The deal’s lopsided terms intentionally treat the Palestinians as an occupied people, which they technically are in terms of international law, but then proceeds with the mantra of “might makes right” to demand that they accept the undignified offer that’s being presented to them instead of restoring their international rights by negotiating with them as…
An elephant trap has for years now laid in the path of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s messianic plans to establish the state of Israel between the river and the sea. It was the demographic fact that, in that space, there were more Palestinians than Jews. According to 2016 figures from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)…
Since October of last year there have been ongoing mass demonstrations in Iraq, which have not yet subsided. As a result of clashes with law enforcement agencies, at least 600 protesters have died and over 16,000 have sustained injuries. Iraq’s President Barham Salih cited these statistics during his speech at the recently finished World Economic…
The US Air Force reported Monday that it carried out more airstrikes in Afghanistan in 2019 than any year in the last decade. Manned and unmanned aircraft dropped 7,423 bombs, topping the previous decade high of 7,362 in 2018. Nearly two decades into its criminal neocolonial occupation, the United States government is dropping an average…
“Fortune thus blinds the minds of men when she does not wish them to resist her power.” Livy It seems quite evident to many that the United States has been consumed by the same ambition and thus fate with that of the Roman Empire. That one of the most notorious periods in history for its…
Read Part II here A change of paradigm At the eve of the 20th century, something deeply changed in geopolitics, and the priorities of international bankers shifted to something more worthy than money itself: oil. John D Rockefeller had made a fortune through his monopolistic production by Standard Oil, and with the combustion engine and…
