What the collapse of the world order means for Asia

The collapse of the global order will not begin with a war in Asia but with the realization that rules no longer bind the strong and alliances no longer oblige the powerful. At Davos, European and Canadian leaders did not merely criticize US policy; they questioned the durability of the postwar system itself. President Donald […]
| Asia, Columns, Politics

Why the US–Iran War Still Has Not Begun — and What Is Really Stopping Trump

For several weeks now, the world has been living in anticipation of a major war between the United States and Iran. Aircraft carriers, strategic aviation, ultimatums, and sharply escalating rhetoric have created the impression that a military strike is merely a matter of time. When Pressure Matters More Than War Yet week after week passes, and the war does not begin.
| World

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism

Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation over its many proxies — including and perhaps especially over Europe itself. Narratives floating through Western media space depict the US as challenging or threatening not only Europe over control of Denmark’s Greenland territory but also Canada in North America. […]
| Columns, Europe, Locations

US Emergency: Trump Wants Cuba to Suffocate in Its Own Crisis

On Thursday, January 29, the White House published an executive order by Donald Trump declaring a state of national emergency in the United States. The document identifies Cuba as a threat to US national security, accusing the island of supporting terrorism and spreading communist ideology in the Western Hemisphere. As a key pressure measure, the United States introduced tariffs against countries
| World

Western Energy Paradox: Why the US and EU Still Buy Russian Nuclear Fuel

Despite official statements about the intention to abandon Russian nuclear fuel, the United States and countries of the European Union continue to purchase it in substantial volumes. In some cases, supply volumes have even increased. Sanctions remain in place and political rhetoric emphasizes diversification, yet Russian nuclear fuel still plays an important role in the energy programs of both the US
| World

Another Kurdish Surrender

The violation of the agreement of March 10, 2025, sparked an outburst of another escalation in northeastern Syria, led to Turkish intervention, and contributed to the defeat of the Kurdish SDF forces. As a result, a new Syrian-Kurdish agreement was signed on January 18 on Damascus’s terms, with the participation of Washington and Ankara. The […]
| Politics, Syria, Kurds

Syedra excavations get international support

Work carried out at the ancient city of Syedra by Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University (ALKÜ) has received international support under the 2509 Bilateral Cooperation Support Program (Bosphorus), jointly run by TÜBİTAK and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. The project is also recorded as ALKÜ’s first international bilateral cooperation initiative.
| Arts & Life

DAVOS 2026: While Europe Experiments with Multipolarity, Poland Doubles Down on NATO Loyalty

The World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20–24, 2026, unveiled what could have been a landmark for multipolar diplomacy: the launch of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. The Board of Peace Launch: Spectacle over Substance Nineteen founding nations gathered on January 21, including Hungary’s Orbán, Bulgaria’s Zhelyazkov, Argentina’s Milei, the UAE’s Mohammed bin Zayed, and […]
| Europe, Poland, Politics

US Sanctions Force Lukoil to Exit Foreign Assets in Multibillion-Dollar Deal

On January 29, Russian oil company Lukoil announced the completion of a deal with the American investment firm Carlyle Group. Under the agreement, Carlyle became the buyer of the foreign assets held by LUKOIL International GmbH, which includes oil refineries in Europe, a network of fuel stations, and several upstream assets. US Blocking Sanctions Forced the Sale The decision to sell
| Business

Jonathan Cook – The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump’s

Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net Cross-posted from Jonathan’s Substack To view the film clips mentioned in the article please go HERE Twitter: Screen Grab All my posts are freely accessible, but my journalism is possible only because
| Fake News, Geopolitics, Media

Gambia’s Supreme Court to Decide on FGM Ban

There's no medical justification for FGM, according to the World Health Organization. Medicalization of FGM, in which the procedure is carried out by health personnel, does not reduce the violation of human rights. Regardless of where and by whom it is performed, FGM is never safe. Nonetheless, over 230 million girls and women have undergone FGM, with about 63 percent
| Africa, Development & Aid, Gender

International LEGO Day: How a Danish Brick United Generations Worldwide

On January 28, people around the world celebrate a holiday that has united multiple generations of children and adults who share a passion for building and creativity. For most of them, the very word "construction set” immediately brings one name to mind: LEGO. This date is known as International LEGO Day. The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Danish carpenter
| History, traditions

