Global Times Editor’s Note: The Philippines’ latest military deployment near the South China Sea on September 30 and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III’s administrative…
Category: Politics
Reading from a prepared statement, Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary of State for Management, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that criticism of the US government’s response to US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’…
Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah (file photo) Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah confirms the Lebanese resistance movement has sent a drone deep into the Israeli airspace evading radar systems. The operation code-named Hussein Ayub…
Mainstream media reports riot in the streets of Iran because of a crumbling economy. Hundreds of police disbursed groups that formed, firing tear gas into the crowds. This is the first instance of public unrest over…
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan The leader of the main Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has called Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “traitor” to the country, accusing him of protecting the…
The meeting of the NAM heads of state kicks off in the Iranian capital, Tehran, August 30, 2012. It is refreshing to hear President Ahmadinejad of Iran pointing out the weaknesses of the United…
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses diplomats during the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 24, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz In…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says talks with the opposition groups are the sole solution to the unrest that has engulfed the Middle Eastern country for more than 18 months. “The door to dialogue…
In the last day or two we have seen one of the most remarkable policings of the discourse that I’ve ever seen; and it seems to be one man’s achievement, Jeffrey Goldberg, in asserting…
To Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a U.S. election is a race Israel should try to win. As someone who spent many of his young years in the United States, both as a student…