Middle East:
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Amnesty International: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza (6 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8_18UuiAm4
Middle East Eye: Jordan’s former foreign minister Marwan Muasher speaks on regional tensions and says two-state solution over. (Wadi Araba Treaty is the Israel–Jordan peace treaty of 1994) (4 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78a05WkQx-E
Al Jazeera (Qatar): Yemen’s Houthi group says the US and UK have carried out a series of strikes on 12 locations in the capital, Sanaa (short video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnyJrwqUUbM
Trump:
Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Prof. Gilbert Doctorow:
Will Trump Expand the US? (22 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQx3pg0AyiE
Anglo-Italian journalist Thomas Fazi: Trump’s return to the Monroe Doctrine (article)
«But one place remains woefully unprepared — politically, intellectually and psychologically — to navigate these troubled waters: Europe. . In a world about to be divided into spheres of influence dominated by the United States, Russia and China, the Old Continent faces the prospect of becoming even more geopolitically weakened and vulnerable than it is today. And yet it continues to cling desperately to the myth of the transatlantic relationship, despite America’s increasingly obvious disdain for its sovereignty and prosperity, most recently exemplified by Trump’s Greenland ambitions. It is indeed bitterly ironic that Europe, after having positioned itself as a vassal of the United States in an attempt to counter a largely imagined Russian threat, now finds one of its territories threatened not by Russia but by the US itself.»
https://unherd.com/2025/01/trumps-return-to-the-monroe-doctrine/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
