[part 2] Rami Khouri talking: What’s happening in Syria right now is the most complex, violent proxy war probably in the modern history of the … Syria’s Proxy War is Culmination of Last Century of Failed Arab State-BuildingRead more
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ISIS is an idea and no one was focusing on defeating the idea
the crisis in Syria, one day ahead of President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg. Their meeting comes as thousands of Syrians … ISIS is an idea and no one was focusing on defeating the ideaRead more
Posted inNSA / Spying / Surveillance / ToMl / USA Empire
NSA Traffic Shaping Tech That Diverts US Internet Routing For Spying
Geopolitical borders have softened in various ways thanks to the prevalence of the Internet. An email sent by an American could cross multiple international borders … NSA Traffic Shaping Tech That Diverts US Internet Routing For SpyingRead more
Posted inChildren / Middle East / ToMl / USA Empire
Where Have All the Children Gone?
“This is a war against normal life.” So said CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, describing the situation at this moment in Syria, as well as in … Where Have All the Children Gone?Read more
Posted inChildren / Health / News / USA Empire
One in four girls is depressed at age 14
New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14. Researchers from the University of Liverpool … One in four girls is depressed at age 14Read more
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of the catastrophe in Afghanistan, dead at 89
Zbigniew Brzezinski, security adviser to Democratic President Jimmy Carter and a longtime proponent of an aggressive strategy for asserting US global hegemony, died Friday at … Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of the catastrophe in Afghanistan, dead at 89Read more
Posted inMurder / News / USA Empire / Women
More Than 1,600 Women Murdered by Men in One Year in US
More than 1,600 women were murdered by men in 2015 and the most common weapon used was a gun, according to the new Violence Policy … More Than 1,600 Women Murdered by Men in One Year in USRead more
Posted inToMl / USA Empire / Yemen
UAE Ambassador Lobbying the Obama White House on Yemen War
Part of keeping close relationships with serial human rights violators, as the U.S. does, is the constant pressure from those governments to ignore their reported … UAE Ambassador Lobbying the Obama White House on Yemen WarRead more
Posted inImperialism / ToMl / USA Empire
Humanitarian Interventions: The Doctrine of Imperialism
Defining the concept of humanitarian intervention is problematic and, therefore, implementation of its conceptualisation is contentious. On the one hand, humanitarian intervention is commonly acknowledged … Humanitarian Interventions: The Doctrine of ImperialismRead more