Freedom
Don’t Cry For Me Venezuela
by Jimmie Moglia According to the great Dr. Johnson, “Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.” An unavoidable universal contingency – for, […]
World Affairs
World Affairs
Adjustments in the Middle East
As the Middle Eastern States split between the partisans and adversaries of clericalism, Washington, Moscow and Beijing are negotiating a new deal. Thierry Meyssan evaluates the impact of this earthquake on the Palestinian, Iraqi-Syrian and […]
Military
Star Wars: A Quantum Leap From Fiction to Reality
At the beginning of the race to space, the Great Powers had agreed in the UN to refrain from storing weapons in space. However, without knowing whether or not it had violated this principle, the […]
World Affairs
Blood on the tracks of the New Silk Roads: Qatar Chaos Sends Ripples of Economic Anxiety Across the Region
by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times hina’s cardinal foreign policy imperative is to refrain from interfering abroad while advancing the proverbial good relations with key political actors – even when they may be at […]
Commentary
A Wind of Secularism Blows Over the Muslim World
Donald Trump’s speech in Riyadhh has sparked a wave of declarations against terrorism and against political Islam. The Arab world is expressing its thirst for secularism at the very moment that it is being misrepresented […]
World Affairs
A Muslim Spring
by Ghassan Kadi As the world citizens watch with horror the escalation between the USA and Russia on one hand and with China on the other hand, and as they fear the worst; a nuclear […]
World Affairs
General Election Early Statistics – Britain in Chaos – Divided and Polarized
By Graham Vanbergen (Updates below) Some early thoughts and statistics … 04.15 Hung parliament predicted. Theresa May takes Tories back to their 2010 win, which ended with a coalition Jeremy Corbyn takes more seats than […]
World Affairs
Punishing Qatar
Are we in need of distractions? The political masters obviously think so. There have been hackings, cuttings, slayings and crushing events. As battles continue raging in Syria and northern Iraq, European cities face the next […]
World Affairs
Iran’s Response To ISIL Attack: Haha, That Was Nothing
by Ramin Mazaheri So ISIL claims to have made their first attack in Iran. The response in Iran appears to be: So what? Despite an attack occurring near Tehran’s international airport there was no disruption […]
World Affairs
Those Were The May Days
Joseph Mallord William Turner Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland 1834 Is it sheer hubris, or is it just incompetence? It’s a question often asked when it comes to politics. And regularly, the answer is both. Still, […]