Yearly Archives: 2017

If “all men are created equal” is an ideological principle and not a universal law which binds all human beings together, as Buchanan implies, then we are in big trouble.

In response to Kim Jong-un regime, US administration seems to be adopting new policy of 'strategic accountability'

Many Japanese women and girls were so worried about attacks that they cut their hair short and tried to pass themselves off as men. Some females reportedly carried cyanide tablets, ready to commit suicide before enduring rape.

The question whether the emergence of Pakistan on world map was a mistake remains relevant

Thousands of South Koreans have taken to the streets of the capital to protest against joint Washington-Seoul military drills as well as the deployment of a controversial US missile system amid tensions with the neighboring North.

"Neo-conservative Zionist Americans plotted the war on Syria...to utterly change the face of the Middle East, redraw the map of the Middle East, and help Israel survive and expand.”  

On August 18, during a regular briefing, the Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department Heather Nauert stated that the United States doesn’t intend to extend its stay in Syria after the Islamic State is defeated.

...from SouthFront The Syrian-Iranian-Russian alliance has achieved a large progress in its operations against ISIS in the province of Homs. On August 20, the Syrian Arab...

Former Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov will take up responsibilities as ambassador

There will be no war on the Korean peninsula, South Korean President Moon Jae-In said Thursday, saying Seoul effectively had a veto over US military action in response to the North's nuclear and missile programmes.

The annual cost to the US economy from counterfeit goods, pirated software and theft of trade secrets has been estimated at up to US$600bn.

"The power of the Israel Lobby and of AIPAC is not cost free for the American public. The current $3 billion plus that Israel, with a thriving first world economy, receives in military assistance is on top of the $130 billion that it has received since 1949."

Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout.

A survey by the Pew Research Centre found that ISIS was named as the top threat by citizens in 18 countries, including the UK, France, Germany and the US.

A group of five pro-Palestinian activists in the UK face possible prison sentences after being arrested during protests outside an Israeli-owned weapons manufacturing company.

Taking to Twitter on Saturday, US President Donald Trump declared that a decision has been made on the Afghanistan War following Friday’s Camp David meeting. This was a single sentence, and not followed by further details.

Jim W. Dean - What Abadi is doing is allowing all combat groups to participate in the battle so they can share the credit. The US fear of the PMUs gaining more combat experience was silly, as they are already are a proven counter-insurgency force.

The Lebanese people have no desire to let ISIS (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) continue the long history of Zionist incursions into their country.

Gregory once referred to the United States as "the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet."

"Charlottesville is symbolically representative of the troubled state of U.S. society" Raluca Bejan.

Saudi Arabia’s strategy in the Middle East has for years focused on throwing money at majority Sunni states and groups in the region to counter Iranian influence. But its fiscal constraints started to limit its ability to project power even in the Arabian Peninsula.

With the firing of anti-globalist Steve Bannon, neo-conservatives and hawks may take complete control of US foreign policy, says investigative journalist Rick Sterling, adding that it’s not a good sign when hawkish Senator John McCain is smiling.

Netanyahu and Putin have kept in close contact in recent years, with the Israeli leader visiting Moscow four times in the last 16 months.

A former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons in Iraq and Libya, Igor Nikulin, told Russia's Pravda newspaper that Moscow "should look into" the growing number of American military biological laboratories springing up across the Eurasian continent.

The Ukrainian Navy plans to open a NATO doctrine and tactical center before the end of this year, the Navy’s deputy chief of staff for Euro-Atlantic integration, said on Thursday.

Charlottesville events in the US Southeastern state of Virginia was an example that once again unveiled deep differences in the US society.

Hate crimes against Muslims in Germany rose sharply in the second quarter of this year, reflecting a growing Islamophobia fueled by far-right and populist political parties.

Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout.

State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert on Friday explained the US is focused narrowly on the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and does not plan to remain in the country afterward.

Gambling odds offered by the betting site Paddy Power indicate people believe it’s more likely than not US President Donald Trump will be impeached during his first term in office.

The FBI released employee survey data earlier this week after employees were questioned about how they felt about former FBI director James Comey's leadership when he was at the bureau.

President Donald Trump described as "anti-police agitators" thousands of mostly peaceful counter-protesters who took to Boston on Saturday to oppose white supremacy and counter a right-wing "free speech" rally.

It’s been a good week for the DVD. Their number two target in the Administration, after the President himself, Steve Bannon, has been forced out, crippling the White House.

“From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.”

Jim W. Dean - The current Confederate Monument jihad has hit a bump in the road in the South, where rank-and-file Confederate descendants are hitting the streets to protect monuments in close coordination with local law enforcement.

Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and some other lawmakers have unveiled a congressional resolution to censure US President Donald Trump for his comments about the violent white nationalist rally in Virginia.

Just think of all the recent terror incidents, from 9/11, Orlando, Charlie Hebdo to Nice, where all the accused are conveniently killed, leaving the official narrative unchallenged in a court of law.

World Muslims, along with political and religious leaders of various countries denounced a terrorist attack in Spain on Thursday claimed by Daesh (ISIL or ISIS).

US State Department recently released a trove of confidential documents that disclosed more details of Britain’s role in the 1953 coup in Iran, an issue London strongly denied in the past.

President Donald Trump and his top national security aides did not reach a decision on a new approach to the nearly 16-year war and occupation in Afghanistan after meeting for hours at Camp David.

Washington formally launched a probe into China’s alleged theft of US intellectual property (IP), in a move likely to spark a trade war with Beijing which has vowed to take “all appropriate measures” in response to the move.

It doesn’t take a mathematician to add a simple sum. You cannot destroy a nation with help from allies and terrorists, attack its neighbors, and then offer aid to rebuild it. Saudi Arabia has done just that.

Despite the neoliberal talking points about “freedom,” “democracy,” and “peace,” the reality of life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe is not at all what was promised. Consider the abstractions employed by people like Reagan who framed the end of the Soviet Union as an event that would usher in “peace” and “prosperity.” And then consider the fact that neither peace nor prosperity has come to fruition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet bloc.

The United States is set to launch its annual joint military exercises with South Korea Monday, a move that threatens North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, as it denounced the exercises as a "rehearsal for war."

The latest terror attacks in Spain cannot be seen in isolation. There is an interrelationship of the terrorism-related attacks in the US, Europe, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen etc., and elsewhere in the world, which are part of the double game of the US, Israel and India who are in connivance with ISIL to seek revenge against Russia and the Muslims.

Jim W. Dean - Usually getting a Debate Show slot on an historic event is a happy day, but this was not...just another useless slaughter of innocent civilians by radical Muslims losers committing the all too popular vehicle mass killing in a tourist area.