Regardless of Prime Minister Abe’s attempt to make the case that collective self-defense is constitutional, for some time the Self-Defense Forces have been working to achieve for Japan the status of a “state that can…
Category: Global Issues
WE CANNOT SAY WE DID NOT KNOW ONCE AGAIN IN SHOCK ONCE AGAIN IN SORROW ONCE AGAIN ENRAGEDWe carry the names of the dead in Gaza. In the name of decency we must act….
“Recent history has repeatedly proven that nothing said by Washington and its officials should be accepted at face value. No other government in the world has been implicated in so many egregious lies…
Let’s not mince words. Israelis are committing genocide in Gaza. But the United Nations is loath to use the “G” word and it us using the “C” (condemn) word instead. Why? Money talks. The top…
One would think that a sad, sorry history of ones own people would create some sensitivity towards other people. But it does not. At least some people rather seem to take the horrors their ancestors…
The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans, a new analysis of US Census Bureau export data reveals. For example, in 2013,…
‘Wrong Time, Altered Images’: Moscow Slams Kiev’s MH17 Satellite Data Satellite images Kiev published as ‘proof’ it didn’t deploy anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site carry altered time-stamps and are from days after the…
Recruiting to Kill It Is Not Just an Israeli War on Gaza To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during…
The UK’s parliamentary Defence Committee has demanded that Western military powers strengthen NATO to prepare for confrontation with Russia. The report by the cross-party group of Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs complains that the…
On July 10–11, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a two-day conference on the South China Sea, from which they published a 22-page report entitled “Recent Trends in the South…