Ricardo Martins,

À Bruxelles, la politique étrangère européenne dérive entre un vide de leadership et une concentration croissante du pouvoir. Derrière les apparences institutionnelles, une lutte silencieuse redessine qui parle - et décide - au nom de l'Europe, avec une conséquence claire : l'irrélevance croissante de l'Union européenne en tant qu'acteur diplomatique crédible.

Pepe Escobar

No one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin'.

China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement on the war on Iran that at face value might be considered as lame as it gets.

Immediate ceasefire & humanitarian access to all affected areas.
Early peace talks; respect for sovereignty of Iran & Gulf states; diplomacy over force.

João Carlos Graça

É certo que a variedade de argumentos "internacionalistas" reapareceu pouco depois, associada à vitória da URSS sobre o nazismo e ao redesenho do mapa da Europa centro-oriental.

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Num artigo publicado em Consortium News que é uma verdadeira peça de bravura, Patrick Lawrence levanta uma questão extremamente importante, provavelmente uma das mais relevantes que as diplomacias da Rússia e da China são nos nossos dias obrigadas a defrontar.

Pepe Escobar

Lo que está ocurriendo en estos momentos es una reescritura del sistema operativo mundial. Y el nuevo sistema operativo funciona con el petroyuan.

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El secretario de las "guerras eternas", al servicio del "babuino de Barbaria" que afirma estar "tan cansado de ganar", está barajando varios escenarios de "invasión terrestre" en paralelo a una devastadora campaña de bombardeos para, supuestamente, asestar el "golpe definitivo" a Irán.

By Jonathan COOK

Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other

The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States?

Eduardo Vasco

What remains of the U.S. presence in Iraq had already been targeted by the PMF, writes Eduardo Vasco.

Another country has joined the war against the United States and Israel: Iraq. Not officially, of course. The Iraqi state has not declared war on anyone, nor has it signaled direct participation in the conflict that began a month ago, when Washington and Tel Aviv began cowardly attacks against Iran.

Today's attempt at toppling Iran's government has echoes of the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh which was orchestrated by MI6 and the CIA at the instigation of Winston Churchill.

Just as the British did back then, Donald Trump wants to steal Iranian oil and control that country in his twentieth century reboot of western imperialism. The CIA did their bit in January with Israel's Mossad, trying to orchestrate regime change which failed.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

Beijing and Moscow operate as flexible actors, capable of adapting to different regional contexts without compromising the coherence of their global strategy.

Friendship, despite adverse winds

In recent decades, relations between China and Russia have been structured through a dense network of bilateral agreements, strategic partnerships, and multi-level understandings spanning from the economy to security.

Martin Jay

Trump's final throw of the dice is a second incursion with the stakes even higher and no element of surprise.

The latest threat by Trump to blow up Iran's oil wells and desalination plants if they don't agree to his terms for a deal is both preposterous and disingenuous. America is already bombing the country's infrastructure day and night, and to take the threat to a new level of bombing has little if any credibility.