Speculation is growing about a crisis between Saudi Arabia and Egypt manifested in relations between senior figures in both countries. Tension has come to the surface during the serious economic crisis in Egypt since Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago.
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu issued an angry statement on Friday to US Ambassador to Ankara Jeffry Flake, demanding: “Take your dirty hands of Turkiye.”
According to Haberturk newspaper, Soylu added: “Every US ambassador who arrives in Turkiye is hurrying to find out how to make a coup possible in Turkiye.”
Another claimant to victory [for ending the war in Syria] was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who managed to milk the European Union cow to the tune of $5 billion while seizing control of enough Syrian oilfields and mines to ensure a steady revenue stream in what amounts to international robbery.
(Note de lectură la Lavinia Betea, Virgil Măgureanu, „Ce s-a întâmplat de fapt / Un dialog despre perioada postdecembristă”,Editura RAO, București 2022). Sunt, de peste patru decenii, un observator atent , consecvent, uneori critic, dar sincer pasionat, al operei și manifestărilor publice ale domnului Virgil Măgureanu.
Bryan Pfaffenberger and his stock are continuing the Western traditions of confusing or at the least misunderstanding the life in South Asia, its various nations and cultures, as also the values, and make much ado about the ‘Fourth World Colonialism’.1 We are to encounter many apparitions which the myth-making of the Western scholarship has unleashed in the conceptual forms of the ‘Aryan’, ‘Dravidian’, ‘Hindu’, ‘Hindustan’, ‘Indian Nationhood’ and the like, and the communalisation of the subcontinent’s politics on the basis of these fantasies.
A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths inflicted by Europeans on peoples subjected to colonialism) is heading for a new war.
The exposure has been denied by the Empire. But does anyone believe the denial? Not today, none. People across the world have come across such denials many times, and each time all the denials turned out as lies.
Après deux jours de réunion au Caire, le comité militaire libyen s’est mis d’accord, mercredi 8 février, sur un mécanisme d’échange d’informations et de coordination au sujet des mercenaires et des combattants étrangers présents sur le sol libyen. C’est la première fois que ce comité militaire, composé de cinq hauts-gradés des différents camps opposés en Libye, se réunit sous l’égide du Sénégalais Abdoulaye Bathily, nommé émissaire des Nations unies dans le pays l’été dernier. Des représentants du Niger, du Tchad et du Soudan ont été associés à la réunion et ont exprimé leur volonté de collaborer à ces efforts.
Le Burkina, le Mali et la Guinée, trois pays suspendus de la Cédéao et de l’Union africaine après des prises de pouvoir successives par des militaires en 2020, 2021 et 2022, ont souhaité jeudi la levée de leur suspension de ces organisations.
En visite au Soudan, le chef de la diplomatie russe Sergueï Lavrov a défendu jeudi les opérations du groupe paramilitaire Wagner en Afrique, “déployé à la demande des gouvernements” et “contribuant à normaliser la situation dans la région” face à la menace “terroriste”.