From Brussels / Belgium We are continuing our interview made in Brussels, Belgium, with European representatives and their views on NATO and militarization. Today, we asked Hillal Sor for his opinions. Sor is Secretary General of the metalworkers’ Trade Union within the General Labour Federation of Belgium. His trade union has 130,000 members and is the leading representation in the ...

The Center for National Strategy (USMER) has organized an international conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea on July 18 and 19 in Istanbul, Türkiye. A number Turkish and international politicians and experts participated in the conference that ended with the final declaration that UWI documents below. In the coming days, UWI will also publish speeches held on ...

By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The tension in Syria is once again in full swing. While the Drews and Bedouin tribes seem to be on the verge of a major conflict in Suwayda, the Syrian government announced that it is deploying the army to the region. Meanwhile, Israeli aggression is once again taken the stage, this time in Syria, with bombardments ...

The Organizing Committee of the II BRICS Forum “Traditional Values” is proud to announce its partnership with the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance (WBA). The decision was made following an official invitation sent by Fausto Pinato, Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress of Brazil, President of the BRICS Parliamentary Front and the Forum’s Organizing Committee, to Monica ...

In Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, the Hague Group gathered to its international summit to implement action against Israel’s offensive in Gaza. In this regard, Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated: “We have lived Gaza in our blood; we were also invaded. And yes, we can criticize Hamas, but not the Palestinian people; they have the right to rebel because their lands were ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The United States dominated Southeast Asia by sheer power and imposed its will through military alliances, naval presence, and economics for decades. While Washington presents its presence as a stabilizing one for freedom of seas, open marketplaces, and democratic values, too many of its actions look more like strategic hegemony and less like cooperative leadership. But ...

By Mohammad Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt Exciting reports have revealed, in recent days, a new Middle Eastern deal based on Syria relinquishing the Golan Heights to Israel, in exchange for compensation from the Lebanese city of Tripoli. This comes amid persistent reports of the partition of Syria and other Arab countries. Some argue that the restructuring of Syria under ...

The Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies has held an international conference on Church and schisms, the abuse of religion for geopolitical purposes. One of the main topics of the conference was the role that the Patriarch Bartholomew I, whose seat is in Istanbul, Türkiye, plays. Below we document the speech of Dragana Trficovic, the center’s director, as published here. By ...

While the United States designs wars, plans invasions, decides on sanctions, and implements tariffs against the entire world, China quietly advances its peace diplomacy. While Washington rhetorically spews forth its plan for planetary destruction, which it Machiavellianly executes, assuming that this will allow it to maintain its global hegemony, Beijing, quietly, builds a dynamic of peace and cooperation to make ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the planet hurtles towards ecological tipping points, the climate crisis has reached not just an environmental crisis, but a civilizational emergency. Record-breaking heatwaves, disappearing coastlines, crashing biodiversity, and the oceans devouring land with an increasingly accelerating ferocity. Somewhere, this is felt—and politically under-served—more than in Southeast Asia. The ASEAN countries, with over 650 million people, ...