Last Thursday, Israel launched missile strikes against the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This is the most recent of what has been an increasing amount of Israeli attacks against positions in Syria. Syrian state media claimed many of the missiles were intercepted as they headed toward its T-4 airbase. No casualties or damages were...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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U.S. REDUCING TROOPS IN IRAQ
Unspoken and mostly forgotten in the United States, especially among the so-called “liberals,” is the illegal Iraq War launched by President George W. Bush in March 2003, which was based on his lies that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Now, 17 years later, with trillions spent, millions killed, and the nation bombed into...
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CHINA: FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA
For the past 20 years, the U.S. Department of Defense has issued an annual report to Congress on “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.” On 1 September, the 2020 report was sent to Congress and included the fact that China now has the world’s largest navy and is determined to create...
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BOLIVIA: ANTI-GOVERNMENT REBELLION GROWS
As we reported extensively in the Trends Journal, Jeanine Áñez, a relatively unknown Vice President of the Bolivian Senate, took over as interim president of Bolivia last November after the forced resignation of President Evo Morales who had been accused of voter fraud in the October 2019 election. Morales, a former coca farmer, took office in...
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ISRAEL CONTINUES PALESTINIAN PURGE
On 19 August, Israeli military jets conducted their ninth straight night of air strikes in the Gaza Strip. Israeli leaders claimed this massive bombing was a reaction to “incendiary balloons” and riots on the ground. According to reporting from the Mint Press, “Most recent cases of incendiary balloons were not the work of Hamas, but...
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WAR ESCALATES FOR LIBYAN OIL
As we’ve been reporting for many months, the ongoing civil war in Libya is fueled by foreign powers seeking control of the country’s huge oil reserves. The drumbeat of war is getting louder around the vicinity of Sirte, considered a gateway to one of Libya’s main oil ports. The U.N.-sanctioned government in Tripoli has sent...
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LEBANON: FREE FALL INTO THE ABYSS
Last Tuesday, a massive explosion ripped through the heart of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, killing some 180 people and injuring an estimated 6,000. On top of the loss of life, estimated property damage hovers between $3-15 billion, and hundreds of thousands are now homeless due to the explosion’s widespread damage. The source of...
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HONG KONG: CHINA TOWN 2.0
The Trends Journal has been reporting on the Hong Kong protests in detail since they first broke out in June 2019. As we have reported in recent issues, the new, harsh national security law imposed on Hong Kong on 20 June by China’s National People’s Congress was designed to clamp down on any renewal of...
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LIBYA: CONTROL OF SIRTE COULD SPARK WW III
Last week, we reported in the Trends Journal that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with the leader of Libyan rebel forces and former CIA agent Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar over concerns that the U.N.-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) was making advances on the strategically significant port city of Sirte. The port is currently...
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IRAN: DANGER ON THE HOME FRONT
Last Thursday, an American F-15 military jet flew within 1,000 meters (1,100 yards) of an Iranian passenger plane over Syrian air space. The close encounter, verified by video of screaming passengers, forced the pilot of the commercial airline to take emergency measures to avoid contact. Iran officially protested the incident to the United Nations, calling...