Tonight will be fateful for the conflict’s future. Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to house elements of its nuclear triad. This came a day before the second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and less than a […]
Middle East
Vanessa Beeley Describes How Syria Was Defeated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EIE53EdIcQ&t=415s “Unmasking Syria’s War—Truth, Propaganda & Power Games” 6:55-16:40 6:55 I think it’s going to be, um, it’s going to be a long time before 7:01 Syria is fully back on its feet in in any way shape or form as it was before. 7:08 Um, I think what you’re […]
The New Syria: A Dive Into Trump’s Meeting With Syria’s New Leader, Ahmad Al-Sharaa
In one of the most unexpected geopolitical developments of 2025, the U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria’s new leader, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The summit, held on May 14, marks a turning point in U.S. involvement in the Middle East — both in diplomatic orientation and strategic […]
Humanitarian Camouflage: The Debut Of The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favour of expediency and security – and the naked show of violent desperation. Via the shoddy US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation company, distribution of necessaries […]
The Prospects For A ‘Deal’ To Settle The Armed Conflict In Ukraine
After a three-year “freeze” of political and diplomatic ties between Moscow and Washington, with the arrival of a new American leader in the White House, President Trump initiated noticeable progress in the search for new approaches to building normal relations with Russia. Speaking recently at a hearing in the U.S. […]
Does Israel Control America, Or Does America Control Israel?
On 23 May 2020, I headlined “Israel — an enemy of America” and documented that though U.S. taxpayers donate to Israel each year $3.8 billion, of which 3.3 billion goes to pay American weapons-producers such as Lockheed Martin to supply Israel with weaponry, Israel’s record has been as an enemy of the U.S. (or […]
The West’s New Genocide
Of course, Netanyahu blames the slaughter in Gaza on “Hamas” though the reason he gives for exterminating 2.2 million Gazans is that he wants to kill all members of Hamas, which had fewer than 20,000 members, which is less than one-thousandth of the Gazan population of 2.2 million. And previously, he […]
The Palestinian Cause In The Geopolitics Of The Global South
By Martín Martinelli and Peiman Salehi The Palestinian resistance is no longer a regional issue; it has become a global symbol of dignity in the face of colonialism and imperial power. The historical background deeply influences the current situation of genocide and attempts at memoricide, in contrast with the Palestinian […]
How Donald Trump Discovers The Art Of Political Negotiation
We don’t understand the negotiations in Ukraine and the Middle East because we don’t understand the difference between wars and civil conflicts. We approach peacemaking as if it were a matter of dividing up common property during a divorce, after a few years of living together. But wars are of […]
The Killing Of Israeli Embassy Staffers: Netanyahu’s Antisemitism Canard
Here was another chance – at least as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw it – of threading one set of events with another. It’s all part of the Israeli security state’s playbook: any killing of Jews or its citizens, wherever they might be, will have a causal link to […]
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