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21WIRE | European leaders are now lobbying to allow Kiev to jump the queue for membership to the superstate.

Eric Zuesse During the period from 28 April to 11 May of 2022, the European Council on Foreign Relations polled 8,172 respondents who were in ten European countries, on the question “Who is mainly responsible for the outbreak of the war in Ukraine?” and here were the options that were presented: “Russia” “Ukraine, the EU, […]

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Cashless & cardless society? Yahoo News reports that soon we may be able to “pay with a smile”. The cashless society has been on …

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Jim Fitton, 66, arrived at court in Baghdad and was given a 15-year sentence after being convicted of smuggling antiquities. Fitton, a British citizen was found to have artifacts in his bag, along with fellow traveler, Volker Waldmann, when they were attempting to leave Baghdad airport on March 20.  […]

Iain Davis In Part 5, we discussed the true nature of sovereignty and considered how, when sovereignty is stolen from its only rightful possessor, the individual, the resultant hierarchical structure eventually and inevitably forms a worldwide system of power. That network of power, based upon highly centralized political authority, acts as a population control mechanism. Today …

21WIRE | Putin issues powerful price signal to the global wheat markets.

During Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, there was a wish expressed to create a “League of Democracies” that would be able to fight against the global rise of authoritarianism, and I remembered having read something on the subject before. I read about it back in 2004, in the book called A New World Order, by Anne-Marie […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Yesterday, thousands of Israelis have pushed through the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem in a Flag March, marking its occupation by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The march was organized by Jewish settler groups who demanded to perform religious rites in the Al Aqsa Mosque, […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on May 23 a new military operation in northern Syria to establish a 30-kilometer-wide zone of Turkish occupation.  Erdogan terms the proposed action as a counterterrorism operation, with details to be announced in the next National Security Council meeting. Turkey views the US-sponsored Kurdish […]

Steven Sahiounie | It's becoming clear that the West are hesitant to let go of their Kurdish ‘freedom fighters’.