By Dan Glazebrook | RT | August 31, 2018 For years, Turkey and Qatar were at the vanguard of the Western imperial project in the Middle East. Having had their fingers burnt in Syria, however, they’re refusing to facilitate Washington’s Iran plans – and paying the price. Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May last […]
Emile De Antonio’s documentary and strong narrative about Vietnam war with archival footage, interviews and a soundtrack by John Cage. An early film (1968) to bitterly comment on the war in Vietnam.
By Peter KORZUN | Strategic Culture Foundation | 29.08.2018 Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami visited Damascus Aug. 26-27 in order to have a new military cooperation agreement signed. The move is evidently a response to US and Israeli demands to withdraw Iranian forces from Syria. No details have been provided about the document’s content but it’s logical […]
If Americans Knew | August 25, 2018 Palestinian rights groups and local governments have challenged an Israeli law that seeks to the annex of parts of the West Bank. The Israeli government responded to the petition, stating that “the Knesset [is permitted] to legislate laws everywhere in the world” and that it is authorized “to […]
By Ksenia Shakalova – Sputnik – 23.08.2018 MOSCOW – The conference in Moscow will be held amid a conditional ceasefire between the Taliban movement and the Afghan government, which was announced by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday. “We are not going to attend [the Moscow conference]… The peace process should be led by Afghanistan […]
By Elijah J. Magnier | American Herald Tribune | August 21, 2018 In the coming month, following Eid al-Adha (August 21st), Iraq will be on the horns of a dilemma. The Federal Court has confirmed the results of the manual recount of the May parliamentary elections with insignificant changes to the previously announced results. After […]
© Aboud Hamam / Reuters RT | August 18, 2018 Islamic State managed to regain access to Syrian oil fields and make profits from selling oil, a new UN report reveals. While the UN did not point fingers, the IS reemergence seems to occur in areas held by the US-backed forces. “Islamic State in Iraq […]
RT | August 17, 2018 Washington has violated international law with respect to Russian diplomatic missions in the US, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a protest note filed to DC. The ministry expressed “protest at the continued violation of international law by the US with regard to” Russian diplomatic missions and consulates in the […]
By Finian Cunningham | RT | August 16, 2018 The dramatic, and seemingly unstoppable, surge of Taliban offensives across Afghanistan is proof that the US is fast becoming the latest foreign power to succumb to failure in a land known for for being the “graveyard of empires”. But unlike past empires defeated in Afghanistan, the […]
MEMO | August 14, 2018 Israel’s Culture Ministry has been funding a Jewish religious institute “whose founders illegally took over a Palestinian home in the central West Bank”, reported the Times of Israel. According to the report, “an investigation into the financials of the Mishpetei Eretz (‘laws of the land’) institute revealed that it has […]
