Новости за 03.04.2024

Focusing on the war in the Middle East, Iran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei said in his Nowruz* message on March 20, 2024, that “the most critical issue today is the Palestine and Gaza issue. Resistance in West Asia is a fundamental matter.” Why does Khamenei, while facing mega-challenges such as poverty and hunger affecting more than 75% of the population, water scarcity, widespread unemployment particularly among women and graduates, runaway inflation, and the plummeting value of the Iranian currency... Читать дальше...

The government wants to play god.

It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.

Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one’s body, but there’s so much more at play.

In the 50-plus years... Читать дальше...

As the dust settles on the electoral battlefields of Pakistan and Indonesia, the aftershocks of what many are calling electoral coups threaten the very bedrock of democracy in these nations. With accusations of fraudulence, manipulation, and underhand tactics swirling, the legitimacy of political parties and the electoral process itself has been thrust into the limelight, raising pivotal questions about the future of democratic governance in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

“We have indeed (started) revealing this (Message) in the Night of Power. What will explain to you what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is better than a thousand (ordinary) months. Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by Allah’s permission, on every errand: Peace!… This until the rise of morning.” (Quran 97:1-5)

The Biden administration is wrong. The media are wrong. Snopes is wrong. Politifact is wrong. They are all guilty of misinformation: Religious Easter Eggs were allowed under President George W. Bush.

The United States is waging an illegal war in Yemen, where major shipping routes along the country’s coastlines have been disrupted by ongoing violence in the region.

Traditionally, hardliners have made the absurd claim that all or most criticisms of Israeli policy in the Middle East are antisemitic, a vile accusation designed to shield the Israeli government from any criticisms at all. Yet even democratic governments—because they spend other people’s tax money and often seemingly care little about foreign non-voters’ (and sometimes even voters’) lives—often have incentives to take morally and financially challenged actions. In the Gaza War, the Israeli government... Читать дальше...

By Archishman Goswami

The civil war in Myanmar provides a vignette of what insurgency may look like in this new era. Myanmar is already a key region of concern for Indian policymakers.

Besides concerns emanating from a shared border, mutual people-to-people ties, and the security repercussions for India’s Northeast at a time when the region is developing into a fulcrum for New Delhi’s Act East policy, New Delhi’s policies are also shaped by the displacement of Pakistan by... Читать дальше...

Crossing borders has become safer for Albanians, but many still are haunted by the new, less visible, frontiers of a capitalist and racist Europe.

By Dr Farah Hegazi, Dr Kyungmee Kim and Dr Karen Meijer

Amid the profound challenges of fragile and conflict-affected settings, development and peacebuilding actors do commendable work improving the quality and accessibility of one of the most critical resources for human life and livelihoods: clean water. Their work has undoubtedly helped to defuse intercommunal tensions over scarce water resources and has perhaps prevented many localized conflicts from breaking out. 

This year’s World Water Day... Читать дальше...

By Can Kasapoğlu

1. Iran, China, and Russia Unite Their Navies for a Geopolitical Power Play in the Gulf of Oman

Iran, China, and Russia flexed their military muscles in a significant joint naval drill in the Gulf of Oman. The bold show of strength, led by Iran, signifies a mounting threat to the West and underlines Tehran’s commitment to using its strategic partnerships with Beijing and Moscow to reshape regional security dynamics.

The trilateral showcase, dubbed Marine Security Belt 2024... Читать дальше...

By Andrew Moran

The financial pressures facing Social Security have been well documented over the years. The retirement scheme is about a decade away from collapsing, and the US government has conceded that there is no plan to save the program. The New Deal is nearly a century old, but today’s generation cannot keep up with sustaining the Depression-era entitlement. Just how bad is it? The Treasury Department released a report – and let’s just say that a fiscal bomb is going to explode. Читать дальше...

By Jonathan Power

The Middle East is going to hell in a handbasket. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the principle living architect of the repression that has long preceded the war in Gaza. There is now effectively only one state in the old Palestine, yet most of the Arabs have no vote. The “peace process” has become a diplomatic deception.

