Syria Faces Calamity as Trump’s New Sanctions Combine With Surging Coronavirus

Syria Faces Calamity as Trump’s New Sanctions Combine With Surging Coronavirus

“If I don’t buy masks or medicine, I may die or survive, but if I don’t buy bread for the family, we will all die of starvation,” says a retired 68-year-old teacher in Damascus, explaining why he does not have masks, sterilisers or medicines. “We need two bundles of loaves every day which costs us…

Scenario Forecasting: Here’s How Russia Could ‘Pull a Crimea’ in Belarus

Scenario Forecasting: Here’s How Russia Could ‘Pull a Crimea’ in Belarus

President Putin’s reaffirmation of Russia’s CSTO mutual defense obligations to Belarus has led to speculation that he might be considering a repeat of the Crimea scenario to (re)unify the two countries as a political solution to the latter’s ongoing Color Revolution crisis. Should he decide upon such a dramatic course of action, which would in…

Neither Trump Nor Biden Really Matter to China or Russia

Neither Trump Nor Biden Really Matter to China or Russia

Well, according to the Trump campaign, Democrat rival Joe Biden is the candidate whom Chinese leaders are rooting for to win the presidential election in November. “Beijing Biden” or “Sleepy Joe” would be a gift to China, so it goes. In turn, trying to out-hawk the Republican incumbent, the Biden campaign paints Trump as being…

Human Rights and Washington’s Global Britain

Human Rights and Washington’s Global Britain

U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo went to London on July 21 because the British government had bowed the knee to Washington and obeyed Trump’s orders to cut commercial contact with China’s Huawei technology company and Pompeo wanted to reinforce the US-UK anti-China campaign. The U.S. considers it essential that Chinese enterprises should be excluded from…

The Evil, Immoral, Vicious, and Hypocritical Embargo Against Cuba

The Evil, Immoral, Vicious, and Hypocritical Embargo Against Cuba

The banality of evil that characterizes the U.S. national security state is demonstrated perfectly by the continuation of its deadly economic embargo against Cuba, which has been ongoing for some 60 years. What’s the point of the embargo? After all, the Pentagon’s, CIA’s, and NSA’s official enemy Fidel Castro died years ago. Why continue to…