India’s Freaking Out Over China’s “BRICS-Plus” Proposal

March 10, 2017

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced on Wednesday that China would “explore modalities for BRICS-plus, to hold outreach dialogues with other major developing countries” because “we hope to estab…

Dangerous Fracture in US, Turkey and Russian Interests, as Operation to Oust ISIS from Raqqa Begins

March 10, 2017

Opinion

After six years of constant conflict between the great powers in and around Syria, the US, Russia and Turkish military leaders have gathered in Antalya, Turkey to discuss how best to coordinate their …

‘The Time to Invest in Iran is Now’

March 10, 2017

Opinion

The shift in the global balance of financing power towards Russia, India and China — especially China — is opening up opportunities for Tehran It’s a beautiful late winter morning, the snowy Alborz mo…

Will Trump Be his Own Worst Enemy?

March 10, 2017

Opinion

“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence”. ~ Thomas Je…

Bully Nation: Is America Hardwired for War & Aggression?

March 10, 2017

Opinion

Watching Washington attack one sovereign state after another since the collapse of the Soviet Union prompts the question: Are we Americans behaving out of some inherent aggression, or is this just old…

Steve Bannon’s Apocalyptic ‘Unraveling’

March 10, 2017

Opinion

Steve Bannon is accustomed to start many of his talks to activists and Tea Party gatherings in the following way: “At 11 o’clock on 18 September 2008, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke told the U.S. Presi…

Korean Crisis: Turn for the Worse

March 10, 2017

Opinion

The United States said on March 7 that it had the (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea. The action was prompted by North Korean missile tests on March 6 supervised personally the nation’s lea…

China Issues Report on U.S. Human Rights

March 10, 2017

Miscellaneous

China published a report on the United States' human rights situation on Thursday. The report, titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016," was released by the Information Office of …