By Elliott Morss of Morss Global Finance The media is doing a more than adequate job of covering the futile dance between the Eurozone “leaders” and Greece. But Greece is not the only country facing fundamental economic challenges. This article identifies other countries in the most dire straits …
Read More »Isis on the run? The US portrayal is very far from the truth
PATRICK COCKBURN The map issued by the Pentagon to prove that Isis had lost territory shows how false optimism dominates the actions of the outside powers towards the Middle East. A graphic illustration of Western wishful thinking about the decline of Islamic State (IS) is a well-publicised map …
Read More »Russia Did More for Crimea Within 1 Year Than Ukraine Since Soviet Fall
Russia has done more for Crimean Tatars since the reunification than Ukraine has in over two decades while the peninsula was under its rule, Resit Kemal As, advisor of the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, told Sputnik. According to the advisor, Russia has taken significant steps to solve the Crimean …
Read More »Afghan Officials Meet With Taliban in Qatar
By MARGHERITA STANCATI and HABIB KHAN TOTAKHIL Taliban representatives launched a series of meetings with Afghan government officials in the Gulf emirate of Qatar on Saturday, even as insurgents press an offensive around the country. Taliban and Afghan officials said an eight-member Taliban delegation and some Afghan officials were attending a …
Read More »The approaching elections in Turkey
Tulu Gümüştekin The general elections will be held on June 7, the first weekend of the month. This is the second time that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will not be able to be a candidate in parliamentarian elections since 2002 because he was elected president in August 2014. …
Read More »U.S. Defense Biz Sees Cash from Mideast Chaos
Tim Mak The Middle East is on a knife’s edge, thanks to a lunatic ISIS and a rising Iran. For American arms-makers, that means only one thing: opportunity. War in Yemen. The continued threat of ISIS. Ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria. Increasing Iranian influence. As America’s Middle …
Read More »Kerry: US working with KSA to end Yemen crisis
The US is working with Saudi Arabia, UAE and the UN to start peace negotiations between Yemen’s government and the Houthis, said US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry said the US was working “very hard” to help negotiate a solution to the crisis in Yemen through the …
Read More »Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?
By PAUL LARUDEE A month ago, the city of Idlib fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of Jisr al-Shughour also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against the Syrian government …
Read More »Meet the Next Generation of Terrorists Who Support ISIS
By Marlow Stern The documentary Among the Believers provides an eye-opening behind the scenes portrait of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, which trains young children for jihad. Among the Believers, a chilling new documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens on a terribly cute 5-year-old …
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