As Syria Struggles Under COVID-19 Lockdown, America’s Scorched Earth Policy Ensures Food Insecurity

As Syria Struggles Under COVID-19 Lockdown, America’s Scorched Earth Policy Ensures Food Insecurity

In a world dominated by American exceptionalism and neo-colonialism, hunger has become a weapon of war. “The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited” under international humanitarian law yet the U.S. regularly reduces entire nations to dangerous levels of food insecurity in order to subjugate them. Food, next to…

Converting Hagia Sophia for Domestic Consumption Will Backfire on Erdogan

Converting Hagia Sophia for Domestic Consumption Will Backfire on Erdogan

On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed a decree changing the status of the Byzantine-era built Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque. The first Islamic service in the formerly Christian Orthodox Cathedral is scheduled for July 24 and a flurry of international condemnation has been heard. Greece of course has been the dominant…

Secretary of State Pompeo Says He Wants to Defend Human Dignity. But He Is Selective

Secretary of State Pompeo Says He Wants to Defend Human Dignity. But He Is Selective

In the past year there have been protests in Hong Kong that were aimed locally and at the Beijing government. There were two deaths: one of a student who fell from a high-rise car park, and one of 70 year-old man who was hit by a brick thrown by a black-clad protestor. To the disappointment…

Can Trump Pull a Truman?

Can Trump Pull a Truman?

On July 22, 1988, after the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, the party nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis, enjoyed a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush. Five weeks later, on Labor Day, Dukakis was down eight points, the same margin by which he would lose the election. He had lost 25 points in one…

Liberal Elite? Left-Wing Establishment? People in Power Are ALWAYS Conservative, Gaslighting the World to Keep the Status Quo

Liberal Elite? Left-Wing Establishment? People in Power Are ALWAYS Conservative, Gaslighting the World to Keep the Status Quo

The world is being gaslighted by people in power. They want us to think that there’s a dangerous radical threat but the truth is that elites of all persuasions are conservative. That’s how they stay in power. Take a swim in the murky waters of current affairs and you’d think that the world is a…