The Russian President Vladimir Putin made the long-expected phone call to the US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday. It stands to reason that the presidential spokesman in the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, one of Putin’s closest aides, travelled to New York last week ostensibly to attend a world …
Read More »Trump or Hillary, no difference for Arabs and Muslims
The landslide victory of Republican Donald Trump in the American Presidential Elections against his competitor the Democrat Hillary Clinton and his rhetorics on Islam and Muslims have raised concerns among American Muslims and added to the anti-Muslim sentiments. Yet, what is said during campaigns is not a mandatory …
Read More »President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?
Note: The following article was written up to the November 8 presidential election before Trump’s victory was declared Know a man by his enemies. Trump has countless enemies, but most of them march to the drums of endless wars of aggression and care less about the casualties of …
Read More »Trump’s Win Wasn’t Ideological. It Was Brilliant
CNN explained well “5 surprising lessons from Trump’s astonishing win”, and the historic crushing failure of traditional Presidential-year American politics, but it really boils down to one simple fact: In the battleground states, where most of the advertising dollars and get-out-the-vote money was being spent, the Trump organization made use …
Read More »Obama’s Last Stand Against War on Syria
Exclusive: For five years, President Obama has resisted neocon/liberal-interventionist pressure to go to war against Syria, but – as his departure grows near – the hawks see more “regime change” wars coming into view, says Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Through five years of war in Syria, President …
Read More »New Debate on Wahhabism Threatens Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the richest Arab nation and the home to Islam’s holiest sites, must feel under siege these days. Pressure is coming from many fronts, among them a costly war in Yemen, diplomatic tensions with the U.S. over a new law in which families of …
Read More »NGOs Supporting America’s Imperial Ruthlessness in Syria
NGOs listed below support US-led imperial ruthlessness to topple Assad and destroy Syrian sovereign independence. by Stephen Lendman How else to explain their disgraceful joint statement, wanting Russia’s membership on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) ended when its term expires at yearend. On October 28, General Assembly members …
Read More »Internationalizing the Yemen War
One year and a half after the start of the Saudi-led ‘Decisive Storm’ aerial bombing campaign, the tables are turning in Yemen. The intended targets of the assault – the Houthi Ansarallah movement and the followers of former president Ali Abdallah Saleh – have moved on from their …
Read More »Russia Won’t Flinch in Syria
The US is said to be mulling military options in Syria amid deadlock at the Security Council, but that would mean lighting the fuse for World War III The UN Security Council meeting on Syria called over the weekend was bound to end in mutual recrimination between the US …
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