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North Cyprus is one of the Mediterranean’s most distinctive destinations, yet much of its tourism potential remains untapped. Girne’s (Kyrenia) historic harbour, the coastline where the Girne Mountains meet the sea, its…
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Sometimes it takes a bold thesis to get closer to the truth: The U.S. is actually drawing closer to Russia in order to still have a foothold in the Middle East, which it will soon lose. Europe is left behind and will…
Eurasia
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Afghanistan’s Qosh Tepa Canal is forcing Central Asia to confront a dangerous question: when a river crosses borders, who gets to decide who drinks first? Firing a missile is not a prerequisite for disturbing a country’s…
Larry C. Johnson
Good news from the Persian Gulf: the war is going so well that the sea itself has joined the fight. While Washington’s experts debate missile counts and the price of oil (around $115 for Brent on Friday, in case anyone…
By: Pham Phan Long The controversy over how dangerous artificial intelligence may be – and how soon the danger might arrive – is fascinating, not simply because experts reach very different conclusions, but because they…
Myanmar
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Kim Aris tells the Guardian chance to speak with detained Nobel laureate was ‘public relations’ move from military leaders Myanmar’s former democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be in good physical and mental…
Eurasia
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The proposal to construct a railway and cargo tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, connecting Russia’s Chukotka region with Alaska, recovers an old ambition to physically unite Eurasia and North America. In October 2025…
Analysis
The Jewish Voice for Liberation group (JVL) has condemned the government’s nakedly pro-Israel ‘report’ on supposed antisemitism in schools – as a misleading vehicle for Zionist propaganda. Unfit and biased root and…
Behind The Headlines
Iran’s Army has revealed a new drone that carries a warhead twice the weight of the previous generation, as Tehran threatens a war without limits in retaliation for US-Israeli military operations – MintPress News’ Robert…
Screenshot of the online advertisement from the campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy The GOP nominee for Governor in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, provoked widespread condemnation this week as a result of an online campaign ad starring…
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French president Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to quell the outraged protest of the French people is failing. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in defiance of Macron’s protest ban , which he has combined with an effort…
Technology
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Two years ago, every argument about AI was about quality. The machines hallucinated court cases, absorbed biases from their training data, misspelled words in their own images, drew hands with six fingers, and couldn’t…
Middle East & Africa
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Chinese think tanks and strategic and intelligence circles, such as the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), view the upcoming 26th Israeli…
Non classé
We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets from around the world, join together to condemn the unprecedented attack on press freedom in Egypt following the referral of Egyptian…
Analysis
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Professor Jason Arday , the Cambridge academic hounded to death by UK ‘mainstream’ media after allegations by white supremacist Nathan Cofnas , has been cleared of plagiarism. Again. Racist Israel-supporter Cofnas, whose…
Analysis
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The Israel lobby is at it again. The Israel-supporting council in Barnet, long an epicentre of the antisemitism scam, has approved a motion declaring anti-Zionism to be antisemitism. The motion targets the Green party’s…
Global development
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Innovators and business leaders are driving progress across the continent-wide, but the ‘visibility gap’ prevents the rest of the world from truly seeing it Thirty years ago, shortly after South Africa emerged from…
Larry C. Johnson
Ruwais Refinery Good news, everyone. The war is over, at least in the United Arab Emirates. That is the only conclusion you could draw from this month’s headlines. On October 14, Bloomberg reported the International…
Israel-elections
Israelis head to the polls on October 27 in a vote that will cast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing and religious allies against a motley crew of opposition parties. At the moment, neither side is…
Analysis
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After weeks of endless smears as the ‘mainstream’ media, politicians and Israel lobbyists try to make the antisemitism scam they used against Jeremy Corbyn stick to Polanski and the Greens – the Greens have risen in the…
Global Risk-Reward Monitor
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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany resists as France’s debt troubles threaten contagion Diego Faßnacht reports that France’s rising…
Israel-Palestine
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The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it…
Analysis
