The purpose of the article is not the view of the Islamists, Kurds and others. The purpose is to illustrate how one country makes what they want of the whole world. And it uses the…
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Looking through the US Tactics On January 25 in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barrack Obama held a summit meeting, whereupon they announced a joint statement, which now undergoes various…
This blog is dedicated to the idea of presenting the big picture—the biggest possible—of what is going on in the world. The abiding areas of interest that make up the big picture have included the…
The liberal way of viewing the problem rests on a misunderstanding of the origins of the police In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an…
The headline of a 2013 Washington Post article said, “Americans Are Less Worried about Climate Change than Almost Anyone Else.” According to a Pew poll of that year, only 33% of the American public consider…
Wither the bomb – as a legal problem. Ever since its inception as a weapon of war, atomic, and subsequently nuclear weaponry, have become the totemic reminders that sovereignty lie in their acquisition. Not having…
Video “ISIS got started through funding from our friends and allies… to fight to the death against Hezbollah” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHLqaSZPe98 Wesley Clark: “Our friends and allies funded ISIS to destroy Hezbollah” Posted February 18, 2015
Syria is winning the war and has absolutely no reason to show mercy for opponents that have no intention to show any for it and its people. Image: No “ceasefire” or “truce” was proposed…
Armed pro-Russian separatists (right) escort a column of Ukrainian prisoners of war as they walk across central Donetsk Aug. 24, 2014. Reuters The Novorussians are in control of most of Debaltsevo (officially 90% officially 100% as of midnight GMT). More relevantly, there is no more organized resistance. Russian sources say that about 1000 junta soldiers have refused to surrender and are hiding in the outskirts or have fled to the south end of the cauldron. The Novorussians are not even bothering to hunt them down or return their sporadic (and inaccurate) fire: they are waiting for hunger and cold to force them to give up. A spokesman for the Novorussians has reported that all communications between the junta forces in the cauldron and their commanders have been suppressed. Russian TV stations are showing footage of Novorussian soliders raising their flag over the center of the city.
Global Politics – a war of meanings In the course of life today, we’ve grown accustomed to using terms whose meaning we might not fully understand. We throw them around casually, not realizing that they lose their meaning and sometimes even come around to stand for their exact opposite. This is precisely why the sense has arisen today in society that there is a need to determine in a clear and understandable manner exactly what is happening on the global chessboard in front of all of our eyes – the Big Story, written online. Even those people the very furthest from politics are feeling the need for understanding and explaining to themselves the reasons for the things they encounter even just moving through their own lives.