In September, Putin revealed his ‘red line’ for using nuclear weapons included Western leaders allowing Ukraine to use their missiles to target Russia. Since then Biden, UK Prime Minister Starmer and French President Macron have all authorised the use of long-range weapons they have supplied against Russia.
Turns out the prisoner that CNN filmed being freed was not one of Assad’s alleged victims, but a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence responsible for a series of alleged war crimes.
Trends and Patterns in human affairs are a lot like rivers. They often start out as one thing and wind up as another, even though it may not look like that in the beginning. Les Visible explains
Syria’s fall came swiftly because of more than a decade of crushing economic sanctions, the burdens of war, the U.S. seizure of Syria’s oil, Russia’s priorities regarding the conflict in Ukraine, and most immediately, Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah, which was the key military backstop to the Syrian Government. Jeffrey Sachs explains
Mike Whitney explains why all those who thought that toppling the “evil dictator” would bring peace and security to Syria have been duped
Has the U.S. president-elect signaled his approval for an Israeli preemptive strike on Iran? Or even offered U.S. help if it is launched after he is inaugurated?
Syria’s new leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani says ‘Syria will not engage in conflict with Israel. Even though the IDF is dismantling what remains of Syria’s Air Force, its air defences and its navy. What does this say about where al-Julani owes his allegiance?
Israel will close its Dublin embassy after Ireland supported the international court of justice in accusing the Zionist state of genocide
The Bank of England is set to roll out the digital pound, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that promises to be the ultimate surveillance tool
The people who owned the slave ships are still in the slavery business, but now they use musical programming… films… social media, and other consciousness-shaping devices to herd you one way and the other. It’s not illegal. It’s how capitalism works.
Trump intends to put Ukraine on the back burner and devote US energies to helping Israel conquer Iran.
Amazon’s founder and executive chairman, Jeff Bezos and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have each donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Are they trying to curry favour with president-elect?