The United States lost the Vietnam War forty five years ago. By carrying out air strikes against the North and deploying US troops in the South, Washington hoped to weaken North Vietnam’s economy. The war saw some of the most intense aerial bombardment in the history of humankind. From 1964 to 1973, the United States Air Force dropped approximately…
Politics
Middle East
23.02.2020
Failed Attempts to Impeach Trump and their Effects on Dialogue between DPRK and US
On 5 February 2020, the US Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment. After that, Trump’s approval ratings reached a new high of 49% for this last year of his presidency. What effect will this event have on the way talks between Pyongyang and Washington proceed in the future…
Eastern Asia - North Korea
21.02.2020
What is the US’ New ‘Central Asia Strategy’ All About?
While rolling out new strategies regarding strategically important regions in Asia is a US policy tradition, the fact that the latest ‘Central Asia Strategy’ document coincides with an imminent peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan shows that the cardinal purpose of the US’ war in Afghanistan, which was to maintain a strong military presence and…
Central Asia
21.02.2020
Operation Barbarossa II: Some Further Thoughts
In a recent article published in NEO an alarming picture of United States and NATO forces encroaching ever closer to Russia’s borders was set out. The thrust of the article was that this encroachment was done for a specific purpose: to facilitate an attack upon Russia using nuclear weapons. The article raises important issues that are worth further examination…
Russia in the World
21.02.2020
Local Legislative Assembly Elections Held in Delhi
The results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections held on February 8, 2020 in the National Capital Territory of Delhi (an area with a population of over 20 million people) are important in terms of political trends both within India itself and across the greater subcontinent, and it was nothing short of a landmark event. After all, we are talking about a country with…
Southern Asia - India
21.02.2020
Turkey, So Much We Aren’t Being Told
Despite every effort to mediate over the increase in violence in Idlib, it has become clear that Turkey’s root intentions are to retain, or attempt to retain, Syrian territory it has long coveted. To do this, Turkey, as the other Sochi Agreement partners, Iran and Russia, see it, has failed to keep its word. Turkey has clearly failed to separate terrorists recognized as such…
Middle East - Turkey
20.02.2020
Should We Trust Washington's "More Peaceful" Approach to Central Asia?
In spite of promises made by US President Donald Trump during his previous election campaign about focusing on the internal problems of the United States, in a situation where spheres of influence are being redistributed across the globe, Washington is going to spend ever increasing time and resources improving its…
Central Asia
Economics
22.02.2020
Russia Is Set to Welcome Africa to Nuclear Age
The enormous continent of Africa, full of various resources, has, for centuries, attracted the interest of leading world nations. Its worth in their eyes grew even more after the construction of the Suez Canal on the isthmus, connecting the continents of Africa and Asia, to link the Indian Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea (via the Red Sea), thus significantly…
Africa
20.02.2020
Coronavirus Tests China, Temps America
Biology has done what malicious US foreign policy aimed at China has failed to do for years; complicate China’s relations along its peripheries (and the rest of the world for that matter), particularly in Southeast Asia. In Thailand, contrary to popular belief, Chinese tourists make up the vast majority of those visiting the Kingdom. In Thailand, contrary to popular…
Eastern Asia - China
20.02.2020
US Wages Biological War Against China
Shocking news just in from India is enough to make one’s blood run cold. A professor of Molecular Biology in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, Anand Ranganathan, and his colleagues published a preprint (which has not been peer-reviewed as yet) about their research on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from China. They discovered a possible…
Eastern Asia - China
17.02.2020
Where Is the Gold Rush Leading to?
Lately we have, with increasing frequency, been witness to fairly significant events. However, those involved in them usually attempt to hide what is happening behind a wall of secrecy. For instance, at the end of last year, the process of moving Polish gold reserves from Great Britain back home was completed in secret. G4S plc, a UK security services company, helped…
Europe
16.02.2020
Some Economic and Political Factors of Coronavirus Outbreak
The epidemic caused by a new strain of Coronaviruses, called “2019-nCOV” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, is becoming a crucial factor in the current phase of ongoing political and economic processes. Although the author lacks the expertise to discuss either the origins or the spread of the viral outbreak…
Eastern Asia - China
14.02.2020
Tesla and SpaceX: What America Still Has to Offer
Washington and Wall Street and the collective international order they’ve built over the decades following the Second World War appear to have run their course. To adversaries and allies alike, the US has become more of a liability than the global leader it attempts to present itself as. Yet there are still nations around the globe, including those which find themselves the target…
USA in the World
12.02.2020
Trump & Schacht: Death Economy Methods in Declining America
“I am thrilled to report to you tonight that our economy is the best it has ever been. Our military is completely rebuilt, with its power being unmatched anywhere in the world — and it is not even close,” Donald Trump told the country at his State of the Union address on February 4th, 2020. Such words are laughable to anyone familiar…
USA in the World
Society
19.02.2020
Emerging Evidence on Continuing Allied Lies About the War in Syria
One of the clearest indicators of the legitimacy or otherwise of Western military actions is the coverage that is given to it by the western media. When evidence emerges that the given military action was at best ill-founded and more often blatantly illegal under international law, then the western media is silent as to any criticism. Alternatively, it gives…
Europe
18.02.2020
Who is WHO’s Tedros Adhanom?
On the surface it appeared that the Director-General of the UN World Health Organization has acted swiftly and seriously about the spreading coronavirus health emergency spreading across China. He has gone to meet with Chinese leaders to discuss the situation and on January 30, after his talks in Beijing and meetings with the WHO advisory body, Tedros Adhanom…
Eastern Asia - China
17.02.2020
Trump Policy Wangle in Munich: Human Beings Reduced to Smelly Sauce
US officials at the Munich Security Conference are warning the Syria Civil War may soon flood Europe with refugees. The unnamed United States geopolitical geniuses must have meant to say “again,” but somehow this escaped the Washington Examiner journalist reporting. All we know for sure is that the official…
USA in the World
12.02.2020
London Attack: West's Terrorists Bite the Hand that Feeds (Again)
The latest incident in London was so entirely preventable that it is difficult to describe it as anything less than deliberate. In yet another headline-grabbing terror attack – an armed man in south London left several injured – some seriously – with the suspect himself killed at the scene by police. Entirely predictable was the fact that…
Europe
11.02.2020
The Coronavirus. What are we Actually Dealing with?
The appearance of a new strain of coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan last month, which has since spread to more than 20 countries, has sparked social media-driven panic around the world. People are scouring the Internet for information about this coronavirus outbreak, which the World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency…
Eastern Asia - China
10.02.2020
Italy Tries to Kick Out Their Right-Wing Extremist from the ‘Gladiator Cloister’
Steve Bannon, a former White House strategist and Breitbart editor,was finally kicked out of an Italian monastery, which even Newsweek wittily described as a“far-right boot camp”. This author, along with a few others, has been warning for some time that the former Trump’s top advisor had crossed all lines, and began directly…
Europe
06.02.2020
Operation Barbarossa II: Setting The Stage For War
I have written several times about the continuing NATO preparations for an attack on Russia, a second Operation Barbarossa, the code name for the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. Circumstances prompt me to write about it again, for as of the last week in January the Americans and their gang of lieutenant nations in NATO have commenced…
Europe