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The University of Oxford has agreed to let the university’s far-right Reform UK group use its Harris Lecture Theatre for an evening with white supremacist Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas is the racist eugenicist whose comments…
Europe
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Analytical readings from Chinese think tanks and strategic circles, such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) indicate that the European Parliament’s…
South Africa
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My husband, Paddy Donnelly, who has died aged 70, was a South African who moved in the early 1980s to London. There he worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF), which funded the legal…
Economics
A 40 year campaign to make you believe that monopolies are just an aspect of nature has led us to believe that you can’t do anything about them. This is total nonsense and all we have to do is remember. Robin McAlpine is…
Austerity
France’s current economic crisis is the crisis of neo-liberalism Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The recent high school and student…
Activism
There is no floor to what the modern Republican Party will turn into a political attack. On Oct. 19, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign released an ad featuring the mother of his opponent, Dr. Amy…
Geopolitics
If you read one thing today, make sure it is this Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Parsi’ Substack In a stunning piece…
Aid
8 November 1996 Graca Machel (left), former Minister of Education of Mozambique and the Secretary-General's appointed Expert on the Impact of Armed Conflict of Children, presents her report titled "The United Nations…
Analog Bits
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The future of intelligent computing depends on silicon that delivers more performance within tighter power and thermal limits. Combining TSMC’s advanced process technology with Analog Bits’ analog and mixed-signal…
Africa
In 1816 , a group of white people in the U.S. created the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (later simply the American Colonization Society), aimed at resolving the “problem”…
Activism
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Earlier this week, the eminent economist Thomas Piketty published a short intervention on the ongoing youth-led protests across France, which he dubs “the…
Opinion
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October 18, 2026, marks the 35th anniversary of the full restoration of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Soviet Union, with the Russian Federation acting as its legal successor. Over the last three and a half…
Economy
At the FT Africa summit, retired president Olusegun Obasanjo explores Nigeria’s economy, Horn of Africa tensions, and why he’s still not ready to retire. Nigeria’s retired president Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the…
CNI Authors
Trump’s vision of “his” federal capital continues to irritate The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge…
CNI Authors
Will snipers shoot American tourists in Washington? It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic. Last…
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Who is doing what to whom? Once upon a time the United States of America was confident that it, shielded by broad oceans to the East and West and having friendly countries that it dominated economically and militarily to…
CNI Authors
The United States competes with Israel for the “Most Hated” Distinction It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that…
CNI Authors
How many more innocent people will die? If one were seeking to create something like a modern-day folk tale based on current realities and having the theme of “good versus evil” there are any number of real-life…
CNI Authors
The horrors deliverable by Israel that might come next Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States’ model of global dominance which emerged as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly…
Ebola
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Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda Health officials across Africa are racing to determine how Nigeria’s first Ebola patient in more than a…
Analysis
Tomorrow’s ‘London for Sudan’ (LFS) march will mark the anniversary of Sudan’s popular ‘ October Revolution ‘ uprising and raise awareness of the ongoing, UAE- and Israel -enabled genocide in that country. ‘Resistance…
Human Rights
On a recent Piers Morgan show , the guest was Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist. The subject was a set of wars that now feed each other: Russia and Ukraine, the Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the United…
Canada
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In September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke of building a “unique alliance” between Canada and the European Union. Reports around the discussions went further, raising the possibility of some form of…
Analysis
Ed Torsney writes that Andy Burnham’s latest push to protect Israel in schools is at odds with the duty of schools to teach children to evaluate evidence, assess truth – and with ‘British values’ themselves: The tension…
Fake News
BRAVE NEW EUROPE has posted innumberable articles and videos by Glenn. His is one of the few remaining powerful voices in Europe speaking truth to power. His youtube channel is so good that it made our establishing our…
Always-at-war
After a four year truce, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have returned to open conflict in Yemen. Last month, the Saudis conducted over 250 air raids that killed over 150 civilians according to the Yemen Data Project, while…