep inside Russia, even without US backing.” This joint statement was preceded by a week or so of high-profile media…
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During the Great War of 1914 Britain invaded neutral Greece and occupied Salonika with a large force. This operation, far away from the Western front where the war would be decided, was called a “sideshow” by many in England and the French Premier even referred to the army as the “Salonika gardeners”. In Ireland a…
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Two years ago, on 18 July 2022 Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EU Commission, issued a Memorandum of Understanding statement in Baku, noting that because Russian gas supplies were “no longer reliable”, “The European Union has therefore decided to diversify away from Russia and to turn towards more reliable, trustworthy partners. And I…
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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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The World has entered a period of great flux. Thirty years ago it was in such a period after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That event came about with great suddenness, despite signs being there that something was going to happen of a fundamental nature. Likewise, today. In the late 1980s Soviet leaders and…
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“The war I know about is not the war you’re reading about,” Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on Ukraine. “It is evident that the conflict, initially a limited territorial war, has evolved into a global economic confrontation between the whole West on one side, and Russia, backed by China, on the other. It has become…
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There are some important things emerging from the protests along the Lachin road in Azerbaijan which Armenians have called a “blockade”. The campaign against the Azerbaijani environmental protests has undoubtedly provided a degree of momentum for those in Yerevan, and in the Armenian diaspora in France and the US, who wish to break free of…
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The following article is being published in 3 parts by Azerbaijan in Focus in shortened form. The updated and extended version below will hopefully appear as a Postscript to the forthcoming book, 44 Days; Karabakh from Occupation to Liberation, which I hope will be available soon: Two years after the Second Karabakh War how is…
