October, 2021

• 16 October

  Six killed in shooting at Hezbollah protest over Beirut explosion probe

  

  Hezbollah blamed the Christian political party the Lebanese Forces for the attack. Several people were killed in Beirut Thursday in a shooting at a protest. A total of six people have been confirmed dead so far in addition to 32 wounded in relation to the shooting in south Beirut’s Tayouneh …

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• 16 October

  Is Turkey losing Washington?

  

  Erdogan’s revisionist foreign policy looks squeezed between the Eastern Mediterranean anvil and the Syrian hammer. Despite the longstanding alliance and close military partnership between Turkey and the United States, the relationship has always been troublesome. For some time now, pundits and Turkey experts have tended to speculate on “who lost …

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• 16 October

  China-Russia Cooperation

  

  Determining Factors, Future Trajectories, Implications for the United States China and Russia are perceived as major, long-term competitors with the United States. Since 2014, China and Russia have strengthened their relationship, increasing political, military, and economic cooperation. In this report, the authors seek to understand the history of cooperation between …

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• 16 October

  Algerian security forces foil planned armed attack by separatists -TV

  Algerian security forces foiled a plot to carry out an armed attack by separatists aided by “the Zionist entity” (Israel) and a North African country, Ennahar TV said on Wednesday. Seventeen members of a separatist group that authorities have declared a terrorist organisation called “MAK” were arrested and documents indicating …

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• 16 October

  The U.S. Killer Drone Program Stays Afloat on the Back of Lies and Pentagon Propaganda

  On August 29, in the final days of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the United States launched a drone strike, firing a 20-pound Hellfire missile at an aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi as he parked his car outside his home in a residential neighborhood of Kabul. The lethal strike killed …

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• 16 October

  Relaunching Negotiations over Western Sahara

  

  Principal Findings What’s new? Fighting between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front over the disputed territory of Western Sahara flared up again in November 2020. External powers are divided and reluctant to step in, while the UN succeeded in filling its long-vacant envoy position only in October 2021. Why does it …

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• 16 October

  Heroes or Parasites: Europe’s Self-serving Politics on Refugees

  Language is politics and politics is power. This is why the misuse of language is particularly disturbing, especially when the innocent and vulnerable pay the price. The wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries in recent years have resulted in one of the greatest …

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• 15 October

  Suwerenność jednej kliki

  

  Unia Europejska przechodzi kryzys tożsamości i jest silnie podzielona. Widzi to Jarosław Kaczyński, który w kolejnych sprawach „przeciąga linę” i gra na przeczekanie. Wuzasadnieniu do wydanego kilka dni temu orzeczenia Trybunału Konstytucyjnego (który sama władza mylnie przedstawiała jako rozstrzygniecie o wyższości konstytucji RP nad prawem unijnym) spod prawniczego wywodu co …

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• 15 October

  Die Opposition um Tusk muss mehr tun

  

  Gemessen am Anlass seien in Polen zu wenige Teilnehmer auf den Straßen gewesen, kommentiert Peter Sawicki die Pro-EU-Proteste gegen das Urteil des Verfassungsgerichts. Auswanderung und politische Apathie erschwerten eine breite Mobilisierung. Der polnischen Opposition um Donald Tusk fehle es außerdem an Einigkeit. Wer auf ein starkes pro-europäisches Signal in Polen …

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• 15 October

  UK trustees ‘recklessly sent cash to charity linked to Al Qaeda’

  

  Five trustees of Syria and Gaza relief group Human Aid mismanaged cash sent abroad to a charity linked to Al Qaeda, a UK watchdog has found. The Charity Commission has described the trustees as “reckless” after the aid group sent more than £250,000 to a Turkish non-profit organisation, which UK …

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