World - Part 41
President Trump’s desire to fight Daesh and to put an end to international terrorism is going to be extremely difficult to implement. Indeed, it will cause damage to the states who organised it, and implies a reorientation of international politics. The ...[Read more]
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Boarded-up shops are a common sight in cities across the country as Macyâs, Sears and JCPenney struggle and Credit Suisse downgrades the retail sector ...[Read more]
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After years of U.S. support for dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, civil war has wracked Yemen since 2014. Its neighbor Saudi Arabia, itself among the region’s cruelest dictatorships and a staunch U.S. ally, became nervous in 2015 about the outcome and, with ...[Read more]
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You all remember former US Secretary of State Condi Rice's notorious 2006 prediction about "birth pangs of a New Middle East." True to the George "Dubya" Bush/Cheney regime, Condi got it all spectacularly wrong, not only about Lebanon and Israel but also ...[Read more]
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Nikki Haley, the new Washington envoy to the UN, gave her first interview in the role, backing President Trumpâs travel ban and suggesting that Russia should never be trusted. It points to possible American âcomplexes,â Russiaâs Foreig ...[Read more]
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A UK university has been accused of censoring free speech for banning phrases such as “right-hand man” and “gentleman’s agreement” in favour of more inclusive, gender neutral language. ...[Read more]
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My guess is that most of the world is just collapsing in laughter. Suppose all the charges are true, I mean every single one, it is so amateurish by US standards that you can hardly even laugh. What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in ...[Read more]
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resident Trump has signed a new executive order that temporarily blocks visas from being issued to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries, revoking and replacing a controversial, now-suspended executive order known as the travel ban.
Like the initial o ...[Read more]
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The Ukrainian nationalist film “Bitter Harvest” propagates lies invented by Ukrainian nationalists. In his review Louis Proyect propagates these lies.
Proyect cites Jeff Coplon’s 1988 Village Voice article “In Search of a Soviet Holocaust: A 55-Ye ...[Read more]
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GERMANY'S infamous Nazi Grandma an 87-year-old Third Reich fanatic repeatedly up before the courts for denying that the Holocaust took place has been handed down a new 11-month term behind bars. ...[Read more]
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The European Parliament voted Thursday to require Americans to obtain visas to travel within the European Union after the United States failed to agree to visa-free travel for the citizens of five EU countries. ...[Read more]
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