By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch Indebted, exploited, hunt down, shamed at Home… The harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants Sorry for coming back to this issue, but its immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on another aspect, which is deliberately…
By Asoka Bandarage* Sri Lanka has been convulsed since the nine coordinated suicide bomb attacks against Christian churches and five star hotels on Easter Sunday. More than 250 people lost their lives and many others were injured on that fateful day.
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The announcement that the Pentagon is sending a strike force to the Middle East caps a yearlong campaign of threats and intimidation Is it Iraq all over again? Is President Donald Trump, egged on by two ultra-hawkish advisers in National Security…
By Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga – Just Security (*) It was not surprising or unexpected when President Donald Trump announced that the United States would “withdraw” from the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in an April 26 address to the National Rifle Association (NRA). To a roaring crowd…
Pillar* – LobeLog ** National Security Advisor John Bolton, aided by his comrade-in-arms Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is doing everything possible to instigate a war with Iran. Naked aggression as a means of starting such a war may be too much for even Bolton to pull off, so…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Iran’s influence has spread across the Middle East, and the U.S. is pushing back. The United States has announced that it is deploying a carrier battle group and a bomber group to the Middle East.
By Matt Kwong* – CBC News Threat to intervene militarily could turn into another protracted conflict, experts warn The Vietnam War in 1965. The War in Afghanistan in 2001.
By Tom O’Connor – Newsweek Gunshots, Tear Gas and Vehicle Attack Seen on Video as Government Clashes With Opposition four-month political standoff between Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and parliament speaker Juan Guaidó has turned violent as forces loyal to the two…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Hypersonics could introduce a radically new type of war. The media has been filled with stories recently about Chinese and Russian hypersonic missiles and how these weapons are changing the military balance of power.
by Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) Authored by Thierry Meyssan (**) via The Voltaire Network Since the Treaty of Maastricht, all the members of the European Union (including the neutral countries) have placed their defences under the suzerainty of NATO, which is directed…
