The Trump administration warned recently that, if progress is not made in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, they could walk away from the talks. On April 18, U.S. President Donald Trump said, “If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult,...
In his recent piece for The Free Press, Michael Ames accuses others – journalists, NGOs, international aid agencies – of engaging in rhetorical manipulation. Yet the irony is almost unbearable: his own article is a masterclass in precisely that. Ames purports to...
Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion. U.S. President Donald Trump has consistently said that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are limited to...
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. May 8th marks eighty years since the end of the Second Word War in Europe. While the British, Soviet and American alliance emerged victorious in the war against Hitler’s Germany, we soon found ourselves in the midst...
Earlier this week, North Korea officially confirmed what had long been rumored: its troops fought and died alongside Russian forces in Kursk to help repel the Ukrainian invasion. Kim Jong Un announced the construction of a memorial in Pyongyang, saying, "Before the...
Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com. One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at...
On April 17, the U.S. presented Ukrainian and European officials with a framework for peace that declared itself “the final offer.” On April 23, Ukrainian and European officials, denying the “final offer” statement, presented the U.S. with an alternative peace plan of...
A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 this month, when he decided to publish a humiliating video of a relatively large number of Israeli soldiers coming under attack by a single Palestinian fighter. In the incident that was...
The long-debated “minerals deal” was finally signed between the US and Ukraine late Wednesday, after a months-long, whiplash-producing back and forth between the two parties. In the end, Wednesday started with an affirmation that the deal would be signed, then by...
It is quite possible to take apart virtually any report in the Guardian on Gaza – as I have done with a story in today’s paper – and identify the same kinds of journalistic malpractice. Further, I could have taken any paragraph in the article and parsed it in much the...
