OilPrice.com: The New Iran-Syria Agreement Is A Geopolitical Win For China

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Simon Watkins. The new cooperation deal between Syria and Iran gives China more space to implement parts of its One Belt, One Road plan. With the new agreement, Iran is cementing its position as regional energy supplier. Iranian ally Iraq offering oil supplies, for example – is a…

Volodymyr Zelensky visiting West Europe

Whilst Russia prepares 2,000 tanks and 300,000 troops for ‘huge invasion’ in Donbas Zelensky visited London and Brussels to ask for more military material.

Amazon and Black Friday

Did you fall into the trap of Black Friday? Have you joined in to get as much as you can as best you can, via Amazon to send you things? It’s clear that Amazon’s mistreatment of workers knows no limits – unless we challenge it. That’s why Amazon workers in multiple locations in Germany have

Good and bad news in our race between Armageddon and awesome

2022 will go down as a watershed year for the escalating climate crisis. From this year onwards we tried to present some writings of a global team of reporters covering events – and their impact – at every stage.

Time for the church to wake up and smell the coffee

Recently, many members of the Christadelphian community, men as well as women, have questioned the interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:11–14 and 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 and believe it to be detrimental to God’s design for the body of Christ and a source of disillusionment for current and potential members.

2022 towards its end

It seems like 2022 is only a few months away, but 11 months have already passed. In those months, the world faced some hot moments, with an upcoming Third World War lurking behind the door. Fortunately, most politicians were smart enough to keep away from red buttons and not jump in too quickly on the

What was at stake in Sharm El-Sheikh

Whilst the cost of inaction is far, far greater than the cost of inaction for many countries, it was difficult to come to an agreement to contribute to a fund helping those countries most affected by pollution from the industrial and most polluting countries.

Growing contradiction between North American and north European capitalism

Italy’s newly elected Prime Minister and leader of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, heads a political party which is rooted in ideologies of the far-right and has a history of being against LGBTQI rights. That choice for the far-right is followed by other countries in the European Union, bringing democracy, free expression and free choice in danger.

This was Europe in the first half of September (by the Guardian)

07 September 2022 Does the new broom in Downing Street bring even a hint of rapprochement between Britain and the EU? Will Liz Truss reach out in friendship as Vladimir Putin steps up his energy war on Europe or will the zero-sum approach of the Johnson era also define the new prime minister’s? Truss has

The Week of 2022 September 05 – 11

September 05 Zelensky says Ukraine has retaken 2 towns in counteroffensive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Ukraine’s military had recaptured two villages in its counteroffensive against Russia that began last week in the south and east. “Ukrainian flags are returning where they belong by right,” Zelensky said during a meeting of security leaders.