Day: November 24, 2017

US Bombing of Afghanistan Up by 300 Percent

November 24, 2017 Opinion

The US media this week broadcast videos provided by the Pentagon purporting to show American airstrikes against Taliban-run “drug labs” in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Parroting claims by the top U…

Syria – This U.S. Occupation – or “Presence” – is Unsustainable

November 24, 2017 Opinion

The U.S. is now occupying north-east Syria. It wants to blackmail the Syrian government into "regime change". The occupation is unsustainable, its aim is unattainable. The generals who devised these p…

Recent Events in Libya: Unaddressed Challenge to International Security

November 24, 2017 Opinion

The conflict in Syria is coming to an end, with the leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran, the real power brokers in Syria, on the way to work out the terms of peaceful settlement. These countries, not t…

The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Erdogan

November 24, 2017 Opinion

The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan cut a lone figure at the trilateral summit of Russia, Iran and Turkey at Sochi on Wednesday regarding a Syrian settlement. From a position of being the friend …

How Israel is ‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Greater Jewish Jerusalem

November 24, 2017 Opinion

Israel is putting in place the final pieces of a Greater Jewish Jerusalem that will require “ethnically cleansing” tens of thousands of Palestinians from a city their families have lived and worked in…

Turkey and Central Asia

November 24, 2017 Opinion

Today the burning problem for states in Central Asia is the presence of external interests. Earlier, this influence was considered in the region of China and the European Union. Turkey has been longin…

Merkel’s Migrant Regime Change Ploy Backfires, German Gov’t at Risk of Collapse

November 24, 2017 Opinion

Merkel’s “EuroLiberal” gamble in politicizing the migrant crisis as a tool of pressure against the “EuroRealist” Polish government has completely backfired as the “Frau” now struggles to remain in pow…

Trump Resumes Abuse of ‘Terror List’

November 24, 2017 Opinion

President Trump’s placement of North Korea on the official U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism continues a manipulation, by several administrations, of this list for reasons other than terrorism.…