If Venezuela can weather this current geopolitical storm, the country will no doubt turn its prodigious oil business further towards Russia, China, Turkey and others in the East who have not joined Uncle Sam’s lynch mob in the Caribbean
Trump is NOT the problem, writes Finian Cunningham. He’s just the fall guy. Because America has been transforming itself into an authoritarian plutocracy for decades.
Just as Trump announced that he is pulling U.S. troops from Syria (illegally there for four years), the same administration is stepping up its military involvement in Ukraine
The deadly shooting in Strasbourg on Tuesday night, 24 hours after Macron’s speech, has only raised suspicions. France could be in for an historic showdown
This year’s G20 summits is really all about the U.S. trying to reassert itself as the world’s foremost power in the face of mounting challenges, particularly from China
Poroshenko’s imposition of martial law in Ukraine gives him the power to call off the forthcoming presidential elections. With his poll rating currently standing at 10 percent that’s a gift for the Western-leaning president
Don’t be fooled. If Washington, London and Paris wanted to end the strife they could simply stop backing the Saudis
The attitudes that engendered World War I and 20 years later World War II are still alive and dangerously influential.
This is a recipe for conflict with Russia and to make matters worse it is being pushed by men — like Trump, Pompeo and Bolton — who have never fought in a war
Finian Cunningham on why the US drive for regime change in Iran means that it has to shore up the Saudis, and why that means spinning a cover-up to absolve MbS of Khashoggi’s murder
The outcry by Western governments and media over the Skripal affair was in complete contrast to their reaction to Kashoggi’s apparent abduction
The honeymoon is over, writes Finian Cunningham. Macron is increasingly seen as arrogant, aloof, and unaccountable, with delusions of grandeur.