Day: August 17, 2018

The Infowar Phase of the US’ Hybrid War on One Belt–One Road

August 17, 2018

The US’ Hybrid War on OBOR doesn’t stop at the military phase but importantly continues into the informational domain in order to undermine China’s New Silk Roads through the planting of Trumpist “tim…

Riding on Qatari Wings, Multipolarity Arrives in the Middle East

August 17, 2018

Opinion

Trust Turkey’s Recep Erdogan to have had a game plan when he challenged the Trump administration and promised that the latter will regret its “unilateralist” policies. Some pundits thought Russia and …

Trump’s Sanctions on Iran Dig Deeper Grave for US Forces in Afghanistan

August 17, 2018

Opinion

The dramatic, and seemingly unstoppable, surge of Taliban offensives across Afghanistan is proof that the US is fast becoming the latest foreign power to succumb to failure in a land known for for bei…

Canada vs. Saudi Arabia: Illusions and Reality

August 17, 2018

Opinion

The Canadian government finds itself caught in a dilemma of its own making, skewered on the spear of its own hypocrisy, and left to dangle in the wind by its supposed allies, as a result of its demand…

America the Punitive

August 17, 2018

Opinion

There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever s…

Smearing, Libelling, Intimidating: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Detractors are Plotting to Take Him Down

August 17, 2018

Opinion

Every day you log on, you ask yourself how much dirtier the campaign to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is going to get, how much lower his enemies are going to sink. And each day t…

Bargaining Around the Horn: Ethiopia and Eritrea Reconciled Through the Soviet Naval Base in Berbera

August 17, 2018

Opinion

The alliance of the UAE and Egypt is expanding its zone of influence in the Horn of Africa, including the establishment of Ethiopian-Eritrean relations. There is a noticeable Emirati influence in Ethi…

Trump to Netanyahu: Palestinians Must be Completely Conquered

August 17, 2018

Opinion

The Washington correspondent of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Amir Tibon, headlined on the night of Tuesday, August 14, “Trump Administration Wants to See a Gaza Cease-fire ‘With or Without the Palestin…