The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes.
President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As part of the new round of tariff negotiations with Japan and Korea, Trump is calling on Japan and Korea to pay for stationing the US troops. Here’s a much better idea: close the bases and return the US servicemen to the US.
The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
Writing in his cell as political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” A century later, we are in another interregnum, and the morbid symptoms are everywhere. The US-led order has ended, but the multipolar world is not yet born. The urgent priority is to give birth to a new multilateral order that can keep the peace and the path to sustainable development.
«Мы вас видим и больше не делаем вид, что не замечаем», — фактически предупредил глава МИД России Сергей Лавров ту часть российской политической элиты, которая жаждет «вернуть всё, как было до». Которая мечтает о стране-бензоколонке, обеспечивающей ей сытое и счастливое существование на «благословенном цивилизованном Западе».
Лавров заявил: «У нас есть мощная группа лидеров общественного мнения, которые считают, что отмена санкций будет губительна. Потому что чиновники либеральных взглядов тут же постараются свернуть все эти достижения по импортозамещению, суверенизации нашей экономики, производства, по обеспечению безопасности в тех сферах, от которых зависит развитие государства». Лавров — второй после Путина по известности и авторитету в мире русский политик. И когда он признает, что у нас здесь, среди высшего чиновничества, значит во власти (потому что мелкие клерки вряд ли в состоянии «свернуть достижения»), существует пятая колонна — это дорогого стоит.
24 апреля 2025 года исполнится 100 лет прибытию в Кыргызстан чехословацкого промыслового кооператива “Интергельпо”, организованного 1 мая 1923 года в словацком городе Жилин по инициативе рабочих коммунистов Чехословакии, одним из которых был активный участник установления Советской власти в Семиреченской области Рудольф Павлович Маречек.
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The unilateral independence of Kosovo was declared in February 2008. The Bush administration had detached Frank Wisner Jr., the son of the legendary CIA Frank G. Wisner who led the CIA-MI6 coup d’Etat against Iran in 1953.
Frank G. Wisner Jr. was entrusted in establishing the “legal framework” of Kosovo which was conducive to establishing a so-called “Sovereign State.”
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Ben Chacko asks NIZAR TRABULSI of the now banned Syrian Communist Party (Unified) to explain the country’s turbulent, and violent, post-Assad scene
Burnt cars remain in the middle of a street following the recent wave of violence between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad, as well as subsequent sectarian attacks, in the town of Jableh, Syria’s coastal region, March 10, 2025 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) swept to power in Syria surprisingly quickly following a civil war of well over a decade. Was this because the previous Assad government had lost all support? Were there other reasons?
You might think it’s news from Absurdistan when you read that 80 years after the liberation from Nazi barbarism, municipalities and larger cities in Europe are still finally taking the step of revoking the honorary citizenship of fascist representatives.
At the end of February, the northern Italian municipality of Salò decided to revoke Benito Mussolini’s honorary citizenship. On the one hand, it is of great symbolic importance that this municipality has finally taken this step, as Salò was the last retreat of the Italian fascists after Mussolini was deposed and large parts of the country were liberated by the Allies and the Italian resistance. Entirely dependent on the Wehrmacht, which had occupied the northern half of Italy since September 1943, Mussolini and his vassals established the “Republic of Salò” in the small town in the foothills of the Alps, a puppet state by the grace of Nazi Germany. It was officially called the Repubblica Sociale Italiana, or RSI for short. This ostensibly “social” state was the radicalized and unleashed version of fascist rule over the whole of Italy, including the persecution of Jews and deportations.
Over the weekend, President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform, X. Responding to a post that, “It’s time to leave NATO and the UN,” Musk replied, “I agree.” The comment immediately made the rounds on social media and also on mainstream and alternative media.
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We are at the juncture of the most serious crisis in modern history.
An unfolding New World Order is destroying sovereign countries through acts of war and “regime change”. In turn, large sectors of the world population are impoverished through the concurrent imposition of deadly macro-economic reforms. This New World Order feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women.
On Tuesday, Keir Starmer announced drastic cuts to Britain’s international aid budget to help pay for a major increase in defence spending. The aid budget will be reduced from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP.
We have heard many recipients of UK aid concerned about its impact on them. What we haven’t heard is what the UK is actually spending taxpayers’ money on.
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