Prof. Dr. Bischara Ali Egal
Is it a weird new tactic in “strategic ambiguity” to have different parts of the administration saying completely different things in totally unambiguous ways? asks Caitlin Johnstone. The president of the United States has once again committed the U.S. military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers. In a Sunday 60 Minutes interview, Biden was asked point-blank by CBS News’ Scott Pelley if U.S. forces would defend Taiwan from an attack by the mainland. “Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented…
Ocean Conservancy apologises for ‘false narrative’ of 2015 study that put blame for bulk of world’s plastic waste on five Asian states An environmental watchdog has retracted an influential report that blamed five Asian countries for the majority of plastic pollution in the ocean. The report, Stemming the Tide, from the US-based environmental advocacy group Ocean Conservancy, also included incineration and waste-to-energy as “solutions” to the plastics crisis. Published in 2015, it was decried as “waste colonialism” by hundreds of environmental, health and social justice groups across Asia. The watchdog has now publicly apologised for unfairly “creating a narrative” about who is…
India recently celebrated 75 years of Independence. While there are many reasons of happiness and pride while observing this important anniversary, perhaps the most important feeling should be of the compelling need to stand up at this critical time for saving and protecting democracy in India. The reason is that during the last 8 years of the NDA/BJP regime democracy has come under increasing strain in India. The people of India have for long taken well-deserved pride in their democracy but this is now changing. A recent India Today poll had 48% of the respondents stating that the democracy is…
If there is no legal challenge to the results, Ruto will become Kenya’s fifth president since the independence of the country from the United Kingdom in 1963. On Monday evening, Wafula Chebukati, the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), announced that Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto won the presidential election. In the elections held on August 9, Ruto obtained 50.49 percent of the votes, while his main opponent, the former prime minister and opposition leader, Raila Odinga, obtained 48.85 percent of the votes. In third and fourth place in the presidential vote were George Wajackoyah and David Mwaure, respectively. “In accordance…
Western civilization is a story of full bellies and starving hearts. Of a feast of information and a famine of truth. Of conveyor belts churning out processed food, conformity-enforcing media and power-serving culture. Enough food to stay alive but not enough sustenance to live. They keep us alive but they don’t let us live. They give us enough carbohydrate to turn the gears of industry, but they keep us too busy, poor, propagandized, confused and crazy to actually drink from the waters of life. To actually experience the beauty of this world. To let the crackling potentiality of advanced terrestrial…
JOHANNESBURG — Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and French President Emmanuel Macron are each visiting several African countries this week. Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, went to Kenya and Somalia last week. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will go to Ghana and Uganda next week. “It’s like a new Cold War is playing out in…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian military aircraft destroyed a command center with Kalibr cruise missiles, killing dozens of Ukrainian officers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. “More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed,” the statement read, RT reported. According to the defense ministry, the strike took place near the village of Shirokaya Dacha in Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukraine. The missiles hit the compound where commanders of several Ukrainian units had gathered for a meeting, the ministry noted. The ministry added that Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy 10 M777 howitzers and up to 20 armored vehicles…
Support your website. There is no one else to support it. How Many More Red Lines Can Be Crossed Before Armageddon Arrives? Paul Craig Roberts The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe published on April 15, 2016, more than six years ago, a report on the torture of Donbass Russians by the Ukrainian military and police forces. The report documents horrendous torture and it was done out of racial hatred of Russians. You can read the report here: https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf Few Westerners, being so poorly educated, are aware that Western Ukraine fought for Nazi Germany during World War II. When Washington overthrew the…
Hargeisa (HOL) – A well-known journalist who reports on Somali arts and literature was arrested at Hargeisa’s international airport on Sunday. Journalist Omar Ali Hasan (Omar Serbia) originally hails from the Somaliland region but has lived in Mogadishu for several years, where he worked as a reporter. Photos emerging on social media purport to show Omar Serbia walking with an armed soldier on the airport’s tarmac. The exact reason for his arrest is still not yet known. Omar Sabriya’s arrest could likely be political retaliation for the journalist’s perceived coziness with Somalia’s federal government in Mogadishu. Serbia has been photographed…