The war against Iran to a decidedly bad turn from where the President of the US sits in the last few days. The Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are allied closely with Iran, have taken the Red Sea port of Mocha and some islands in the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern end of the…

Twenty-five years ago today, some religious zealots proved their love of humanity by hijacking four planes and flying them into buildings or the ground killing around 3,000 people. A great many questions arose, like why did they do it? Or why was the Bush administration asleep at the wheel? And later, why is America invading…

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has published excerpts from a soon-to-be-published book that say Prime Minister Netanyahu and UAE President Al Nahyan had a phone conversation a week and a half before the October 7, 2023 attack in which the latter warned the former that the Hamas attack was coming. The PM’s office denies that there…

The British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has announced that the UK and 11 other nations will impose economic sanctions on the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israel is having a conniption in response. The settlements’ very existence violates international law, and for decades, the Israelis have been getting away with expanding their occupation…

The voters in the German lander of Saxony-Anhelt have decided that the 1930s are back. They voted yesterday in elections for the regional parliament, and they opted to give the helm to Alternative fur Deutschland. AfD is how Nazi is now spelled. The supporters of the party will claim this is a lie and libelous,…