America’s Fracture: Extremes, Institutional Decay, and the Trump Catalyst

The United States is not experiencing a sudden crisis, nor is it on the verge of an immediate systemic collapse. What it is experiencing instead is more subtle and more dangerous: the normalization of instability as a political condition. “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” — […]
| Columns, Locations, Politics

Man arrested after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar

A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month.
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Exiled: Myanmar’s Resistance to Junta Rule Flourishes Abroad

From construction and hotel workers to kitchen and restaurant staff—estimates of the numbers of Myanmar migrants living in Thailand range up to six million, with a surge of new arrivals since the 2021 military coup. Many are building new lives in the vast metropolis of Bangkok, ranked by the UN among the world’s top 15 […]
| Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific

Soviet Diesel Cars: Experiments, Exports, and Limited Success

It would be wrong to say that diesel passenger cars were never produced in the USSR. They existed, but only in small numbers and did not achieve widespread popularity. For some reason, diesel engines never quite fit into Soviet passenger car production. The First Attempts to Build a Soviet Diesel Even before World War II, engineers tried to develop a diesel
| Cars

Cuts Stall Clinical Trials, Scientists Warn US Risks Losing Its Research Edge

We need science. Moments like the challenges of today call for reflection and offer opportunities to readjust, evolve, and move forward, including finding new ways to engage with the public and policymakers and to fund and conduct science creatively Science, research, and scientific discoveries, after all, provide solutions to the pressing challenges our society faces and can improve people’s lives. Science guides
| Civil Society, Democracy, Food Systems

Gold Breaks $5,000 as Investors Flee the Dollar in a Historic Market Shift

The global gold market is experiencing an unprecedented surge. On Monday, Jan. 26, exchange prices for the precious metal crossed the psychologically critical level of $5,000 per troy ounce for the first time in history. The February gold futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose above $5,100 per ounce, signaling fundamental changes in the global financial system and a sharp
| Business

A Not So Happy United States

Despite its national wealth, overall trends across the United States indicate eroding social bonds, increasing political polarization, worsening mental well-being, declining social trust, and rising loneliness. As a result, the country’s population of 343 million is becoming unhappier with each passing year Additionally, there is a generational divide among the US population, with younger individuals below the age of 30
| Headlines, North America, Population

Ankara, Paris discuss ways to advance Türkiye-EU ties

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, discussed ways to overcome current freeze in Türkiye-EU ties, including modernization of the customs union and visa liberalization, as well as to strengthen the security of the European continent in a key meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara on Jan. 27.
| Türkiye

Trump’s «Board of Peace»: A New Colonial Tool Under the Banner of «Peace»

On January 21, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump, once again occupying the Oval Office, announced the creation of a project dubbed the “Board of Peace.” Under the pretext of “Gaza’s reconstruction”—a land his Zionist allies have reduced to ruins in a genocidal war—he is offering the world not aid but a new trap. Behind the […]
| Palestine, Politics, USA

Why Trump Needs Civil Unrest to CLING to Power?

It is not the breaking news, emotional and scandalous though it is, that matters most but the larger pattern, timing, and intensity. The recent ICE crackdowns, shootings, and fatalities are but telltale signs of worse things to come. But don’t take my word for it; connect the dots for yourself! Some people are starting to […]
| Columns, Locations, Politics

Born After Victory: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Pobeda Sport Cars

In the early years of the Soviet Union, motorsport existed only in a rudimentary form. Purpose-built racing circuits were almost nonexistent, and competitions were often held on public highways. There were clear reasons for this reality. The country was recovering from the devastation of the Civil War, undergoing rapid industrialization, and building a massive defense industry. Resources and attention were focused
| Cars

Jonathan Cook – Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is the nail in Gaza’s coffin

Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and blog can be found at www.jonathan-cook.net Cross-posted from Jonathan’s Substack Lab rats ‘War is peace’ Finishing the job Decades to rebuild Deepen complicity ‘Real-estate dispute’ Cosying up to dictators Seizing Gaza’s gas Trump’s new world order
| Geopolitics, Article, Jonathan Cook

Silver, Gold, and Platinum Surge to Historic Peaks Amid Dollar Weakness

Prices for the main precious metals reached historic highs by the end of the week as investors actively redirected funds into defensive assets. An additional driver was the weakening of the US dollar on global currency markets. As a result, demand for precious metals rose sharply, triggering a rapid upward move in prices. Silver Sets an Absolute Record Silver delivered the most
| World

James Dyke – No war on a dead planet

James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse. Cascading risks of ecosystem degradation are likely to include geopolitical instability, economic insecurity, conflict, migration and increased inter-state competition for resources. Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. Without
| Climate Crisis, Environment, Sustainability

Multilateralism Will Survive! But at what cost?

