Day: January 22, 2019

Lebanon Needs Air Defence System: Multiple Attacks on Syria During the Arab Summit in Beirut

January 22, 2019 Opinion

Israeli jets carried out several waves of attacks, launching a total of 45 missiles first in daylight on Sunday and then again for 55 minutes after midnight. The Israeli attack on multiple Syrian targ…

Make No Mistake: ISIS Needs the US to Survive

January 22, 2019 Opinion

“No war is over until the enemy says it’s over,” James Mattis, the former Marine Corps General and recently resigned secretary of state, is quoted as saying. “We may think it over, we may de…

Russia Might Return to the Balkans in a Big (But Controversial) Way

January 22, 2019 Opinion

The highly influential and well-connected Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) is proposing that Moscow organize a multilateral conference to re-divide the Balkans along ethnic lines, which wo…

Curious Bedfellows: The Neocon and Progressive Alliance to Destroy Donald Trump

January 22, 2019 Opinion

The Roman poet Ovid’s masterful epic The Metamorphoses includes the memorable opening line regarding the poem’s central theme of transformation. He wrote In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corp…

The “Brave New (Saudi-)Canadian” Shows that Renouncing Islam Might Lead to Asylum

January 22, 2019 Opinion

18-year-old Saudi citizen Rahaf al-Qunun ran away from her family during a vacation in Kuwait after boarding a flight to Thailand where she planned to transit en route to Australia after asking for as…

Pompeo the Warmonger Supports Authoritarian Regimes

January 22, 2019 Opinion

On January 2 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Brazil, and his Department noted that in discussions with Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo they “highlighted the importance of working t…

Ground Zero Nagasaki: Living the Nuclear Past — and Future

January 22, 2019 Opinion

Landing at Nagasaki Airport last November, I joined a line of Japanese men, women, and children waiting to disembark from our plane. Most were likely returning home on this holiday weekend or arriving…

Monsanto/Bayer Moving to Genome Edit Fruits and More

January 22, 2019 Opinion

Not surprising, Monsanto, today hidden behind the Bayer logo, as the world leader in patented GMO seeds and the probable carcinogenic Roundup herbicide with glyphosate, is attempting to quietly patent…