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The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement – the pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye signed in August – has been described inaccurately by Andrew Korybko and others as “the Muslim NATO”. This is nonsense, since the orientation of it and the reasons for it have little to do with Russia. Tariq Ali has described it…
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Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Féin noted: “Between the Individual and Humanity stands, and must continue to stand, a great fact – the Nation.” This is the Sinn Féin philosophy and its greatest modern exponent in Europe was the former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Arthur Griffith took his inspiration from Hungary. The Resurrection…
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The 19/20 September 2026 marks the third anniversary of the full liberation of Karabakh by Azerbaijani forces from the Armenian occupation of nearly 3 decades. It was the culmination of one of the most successful examples of statesmanship and effective military action that has been witnessed in the world for many a year. In November…
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When the US President launched the war on Iran on 28 February – after the Israeli Prime Minister triggered him into action – this is how he described his war objectives. “The United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core…
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In June’s Irish Political Review Brendan Clifford wrote of ‘The Phenomenon Of Anti-Semitism!’ He observed that the— “Jewish mode of national existence was viable when there was a world order consistingof Empires. In 1917/18 most of the Empires fell. They were not overthrown bynationalist revolutions. It was only in Ireland that there was a nationalist…
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The Guardian reported on May 4 that: “The EU is sending a team of experts specialised in combating Russian propaganda and interference to Armenia, as it increases its support to the former Soviet republic in a tense political period. In a highly symbolic sequence of events, EU leaders will hold their first summit with Armenia,…
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“You can check in any time you want but you may never leave.” (The Eagles, Hotel California) That might be said of the Petrodollar system that sustains US power and influence in the world and largely explains the gunboat diplomacy employed by Washington against Venezuela. In his press conference explaining why the US launched a…
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War is a catastrophic form of activity. In a war the concentrated power of violence of one state meets that of another. War is therefore a very fundamental kind of activity which has far reaching social consequences in the victorious as well as in the defeated society. Wars are usually ended by the defeat of…
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The Western narrative is clear about this question: The Ukraine war began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Alternatively, it began with the Russian takeover of Crimea in 2014. It is seldom admitted that the present conflict in Ukraine actually began with the Maidan coup of 2014, organised and supported by elements…
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In early April, the French demographer and philosopher, Emmanuel Todd, gave a talk in Budapest, in the Várkert Bazár, as part of the Eötvös Conference organized by the 21st Century Institute. Todd is the author of the recent book, La Défaite de L’Occident (The Defeat of the West), which although it has been translated into…
