Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS

France announced Thursday that it will begin to withdraw forces from Mali after a nearly 10-year anti-terror campaign in the country. Paris has been locking horns with the military junta that took over Bamako in 2020. France said most of its forces will be sent to Niger, Mali’s neighbor to the east. Paris said these...

Special Prosecutor John Durham’s recent filing in his case against the Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer who is accused of lying to the F.B.I. served little else except reminding Americans that Russia is not to be trusted.  Durham, who has been tasked by former Attorney General William Barr with investigating Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016...

A recent study found that over three-quarters of Southeast Asians believe China is the most important economic power—with the U.S. coming in at a distant second. The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute survey, released on Wednesday, showed that many of those polled expressed concerns about China’s growing economic influence. The survey found that 64.4 percent feared Beijing’s...

Remember the Iraq War, launched by George W. Bush and his criminal gang who sold Americans the lie that the nation was in danger of a devastating military attack from Iraq because its leader, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction? Do you remember the hundreds of thousands of innocent people the U.S. military and...

Israel launched missiles into Syria last Wednesday, targeting what was believed to be a Syrian Army base just south of Damascus. Al Jazeera, citing Syria’s SANA news agency, reported that the surface-to-surface missiles caused material damage to buildings in Zakiya, a town south of the capital city. The report said the missiles did not trigger Syria’s missile...

About 10,000 Afghan refugees have faced prison-like conditions for six months inside a facility in Abu Dhabi after being evacuated from Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, according to protesters at the facility. The New York Times reported that the protest broke out last Wednesday outside a U.S. official’s office on the compound....

The Biden administration is reportedly in panic mode over China’s apparent ambitions to develop a military base in Equatorial Guinea and is sending top officials to the country in an effort to dissuade Malabo from agreeing to any deal with Beijing, which has already made significant inroads in the West African country. The U.S. team...

While the U.S. media blasts allegations of China committing genocide against Uyghurs and that Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to attack Ukraine “essentially at any time,” and as early “as this week,” hardly a peep from the Presstitutes about America’s long history of slaughtering innocent civilians with drone strikes. After being silent for nearly...

Denmark, which has a longstanding policy of not allowing foreign troops to be stationed within its borders, announced Thursday that U.S. troops may soon be welcome in the Scandinavian country in part of the effort to bolster European defense forces. “An increase to the American commitment here in Denmark will improve the access of the...