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  • Japan antagonizes China, Koreas, Russia

    Takaichi: the Honeymooner. When will the divorce come?

    with gratitude to Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics.

    Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s poll numbers have risen to over 65%. I am not sure whether Takaichi is the Japanese Thatcher— or the Japanese Blair both of whom came into power with great numbers. .

    She has already sparked controversy.

    One is… Continue reading

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  • America’s in Silent Free Fall

    By Epic Economist.

    Video Description:
    “The American economy is crashing right now, and it’s worse than most people realize. From banks refusing cash withdrawals to nearly a million jobs lost to automation, from healthcare premiums doubling overnight to stores packed with inventory nobody can afford, the warning signs are everywhere.

    In this video, we’re looking at what’s really… Continue reading

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  • How To Live, What To Do

    They have all shoehorned themselves into the system, each immersed in an ecology with clear, unspoken rules, taboos, heroes and villains. To be evicted from all that has forced me, daily, to encounter a much larger world, and to be freer than ever.

    with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Pairing me with Hung… Continue reading

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  • The Gaza truce talks farce

    Ceasing the holocaust of Palestinians will need to be imposed through force of arms. The shame of Egypt and Qatar will be marked for eternity, as were French and German duplicity during similar stalling tactics of the 2014-2015 Minsk agreements.

    By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
    Arab ‘mediators’ are helping Netanyahu prolong his war of… Continue reading

  • India: Bilateral Love; Unipolar Loyalties

    Doublethink prevails. Russian Romance remains — military and socioeconomic ties (and plenty of hugs). Hatreds of China and Pakistan are equally nurtured under the tutelage of Brahmin elite and Anglo-Americans

    In this episode of “Bottom Line with Pravin Sawhney,” Sawhney discusses how Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Russia bolstered bilateral ties but fell short on strategic objectives.

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  • Anglo-American webs in SCS, Tibet & Europe

    “The Philippines and Europeans are completely prostrate vassals to the United States .. Everybody and NATO and their dead dog is there to hassle and to upset China .. with drive-byes in ships and flyovers..”

    US & EU Clash with Russia & China in Explosive Taiwan & Philippines Conflict | Jeff J. Brown

    Jeff J. Brown is… Continue reading

  • The BRICS Weigh in on Palestine

    The gravity around the newly-enlarged BRICS constellation is drawing in Arab, Muslim, and Global South adherents to the influential group’s message on international law, Palestine, and halting forever wars.

    By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.

    Something of extraordinary magnitude happened in Moscow on 23 May. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa personally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help… Continue reading

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  • Hamas Has Final Say

    Knocking at the wrong door. Egypt and Qatar can’t ‘deliver’ the Hamas leadership in Gaza

    By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.

    This week, US President Joe Biden called Egyptian President Abdelfattah as-Sisi and the emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin-Hamad to press them to threaten Hamas and force it to agree to a ‘temporary’ cease-free… Continue reading

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  • Hamas’s Foreign Policy

    The unity of the Resistance from the river to the sea is not only inspiring from afar, but has yielded practical results for the Palestinians.

    By Ganna Eid of Al Mayadeen

    Daud Abdullah wrote an erudite and comprehensive analysis of Hamas’s foreign policy which was released by the Afro-Middle East Center (AMEC) in 2020. The majority of… Continue reading

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  • Yemen’s fearless escalation

    Yemen’s fearless escalation

    Ansarullah challenge Egypt’s compliance with Israeli Gaza aid curbs

    By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm

    While many Arab governments that possess hundreds of tanks and warplanes have been passively watching Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the Yemeni government in Sanaa — though exhausted by eight years of war and suffocating blockade — has… Continue reading

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  • Rolling out the red carpet

    By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.

    Arab states are colluding in the US/Israeli war on Palestinian resistance.

    It was a disgrace for Arab leaders to attend the Cop28 conference in Dubai alongside Israel’s president Isaac Herzog while it wages a genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip that has claimed the lives of at least 15,000 innocent… Continue reading

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