Eric Zuesse On New Year’s Eve, December 31st, Dylan Carter of the Brussels Times reported, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, Chairman of the Management Board of Ukraine’s electricity transmission system operator Ukrenergo, said that “There is no thermal or hydropower plant that has not been damaged. There is no big important substation that is operated by Ukrenergo that […]
Our first This Week of 2022 was dedicated not to reviewing the past but considering the future, and this year will begin just the same. What will the major narratives of 2023 be? What minor stories will be brought into the limelight while previously major plot lines are shunted backstage? Much of 2022 was spent …
By Eugenio de Dobrynne | The Postil | January 1, 2023 With all due respect, it seems that the times we are living through, in regards to the war in Ukraine, take us back to times and moments gone by. The apparent stabilization of the front and the call to judge those responsible for this […]
By Oleg Burunov – Samizdat – 01.01.2023 On Saturday, Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored that relations between Moscow and Beijing may “find new opportunities for growth” in 2023. A Chinese media outlet has reported that the US is “in no position” to point the finger at China and lecture Beijing on “how to deal with […]
BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | DECEMBER 31, 2022 The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West […]
RT | December 30, 2022 Some 1,091 civilians were killed and more than 3,500 injured in 2022 amid the ongoing hostilities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), a regional human rights ombudswoman said on Friday. The total civilian death toll of the DPR since the beginning of the conflict in then-east Ukraine back in 2014 […]
RT | December 31, 2022 Türkiye has agreed to fully withdraw its troops from northern Syria following tripartite talks involving Moscow, Ankara and Damascus earlier this week, Syrian newspaper Al-Watan has reported. The three countries’ defense ministers – Hulusi Akar, Ali Mahmoud Abbas and Sergey Shoigu – met in Moscow on Wednesday for the first […]
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Henrik and Lana review 2022 and what lies ahead for the next year.
The Cradle | December 30, 2022 Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told media on 29 December that Ankara is willing to withdraw from the territory it occupies in northern Syria and hand it over to Damascus in the event that “political stability” is reached. Cavusoglu’s comments came just one day after a high-level meeting in Moscow between […]
