On January 26, legal experts, policy wonks, activists and the plain curious waited for the order of the International Court of Justice, sitting in The Hague. The topic was that gravest of crimes, considered most reprehensible in the canon of international law: genocide. The main participants: the accused party, the […]
Month: January 2024
Donald Trump Vows To Settle Ukraine Conflict Before Inauguration
Donald Trump vowed to end Ukraine conflict “before coming into office” if he wins the November presidential election.
ICJ Ruling On Gaza Is On The Way
ICJ will rule on the South African request for measures to stop what it argues is Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa’s Nuclear Program
The lessons of the South African nuclear weapons program are deep, profound and largely ignored by non-proliferation dogmatists.
NATO To Hold Biggest Military Drills Since Cold War
NATO will launch its biggest military exercise in decades next week with more than 90,000 personnel. It is called Steadfast Defender 2024.
The Veil Is Being Torn: The Hidden Truths Of Jabotinsky And Netanyahu
The group that murdered 25,000 Palestinians in Gaza is not representative of Jews in general. It is the heir to an ideology that has been committing such crimes for a century. Thierry Meyssan traces the history of the “revisionist Zionists” from Vladimyr Ze’ev Jabotinsky to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kiev’s Territorial Claims To Russia Are Totally Bogus
It’s actually Russians that have always lived in modern-day Ukraine’s border regions, not Ukrainians that have always lived in Russia’s like Zelensky implied. Zelensky signed a decree on Monday “aimed at preserving the ethnic identity of Ukrainians in Russia”, which will investigate alleged “crimes” in Russia’s border regions against those […]
Pakistan Elections Are Imminent
Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections on February 8, 2024. They will take place after a protracted crisis stemming from the impeachment of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan (spring 2023) and his subsequent arrest on dubious charges. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, convicted of corruption, returned from London and resumed leadership […]
Geopolitics Is Moving North Korea’s Way
In less than three years, the erosion in the US hegemony that began cascading with the defeat in Afghanistan in August 2021 spread to Eurasia, followed by the massive eruption in West Asia by the end of 2023. As 2024 begins, we hear distant drums in the Far East, as […]
When The Cookie Crumbled: The Ron DeSantis Campaign Ends
So much for that. Much had been promised by Florida Governor Ron De Santis to derail Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House. But the attempt to wrest the Republican Party from the orange ogre’s meaty, waving hands was never convincing. In the end, DeSantis was more stumbler […]
Why WW III Is A Realistic Possibility
When I headlined on January 14th “Biden: No WW III Until 5 November 2024 at the Earliest”, the first two reader-comments were “WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?” and “Biden has about as much control over when war starts as he does over the words coming out of his mouth.” When George […]
Regional Opinion Urges Iran-Pakistan Amity
Unsurprisingly, the eruption of tensions in the Iran-Pakistan diplomatic ties on Tuesday following Tehran’s air strike across the border against Baluchistan is subsiding.
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