I’m sure that somewhere, in a university or institute, researchers have produced an analysis that measures the rise in the number of armed conflicts as a ratio of the increase in economic instability as capitalism…
Category: Global Issues
Interview with Gennady Yevstafyev, retired Lieutenant-General of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence ==== We know that in the Gulf there are two flattops surrounded by several dozens of American ships. And yesterday or the day before yesterday…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize’s original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination…
UN Security Council members have agreed upon the text of a draft resolution on Syria and will send the document to governments for approval, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said. “We have the text which…
Washington lawmakers latest to join chorus of opposition to bill allowing for indefinite detention of U.S. citizens Five Washington state representatives have introduced legislation in an attempt to override provisions the National Defense Authorization Act…
Google quietly revealed earlier this month it will allow censorship in some countries of content on its Blogger service. The move came shortly before Twitter announced it will allow foreign governments to censor specific Tweets. On Jan….
Watching top U.S. intelligence officials present the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” before the Senate Intelligence Committee, I found myself wondering if they would depart from the key (if politically delicate) consensus judgment that Iran is…
“Viscous nasty business” … “aggressive pressure … by US diplomats”, “ferocious pressure on weaker non-permanent members”, the “type of pressure [that] is very, very difficult for weaker countries … to resist.” That’s how a former…
Alarmist corporate media coverage of the “threat” from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify…
This practice invites Taliban attacks on Afghans and NGOs A dirty and deadly secret of the war in Afghanistan is that some of the so-called Taliban attacks on civilians have really been attacks aimed…