Benny Gantz, Times of Israel
In an election campaign launch speech, ex-army chief and head of Israel Resilience Party lays out his vision if he becomes prime minister
Yekaterina Pogudina & Carl Schreck, RFERL
A Kremlin-backed gambling zone injected economic life into a struggling Russian backwater. But after federal officials pulled the plug on the project, locals are worrying how they'll make ends meet.
Bertil Lintner, Asia Times
Myanmar's parliament hopes China will accept repayment of its debts in rice, but payback will more likely come through deep-reaching economic concessions
M. Tanchum, J-Post
Turkey cannot enter northeastern Syria without Russia??s tacit consent.
Josh Rogin, Washington Post
Authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China see two main uses for international organizations: protecting their regimes and undermining Western values. That's why they try to control and then corrupt them as much as possible. The story of the Russian diplomat Vladimir Kuznetsov is a perfect case in point.
J.P. Rathbone & G. Long, FT
On January 23, Juan Guaid stood in front of a rally of tens of thousands of people in downtown Caracas, raised his right hand, declared himself the legitimate president of Venezuela and potentially changed the course of history for a country that has been suffering a slow-motion death.
M. Van Waijenburg & E. Frankema, African Arg.
Labour-intensive export-led industrialisation worked for China, but Africa is not China. It must come up with its own strategies to reduce poverty.
Flix Seijas Rodrguez, AQ
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As the Bulletin's Science and Security Board prepared for its first set of Doomsday Clock discussions this fall, it began referring to the current world security situation as a new abnormal. This new abnormal is a pernicious and dangerous departure from the time when the United States sought a leadership role in designing and supporting global agreements that advanced a safer and healthier planet. The new abnormal describes a moment in which fact is becoming indistinguishable from fiction... Читать дальше...
Stefano Marcuzzi & Alessio Terzi, PS
In the absence of government action to address today's most pressing global problems, multinational corporations are stepping up to offer their own solutions. As in the seventeenth century, when European joint-stock companies built private empires, the future of sovereignty is at stake.
