US Threatens China & Other Nations Trading with North Korea After Missile Test

US Threatens China & Other Nations Trading with North Korea After Missile Test

North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch is dangerous and requires an escalated diplomatic response, US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council. The US is preparing a new resolution that will likely target China’s trade with Pyongyang. The launch was “not only dangerous but reckless and irresponsible” and “cast a dark shadow of conflict…

Trump in Poland: ‘The West Will Never, Ever Be Broken,’ ‘Our Civilization Will Triumph’

Trump in Poland: ‘The West Will Never, Ever Be Broken,’ ‘Our Civilization Will Triumph’

During his speech in Poland on Thursday, President Trump stood up for “our people” and “our civilization” and vowed that “the West will never, ever be broken.” “Just as Poland cannot be broken, I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken,” Trump said before a packed crowd…

The Qatar Crisis Spreads to Africa

The Qatar Crisis Spreads to Africa

The explosion of contradictions between Qatar and Turkey on the one hand, and Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and their satellites on the other, is reflected in the military-political situation not only on the Arabian Peninsula, in Syria and Libya, but throughout Eastern Africa, associated with the crisis participants’ complicated system of relations. Despite their…

The Enemy of My Enemy is My…? The Saudi-American-Iranian-Russian-Qatari-Syrian Conundrum

The Enemy of My Enemy is My…? The Saudi-American-Iranian-Russian-Qatari-Syrian Conundrum

The Middle East.  Could there be a more perilous place on Earth, including North Korea?  Not likely.  The planet’s two leading nuclear armed powers backing battling proxies amply supplied with conventional weapons; terror groups splitting and spreading; religious-sectarian wars threatening amid a plethora of ongoing armed hostilities stretching from Syria to Iraq to Yemen. And…