“Soviet Tanks” or “Russian Tanks” were a key part of Cold War propaganda. In each instance of Soviet intervention, the western media portrayed it as “Soviet Tanks” rolling in, an image crafted to appeal to middle class elements, artists, and intellectuals around the world...

There has been much commentary concerning the downing of the MH17 plane in Ukraine. Strangely enough, whenever the US position is presented it is not backed by credible evidence, but presented as fact nonetheless. The opposite view – that it was not the Russians...

Months after the May 22, 2014 military coup that ousted the regime of Thaksin Shinawatra, the military-led government has been working in earnest to uproot the Shinawatra political machine as well as realign the Kingdom's foreign policy to represent a better balance...

The Middle East has been engulfed in a state of chaos for decades now, with the region becoming increasingly unstable in recent years largely due to western sponsored proxy wars. The current map of the Middle East...

The US has warned Moscow to be "very careful" in its judgments after Vladimir Putin put the armed forces in western Russia on alert in response to mounting tension in Ukraine. This comment is obviously a threat, but of what...

The US spent over two billion dollars during NATO's armed assault on Libya both in ordnance used during months of aerial bombardment and in covert support for terrorists used as proxy ground forces in the overthrow of the Libyan government. The United Kingdom...

Since the overthrow of the Baathist government in 2003, by means of a direct US military invasion, the primary goal of the United States in Iraq has been fomenting sectarian civil war. The new government, set up at the barrel of US guns, barred any former Baathist...

Denying civilians admittedly needed aid constitutes, in the West's own terms, a crime against humanity. While in Syria attempts by the West to openly arm and equip known terrorist organizations within Syrian territory included a mandate...

2014 is starting to look and sound and feel an awful lot like 1964. If you find yourself sitting at home wondering how 50 years could go by with so much historical change and global shifting and yet still end up basically back at the starting...

Currently, Lebanon is going through a difficult political crisis. Over the course of the past several months, members of the Lebanese Parliament cannot agree on the nomination of the President, the date to carry out a vote has been repeatedly...

A surprise drill in New York City has the authorities scrambling to address an anthrax attack; MERS is reported to have mutated and is now airborne; Ebola is now being discussed as a major airborne threat to the US population - these stories hit the...

After lengthy consultations with all the political blocs and factions within the Iraqi parliament, Iraq’s President, Fuad Masum, appointed Haider al-Abadi as the new Prime Minister on August 11, 2014 and requested that...