Covert Geopolitics
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Real-time updates on behind-the-scenes geopolitical events. Understanding what global players really mean when they say or do something.
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5d ago
A senior Iranian military commander has revealed new aspects of the Islamic Republic’s retaliatory strikes on the Israeli-occupied territories last month, saying 240 fighter jets belonging to the US-led military alliance of NATO rushed to protect the Zionist regime. Major General Gholam-Ali Rashid, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the remarks in an ..read more
Covert Geopolitics
6d ago
While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’ The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without bothering about an inevitable ..read more
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2w ago
Tech workers are protesting against the use of artificial intelligence and other technologies by Israel in its war on Gaza. Google employees based in the United States have staged protests at the tech giant’s offices in New York City, California and Seattle to oppose a $1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. Known as Project Nimbus ..read more
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2w ago
More than 34,000 Palestinians killed and vast swaths of the enclave is in ruins as Israel continues its assault. Mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and near-total destruction of infrastructure haunt Gaza as Israel’s war on the besieged Palestinian coastal enclave entered its 200th day on Tuesday. Israel launched its brutal military offensive ..read more
Covert Geopolitics
3w ago
The Euro-Atlantic region has not experienced a crisis like today’s for decades; that has created an opportunity for real change. In his annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly on February 29, 2024, President Vladimir Putin emphasized the need for a new framework of equal and integral security in Eurasia. He also expressed the country’s ..read more
Covert Geopolitics
1M ago
By the middle of the 19th Century, the multi-ethnic empire was on its way out as the dominant political paradigm in Europe. Replacing it was the nation-state, a political form which allowed the concentration of ethnic groups within their own political borders. This, in turn, formed cultural and “racial” incubators for an “us (superior) vs ..read more
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1M ago
Pricing power in a market long dominated by Western institutional money is moving East and the implications are profound. The gold price has risen to a series of new all-time highs of late, a development that has received only cursory attention in the mainstream financial media. But as is the case with so much else ..read more
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1M ago
Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries. “The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations and interests of its people ..read more
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1M ago
The last phase of a great power’s decline seems to be accompanied by an economic shift to finance-driven capitalism. One of the curious features of the American landscape is the fact that these days the financialization of the economy is widely condemned as unhealthy, yet little is being done to reverse it. There was a ..read more
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1M ago
The meaningless ceasefire resolution his administration allowed the UN Security Council to pass should not fool anyone. United States President Ronald Reagan’s order to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to put an end to his “holocaust” in Lebanon is perhaps the best-known political anecdote from Israel’s 1982 invasion. Less known, however, is the enthusiastic defence ..read more