Prof. Dr. Bischara Ali Egal

Tony Blinken, the top U.S. diplomat, just made comments about U.S.-supplied long-range missiles that further raise the risks of a direct confrontation between the world’s two nuclear superpowers, writes Caitlin Johnstone.  During an appearance on ABC’s This Week with Jonathan Karl, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken explicitly said that the U.S. would not oppose Ukraine using U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory, a move that Moscow has previously called a “red line” which would make the United States a direct party to the conflict. “We understand that the United States is considering sending those long-range missiles that Ukraine has been asking for for…

Armenia, despite being a member of Russia’s Collective Security Treaty Organization, began last Monday joint military exercises with the United States that will conclude September 20. This would appear to be Armenia’s finger in Russia’s eye. Clearly, Big Bucks Washington bribed someone in Armenia. The Russians are yet to learn that Putin’s idealism exists nowhere else and that they must out-bribe the Americans. About a year ago Washington organized “Regional Cooperation 2022,” an exercise of the US armed forces with the former Soviet Central Asian Republics of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kryrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. As Washington’s cover for stirring up new troubles…

Your website needs your support 9/11 After 22 years Paul Craig Roberts Today is the 22nd Anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon known as 9/11. A generation of 22-year olds has grown up after 9/11, and the event probably means nothing to them.  They learn that it was an attack on America like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and 9/11 disappears into history.  It is unlikely that anyone under 40 is much concerned with 9/11.  A 40-year old today would have been 18 in 2001 and would likely dismiss 9/11 concerns as conspiracy theory.  Today’s youth are more…

(note: Scott Ritter, recently booted from YouTube, all his previous interviews deleted, comments on Washington’s “dilemma” – and that it is – with Niger. This article originally appeared at “GlobalResearch” – link just below. rjp) The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger. Scott Ritter Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country Last week, Acting Deputy Secretary of State for the United States Victoria Nuland made her third visit to Niger in the past two years. This time, Nuland was in the African country to respond…

Media mogul, whose holdings include Israel’s i24 broadcaster, aims to calm concerns after top lieutenant detained in Portugal on suspicion of embezzlement Exchange, before the company’s IPO, June 22, 2017. (Richard Drew/AP) PARIS — French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi is set to make a rare appearance in front of investors this week with his multinational business empire Altice in the grip of a corruption scandal. Swiss-based Drahi, whose empire spans telecommunications and media in Europe, North America and Israel — where his holdings include the i24 broadcaster — is expected to try to ease investor concerns weeks after one of his top…

General Abdourahamane Tchiani intensifies standoff with ECOWAS, rejects any interference in Niger’s internal affairs. Niger’s coup leader has declared that he will not bow down to pressure to reinstate deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, criticising sanctions imposed by West African leaders as “illegal” and “inhumane” and urging his countrymen to get ready to defend their nation. General Abdourahamane Tchiani‘s comments, issued in a televised address on Wednesday, came as the defence chiefs of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in neighbouring Nigeria to discuss the crisis in Niger. The regional bloc has imposed severe economic sanctions on Niger and threatened to use…

The War Crimes That Assange and WikiLeaks Exposed In 2010, U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided WikiLeaks with documents containing evidence of U.S. war crimes. They included the “Iraq War Logs,” which were 400,000 field reports describing 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians, as well as systematic rape, torture and murder after U.S. forces “handed over detainees to a notorious Iraqi torture squad.” They contained the “Afghan War Diary,” 90,000 reports of more civilian casualties by coalition forces than the U.S. military had reported. And they also included the “Guantánamo Files” — 779 secret reports with evidence that 150…