The Strategic Ambition of NATO and Command Structure Changes
By Silviu Craescu.
The evolution of the strategic situation in Europe has only the most obvious resort deficiencies and vulnerabilities that the command structure of NATO had been present for years. For this reason, in Warsaw, the [...]
Risk of War in Asia
By Sebastian Sarbu.
Washington is analyzing the military option in the case of North Korea’s nuclear program. Pentagon chief Jim Mattis declared that North Korea represents a more serious threat to the United States and the international [...]
Video: U.S. Crimes of Genocide against Korea: “We Killed Off – What – 20% of the Population. We Burned Down every Town in North Korea…”
By Michel Chossudovsky.
The crimes committed by the US against the people of Korea in the course of the Korean War but also in its aftermath are unprecedented in modern history.
“We Killed Off – What – Twenty Percent of the [...]
The Shrinking French President
By Josep Colomer.
The President of France will never be again what it was. From an elected dictator and a “sacred leader”, he has become a first among equals.
After General De Gaulle established the 5th Republic via [...]
Is It the End of the European Empire?
By Josep Colomer.
Is It the End of the European Empire?
Those of us who have been characterizing the European Union as an ‘Empire’ emphasize that empires are distinguished by their internal asymmetries and that they expand [...]
The Mother of All Bombs
By Marcus J. Ranum.
It’s really sad to see that the US military is so desperate and stupid that they had to try showing how capable they are, by showing how capable they aren’t.
Dropping a humongous explosive on a useless target, [...]
Afghanistan Demanded Peace And Received The Mother Of All Bombs
By Nake M. Kamrany.
and Chris Smiley, University of Florida, Independent Filmmaker and Journalist
The U.S. dropping the Mother of All Bombs in Afghanistan (MOAB, which comes from original term Massive Ordinance Air Blast) is reminiscent [...]
The Alarming Worldwide Alliance of Parties on the Far Right
By Lawrence Wittner.
Political parties on the far right are today enjoying a surge of support and access to government power that they have not experienced since their heyday in the 1930s.
This phenomenon is particularly striking [...]
War against ISIS: Defeat or a win?
By Aamina Khan.
Syrian war has emerged as the worst nightmare of 21st century. In an address to the UN Human Rights Council, UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein described the war in Syria as “the worst [...]
In Defense of “Third World Countries” Immigrants
By Sami Jamil.
The other day, a friend of mine complained to me about America’s need for “White immigrants” and that America needs “White” immigrants and not immigrants from “Third World countries”, which prompted [...]
America First or America Leads?
By Julian French.
“Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, when power to flattery bows? To plainness honour’s bound when majesty falls to folly”.
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Cosmos Club, Washington DC. 8 April. What [...]
Syrian attacks: Lessons and repercussions
By Barry Shaw.
The news in early April circled two attacks in Syria.
One was the horrendous chemical weapons launched from Syrian warplanes. The world was sickened by the sight of dead and dying children and babies chocking on [...]
Why Did Islamic State Choose to Threaten China at This Time?
By Roie Yellinek.
IS video threatening China, via 动感纪元 YouTube channel
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As the power of the Islamic State (IS) declines, it is becoming less menacing and less able to sow fear in the world at large. [...]
Can Our Social Institutions Catch Up With Advances In Science And Technology?
By Lawrence Wittner.
H.G. Wells, one of the most prolific and prominent novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consistently warned his contemporaries that social institutions were not evolving fast enough [...]
Why is the Old West at War with Itself?
By Julian French.
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”.
Plato
Budapest, Hungary, 21 March. Plato’s Republic is in many ways a treatise against political [...]
There Is A Constitutional Avenue To Remove Trump That Is Not Impeachment
By Rich Rubino.
This is a tall order considering that the GOP controls both the Cabinet and the Congress.
NICHOLAS KAMM VIA GETTY IMAGES
From Twitter tirades to bombastic statements, some critics of President Donald Trump are [...]
Why Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
By Lawrence Wittner.
The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone have the right to plunge the world into a nuclear [...]
Resisting Donald Trump’s Violence Strategically
Robert J. Burrowes.
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It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States would signal the start of what might be the final monumental assault on much of what is good [...]
McMaster Stroke?
By Julian French.
President Harry S. Truman once said, “A president needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it”. Watching Month One of the Trump presidency splutter like an old car [...]
The Refugee Crisis in Europe Doesn’t Exist
By Albena Azmanova.
Syrian family displaced to Qaa in Lebanon. Credit: Freedom House via FlickrIt is the discursive construction of the situation as ‘crisis’ that bestows justification to such cruel quick fixes as the [...]