(CHICAGO) — Last September, Lakhdar Brahimi replaced Kofi Annan as U.N./Arab League Syrian envoy/mediator. He’s strongly pro-Western. He’s Washington’s point man on Syria. Kofi Annan’s peace plan was one-sided. It provided imperial cover for war. Brahimi picked up where he left off. His mandate is serving Western interests. Diplomatic cover hides his agenda. On Dec. […]
(CHICAGO) — Last September, Lakhdar Brahimi replaced Kofi Annan as U.N./Arab League Syrian envoy/mediator. He’s strongly pro-Western. He’s Washington’s point man on Syria. Kofi Annan’s peace plan was one-sided. It provided imperial cover for war. Brahimi picked up where he left off. His mandate is serving Western interests. Diplomatic cover hides his agenda. On Dec. […]
Oh what a year it was! Barely had the nation’s celebratory New Year’s hangover subsided when another headache hit the public consciousness: the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3, signaling the official start of the presidential campaign. It kicked off a year of finger pointing, backbiting, mudslinging and name-calling. Not that we weren’t warned. The Republican […]
Oh what a year it was! Barely had the nation’s celebratory New Year’s hangover subsided when another headache hit the public consciousness: the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3, signaling the official start of the presidential campaign. It kicked off a year of finger pointing, backbiting, mudslinging and name-calling. Not that we weren’t warned. The Republican […]
Thousands of Iraqi demonstrators massed in a Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad Wednesday, determined to keep up the pressure on a Shiite-led government that many accuse of trying to marginalize them. It was the third major protest in less than a week in Anbar, Iraq’s largest province, once the heart of the deadly Sunni insurgency […]
Thousands of Iraqi demonstrators massed in a Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad Wednesday, determined to keep up the pressure on a Shiite-led government that many accuse of trying to marginalize them. It was the third major protest in less than a week in Anbar, Iraq’s largest province, once the heart of the deadly Sunni insurgency […]
(MintPress) – The world is on the precipice of a major food crisis. As the world’s population balloons, the global grains supply has stagnated or declined, according to the research article “Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation,” published by Nature Communications and written in cooperation of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the […]
(MintPress) – The world is on the precipice of a major food crisis. As the world’s population balloons, the global grains supply has stagnated or declined, according to the research article “Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation,” published by Nature Communications and written in cooperation of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the […]
A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the U.S. military emerge. The teams will be […]
A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the U.S. military emerge. The teams will be […]
(MintPress) – The world in which we live in has grown smaller since the advent of social media. Governments have fallen, revolutions have begun, lives have been saved and histories have been rewritten because of Twitter. Social media and social networks have — far and away — reached the hopes and expectations of the World Wide […]
(MintPress) – The world in which we live in has grown smaller since the advent of social media. Governments have fallen, revolutions have begun, lives have been saved and histories have been rewritten because of Twitter. Social media and social networks have — far and away — reached the hopes and expectations of the World Wide […]
By the autumn of 1987, Iraq was slowly getting the upper hand in the ground war and taking back some of the territory it had lost to Iran earlier in the conflict. In the Gulf waters, however, in an effort to protect commercial ships, 11 nations — most notably the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain […]
By the autumn of 1987, Iraq was slowly getting the upper hand in the ground war and taking back some of the territory it had lost to Iran earlier in the conflict. In the Gulf waters, however, in an effort to protect commercial ships, 11 nations — most notably the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain […]
