By Tomas Merani* “Operations related to the country’s security are a matter for Mexico; they cannot operate within its territory,” Mexican President Claudia Sheimbaun said at her regular press conference on Wednesday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced an agreement with Mexico on Monday to dismantle fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine corridors along the border. Two days later, Sheinbaum denied ...

By Masoud Sadrmohammadi Although many individuals have regarded the 12-day war of Israel against Iran as a conflict stemming from the forty-year hostilities between Iran and Israel and have reduced it to the level of a bilateral confrontation, in reality this war was essentially a battle for shaping the future of the world. In the same manner, the Syrian war ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Mekong River of Cambodia is more than a geographical entity-it’s a life-giving vein that sustains the country, its economy, and its culture. The Mekong waters rice paddies, feeds fish, irrigates crops, and supports tens of millions of rural Cambodian livelihoods along over 480 kilometers of Cambodian terrain. It’s not just a river; it’s Cambodia’s guarantee ...

Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China In recent days, Tom Barrack, the U.S. Ambassador to Ankara and also the Special Envoy for Syria, tried to give a “lesson in civilization” during remarks to journalists in Lebanon. At a press conference in Beirut, the representative of an imperialist country soaked in blood lost his temper at pressing questions and declared: “The ...

September 15-17, 2025, the 2nd BRICS “Traditional Values” Forum will take place at Brazil’s National Congress building in Brasília. With a focus on shared cultural and moral heritage, the event will bring together parliamentary leaders, public figures, and business and cultural representatives from BRICS nations to strengthen cooperation and dialogue. South Africa will be represented by Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster, Member of ...

Libya holds critical importance for Türkiye’s Blue Homeland and Eastern Mediterranean strategy. For quite a while, the country has been going through significant changes and power shifts. Sides switch, alliances realign, and power constantly reshuffles. Most recently, Ankara has begun reengaging with Khalifa Haftar, with Türkiye’s intelligence chief meeting him face to face. To make sense of what’s unfolding in ...

By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Summer is ending… Autumn has arrived in Moscow with an unusually sunny spell. Muscovites are out on the streets, enjoying the city before the long winter sets in. Cafés, bars, restaurants are packed to the brim. With the name of “City Day,” Moscow celebrates its 878th birthday with festivals, concerts, and celebrations. In the city’s vast ...

Last week, the anniversary of the August 30, 1922 Victory, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and opening the door to the founding of the Republic of Türkiye, was celebrated with great enthusiasm across the country. The Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) held the “Special Session on Palestine”. Another important event of the week was President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the context of Southeast Asia’s post-Cold War experience of the disorder of a multipolar world of great power competition, economic fragmentation, and fluid security alignments, ASEAN continues to seek partners that will assist it in promoting its regional interests without threatening it with the hegemonic designs. No other country comes to mind in this search: ...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece Two very important uprisings are now stirring up large parts of humanity, even if many of mainstream media — not media of information, but of lobotomizing and bestializing — under the suffocating, historically unprecedented control of financial capital and of the Israeli and Zionist lobbies which dominate them, do whatever they can to ...