In spite of an overwhelming flood of disinformation coming from the Western mainstream media and governments, there continue to be obviously widely divergent views on the current war between Ukraine and Russia. The official and media supported narrative is that Moscow attacked its neighbor in violation of “rule based” principles of international relations, whereby an…
As the year of 2022 comes to an end, the usual spate of predictions for the incoming year are espoused by many. That includes, it seems, Russia’s Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, who predicted on Twitter – either mockingly or seriously, or perhaps both – a number of world-altering events in 2023 such as the breakout…
The Lebanese people are worried that sectarian violence may be increasing and the flames of civil war may be fanned by the Soldiers of God, and their ties to the warlords, militias, and parties who participated in the Lebanese civil war. In Ashrafieh, the wealthy Christian neighborhood in east Beirut, there is a group of…
While we are all, rightfully, worried about what’s going on in Ukraine, those sneaky Russians are shoring up their situation on the south shores of the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. As reported last week the meeting between Russia, Turkiye, and Syria took place between their Defense Ministers where they all described the talks as…
On December 20, the Second Baghdad Conference was held in Amman, Jordan, attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, foreign ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Turkey, Bahrain and Oman. As for other regions, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep…
Although war is hell, slaughtering children by NATO’s sanctions and colluding in or justifying that slaughter is infinitely worse. Although war is hell, slaughtering children by NATO’s sanctions and colluding in or justifying that slaughter is infinitely worse. Trite as it sounds, we are morally bound to oppose both the gang rape of Arab children…
