Day: September 27, 2019

What Iran and the US Offer Their Allies: Tehran’s Multiple Messages

September 27, 2019

The alternately hot and cold tension between the US and Iran is evolving on the Middle Eastern stage where Tehran is hitting its enemies (on its own and with the help of its allies) without causing th…

Has Russia “Stopped Israel” from Bombing Syria? Has Moscow Authorized Syria to Use the S-300 Air Defense System

September 27, 2019

Opinion

The Alt-Media Community has been in a state of ecstasy over reports that Russia has supposedly stopped several “Israeli” strikes in Syria and also finally given the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) the authorit…

Russia’s Middle East Strategy: “Balance” vs. “Betrayal”?

September 27, 2019

Opinion

There’s an intense debate raging within the Alternative and Independent media over whether Russia’s contemporary Mideast strategy amounts to “balancing” or “betraying” the Resistance given the Eurasia…

Trump’s Trade Wars: A New World Order?

September 27, 2019

Opinion

President Trump’s declared economic protectionism has taken the United States’ international relations with several foes and allies to some uncharted territories. His open-ended trade wars toward seve…

The Sickness of American Foreign Policy

September 27, 2019

Opinion

The Military-Industrial Complex runs US foreign policies. What passes for international ‘news’ reporting in the United States media was supremely represented by the instance of those ’news’ media sten…

We Are Jeopardized by the Creation of False Realities

September 27, 2019

Opinion

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” —George Orwell In America today it is difficult to tell the truth without being accused o…

The Central Role of the Whistleblower

September 27, 2019

Opinion

The fortuitous emergence of a courageous whistleblower in the Trump White House and Harvard Professor Jill Lepore’s pathetically ill-informed review of Edward Snowden’s recent book, “Permanent Record,…

Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance

September 27, 2019

Opinion

They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or call …