The South African government is in the midst of making constitutional amendments in order to allow for the beginning of land redistribution programmes wherein the farmlands owned by the white minority will be sized without compensation and given to members of the black majority. The move has proved to be incredibly controversial on many levels. …
The US is ready to defend Syria from a brutish assault launched by Syria’s own government and its allies – or so Washington wants you to believe. In the backdrop, Yemen continues to burn in silence. On September 3, US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley – eloquent diplomat that she is – retweeted a …
Continue reading While All Eyes Are on Syria’s Idlib, US Continues to Decimate Yemen
There’s plenty of proof that the U.S. Government protects Al Qaeda in Syria. Right now, America is protecting Al Qaeda’s main center throughout the world, which is the province of Idlib in Syria. This protection is part of a bigger picture, no merely isolated phenomenon. For example: the key point of difference between the Obama …
Author’s Update 9/12/18: The Syrian government, backed by Russian airpower and Iranian advisors, is preparing to undertake a major offensive designed to retake the province of Idlib from opposition forces. The newly appointed State Department Special Representative for Syria, Jim Jeffreys, claims that there is “Lots of evidence” that Syria is preparing to use chemical …
Continue reading U.S. Again Cries ‘Chemical Warfare’ in Syria
Though US President Donald Trump’s Middle East “deal of the century” hasn’t been publicly announced, elements have dribbled out via leaks in the media and from Palestinian leaders. In the latest bit of Chinese water torture, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said that when he met with Trump adviser Jared Kushner and envoy Jason …
Continue reading As Trump Destroys the Two-State Solution, One State Is All That’S Left
India is increasingly finding itself caught between competing alliances. On one hand, ties between Washington and New Delhi have improved in recent years in large part to what both sides perceive as increased threats from China both militarily and economically in the South China Sea and overall Indo-Pacific region. On the other, New Delhi has …
Continue reading Will the U.S. Let India Continue to Import Iranian Crude?
Sometimes when I step back from the overwhelming flow of geopolitical insanity I’m reminded of the old adage that coming close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. To which, I always add, “And nuclear war.” I’ve been watching the build up to the operation to liberate Idlib in Syria which includes the endless neocon …
Continue reading The US’s Choice: WWIII or Saving Face in Syria
I know you won’t believe me. Not now, not when everything Donald Trump does -- any tweet, any insult at any rally -- is the news of the day, any day. But he won’t be remembered for any of the things now in our headlines. No human being, it’s true, has ever been covered the …
As is now known from the wisdom of hindsight, Alexander Zakharchenko’s assassination wasn’t the trigger for reigniting conventional hostilities between Kiev and the Donbas Republics like some people feared it would be immediately after the event happened, though that of course doesn’t mean that it wasn’t the intention of those who carried out the act …
Continue reading The Kiev-Donbas “Shadow War” will Continue, But a Big One Is Unlikely for Now
