Day: July 18, 2020

There is a Dark and Dangerous Forest Behind These Burning Trees…

July 18, 2020 Opinion

Roughly half-way through the year 2020 it is becoming pretty obvious that there are a number of major developments which almost got our total attention, and for good reason, as these are tectonic shif…

Forging Greater Israel: Annexation by Any Other Name

July 18, 2020 Opinion

July 1st came and went and Netanyahu made no formal statement regarding annexation. That left many journalists, politicians, activists, and others feeling abandoned to speculation. Declarations of sup…

The Economic Aspects of a Trade War between Japan and Korea

July 18, 2020 Opinion

On 4 July 2020, it will be exactly one year since Japan introduced export restrictions on South Korea on three types of chemicals critical for the microelectronics industry: fluorinated polyimide, hyd…

Donald Trump’s Genocidal Acts Against Humanity

July 18, 2020 Opinion

In 1979, United Nations Committee on Human Rights rapporteur Abdelwahab Bouhdiba cited the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia as an example of “autogenocide,” the carrying out …

Iran and China Turbo-Charge the New Silk Roads

July 18, 2020 Opinion

Two of the US’s top “strategic threats” are getting closer and closer within the scope of the New Silk Roads – the leading 21st century project of economic integration across Eurasia. The Deep St…

Syria Aid? End Sanctions!

July 18, 2020 Opinion

There is a growing humanitarian crisis in Syria. The best way to alleviate the country’s suffering is to end all unilateral economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. Afte…

A Few Historical Frauds: Einstein, Bell & Edison, Coca-Cola and the Wright Brothers

July 18, 2020 History

There are only two nations in the world whose existence seems to be founded primarily on historical myths. In the US, false historical mythology permeates every nook and cranny of the American psyche,…

Busted: 11 COVID Assumptions Based on Fear Not Fact

July 18, 2020 Opinion

COVID assumptions - the assumptions people make about COVID, how dangerous it is, how it spreads and what we need to do to stop it - are running rampant, running far more wildly than the supposed…