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Guns for hire: Should private military companies take on organized crime?

In March 2025, the Haitian government hired Vectus Global, a private military company (PMC) led by Erik Prince, the founder of US-based PMC Blackwater, to support the public forces in combating criminal groups that control 90% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and exert governance over vast swathes of the country’s territory …

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Turkey is escalating tensions in the Mediterranean (again)

Turkey is once again stoking tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean – this time by undermining the sovereignty of Greece and Cyprus while wagering that Washington and Brussels will look the other way. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is maneuvering through Libya, where it hopes to secure support from both Tripoli …

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Russia’s New Fear Factor: How the War Is Driving a Wave of Purges and Suicides Among the Country’s Elites

In the 1920s, the Bolshevik economic theorist and Communist Party darling Nikolai Bukharin was one of Stalin’s closest allies. But as Stalin became entrenched in power, Bukharin found that he was no less vulnerable to the dictator’s wrath than anyone else. Accused of conspiracy in 1937, Bukharin was executed the …

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Ce n’est pas l’Inde et la Russie que les États-Unis ont perdues, mais la possibilité de diviser pour mieux régner

Donald Trump ne cesse de surprendre par ses réflexions, cette fois encore au sujet des récents sommets et célébrations en Chine. Si, la dernière fois, il a plaisanté au sujet d’un complot ourdi à Pékin contre l’Amérique par Xi, Poutine et Kim (même si la frontière entre plaisanterie et irritation …

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Retour à la doctrine Monroe – Offensive impérialiste de Trump en Amérique latine

Le retour du «gourdin» et de la doctrine Monroe Depuis la réélection de Donald Trump à la présidence des États-Unis, le monde observe avec stupéfaction une politique étrangère américaine de plus en plus interventionniste et agressive, suscitant de vives inquiétudes quant à l’avenir de la politique internationale. Ces inquiétudes résultent …

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Assassinat de ministres yéménites : quand les médias normalisent les crimes d’Israël

Israël a commis l’acte sans précédent d’assassiner le chef du gouvernement de Sanaa et 11 de ses ministres pour punir le Yémen de son indéfectible solidarité avec Gaza, qui en fait l’un des rares pays au monde à prendre au sérieux l’obligation de prévention du crime de génocide. Les médias, …

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 6, 2025

ToplinesUkrainian officials warned that the Russian military command is regrouping and reinforcing its troops in western Donetsk Oblast, likely ahead of a major offensive operation. Ukrainian Dnipro Group of Forces Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Oleksiy Belskyi reported that the Russian military command is concentrating significant forces in Donetsk Oblast and that …

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Western media will always give Israel the benefit of propaganda

For nearly two years, Western media has normalised Israeli war crimes and dehumanised Palestinians amid Gaza’s ongoing genocide, argues Assal Rad. Language is not neutral; it shapes the way we perceive global events with profound implications for public opinion. In the context of the Gaza genocide, the discourse deployed by …

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Lebanon’s cabinet meeting looms over army plan on Hezbollah arms

Lebanon’s cabinet meets on Friday to review the army’s sensitive plan on weapons, with Hezbollah’s stance and Israeli escalation heightening tensions. Lebanon’s government is bracing for one of its most sensitive cabinet sessions in years, with ministers set to debate the army’s long-awaited plan to place all weapons under state …

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