The US has tried more times than one can count to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It has made progress only at the margins. Читать дальше...

America, a new report details, is minting millionaires at a record pace. Some 37 percent of the world’s millionaires, analysts at the wealth advisory firm Henley & Partners calculate, now call the United States home.

By Abdul Rahman Yaacob

Vietnam’s relations with major powers are often described as non-aligned. This is usually linked to Hanoi’s ‘Four Nos’ policy — no military alliances, no siding with one country to act against another, no foreign military bases or using Vietnam as leverage to counteract other countries and no threat or use of force.

The nonalignment strategy and healthy, balanced relations with major powers has served Vietnam well. Vietnam has good trade relations with... Читать дальше...

By Kung Chan and Xia Ri

Recently, there have been reports that Apple is in discussions with Google on a large-scale collaboration agreement that could redefine the rules of the artificial intelligence industry by integrating Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine into the iPhone. There are also reports suggesting that this exposes Apple’s progress in AI may not be as smooth as expected, while also potentially exacerbating the antitrust scrutiny faced by both companies. There... Читать дальше...

By Fernando Heller 

(EurActiv) — Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday (2 April) demanded Israel clarify the circumstances of what he called a ‘brutal’ air strike on central Gaza, which claimed the lives of seven volunteers from the NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK), run by Spanish chef José Andrés.

Sánchez, currently on a visit to the region, said he was “horrified” by the “brutal attack” and demanded that the government of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu... Читать дальше...

By Tenzin Pema

Beijing has issued Chinese names for 30 locations in Arunachal Pradesh to bolster its claims on the territory that is controlled by India, which quickly dismissed the move as meaningless.

It was the fourth time since 2017 that China released place names for geographical locations in what it refers to as Zangnan and claims is part of southern Tibet, in Chinese territory.

“If today, I change the name of your house, will it become mine?” asked India’s... Читать дальше...

By Iman Muttaqin Yusof

Malaysian authorities are searching for additional suspects, including foreigners, allegedly connected to an Israeli man who was arrested last week with a cache of handguns and ammunition in Kuala Lumpur, the country’s police chief said Tuesday.

The investigation involving the Israeli national – caught with six handguns and 200 bullets – needs to be multifaceted, Police Inspector-General Razarudin Husain told reporters. He added that weapons smuggling... Читать дальше...

Political polarization—the inability of groups such as political parties, religious sects, and cultural identity groups to cooperate even in basic, essential matters—has been a worry and a threat since American democracy began, and for many centuries before. James Madison called it “faction,” and in The Federalist, No. 10, he wrote, “The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.”

By Osama Al-Sharif

A new Palestinian government was sworn in earlier this week in Ramallah, a few weeks after the resignation of former Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, who took over in 2017. Mohammed Mustafa, a 69-year-old Palestinian economist and a close ally of President Mahmoud Abbas, now heads a 23-member Cabinet of technocrats that is described as nonpartisan. It includes six ministers from Gaza, underlining two primary objectives of the new government: postwar reconstruction... Читать дальше...

(UCA News) -- The father of a Chinese Christian detained more than ten months ago has sought a fair trial, claiming his son was falsely charged with fraud because of his Christian faith, says a report.

Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore.

Not that Israelis disagree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest war; they simply do not believe that the prime minister is the man who can win this supposedly existential fight.

But Netanyahu’s war remains unwinnable simply because liberation wars, often conducted through guerrilla warfare tactics, are far more complicated than traditional combat. Nearly six months after the Israeli attack on Gaza began, it has become clear that Palestinian... Читать дальше...

This narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the eve of that epoch-making split. The middle of the 1940s, as I recall, epitomized the jaded sunset of the one-time Majestic British Raj in India. Growing out of the British Indian subject status, in those days, was like staring out of a “fracturing chrysalis!”

On Friday, Trump posted a video featuring an image of President Biden hog-tied —with hands and feet bound together.