Tag: Feature
Without U.S. support Israel’s leaders could have been compelled to seek a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict instead of pursuing a Greater Israel
In his 1983 book The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel & the Palestinians, Noam Chomsky argued against the grain that the Israelis had compromised their...
Framed as sectarian war, the Syrian genocide and assaults on Gaza and Yemen are part of a long-standing UK-U.S.-Israeli-Western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the Axis of Resistance.
Syria’s massacres can be defined by nothing less than genocide, having exceeded the slaughter of more than 10,000 dead...
Investigating a possible link between the cold murder cases in the Antelope Valley of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Aujay
Sprawling poppy fields, aerospace, and secret military bases, California’s Antelope Valley is known for these landmarks. Over the past decades, the Antelope Valley became...
Reckoning with the past is crucial to establishing greater effectiveness in the present
At their July 2004 state convention, the California State American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) passed a resolution demanding that AFL-CIO leaders “clear the air” about AFL-CIO’s history of trying to undercut...
Turkey and the West’s Covert War Against Asian Development
Western imperialism once had a “civilizing mission.” The enlightenment and modernity were its buzzwords. The Europeans and Americans were in the game of railroads and reason. Or so the world was led to believe. Africans and Asians aimed West.
But not today....
Though branded in Western media as a success story, Bangladesh shows eery parallels to Syria
In 2024, The Economist magazine named Bangladesh as its “country of the year,” stating that it had “improved the most” of any other country in the world over the previous 12 months.
The watershed event in...
A presidential election was supposed to be held in Ukraine on March 31, 2024. However, due to the extension of martial law for 90 days in February 2025 (until May 9, 2025), the scheduled election was postponed for the 14th time.
Ukrainian citizens are well aware that, in fact, Ukraine...
On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by...
Alawites to the grave; Christians to Beirut.-- War slogan of anti-Assad militants
As this article was written, Syria experienced the worst days of violence since Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)—formerly the al-Nusra Front of al-Qaeda—took power from President Bashar al-Assad.
Friday, March 7, 2025, is the date it may be said a...
U.S. democracy-promotion institutions were key to destroying any hope for democratic development in Haiti after the Cold War.
In 1986, when popular uprisings kicked out the nearly 29-year-long dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc,” the U.S. could have become a partner to improve liberty...
