Author: M Barbu

Apathy to Peace and War: Palestine

Egoistic Leaders against Peace and Humanity

Authoritarian leaders propel insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture. The Arab-Muslim world lives in fantasy as puppets as paper boys claiming to be negotiating peace but cannot mold nor mourn as Israel occupies more lands and disables neighboring Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and to overrun Saudi Arabia for a Greater Israel. What is at stake? The global humanity is being marginalized and threatened by just two figures lacking effective leadership and accountability for the consequences of their sadistic thinking. President Trump and PM Netanyahu would deny the emerging plan for “Greater Israel” but coordinate and solidify its top priority for the conquest of the whole Arab Middle East. The Arab-Muslim leaders do not exist on a rational plateau of thoughts and actions. The on-going genocide against the people of Gaza for 23 months: continuous aerial bombardments, killing of people by planned starvation, attacks on places of worship, hospitals, journalists, UNRWA’s schools and so-called safe zones, data tells more than 62,000 lives are gone and more than 100K are injured and disabled and some 12k people or so still buried under the rubble. How would you imagine a world of peace and harmony on this earth? PM Netanyahu claims“starvation it is not the policy of Israel and famine in Gaza is not true.” The UN Secretary General condemns it: “Israel is using starvation as a weapon to punish the people of Gaza.” The civic societies in Israel demonstrate daily against PM Netanyahu’s policies and practices and ask for an end to the war on Gaza and freedom of hostages.

A Growing Divergence of Security Narratives in Burkina Faso – Africa Center

Burkina Faso’s security, economic, and humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate under the military junta despite a high-volume information campaign.

Since seizing power in a military coup in September 2022, Burkina Faso’s ruling junta under Captain Ibrahim Traoré has prioritized controlling the narrative of this Sahelian country of 23 million people. With the aid of a cadre of online influencers, intelligence-linked operatives, and affiliated media pages—the Traoré junta has extolled his reported achievements as a transformative leader paralleling the iconic Thomas Sankara.

Despite huge manpower losses, how is Russia replenishing its military?

Moscow’s tactics, on the battlefield and domestically, are incentivising men to join and stick to the army.

When President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ivan Chenin left his comfortable life as a student in Moscow to deliver aid as a volunteer to the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of eastern Ukraine, which Russia now claims as its “new territories”.

Clinging to nostalgia won’t save Iran’s regime from the next war

On the streets of Tehran, the oppressive heat continues, with a drought and water crisis putting the city of 10 million under pressure. The 12-day war between Israel and Iran may have ended in June, but nerves are frayed.

Some Iranians have fled abroad, while others have returned from their Caspian Sea hideaways or rural relatives to a capital that doesn’t quite feel like itself, despite numerous official attempts to portray the country as being back to normal.

Will China help Iran build a new air force?

The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) was conspicuously absent during the unprecedented 12-day June war with Israel.

Its fighter jets are so antiquated that, with a few exceptions, the Israeli Air Force largely left them alone.

With another round of hostilities seemingly inevitable, and having waited in vain for Su-35 Flanker fighters it ordered from Russia years ago, the question of whether Iran will turn to China to modernise its air force is arguably more relevant than ever.

Police ‘overzealous’ in censoring MI5 report on Northern Ireland

Campaigners in Belfast have criticised police for not releasing a file from the Troubles after similar documents were discovered in Foreign Office archives.

Police in Northern Ireland continue to withhold a Troubles-era report by an MI5 veteran despite his dispatches from other countries being made public.

Libye: le renforcement des relations entre le maréchal Haftar et la Turquie se poursuit

Initié en avril dernier, le rapprochement entre Ankara et l’homme fort de l’est libyen s’est poursuivi lundi 25 août avec la visite à Benghazi du chef des renseignements turcs, Ibrahim Kalin. Une première pour un responsable turc de ce niveau depuis 2020.

Le maréchal Khalifa Haftar, qui contrôle les parties est et sud de la Libye, a reçu ce lundi 25 août dans son quartier général de Benghazi le chef des renseignements turcs, Ibrahim Kalin, arrivé à la tête d’une haute délégation militaire. Pour l’occasion, son hôte était lui entouré de ses deux fils, Saddam et Khaled Haftar, récemment promus à la tête de l’Armée nationale libyenne (ANL) : alors que le premier en a été nommé vice-commandant général, le second en est devenu le chef d’état major.