Living in an Orwellian Tyranny

Living in an Orwellian Tyranny

Yesterday Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s former aide, was accused of using an antisemitic slur in his article on Brexit. He co-authored a Telegraph report titled,  George Soros, the man who ‘broke the Bank of England’, backing secret plot to thwart Brexit. Not only did Timothy not criticise Soros as a Jew, he didn’t even refer to…

Israel’s Worst Kept Secret: An Embarrassing Alliance with Egypt in Sinai

Israel’s Worst Kept Secret: An Embarrassing Alliance with Egypt in Sinai

Last week, the New York Times’ Cairo bureau chief, David Kirkpatrick, published a purported expose of a hitherto secret Israeli campaign against Islamist insurgents in the northern Sinai. Since 2011, the militants, who were an amalgam of disgruntled Bedouin and Islamic State (IS) operatives, had launched attacks both against targets on a southern highway near…

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor vs. The Big Dig: How the US Gave Up on Megaprojects

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor vs. The Big Dig: How the US Gave Up on Megaprojects

In peacetime, one can always judge the confidence and creative genius of a superpower by how well it is able to design and pull off, so-called megaprojects. A megaproject is simply defined as “a very large, expensive, or ambitious business project”. It is these projects which can help to define regions and entire nations for…

Can India Offer its Neighbors an Alternative to China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’?

Can India Offer its Neighbors an Alternative to China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’?

As China continues to develop its ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative (OBOR), its main competitor in the region, India, is working on its own international infrastructure projects. These are aimed at strengthening India’s influence in the region and providing an alternative to OBOR, which India does not wish to be a part of. India is not…

U.S. Murders 100 Syrian Soldiers, Claims “Self-Defense” in Country America Invaded and Occupies

U.S. Murders 100 Syrian Soldiers, Claims “Self-Defense” in Country America Invaded and Occupies

In the latest instance of American war criminality, the United States launched an air attack against the Syrian military on Wednesday, February 7, 2018. This brazen aggression against the sovereign government of Syria has resulted in the death of at least one hundred “forces aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad” according to U.S. military officials….