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US-Iranian Confrontation in the Persian Gulf. What Lies Ahead?

Tensions which have been escalating since May this year between the US and Iran in the Persian Gulf and Washington’s military intervention have been making headlines in the Middle East. The Saudi newspaper “Asharq al-Awsat” describes how the US has recently been ramping up their...

Yuriy Zinin

Piracy or War?

Article 22 of the Convention On The High Seas of 1958, states: ‘1. Except where acts of interference derive from powers conferred by treaty, a warship which encounters a foreign merchant ship on the high seas is not justified in boarding her unless there is reasonable ground for suspecting: (a  That the ship is engaged in piracy; or (b  That the ship is...

Christopher Black

Georgian Rustavi2 TV Journalist Suffers NED-Inspired Diarrhea of the Mouth

They will never cease to amaze me, the new depths, even as reported by the BBC … the so-called Georgian media can reach when spurring out carefully scripted hate speech for political ends. Take the case of the Rustavi2 TV station, on a programme aired nationally in...

Henry Kamens