The Top Ten Underreported News Stories of 2017

July 6, 2017

We've reached half-time in what has been a very eventful year. It's revealing to compare the stories that have made the headlines in the western media in the first six months of 2017, with those that …

Pakistan Army to the GCC: No Longer Your Gun for Hire

July 6, 2017

Opinion

Less than a year into his role, Pakistan's new army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, sets a fresh course for the country's defence diplomacy in the Middle East. News that Pakistan chief of army staff…

Putin, Xi Message to Trump: US Unipolar World is Over

July 6, 2017

Opinion

The US' strategy has been to isolate Russia internationally. Evidently, it is Washington that is becoming more isolated on the global stage. This week in the run-up to the G20 summit in Germany, the r…

Narendra Modi’s Version of Non-Alignment is Fooling No One and is Bad for India

July 6, 2017

Opinion

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks he is exploiting opportunities but increasingly it is the non-opportunities that are exploiting him and his country. The Cold War is long over, Russia and Ch…

The Plummeting of U.S. Standing in the World

July 6, 2017

Opinion

The Pew Research Center released last week the results of one of its periodic surveys of global views of the United States and its leadership and policies. More than 40,000 people were polled in 37 c…

In Cairo, the Pot Boils

July 6, 2017

Opinion

On the anniversary of the military coup which brought Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to power, Egyptians are bursting with anger at his regime. Here are three ways this could boil over. “Sisi has failed himself…

Escalation of the Propaganda War — A Rerun of the Zinoviev Letter

July 6, 2017

Opinion

On 27 June the London Daily Telegraph newspaper, a sad remnant of its former admirable self, carried a piece captioned «Britain's new £3bn warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, set to squeeze out of dockyard …

The Useful Idiots Who Undermine Dissent on Syria

July 6, 2017

Opinion

There has been much disingenuous criticism of those, like me, who question why the western corporate media have studiously ignored the latest investigation by renowned journalist Seymour Hersh on Syri…