Following a sharp increase in Russian naval activity in the arctic and North Atlantic, the Trump administration has reactivated Navy’s 2nd Fleet to deal with “bad actors on the world’s stage,” according to Vice Adm. Andrew “Woody” Lewis, who took command of the reestablished forces. In a Friday ceremony aboard the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush, Lewis warned…
The Venezuelan Migrant Crisis has been regionally politicized and is now at risk of being militarily and strategically exploited by the US. Long-simmering tensions finally exploded in a Brazilian border town after four Venezuelans robbed, beat, and stabbed a restaurant owner before the locals violently drove hundreds of them back to their country, which dangerously…
Sometimes stories emerge which you expect to run and run. If they don’t, that is suspicious in itself. It suggests that hard work is being done to bury them, and we need to look at what is being done elsewhere to identify that. On August 10th a court in California found the agrochemical giant Monsanto guilty of causing…
It’s crunch time in Pakistan. Resolving Pakistan’s financial crisis is likely to require newly appointed prime minister Imran Khan to not only accept an International Monetary Fund (IMF) straightjacket but tackle his and Pakistan’s convoluted relationship to militancy. With the breeding ground for militancy built into the country’s DNA and Mr. Khan owing his electoral…
The relationship between China and Syria goes a long way back. Until the moment when the Syrian war broke out in 2011, Beijing was trying to tap into Syrian markets by becoming its largest importer. Chinese companies took part in a great many energy projects in the Syrian Arab Republic. China’s economic plans in Syria…
In a move that was entirely predictable, the US administration is once again threatening to bomb Syria if there is a “chemical weapons attack”. This was entirely predictable because that chemical attack script has been read out, with salty crocodile tears, fake concern, and mocked indignation by US talking heads over the years – since…
