Lifting Embargo on American Non-Lethal Arms to Cyprus Is Aimed Against Russia
Washington announced the lifting of the embargo to sell American-made non-lethal equipment to the Republic of Cyprus. US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, told Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis over the phone on Tuesday that Washington decided to lift the embargo...
Trump Regime vs. the ICC: The Wrong Side of ‘Sovereignty’
In June, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing for sanctions against persons who “have directly engaged in any effort by the [International Criminal Court] to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any United States personnel without...
Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Resumes Monday – We Need To Step Up the Fight
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is set to start on Monday September 7 at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of London and could last three or four weeks. Assange has been indicted on 17 charges of espionage and one charge of conspiring...
Israel’s Friends at the RNC: ‘Christian Zionists’ Dictate the Agenda of the Republican Party
It is difficult – and futile – to argue which American president has historically been more pro-Israel. While former President Barack Obama, for example, has pledged more money to Israel than any other US administration in history, Donald Trump has provided Israel...
Novichok and Nonsense: From a Post-Factual to a Post-Logic World
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” These words of sage commentary from the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York State were overturned half a decade ago when we entered the world of “fake news” and facts became irrelevant...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Killed in Various Attacks
For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path to a US Gulag
Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms. A journalist and...
NATO’s ‘Unified Front’ at Breaking Point
Last month, a Turkish warship came one step away from firing missiles at a French naval vessel off the coast of Libya. In response, Paris suspended its involvement in Operation Sea Guardian – a multinational maritime effort to provide security in the Mediterranean Sea...
America Was Supposed To Be a City on a Hill, Not Model Its Foreign Policy After Nazi Germany
When a country’s foreign policy begins to resemble that of Nazi Germany it’s time for a rethink. That undoubtedly is a shocking thought to some. But noting how Washington brutally treats both friends and foes doesn’t mean the U.S. is Nazi Germany, in intent or...
