Golan Heights, Kosovo and Crimea: A Case Study in Hypocrisy and Double Standards

Golan Heights, Kosovo and Crimea: A Case Study in Hypocrisy and Double Standards

The recent announcement by United States President Donald Trump that the US will recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights draws attention yet again to the double standards applied by NATO and its satraps including Australia to the issues of territorial integrity, the right to self-determination, and international law. Three cases illustrate the duplicity and…

Trump’s Golan Is a Megalomaniac’s Own Goal

Trump’s Golan Is a Megalomaniac’s Own Goal

The US President Donald Trump’s decree on March 26 granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights does not create any new fact on the ground. Trump’s motivations are fairly clear — boost Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s prospects in the April election where the newly-established right-center wing party, Blue and White…

Trump’s Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel’s Annexation of West Bank

Trump’s Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel’s Annexation of West Bank

When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international rulebook. Last week, he trampled all over its remaining tattered pages. He did so, of course, via Twitter. Referring to a large piece of territory Israel seized…

Apocalypse Now & Loving It!

Apocalypse Now & Loving It!

Remember the madcap scene in ‘Apocalypse Now’, the 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola about American genocidal rampaging in Vietnam? “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”, bellows the psychotic military commander as US choppers strafe and destroy a Vietnamese village. The same kind of unhinged death-wishing is reminiscent in the Trump administration. President Trump…