Day: November 14, 2016

The Witch’s Wrath Turns into a Clintonian Counter-Revolution

November 14, 2016 Opinion

The Second American Revolution has succeeded and the American People have beaten The Establishment, but just like the First American Revolution before it, the hardest challenges now lie ahead. Trump n…

US, British ‘Clean House’ to Delete Syria Terror Links

November 14, 2016 Opinion

US President Barack Obama has just given the Pentagon orders to assassinate commanders of the Al Nusra terror network in Syria. American media reports over the weekend say the new urgency arises from …

Trump and the Revolutionary Atmosphere in America

November 14, 2016 Opinion

Political pundits in the US, who saw their election predictions turned on their heads, are now scrambling for an insightful explanation of how Hillary Clinton could have failed to win. Well, there’s o…

Review: “Against Our Better Judgment” The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, by Alison Weir

November 14, 2016 Books

Alison Weir’s relatively short book covers the history of Zionism in the United States from the last decades of the 19th century until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. (She is working on a…

Iraqi Troops in Mosul Could be Trump’s First Crisis

November 14, 2016 Opinion

The Iraqi armed forces are becoming bogged down in the battle for Mosul. Its elite special forces and an armoured division are fighting to hold districts in the eastern outskirts of the city against c…

Indian Military to Buy 500 More Russian T-90 Tanks for $2 Billion

November 14, 2016 Military

The Indian Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC), chaired by India's Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, has pre-approved an armaments modernization project for the Indian armed forces for a total sum of …

Asian Auto-da-fé: Trump and the Pivot

November 14, 2016 Opinion

The pivot was always an auto-da-fé, an act of faith: a cumbersome, expensive, difficult, and onerous strategy that ran counter to the trend of declining American relative strength and indeed was attem…

Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield is Shielding What?

November 14, 2016 Opinion

Turkey, in a bid to legitimize its uninvited, illegal incursion into northern Syria, has created several media platforms specifically reporting on what it calls “Operation Euphrates Shield.” Operation…