As the entire system of arms control is eroding, a war in the orbit appears to be a not so distant future. The US has just taken a big step forward to unleash an arms race in space. On December 23, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act – the legislation to re-launch the «Star Wars»….
East Aleppo is liberated, and regime-change has lost its luster. It’s no surprise Syria’s foes are ready to promote the next big goal: partition. Like most Syrian conflict predictions, of which few have materialized, the ‘partition’ of Syria is not going to happen. In February, when East Aleppo was still bulging with Western-trained, Al Qaeda-allied…
The Washington Post – among others – hit the ground running in the wake of an apparent terrorist attack in Germany’s capital of Berlin before evidence was forthcoming and even before German police arrested a suspect. A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring many more in what resembled an attack…
After decades of silence, Israel has moved to bring some closure to the hundreds of parents whose children went missing under mysterious circumstances. Some argue the database on the so-called “Yemenite Children Affair” has only been partially declassified. The 210,000 pages of declassified documents come as a result of three probes into the mysterious disappearances,…
The neocons and their liberal-interventionist chums never seem to think through one of their “regime change” schemes. It’s enough that they wrote the plan down in some op-ed article or reached a consensus at a think-tank conference. After that, all there is to do is to generate the requisite propaganda, often accompanied by intelligence “leaks”…
The 10th strike group of the US Navy and the Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier are returning from the Middle East to the US, a statement of US Navy reads. The group also includes the San Jacinto guided missile cruiser, as well as destroyers Mason and Nitze. In the near future, they will arrive at…
