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Christians in Syria were attacked and purged in the west of the country by US and NATO-backed sectarian Islamists and in the east by the death cult ISIS. By Tim ANDERSON Purging the Christians of Syria The US role in the purge of Syrian Christians was apparent from the first months of 2011, but warnings […]

Sending more weapons to Ukraine isn’t the answer W.J. ASTORE U.S. foreign policy is a place where logic goes to die. Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, said yesterday that the quickest way to end the Russia-Ukraine War is “to give Ukraine a strong hand on the battlefield,” by which he meant more and […]

The Ukrainian war is in its end game. Checkmate is at hand, Declan Hayes writes. March 20, 1945. With Berlin in critical danger, the Führer chooses General Gotthard Heinrici to replace Heinrich Himmler as chief of Army Group Vistula. Heinrici’s mission is to defend Berlin, which is now coming within striking distance of Red Army […]

Key Arab heads of state convened this week for an emergency meeting that excluded the Saudis and Kuwaitis. The likely hot topics under discussion were Egypt’s economic collapse and Israel’s aggressive escalations. By Abdel Bari ATWAN On 18 January, the United Arab Emirates hastily arranged a consultative summit in Abu Dhabi, which included the leaders of […]

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE In a new article titled “U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea,” the New York Times reports that the Biden administration now believes Kyiv may need to launch an offensive on the territory that Moscow has considered a part of the Russian Federation since 2014, “even if such a move increases the […]

By Branko MILANOVIC (I am writing this article in English although my main audience is in Serbia. But I am doing it also because very few people in the world, preoccupied by other world crises, such as the war in Ukraine, US-China issues, covid and the like, know what is happening in the Balkans and […]

The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood. It is the miscalculation of this era – one that may begin the collapse of dollar primacy, and therefore, global compliance with U.S. political demands, too. But its most grievous content is that it corners the U.S. into […]

By Sonali KOLHATKAR Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced it will lay off about 6 percent of its global workforce. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent his employees a letter warning of imminent layoffs and saying how “deeply sorry” he was. He offered for workers to “feel free to work from home” for the day in […]

There is a new Middle East emerging which makes its own policies and is not subservient U.S. interests. In November 2022, Saudi Arabia formally changed its stance on Syria. Saudi Arabia is the political powerhouse of the Middle East, and often shares positions on foreign policy and international issues with the UAE, which has previously […]

Former Marine Corps officer Scott Ritter says the U.S.-led NATO military alliance is driving the war in Ukraine with the ultimate objective of defeating Russia. The conflict is not about defending Ukraine as the Western media would tell us, it is and always has been about defeating Russia. NATO is already now in a direct […]