By Dr. HANIF HASSAN ALI AL QASSIM A tropical Srebrenica in the Land of the Golden Pagodas The massacre of Srebrenica will enter human history as one of our darkest chapters. From 11 to 22 July 1995, Bosnian Serb military forces massacred approximately 8,000 Muslim Bosniaks.
By Marlene Cimons – Nexus Media At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the Greenland ice sheet hosted a number of clandestine U.S. Army bases whose job it was to get an estimated 600 medium-range ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads ready for deployment.
By Kwamboka Oyaro UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 2018 (IPS) – When a woman rises to the top rung of the traditionally all-male corporate ladder in Africa, it’s front-page news because women’s progress in business leadership on the continent continues to be achingly slow. According to a…
Ross Douthat – The New York Times Let’s get one thing straight: I am not a fan of Facebook. I’m confident that social media is a cancer on our private lives and a source of derangement in our politics.
By Michele Nobile -utopiarossa (via IDN) INDEX: 1. The problem: where is the Trump administration’s foreign policy going? – 2.
OPINION, IAN WILKIE* – Newsweek Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo surrounding the Nunes Memorandum and the Steele Dossier was the striking statement by Secretary of Defense James Mattis that the U.S. has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve…
BAHER KAMAL*- Wall Street International A new alarm has been now sounded, this time on the occasion of the World Water Day marked on 22 March. It is about the proved fact that climate change has been steadily aggravating and already on-going water crisis, its scarcity and the…
By Orlando Crowcroft* – Newsweek The prime minister has portrayed himself as his country’s savior, protecting Christian Europe against the Muslim hordes In early March, János Lázár, a senior Hungarian minister, posted a video on Facebook complaining about the lack of “white…
BY PHILIP GORDON* – Foreign Policy The road to Pyongyang does not pass through Tehran. There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. These include the facts that Trump agreed to the…
Paul Krugman * – The New York Times Almost four decades have passed since Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously declared, “Of a sudden, the G.O.P. has become a party of ideas.” And his statement still holds true, with one modification: These days, Republicans are a party of zombie…
