NYT’s Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, on Thursday delivered a pointed speech on the Senate floor excoriating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel as a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East and calling for new leadership in Israel, five months into the war. Mr. Schumer’s speech amounted […]
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Whose plan was it to install new leaders in Haiti? In the early days, at my previous site, Haiti got a fair bit of coverage. For the simple reason that Canada always played a heavy hand in the ongoing misery in that impoverished nation. ABC News A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appears […]
The forest is more than one tree Posted on March 10, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Read entirely at link-‘Novorossiya’ rising from ashes like phoenix ‘Novorossiya’ historically — signifies a major initiative in the Kremlin’s geo-strategy, with global ramifications, as the conflict in Ukraine meanders toward a new phase. What lends poignancy to the occasion […]
Oilprice.com Israel has greenlighted plans for 3,5000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli media report that the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expecting to be in Gaza for at least 10 years with the initial stage of war lasting 1-2 years, following by eights years of stabilizing a new […]
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article286422855.html A warning from the U.S. embassy in Russia that “extremists” are planning an imminent attack on large gatherings in Moscow has sparked backlash in the country. “The U.S. Embassy stated that terrorist attacks are possible in Moscow in the next two days; a similar warning was also issued by the British Foreign Office,” wrote […]
State Dept Press Statement Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State March 5, 2024 Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – a role in which she has personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the […]
AA Russia on Tuesday opposed the dismissal of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees’ (UNRWA) employees based on Israeli claims. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Vasilya Nebenzya urged the agency management to reconsider the step. “We note that these employees were immediately dismissed […]
Interesting piece from The New Yorker (excerpts below) Amid the escalating horror in Gaza, the President will have to go around Benjamin Netanyahu to forge a postwar vision for the region. “As for his postwar plan for Gaza, Netanyahu offered a laconic mixture of counter-insurgency and Greater Israel fantasies, to which the hostages’ lives seem […]
NATO trying to pass itself off as relevant, to justify it’s continued existence, in an entirely different world than when it was first created. But there is still no evidence that Vladimir Putin intends to invade any NATO member. John Sitilides- John Sitilides is a Senior Fellow in the National Security Program at the Foreign […]
Israel has changed their story a number of times already. The location of where food aid would be delivered in north Gaza was shared with Israeli forces before the shooting that killed at least 112 Palestinians, says Muhammad Ahmad, a trustee from a charity that delivered food aid to Gaza. Location of food aid was […]