Asia
Growing Discontent with GNA’s Policies in Libya Reaches Critical Levels
In recent days, a protest movement in Libya has been growing, and with each passing day, it has been spreading to an ever increasing number of towns and cities in this country, devastated by the ongoing civil war. Nine years since the overthrow of former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, which Western powers, including...
Tensions around Taiwan are Intensifying
In yet another report about the Taiwan issue, the author, unfortunately, has nothing positive to say once again. Taiwan continues to dutifully contribute its share to one of the most painful problems plaguing the relationship between the two world powers. In August of this year, the negativity stemming from this issue and impacting the relations between Beijing and Washington...
Is Kim Jong-un a Killer of Small Dogs or a Victim of Yet Another Smear Campaign?
On August 12, 2020, South Korea’s newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reported that the DPRK had “launched a clampdown on the ownership of pet dogs among the Pyongyang elite” as food supplies ran short. An unnamed source cited in the article stated that Kim Jong-un had “issued a ban on pet ownership in July, denouncing it as a tainted trend by bourgeois...
