RIAC: The World in 2035: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

By Zhao Huasheng & Andrey Kortunov. The first quarter of the century is elapsing. With every passing year it becomes less and less appropriate to argue that we still live in the very beginning of the new millennium. Very soon the humankind will enter the second quarter of the XXI century. It’s high time to

History.com: This Day In History (April 25-1859): Ground broken for Suez Canal

By History.com Editors. At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the Suez Canal, an artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who organized the colossal undertaking, delivered the pickax blow that inaugurated construction. Canals have

Russia Today: The Middle East crisis has made one thing clear about the US

By Bradley Blankenship. The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that “all men are

Asharq Al-Awsat: Where Is Our Plan?

By Tariq Al-Homayed. The region has been living in chaos since October 7, 2023. Political irresponsibility has prevailed, as military escalation continues, undermining security and stability in the air, at sea, and even in the border areas of every Arab country. Everything has been used in our region: militias, drones, missiles, and propaganda. The only

RIAC: Operation Prosperity Guardian in the Red Sea: Impact on the Yemen Crisis

By Sergey Serebrov. The U.S.-British coalition’s military intervention in Yemen has become the most dangerous expansion of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (PIC), taking a heavy toll on the security in the Middle East and creating a parallel hotbed of military standoff in the Red Sea. There is no consensus in the region’s countries on the root

History.com: This Day In History (February 16-1951): Joseph Stalin attacks the United Nations

By History.com Editors. In a statement focusing on the situation in Korea, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin charges that the United Nations has become “a weapon of aggressive war.” He also suggested that although a world war was not inevitable “at the present time,” “warmongers” in the West might trigger such a conflict. Stalin’s comments in

The Jordan Times: The Gaza war has finished off Israeli impunity

By Michael Jansen. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hold public hearings today and tomorrow on an urgent case submitted by South Africa charging Israel with the crime of genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. South Africa has called on the ICJ, also known as the World Court, for an emergency order

Responsible Statecraft: Red Sea is today’s arena for clash of African-Arab power politics

By Alex De Waal And Mulugeta Gebrehiwot. This didn’t start with Gaza. The last decade has been a rollercoaster of hope and horror for the peoples here. For the Arab Gulf kingdoms, the Horn of Africa is a strategic perimeter. They want to minimize political threats — some are hostile to Islamists, all want to

Consortium News: The Right of Self-Defense

By Craig Murray. By not acting against Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians, the U.K., U.S. and European Union are failing an obligation in international law spelled out in a 2004 ruling by the International Court of Justice.  Israel does have the right of self-defence, but only in precisely the same way other countries do. In

Responsible Statecraft: Is Gaza on track for permanent war?

By Paul R. Pillar. Little thought has been given to how the strip will be governed after Israel’s assault, and what has been proposed does not bode well for a longterm resolution. The absence of any viable plan for governing the Gaza Strip after the Israeli military’s devastation of the territory has increasingly been noted