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Boris Johnson statement on the situation in Ukraine

by Boris Johnson

London (United Kingdom) | 22 February 2022

Thank you Mr Speaker,
With permission I will make a statement about the situation in Ukraine.
Last night, President Putin flagrantly violated the Minsk peace agreements by recognising the supposed independence of the so-called “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
In a (...)

Israeli bombardment of Syria, January 21, 2019

by Bashar Ja’afari

New York (USA) | 24 January 2019

On instructions from my Government, I draw your attention to the following:
At dawn on Monday, 21 January 2019, at 0110 hours, the Israeli occupation authorities once again attacked the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, in flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 350 (1974) on (...)

Mike Pompeo Remarks at the German Marshall Fund

by Mike Pompeo

Brussels (Belgium) | 4 December 2018

Thank you, Ian, for the kind introduction. Good morning to all of you; thank you for joining me here today. It’s wonderful to be in this beautiful place, to get a chance to make a set of remarks about the very work that you do, the issues that confront the Marshall Fund and confront our region (...)

The F-35, the Scam of the Century

16 August 2014

The F-35 is the largest weapons program in history. This multi-role aircraft is built by Lockheed Martin with Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems as major partners.
It should equip the armies of Australia, Canada, Denmark, the United States, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, the (...)

The White Book on Violations of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Ukraine

5 May 2014

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation a White Paper on violations of human rights and the rule of law in Ukraine that have occurred since November 2013.
The book is divided into six chapters:
– Violations of Human rights;
– Interference by the European Union and the United (...)

Do Indonesian Shia need protection?

12 March 2014

The propaganda of Indonesian groups hostile to the Syrian government highlights the supposed Shia character of the Assad regime. The point is to legitimize "jihad" by painting Shi’ism not only as a heresy, but also as a threat to pure Islam. This rhetoric has notably prompted Abu Bakar Ba’asyir (...)

Difficult succession ahead in the House of Saud

12 March 2014

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre NOREF) published a brief study on the succession of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
According to author Stig Stenslie, a recognized expert on the subject, the Succession Act, promulgated in 2006 by King Abdullah does not apply to himself. In theory, (...)

Flawed US intelligence on Ghouta massacre

18 January 2014

Richard Lloyd, a former UN weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published a report which challenges the ballistic data used by U.S. intelligence services in connection with the 21 August 2013 massacre in Ghouta, a Damascus (...)

War crimes in Syria

17 January 2014

Two Turkish groups have released a report on the war crimes perpetrated against the Syrian people. According to them, the events started in Deraa on the “Day of Wrath” against the neoliberal policies of the Assad administration. However, the revolt lost its meaning after the constitutional (...)

What purpose could mass surveillance in the EU possibly serve?

16 January 2014

The European Parliament commissioned a report on the mass surveillance programs implemented in the European Union. The document lays down the data available regarding five member States (France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sweden) and ponders about their impact on the economic (...)

Towards a partition of Syria?

16 January 2014

As the countries militarily engaged in the war on Syria are pulling out one by one leaving the United States and Russia facing each other, several publications are puzzling over the plans to partition the country.
– In The Impossible partition of Syria, Mustafa Khalifa - writing for the Arab (...)

The strategy of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood

16 January 2014

The German government is currently funding research studies on the transformation of elites in the Arab world. One of them focuses on the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria.
The document highlights the difficulty of assessing their actual presence within the NATO-designated (...)

The manipulated videos of the Ghouta ’’massacre’’

16 September 2013

The Institute, presided by Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, has listed the first videos of the massacre of Ghouta, and was able to ascertain the encoded hours of the videos as well as the time of posting on internet. The closer study of this material enables us to point out incoherences and (...)

For the CRS, the regional consequences of a war against Syria are difficult to foresee

9 September 2013

While the US congress is asked to come to a decision regarding a possible war on Syria, the Congress Research Service is publishing a study on this option.
As well as answering many questions about chemical weapon procedures, war powers, the eventual cost of a war etc, it evaluates the (...)

The bombing of Syria should extend to a ground invasion

9 September 2013

While the US government is considering changing the Syrian regime by force, with the excuse of punishment following the chemical attack that the Obama administration holds the el-Assad government responsible for, the Rand Corporation is studying the consequences of the options available.
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