The American administration withdrawal from 66 international organizations puts the very idea of multilateralism at risk. Humanity is at an inflection point. Having recovered from a devastating crisis—a disease-induced global lockdown that caused a global financial meltdown in 2020 — we have recovered. That recovery was not pioneered by a single individual, ethnic community, institution, […]
| Columns, Politics, USA

NATO - Eighty Years of Peace If You Ignore the Rest of the World

Nancy O'Brien Simpson “NATO has kept the peace for nearly eight decades and created the conditions for prosperity and democracy to flourish.”U.S. State Department This is a remarkable claim, repeated with near religious reverence by Western leaders. NATO has kept the peace for nearly eighty years. One almost admires the audacity. Because outside a narrow band of white European countries, the postwar
| Opinion

Moving Towards Agroecological Food Systems in Southern Africa

In a quiet village known as Nkhondola, in Chongwe District, Eastern Zambia, Royd Michelo and his wife, Adasila Kanyanga, have transformed their five-acre piece of land into a self-sustaining agroecological landscape. With healthy soils built over time, the farm teems with diverse food crops, fruit trees, livestock and birds, nourishing their family and the surrounding […]
| Africa, Civil Society, Climate Change

Ukraine, Russia and U.S. to hold first trilateral talks in UAE

ALBAWABA- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Thursday that representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the United States will hold their first trilateral talks since the start of the war, meeting in the United Arab Emirates on January 23 and 24, in what he described as a potential opening to revive stalled peace efforts...
| NEWS, #RussiaUkraineCrisis, Main Headlines

Russian Celebrities Throw Luxury Party in Courchevel Causing Public Outrage

Russian retail chain Rendez-Vous (shoes & accessories retailer) angered customers after organizing a celebrity press tour to Courchevel. Outraged comments flooded the brand's official account on social media. Among the celebrities who traveled to the French resort were model Elena Perminova, journalist Ksenia Sobchak, blogger Oksana Samoilova, actress Elizaveta Bazykina, stylist Alexander Rogov, businesswoman Ksenia Shipilova, and other brand ambassadors. The
| Society

Putin Reveals Cunning Billion-Dollar Plan for Trump

Vladimir Putin made a carefully calculated diplomatic move by proposing that Russian assets frozen in the United States be unfrozen in order for Russia to join Donald Trump's Board of Peace with the required permanent member contribution of one billion dollars. The President of the Russian Federation stated that Moscow stands ready in principle to participate in any peace initiatives and
| World

Snap Elections in Japan: Will Sanae Takaichi Win her Gamble?

On January 19, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced snap elections for the Lower House of the Diet on February 8. The PM hopes to secure more seats for her coalition and consolidate a solid majority in the House. In Japan, the Lower House, where the elections will be held, has more power than the […]
| Japan, Politics, Elections

A Year in Donald Trump’s New Presidency: Radical Changes in the World

January 20th marked exactly one year since Donald Trump resumed office as the 47th President of the United States. The initial results of Donald Trump’s tenure are assessed differently in the United States and abroad, yet there appears to be a broad consensus that the American leader has shaken both the global economy and international […]
| Politics, USA, Internal policy

After Greenland, Trump Sets His Sights on Canada

After Greenland, Donald Trump is unlikely to focus on Iran, a country that would require a costly and difficult war. Instead, his ambitions may turn toward a far more vulnerable target: Canada. In Ottawa, this possibility is no longer dismissed as fantasy. Trump's Ambitions Point to Canada The US president wants to enter history as the greatest territorial conqueror, a legacy
| World

Thousands of Kenya’s Smallholder Coffee Farmers Risk Losing EU Market as Deforestation Law Takes Effect

For the last twenty years, Sarah Nyaga, a smallholder farmer from Embu County in central Kenya, has farmed coffee. Like most across Kenya, she relies on the export market. A greater percentage of Kenya’s coffee ends up within the European Union market, but a new law threatens to disrupt what has been a source of […]
| Africa, Conservation, Development & Aid

