Saudi Arabian Backed Insurgents Responsible for Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack
By Stephen Lendman.
Russia has evidence proving it. More on that below. A previous article said the following:
On August 29, Mint Press News headlined “Exclusive: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack,” [...]
How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act
Posted by Glen Ford: By Bruce A. Dixon.
Did the Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act have to happen? Could black leadership have seen it coming and prevented it? Why didn’t they, and what can we do now?
Yesterday’s [...]
“Cooperating with Russia on WMD Counterproliferation in Syria? We Have Done This Before”
By Joseph Cerami.
Actually, the United States and Russia have cooperated, in very recent history, in the removal and destruction of weapons of mass destruction. Under what are known as Nunn-Lugar programs, the US has worked [...]
The Meaning of Tymoshenko’s Case for the EU
By Andreas Umland.
For two years now, Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been in prison, and the European Union has constantly demanded her release. While the former prime minister’s name is not mentioned in all of Brussels’s [...]
Business Side of Environmental
By Jaime Lopez.
Money is a word that for most people in the environmental world is not always good. The thought that we get into this field more for altruistic reasons and less for personal gain. The personal gain or reward is primarily [...]
Deal Reached on Syrian Chemical Weapons
By Stephen Lendman.
Give credit where it’s deserved. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earned it. He bested John Kerry. So far at least, he made him eat crow.
The five permanent Security Council members agreed on “binding [...]
Israel exposes Iran’s strategic goal: nuclear weapons capability
By Cryptome.
Iran’s strategic goal: nuclear weapons capability.
Iran’s interim goal: A deal with minor concessions that preserves Iran’s future ability to rush forward to produce nuclear weapons.
1. The current Iranian [...]
European defense industry’s decreasing competitiveness
International Security Observer: By Marco Giulio Barone.
This article seeks to tackle how the European defense industry, while prominent and strong, is losing competitiveness in its domestic and international domains, in particular in [...]
US militarism from the Pacific Islands to Africa
By Sokari Ekine.
On my January 1st blog post, I mentioned the US patriarchal militarist state and it’s use of increasingly sophisticated surveillance technologies. The US has just signed a ‘deal’ with Niger which will allow them [...]
A new type of tyranny
By Azmi Ashour.
One of the tragedies of our time is that millions of people can turn into refugees within the span of weeks, if not days. Suddenly, people who had homes and jobs and cars, friends and things to share and enjoy, are left without [...]
The seven deadly sins of the Muslim Brotherhood
By Khaled Fahmy.
One of the biggest casualties of yesterday’s events in Egypt is US Ambassador, Anne Patterson. For months now, she has been insisting on a slanted reading of the political scene in Egypt, constantly letting [...]
Analysis of the 2013 State of Union speech delivered by José Manuel Barroso
By Pierre Anthony.
J.M. Barroso’s 2013 State of Union (SOTEU) speech
On Wednesday 11 September 2013, José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, delivered the last State of Union speech of this legislature. In this [...]
The Arms Trade Treaty: Half Full or Half Empty?
By Marc Finaud.
Key Points.
• The adoption by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is a significant achievement considering the traditional resistance to dealing with conventional armaments, [...]
Framework for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons
Taking into account the decision of the Syrian Arab Republic to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention and the commitment of the Syrian authorities to provisionally apply the Convention prior to its entry into force, the United States [...]
How Might Syria Come Back to the UK?
By Raffaello Pantucci.
Senior Research Fellow, Counter-Terrorism.
British citizen Ibrahim al-Mazwagi killed earlier in the year
The ongoing intractable civil war in Syria has become a magnet for foreign fighters of every stripe. Unlike [...]
Wahhabism vs. Wahhabism: Qatar Challenges Saudi Arabia
By James M. Dorsey.
Introduction
As Saudi Arabia seeks to inoculate itself against the push for greater freedom, transparency and accountability sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, a major challenge to the kingdom’s [...]
Syria, a complicated problem for a logical solution
By Jaime Ortega.
President Barack Obama put his foot in his mouth, by initially evoking a strike on Syria and is now excusing himself saying “the International Security Council is to blame for the political actions that might take effect,” [...]
Robert Gates: Smart Leader, Good Boss and … Noble Public Servant
By Joseph R. Cerami.
How to … Educate and Develop Leaders?
Different Paths, Different Styles, Different Times
In what turned out to be a relatively long goodbye for a high-level federal official, Robert Gates orchestrated [...]
Egypt 2013: What can you tell?
By Fadi Husseini.
Genuine democracy requires practice and partnership, and cannot be realized aloof from people. Mobilizing crowds to replace the ballot box is very dangerous as the lust for power and authority can be cast in popular [...]
Religion vs Military: a prismatic view of the current MENA situation.
By Alessandro Boncio.
More than two years already passed since the beginning of the so called “Arab Spring” phenomenon, but the events that developed into an unsteady regional situation are yet not so clear and defined. [...]