January, 2024

• 18 January

  Pakistani retaliatory strikes in Iran kill at least 9, raising tensions along border

  

  Pakistan launched airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran on Thursday, killing at least nine people as it retaliated for a similar attack days earlier by Iran and raising tensions with its neighbor as conflict across the region escalates. The unprecedented attacks by both Pakistan and Iran on either side …

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• 18 January

  Pakistan’s Retaliation Against Iran Debunks The Theory That They’re Secretly Cooperating

  

  Iran absolutely wouldn’t have authorized any retaliatory Pakistani strikes on its territory like Mohammad Marandi and Pepe Escobar’s explicitly stated and strongly implied theories would respectively suggest if there was any truth to their interpretation of why Iran struck Pakistan earlier in the week. Pakistan confirmed on Thursday morning that …

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• 18 January

  Mer Rouge : Les Houthis ne cèdent pas à Washington, le commerce maritime international de plus en plus perturbé

  

  Le mouvement Ansar Allah a fait savoir qu’il continuerait «d’empêcher la navigation associée à l’ennemi israélien». Les opérations menées par le mouvement houthi en mer Rouge perturbent le trafic maritime international. Les compagnies de transport doivent contourner le continent africain, occasionnant déjà des retards de livraisons. Malgré les frappes américano-britanniques, …

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• 18 January

  The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You)

  

  2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country’s indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a devastating civil war in Sudan. And there’s a distinct risk of even worse to come this year. Still, there …

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• 18 January

  The curious case of Israeli ‘genocide’

  

  The performance at the Hague bodes ill for international law Since the early 1600s, the Bavarian town of Oberammergau has, once a decade, mounted a massive Passion Play, dramatically re-enacting Jesus’s trial and crucifixion. Spread over five hours and with a cast of thousands, it has for centuries attracted audiences …

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• 18 January

  The War in Ukraine Has Become a Peripheral Concern for the West

  

  What seemed at first to be the start of a Third World War has turned out to be more akin to a Second Yugoslav War: a local conflict on the edge of Europe triggered by a slow-motion imperial collapse. Throughout 2022, Europe was in shock. It turned out that Russia, …

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• 18 January

  How Ukraine Can Regain Its Edge

  

  Technology and the Element of Surprise Can Put Russia on the Back Foot For Ukraine, the full-scale war against Russia has been extremely difficult. During the first year, Russia incurred huge losses to Ukraine, and Kyiv was able to liberate roughly half of all the territory Moscow took in its …

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• 18 January

  How the War in Gaza Revived the Axis of Resistance

  

  Iran and Its Allies Are Fighting With Missiles and Memes On January 12, the United Kingdom and the United States launched military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. These attacks were a response to the group’s assaults on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which have disrupted global trade. The …

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• 18 January

  The blood libel at The Hague

  

  They say you can’t kill an idea and maybe they’re right. Among Hitler’s ideas: murdering Jews – every man, woman, and child. Early in World War II, Winston Churchill observed that the deliberate and systematic destruction of a people was a “crime without a name.” But in 1944, Raphael Lemkin, …

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• 18 January

  Guerre à Gaza : L’Iran démontre ses moyens de légitime défense

  

  Pendant les cent jours de guerre d’Israël contre tous les habitants de Gaza, les membres de l’axe de résistance ont répondu à l’assaut. Le Hamas à Gaza a attaqué avec succès les forces d’invasion israéliennes. Hier encore, il a lancé des missiles depuis le nord de Gaza vers Israël. Le …

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