Day: November 21, 2018

No Trump, Pakistan Did Everything for the US But Got Nothing in Return

November 21, 2018 Opinion

The Pakistani Prime Minister is correct in pointing out how much his country did for the US in response to Trump’s disrespectful attack against it this weekend. One of Trump’s prerecorded …

US Vice President Beats War Drums in Asia

November 21, 2018 Opinion

US Vice President Mike Pence used Asian summit meetings over the past week to set out an ultimatum to China that accelerates the drive to war. Either China bows to the demands of American imperialism …

Yemen Genocide About Oil Control

November 21, 2018 Opinion

The ongoing de facto genocide in the Republic of Yemen in a war whose most intense phase began in 2015, has until very recently been all but ignored in the Western mainstream media. What has also been…

Can Mohammed bin Salman Hold Power While Juggling Trump, Putin and Oil All At Once

November 21, 2018 Opinion

Increasingly, it appears that in a rerun of late 2014, OPEC has lost control of the oil market. According to a Bloomberg Op-Ed, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, President Donald Trump, and Vladi…

Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned

November 21, 2018 Opinion

Palestinians in Gaza should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief last week, as precarious ceasefire talks survived a two-day-long, heavy exchange of strikes that threatened to unleash yet anothe…

Registering Israel’s Useful Idiots

November 21, 2018 Opinion

Depending on what criteria one uses, there are between 200 and 600 groups in the United States that wholly or in part are dedicated to furthering the interests of Israel. The organizations are both Je…

The Cost of American Militarism and an Absence of Debate

November 21, 2018 Opinion

A recent report by Brown University’s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs on the cost of America’s wars in the aftermath of 9/11 estimates a sum totalling $5.9 Trillion. It is a figur…

From Brexit to ‘Brokexit’

November 21, 2018 Opinion

British Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly urged that the "national interest" is at stake over her Brexit plan. She is calling for businesses and politicians to rally around safeguarding ordina…