Day: March 28, 2019

India Is Using Its Pulwama Humiliation as a Pretext to Race China in Space

March 28, 2019 Opinion

India’s anti-satellite muscle-flexing is being portrayed as a response to its recent humiliation by Pakistan, but the latest regional events are only being relied upon as a “plausible pretext” for thi…

Road to Next War Begins in Golan

March 28, 2019 Opinion

When Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary, took a wrong turning in Sarajevo in 1914 the world found itself on the road to WW1. With Donald Trump’s self-serving recognitio…

Trump’s Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel’s Annexation of West Bank

March 28, 2019 Opinion

When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international rulebook. Las…

Eight Years Ago, March 2011. The Day Before Daraa: How the War Broke Out in Syria

March 28, 2019 Opinion

The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day. Similarly, one might think the da…

Apocalypse Now & Loving It!

March 28, 2019 Opinion

Remember the madcap scene in 'Apocalypse Now', the 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola about American genocidal rampaging in Vietnam? "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", bellows the psychotic m…

Now for Confrontation in Space

March 28, 2019 Opinion

There was much international news in mid-March, although little of it was encouraging for those who prefer peace to war, handshakes to sabre-rattling, and cooperation to confrontation. But there was o…

Putin Inviting Erdogan to Crimea Will Earn Him Soft Power Points in the “Ummah”

March 28, 2019 Opinion

President Putin invited his Turkish counterpart to the opening of the Central Mosque in Crimea. The offer was made over the weekend when the Russian leader visited the peninsula to commemorate the fif…

Trump Is America’s First Zionist President

March 28, 2019 Opinion

It is impossible not to feel some sympathy for President Donald Trump. His agenda to restore normal relations with Russia and to end Washington’s gratuitous wars has been frustrated by the “Russiagate…