Asia
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Michael Hudson: Eurasian World Order – New Global Governance
This is really very good. Michael spells it out once again. The what, where and how and rules of an alternative is now clear, and so is the roadmap. Continue reading
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SCO Summit 2025: Eurasia’s Pillar of Security
The Tianjin summit was the largest in the 24-year history of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which has become “a reliable support for member states in maintaining regional stability.” Continue reading
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Radhika Desai: Neoliberalism, Economic War, BRICS & a New Russia
Radhika Desai discusses how neoliberalism has financialised and de-industrialised Western economies. The economic war to reverse the decline of the West has instead intensified the decline, and BRICS has become an important institution to construct an alternative post-neoliberal economic system. Russia’s shift from Europe to Eurasia is at the centre of the new international economic… Continue reading
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US Message at Shangri La: Following US Wars in Europe, Africa, & the Middle East, Asia’s Next
Sunday, 29 June 2025 — The New Atlas US Secretary Hegseth’s speech was not an offering of peace and stability to Asia, it is the holding of its hostage in exchange for subordination to Washington and Wall Street and the continued primacy of Western interests over Asia decades into the future. Only time will tell… Continue reading
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Eurasia Rising
I was interviewed by Ab Gietelink about my book “The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order”. NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the global primacy of the Political West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and… Continue reading
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Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part II
President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their key operative in the White House, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, hopelessly underestimated President-elect Donald Trump’s quick reflex action to demolish their demonic plot to kickstart a war with Iran by attacking its nuclear installations just before the new president’s inauguration. Continue reading
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The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a US-led Middle Eastern war
Reuters reported on Friday quoting three sources in the Persian Gulf that the regional states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s oil sites as “part of their attempts to avoid being caught in the crossfire.” The exclusive Reuters report singled out Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as also refusing… Continue reading
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Resisting Fragmentation: The Battle to Unify West Asia’s Fronts
The Axis of Resistance faces its most critical test as it strives to maintain unity across West Asia’s battlefronts and prove its strength against the US-backed Israeli military, paving the way for a regional shift that could redefine its future. Continue reading
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US & Israel expand war across Middle East, attacking Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Yemen
The United States and Israel are waging war across West Asia (Middle East), bombing Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Yemen — all at once. Ben Norton analyzes the imperialist interests driving the violence Continue reading
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Dangerous Escalations: Biden’s Indo-Pacific Legacy
When Joe Biden, a key architect of the Obama administration’s “Asia Pivot” policy, became the US president in 2020 and introduced his Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, his apparent objective was to make the region more “peaceful” and manage its seas according to accepted international “rules”. Continue reading
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Russia’s victory in Ukraine resonates in Central Asia
Russia’s stunning victory in the battle of Avdeevka and the rout of the Ukrainian military, boosts the credibility of Russia as provider of security for the Central Asian region. The point is not lost on the erudite Central Asian mind that Russia has single-handedly put the NATO on the back foot. Continue reading
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In neocolonial rant, EU says Europe is ‘garden’ superior to rest of world’s barbaric ‘jungle’
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Russia.” Continue reading
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US is recalibrating the power dynamic in East Mediterranean. Can South Asia be far behind?
A mild flutter ensued after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent meeting with his Turkiye counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York on September 21 when it came to be known that Cyprus figured in their discussion. Jaishankar highlighted it in a tweet. Continue reading
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Asia’s future takes shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific
Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia’s far eastern coast to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific Continue reading
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Ukraine’s ‘Great Game’ surfaces in Transcaucasia
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Presidents of Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan (clockwise from left) took part in the 6th Caspian Summit, Ashgabat, June 29, 2022 If the metaphor of the “Great Game” can be applied to the Ukrainian crisis, with the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation… Continue reading
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Washington’s Partnership (for Primacy) in Blue Pacific
(Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook) – In Washington’s ongoing efforts to confront and contain China’s rise on the global stage, it has announced yet another bloc, the “Partnership in Blue Pacific.” Continue reading
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Creating cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy
Only three weeks remain for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Madrid, which is expected to unveil a new Strategic Concept aimed at redefining “the security challenges facing the Alliance and outline the political and military tasks that NATO will carry out to address them.” Continue reading
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Indo-Pacific power dynamic in radical shift
The joint air patrol over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea on Monday by an air task force composed of Russian Tu-95MS capable of carrying nuclear weapons and Chinese H-6K strategic bombers couldn’t have been a knee-jerk reaction to US President Joe Biden’s Asia tour, leave alone his provocative remarks conjuring… Continue reading
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NATO vs Russia: what happens next
Three months after the start of Russia’s Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing. Yet the narrative – oddly – remains the same. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 