World View: Anti-Immigrant Party in Germany Hands Angela Merkel a Stinging Defeat
Contents: Migrants from Libya to Italy surge in the Mediterranean; Anti-immigrant party in Germany hands Angela Merkel a stinging defeat
Contents: Migrants from Libya to Italy surge in the Mediterranean; Anti-immigrant party in Germany hands Angela Merkel a stinging defeat
Contents: Turkey sends more tanks into Syria in ‘New Phase’ of military action; Syrian rebels capture 14 villages near Hama in four days; Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian army once again close to collapse
Contents: Japan and Russia may settle post-World War II Kuril Islands dispute; Reading between the lines: Russia, Japan, China, India and border disputes
Contents: Fault lines: Saudi Arabia-China-Pakistan and India-U.S. continue to harden; Saudi Arabia and China sign economic and military agreements; Saudi Arabia and Pakistan discuss economic and military ties; U.S. and India sign a landmark defense agreement
Contents: Uzbekistan’s dictator president Karimov suffers stroke, threatening Central Asia stability; Brief generational history of Uzbekistan
Contents: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy ‘Umbrella Movement’ is viewed as a failure; Beijing ‘thuggery’ motivates the rise of the independence movement; Hong Kong debates the independence movement; Hong Kong police prepare for election day riots from pro-independence activists
Contents: Turkey’s invasion of Syria continues, bombing Kurdish targets; America may be forced to choose between Turkey and Kurds
Contents: Hungary may build a second ‘massive’ fence to block migrants from Serbia; Greece makes contingency plans for 180,000 more migrants; Increasing anger in Turkey threatens the EU-Turkey migrant deal
Contents: Turkey’s PM declares ‘all-out war’ after new PKK truck bomb attack; After 50 days of violence, unrest in India-controlled Kashmir is unabated
Contents: Turkey’s ‘Operation Euphrates Shield’ turns into full-scale invasion of Syria; US turns on Syrian Kurds as they’re attacked by Turkey; Debka: Israel in military action against ISIS in Egypt’s Sinai
Contents: US VP Biden snubbed by Turkey’s angry president Erdogan; North Korea lays land mines to prevent soldiers from defecting; UN Security Council has emergency meeting on North Korea missile tests
Contents: Kurds, Assad forces, US and ISIS converge in Hasaka, alarming Turkey; Turkey launches rebel army to fight both ISIS and Kurds in Syria
Contents: International Criminal Court gets conviction for ‘cultural genocide’ in Timbuktu Mali; In an embarrassing turnaround, Russia removes its bombers from Iran; Turkey begins to fully enter the war in Syria militarily
Contents: Turkey’s downward spiral continues with massive wedding terror attack; Report: US military moving nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania; Turkey’s Erdogan announces a complete U-turn on Syria policy
Contents: Massive rally in Sanaa Yemen interrupted by Saudi warplane bombing; Generational history of Shia Houthis in Yemen; US military reduces support for Saudi coalition in Yemen
Contents: Zimbabwe police violently disperse protests over new ‘bond note’ currency; Zimbabwe launching a Soviet style command agriculture program
Contents: Stephen K. Bannon is named chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign; Furious UN envoy Staffan de Mistura excoriates Syria’s Bashar al-Assad; Six years of UN envoys and Syrian peace talks
Contents: Number of migrants reaching Greece surges since Turkey’s attempted coup; Concern grows over unsafe conditions in refugee camps in Greece; Fears grow that the EU-Turkey migrant deal will collapse
Contents: Russia-Iran airbase agreement further isolates Saudi Arabia; Continuing Mideast realignment: Russia and Iran vs Saudi Arabia; Generational alignments of the world’s religions – hypothesis
Contents: Truck bombing by PKK terrorists kills seven in southeastern Turkey; Turkey threatens EU migrant deal, saying EU is humiliating Turkey, not helping; Turkey’s failed coup raises concerns about nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base
Contents: India, Pakistan celebrate independence day with vitriolic accusations about Kashmir; Militants hoist Pakistani flags in Kashmir on Sunday
Contents: Wild celebrations in Manbij Syria, after major defeat for ISIS; Manbij was known as ‘Little London’ because of British jihadists
Contents: Thailand shocked by 13 bombings in five southern provinces; Any of Thailand’s three major ethnic groups could be the perpetrators
Contents: Fears grow that a new Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent; US forces in Libya may declare victory over ISIS this week
Contents: Vietnam deploys rocket launchers in South China Sea to confront China; Japan-China relations ‘deteriorate significantly’ after repeated Chinese provocations
Contents: Russia massing tanks and troops in Ukraine on northern border of Crimea; China’s fury grows over South Korea’s plan to deploy THAAD anti-missile system
Contents: Pakistan again in shock after bloody terrorist attack in Quetta; The debate in Pakistan: Good terrorists vs Bad terrorists; Violence and unrest increase in India’s Kashmir
Contents: People of Aleppo burn tires to create a smoky ‘no-fly zone’; Syrian regime apparently suffers major setback in Aleppo
Contents: India’s Narendra Modi finally hits out at Cow Protectors (‘Gau Rakshaks’); Generational history of cow protection in India and Hinduism
Contents: Venezuela’s economic crisis is hitting Cuba hard; Egypt claims that it killed leaders of ISIS branch in Sinai; Video from Sinai’s ISIS branch threatens Rome, Israel and all Jews
Contents: Bank of England uses ‘sledgehammer’ stimulus to fight Brexit slowdown; China overtaking both Russia and US in influence in Central Asia
Contents: N. Korean officials reportedly alarmed at Kim Jong-un’s drinking and massive weight gain; North Korean missile strikes sea close to Japan, threatening radar base
Contents: Iran furious at Palestinian meeting with Iran opposition group; Maryam Rajavi: Leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO); Negative interest rates creating increased anxiety
Contents: Italy rescues 8,000 migrants in 5 days crossing Mediterranean Sea from Libya; US military in Libya launches airstrikes against ISIS; Russia uses the ‘Grozny Model’ to pursue mass slaughter in Aleppo Syria
Contents: Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation; India and Saudi Arabia move to warm relations with each other
Contents: Philippines president Duterte cancels ‘ceasefire’ with Communist Party; Generational history of the Philippines and the CPP-NPA; FBI investigates alleged Russian hacking of Democrats’ servers
Contents: Portugal and Spain will not be fined for breaching deficit rules; Italy’s Monte Paschi bank gets 5 billion euro bailout from other banks; Earnings fall, but central bank liquidity floods markets, pushing up stocks
Contents: Syria’s Al-Nusra splits with al-Qaeda, becoming Jabhat Fateh al-Sham; Al-Nusra may have learned lessons from failures of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq
Contents: China and Russia vociferously hostile to South Korea’s THAAD deployment; South Korea’s fears of an attack from North Korea; Problems, issues and capabilities surrounding the Thaad system
Contents: Arab League in chaos as it fails to address Arab existential threats; ASEAN in chaos as it fails to address South China Sea threats; France’s François Hollande declares war on ISIS after terror attack kills priest; Turkey fears that Gulen will flee the United States