Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is at it again. Qatar’s ruler has been trying to get Jabhat al-Nusra off America’s infamous “terrorist” list once more – and calculating that the institutional memory of the world’s media is that of a street dog. He’s right. Last year, Tamim’s Al Jazeera satellite channel produced a tiresome…
Aram Mirzaei Since the fall of 2015, the Syrian-Iranian-Russian coalition has been highly effective in the Syrian conflict, scoring multiple victories on the battlefield, most notably in the Latakia and Aleppo provinces where over 90% of the Latakia province was liberated from the Western-backed throatcutters. In February, a nationwide ceasefire was negotiated by the US…
The National Nuclear Security Administration has given the go ahead for work to continue on upgrading its B61 nuclear bomb. The move comes as the Pentagon embarks on a multi-billion-dollar scheme to improve its nuclear arsenal. The decision taken by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) authorized the program to enter a post-engineering phase, which…
A diary of high-ranking Nazi Heinrich Himmler discovered in a Russian military archive is being published in Germany by Bild. The 1,000-page document sheds light on the routinely evil everyday activities of the head of the SS and Holocaust supervisor. Bild daily launched the publication of selected excerpts from Himmler’s diary on Tuesday. The diary,…
History can be a damned good screenwriter – currently presenting an excruciatingly agonizing, do-or-die choice (“Love trumps hate” vs. “Lock her up!”) not only to US voters but also to the whole planet, which will be affected, directly and indirectly, by this choice. On one side we have a populist over-the-top billionaire pop Narcissus, a.k.a….
Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016. © Ammar Abdullah / Reuters Published time: 1 Aug, 2016 09:52Edited time: 1 Aug, 2016 13:16 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRNK-o8_oT8] A Russian Mi-8 helicopter has been shot down by ground fire in…
