Day: August 5, 2019

India’s Doing Everything That Israel Wishes It Could Do, But Few Seem to Care

August 5, 2019 Opinion

India’s revocation of Kashmir’s relative “autonomy” embodies everything that its new “Israeli” ally wishes it could do to Palestine such as eliminating its separate political status and giving non-res…

Trump’s Afghan Drawdown Plans. India’s Balancing Act

August 5, 2019 Opinion

Secretary of State Pompeo’s surprise announcement that President Trump ordered him to reduce the US military presence in Afghanistan before the 2020 elections immediately raised the ire of the Mainstr…

Pompeo ‘Happy’ to Pontificate in Tehran, Revealing US Tyranny of Arrogance

August 5, 2019 Opinion

Imagine the spectacle. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sitting in Tehran and telling the Iranian people via a state media interview how “evil” their government is. No wonder tensions with Iran are r…

Attack on Iran would be an Attack on Russia

August 5, 2019 Opinion

Russia is meticulously advancing Eurasian chessboard moves that should be observed in conjunction, as Moscow proposes to the Global South an approach diametrically opposed to Western sanctions, threat…

The Bangkok Blasts Are Bad, But Aren’t Really That Big of a Deal

August 5, 2019 Opinion

Terrorism should always be condemned in every one of its forms, but the latest Bangkok blasts really aren’t that big of a deal if one puts them into context, so they therefore shouldn’t trigger an ove…

Washington’s Major Push for Xinjiang

August 5, 2019 Opinion

With the war of words and sanctions heating up between the US and China, Washington is getting increasingly determined to stir separatist sentiments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the PRC…

Has Washington Joined the List of Israeli Occupied Territories?

August 5, 2019 Opinion

Relations between Washington and Damascus have never been cordial, particularly after the creation of Israel in 1948 and Washington’s blanket support of the newly established state. With the election …

The Spectacular Failure of American Morality

August 5, 2019 Opinion

Here’s a tiny observation: America developed a moral philosophy that’s utterly unique in the world, and in history. One that’s solely its own, not used anywhere else — and is fatally, weird, gruesome,…