Elected by Donors: How the University of Cape Town Was Bullied into Embracing Israel

Elected by Donors: How the University of Cape Town Was Bullied into Embracing Israel

It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On November 23, the Senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied to reverse an earlier decision that called for the academic boycott of Israel. While the story may only seem relevant in South Africa’s political and academic contexts, in reality,…

Greta Thunberg Wins TIME Person of the Year: It’s a Symptom of a Sick & Confused World When Adults Make Children Their Leaders

Greta Thunberg Wins TIME Person of the Year: It’s a Symptom of a Sick & Confused World When Adults Make Children Their Leaders

The willingness of adults to listen to teenagers rather than themselves is a sign of a deep societal crisis in the West. Edward Felsenthal, the editor-in-chief of TIME boasted that 16-year-old Greta Thunberg is the magazine’s youngest choice to be named Person of the Year. I was not the least bit surprised – by now…

Ukraine Might Finally See Peace, Unless The US ‘Deep State’ Sabotages It First

Ukraine Might Finally See Peace, Unless The US ‘Deep State’ Sabotages It First

The intense diplomatic efforts undertaken by Presidents Putin and Zelensky finally yielded credible hope that peace might eventually return to Ukraine following their first-ever face-to-face meeting during this week’s Normandy Summit in Paris, but the greatest obstacle that both leaders will have to surmount is the subversive efforts of Trump’s ‘deep state’ foes to sabotage…

The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were to Make Public

The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were to Make Public

The Washington Post has published clear, undeniable evidence that US government officials have been lying to the public about the war in Afghanistan, a shocking revelation for anyone who has done no research whatsoever into the history of US interventionism. In all seriousness it was a very good and newsworthy publication, and those who did the heavy lifting bringing…

Normandy Meeting Confirms Zelensky Has Zero Friends in Europe

Normandy Meeting Confirms Zelensky Has Zero Friends in Europe

It came as no shock to me that the meeting in Paris between the so-called Normandy Four between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and Franc ended without any breakthroughs. The first meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was mostly a get-to-know-you affair. That’s sad because it was a missed…

Page from Iraq Playbook: US Invokes WMDs to Pile ‘Maximum Pressure’ Sanctions on Iran

Page from Iraq Playbook: US Invokes WMDs to Pile ‘Maximum Pressure’ Sanctions on Iran

With over a year of sanctions failing to force Tehran to bend the knee, Washington is now resorting to creatively invoking “weapons of mass destruction” – the very same pretext the US used for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. What evidence does the US have for Mahan actually proliferating any WMDs? Funny you should ask….