We are approaching nine months since the horrific events on October 7th launched the current phase of conflict between Israel and Hamas. Despite efforts by the UN Security Council and the filings by South Africa at the International Criminal Court to either bring the fighting to an end or to …

Russia is spearheading a disinformation campaign to portray the US and Israel as a neocolonial villain – all while waging its own revanchist colonial war against Ukraine. Putin, with his background in intelligence rather than the military, excels at exploiting adversaries’ vulnerabilities. Putin’s specialty is creating chaos and he sees …

Analysis: A clear Labour majority in the UK election is unlikely to change Keir Starmer’s pro-Israel posturing or strategic ambivalence towards Palestine. Ahead of the UK’s general election, scheduled for July 4, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is expected to win a majority victory. If successful, an immediate foreign policy challenge …

Hezbollah has responded to recent Israeli threats by saying it will wage war without ‘limits’ if it continues to escalate military assaults on Lebanon. Hezbollah on Saturday threatened to wage war with “no limit, rules and restraint” in response to any escalation of military activity by Israel on the Lebanese …

Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its very foundations. More than 120 years since its inception, could the Zionist project in Palestine – the idea of imposing …

Israel is relentless in its bombings. Today is the turn of Al Shati Camp in the center of Gaza. It is part of the continued Israeli massacres that took away 41 lives combined with the devastating military actions in Al Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City. BREAKING: The Israeli occupation army …

In today’s summary:Fierce battles in the north of the Kharkov region – the Russian Aerospace Forces began to use three-ton FAB-3000 glidersVolchansk is increasingly reminiscent of Stalingrad – both in the nature of the fighting there and in the degree of destruction in the cityRussian troops “opened” new directions, including …

While in Russia, the writer Boris Akunin is included in the register of terrorists and extremists, criminal cases are initiated and are put on the wanted list, he continues to write books. The tenth volume of the series “The History of the Russian State” (covering time from 1917 to 1953) …

On June 2, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili signed into law the controversial bill “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” as the parliament overrode Salome Zourabichvili’s presidential veto (see EDM, May 13, 22). The Russian-style “foreign agents” bill was originally withdrawn in 2023 under intense public pressure but was …

In our modern world, most states are democracies or at least call themselves “democratic.” The adoption of democracy is hailed as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Once upon a time, humanity broke out of the shackles of monarchies and has never looked back since. Nowadays, all citizens in democratic countries …