Record Solar Radiation Storm Hits Earth for First Time in 22 Years

A rare and extremely powerful S4-level solar radiation storm has begun in near-Earth space for the first time in two solar cycles, according to the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN). "The flux of solar protons has exceeded 10,000 units. For the first time in the last two solar cycles, an
| Science

3D Mapping Reveals Hidden Earthquake Risks Beneath Istanbul

The world's largest metropolises often form at tectonic plate boundaries, offering favorable terrain and sea access but creating constant disaster risks. 3D Mapping Shows Epicenter Risks Istanbul exemplifies this pattern. The city lies near the North Anatolian Fault, which slices across Turkey for 1,500 kilometers. Historical observations show a concerning trend. Since 1939, a series of major earthquakes progressed from east to
| Science

EU Considers Retaliatory 'Big Bazooka' Tariffs Against US Amid Greenland Dispute

European countries have begun discussing retaliatory tariffs and expanded economic sanctions against the United States following a sharp deterioration in relations with the administration of Donald Trump. The escalation stems from US threats to impose new export duties and the political conflict surrounding Greenland, intensifying transatlantic tensions and casting doubt on the prospects for further trade and economic dialogue between the
| World

Silver Breaks Historic Barrier, Surging Above 95 Dollars per Ounce

Exchange-traded silver prices reached a new all-time high, surpassing the 95-dollar-per-ounce mark for the first time in history. On Tuesday, March silver futures rose by 7.72 percent and reached 95.37 dollars per ounce by 12:00 Moscow time, according to trading data from the Comex exchange. The sharp surge marked one of the most significant moves in the precious metals market in recent
| Business

​Poland and Ukraine: The Illusion of Reset – New Rhetoric, Old Submission

Poland’s new political configuration, despite promises of a “new openness” and a more pragmatic approach to Ukraine, has in reality turned out to be little more than a rebranding, maintaining the previous policy of support for Ukraine, which has led to the accumulation of internal costs and the weakening of public consensus. When Poland’s new […]
| Poland, Politics, anti-Russian hysteria

Trump Set to Dominate Davos Forum and Challenge the Globalist Elite

President of the United States Donald Trump will unexpectedly become the main participant at the Davos forum, long seen as a stronghold of the globalization ideology he openly detests. Observers expect the American leader to deliver a devastating critique of his opponents. Davos Prepares for Dialogue with Trump The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos will take place
| World

Trump Invites Putin, Lukashenko, and Tokayev to New Peace Council' on Gaza

The United States has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to join a new international Peace Council on the Gaza sector, created by U. S. President Donald Trump. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that Moscow is currently reviewing all details of the proposal and awaits further clarification of its nuances. Positive Reception in Moscow The invitation was positively received in Russia. Yuri
| World

USA Sanctions Without a Conscience

The United States likes to speak the language of human rights. It invokes democracy, freedom, and moral leadership as justification for its power in the world. Yet when it comes to economic sanctions, deportation policy, and the funding of wars that devastate civilian populations, the evidence tells a harsher story. Again and again, U.S. policy reveals an indifference to ordinary
| Opinion

BRICS under the Sign of the Lotus: India Takes Up the Baton

India has assumed the BRICS chairmanship and intends to continue the line of its predecessors in advancing the interests of this large and influential international association representing the global majority. The Lotus as a Symbol of Unity and Diversity On January 13, 2026, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar unveiled the logo and key priorities of […]
| India, Politics, BRICS

Trump's new 'gangster' threats against Greenland, allies, cross line

As to Trump’s offer to buy Greenland, as NATO allies have stressed, only the people of Greenland have the right to accept or reject this, and no such offer and vote can be legitimate or credible if accompanied by economic pressure and the threat of force if it is rejected. So far, the overwhelming majority of Greenlanders have declared their
| Trump, Denmakrk, Nato

Chris Hedges – The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report. Greta Thunberg during my interview at
| Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

Carney accepts Trump’s offer to join Peace Council on Gaza — newspaper

According to a statement released by the White House, the Peace Council chaired by US President Donald Trump will include his special representative Steve Witkoff, entrepreneur and son-in-law of the American leader Jared Kushner, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, owner of investment company Apollo Global Management Mark Rowan, head of the World Bank Ajay Banga and Trump's deputy national
| World, Middle East conflict