Iraq Daily Roundup: Six Killed
Following Taliban Battlefield Gains, Hawks Try To Circle the Wagons in Afghanistan
Sustained offensives in northern Afghanistan have seen scores killed, and the Taliban seizing 7 districts while placing three major cities under siege including Kunduz, one of the largest cities in the country. Two days earlier, the Taliban seized all the border...
The Real Danger of Israel’s New Government
The new Israeli government takes office already largely paralyzed. With eight diverse parties, they agree only on two things. One, they want to get rid of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Check – that’s done. Two, given the unlikeliness of reaching agreement...
Living With World’s End in Plain Sight
Originally posted at TomDispatch. This editor’s note introduced the single article that took up almost every inch of space in the August 31, 1946, New Yorker magazine: “TO OUR READERS: The New Yorker this week devotes its entire editorial space to an...
Georgia: Pan-Turkic Empire’s Next Conquered Province
AZERTAC (the Azerbaijan State News Agency) recently conducted an interview with one Isak Novruzov, chairman of the Council of Elders of Azerbaijanis in Georgia, with the headline Shusha Declaration will serve the unity of the Turkic world, ensuring stability and...
‘Putting Lipstick on a Pig’: Why Washington Is Fawning Over Israel’s New Government
When former US President Barack Obama used an old cliché to denigrate his political opponent, the late US Senator, John McCain, he triggered a political controversy lasting several days. "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig," Obama...
Out of the Freezer for Good: The Seeds of the Next Nagorno-Karabakh War
This past September, Turkey and Israel encouraged Azerbaijan’s "mini-Stalin" of a strongman to forcefully seize the disputed mountainous patch of Armenian-inhabited Caucasus-earth known as Nagorno-Karabakh. These treaty or decisively de-facto allies,...
UK High Court Delays as Assange Remains in Jail
Julian Assange remains in a maximum security jail, despite never being sentenced for anything but a long ago served spell for bail-jumping, and despite the US Government’s request for extradition having been refused. It is approaching six months since I was in...
How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June 19, the conservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected...
