Day: June 15, 2019

Summarizing PM Khan’s Interview with Sputnik

June 15, 2019 Opinion

Pakistani Prime Minister Khan covered a wide range of issues during his exclusive interview with Sputnik, but the main points were that his country has changed a lot since the Old Cold War, desires no…

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Is Trump’s Informal Ambassador to Iran, but He Wants More Than to Mediate

June 15, 2019 Opinion

Japanese Prime Minister Abe is functioning as Trump’s informal ambassador to Iran during his two day trip to the Islamic Republic, though he has much greater strategic interests in mind than just bein…

Timing of Gulf of Oman Attacks: Washington Aimed to Kill Historic Iran-Japan Talks in Tehran

June 15, 2019 Opinion

Hell-bent on isolating and suffocating Iran, the Trump administration derailed Japan’s historic talks by accusing Tehran without any evidence whatsoever of attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. S…

7 Reasons to be Highly Skeptical of the Gulf of Oman Incident

June 15, 2019 Opinion

In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exac…

US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UK … Who Is Behind the False Flag in Gulf of Oman?

June 15, 2019 Opinion

First let me be clear; I greatly admired the principles that American’s used to espouse, in my lifetime; I am very fond of the majority of the people; I’ve spent in total some of years living there, i…

Pence Goes to War: America Will Be Fighting Forever

June 15, 2019 Opinion

On May 25th Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker at the United States Military Academy commencement. His speech was predictably an encomium celebrating both the diversity and the success…

Panda Diplomacy Much Better Than Mafia Extortion of Collapsing West

June 15, 2019 Opinion

While the United States has been intimidating dozens of countries all over the world, two cuddly Chinese giant pandas – a three year old male called Ru Yi, and a female one year younger, named Ding Di…

The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction

June 15, 2019 Opinion

“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Tre…