Tag: Spotlight
During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said that he would “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley,” who “made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent—he was a natural businessman—and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did including the...
“Stupid, asinine, insane” was Scott Ritter’s description of President Donald J. Trump’s decision to launch massive bombing attacks on Yemen on March 15. The Ansar Allah movement (also known as the Houthis) resumed its blockade of Israel-bound ships in the Red Sea after Israel re-launched its war and siege...
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...
After breaking the ceasefire deal, Israel is continuing its ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, and threatening to further ignite wider conflict by bombing Syria and Lebanon. In just one 48-hour period after the end of the ceasefire, a combination of bombings from the air and a ground invasion killed over 500 Palestinians in just 48 hours...
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...
