Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today surprised regional politics and financial markets by calling snap elections on June 24, consolidating one-man rule in what used
Day: April 20, 2018
The U.S. – China Tariff Dispute is Really About Protecting US Global Corporate Dominance
There is a lot of concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the U.S. In early April, President Trump announced that his
Why Each US President Ends Up as Ruthless Interventionist These Days
In the wake of last week’s cruise missile attack on Syria, there was a joke going around the internet saying that it doesn’t matter who
For the Chinese Quadrilateral Peace Treaty Draft on the Results of the Korean War
The beginning of April saw a curious disinformation flood initiated by the Japanese media and then supported by the South Korean media. Allegedly, on March
What is the U.S. Fighting for in Syria?
The Trump administration delivered several dozen military strikes against Syria purportedly aimed at chemical production and storage facilities. It was an act the international community
The British are Driving the West’s War Agenda—But Why?
Over the past two months the news has been dominated by two bizarre but related events: 1) the alleged nerve agent poisoning of the exchanged
The Victims in Syria, Gaza and Yemen. U.S. “Outrage” versus U.S. “Crimes against Humanity”
In their book Manufacturing Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky distinguished between two kinds of victims: the worthy victims and the unworthy victims. The “worthy
Neutral and Unbiased? Why ‘Think Tanks’ Lobby for War in Syria
When US President Donald Trump fired a barrage of Tomahawk missiles at Syrian government targets last week, it was a good day for defense contractors,
