January, 2022

• 27 January

  Assad Is Here to Stay

  

  But the United States Can Still Try to Hold Him to Account After a decade of warfare, the conflict in Syria has settled into a violent, protracted stalemate. Now, as before, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad continues to act with impunity. He has forcibly disappeared tens of thousands of Syrians and …

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• 27 January

  Lost Innocents

  

  The U.S. Military’s Shameful Failure to Protect Civilians Eight years ago, it looked like the U.S. military was making progress in reducing the harm its operations caused to civilians. The counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan meant winning the hearts and minds of the population. Lessons from the Vietnam War about the …

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• 27 January

  Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius: Why Do You Want More War?

  

  No one in the mainstream media takes better dictation than David Ignatius, the leading columnist at the Washington Post on international security. Ignatius gets briefings from the Central Intelligence Agency and immediately prepares a column echoing the CIA’s case for aiding a Ukrainian insurgency in response to any Russian invasion. …

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• 27 January

  Dangerous Heat Across the Globe

  

  The planet is heating up like never before, as “ground temperatures” hit all-time records in the Northern Hemisphere as well as the Southern Hemisphere, and ocean temperatures threaten the world’s major fisheries of the Far North, which are imperiled beyond any known historical precedent. (See- The Oceans Are Overheating, January …

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• 27 January

  Boris Johnson’s Populism May be Muted, But it is Still Accelerating Britain’s Decline

  

  Defenders of Boris Johnson are telling mutinous Tory MPs not to focus solely on the dolce vita lifestyle enjoyed in No 10 when the rest of the population was locked up at home. Instead, they ask those who want rid of the Prime Minister to view his achievements more generally, …

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• 27 January

  NATO as Religion

  

  The US/NATO/Ukraine/Russia controversy is not entirely new. We already saw the potential of serious trouble in 2014 when the US and European states interfered in the internal affairs of Ukraine and covertly/overtly colluded in the coup d’état against the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, because he was not …

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• 27 January

  Sudanese security forces intensify media crackdown

  

  The increasing pressure, violence and prosecution faced by journalists at the hands of security forces represent a major threat to the future of press freedom in the country. The Qatari media network Al Jazeera announced in a Jan. 16 statement that the Sudanese Ministry of Culture and Information had withdrawn …

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• 27 January

  Why Turkey wants to mediate in Ukraine crisis

  

  Erdogan’s offer to mediate between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders reflects Ankara’s growing fears over the conundrums it could find itself in should war materialize. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to mediate between Russia and Ukraine could be seen as a laudable peace effort or grandstanding, but the growing …

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• 27 January

  Biden’s Latest Mayhem

  

  It should not be surprising that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin believes he can invade Ukraine, a sovereign neighboring nation, and claim it as an historic part of his empire. After all, there is a shameful European history to reflect upon, combined with the most recent actions of the United States …

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• 27 January

  In a Ukrainian city near Russia, a civilian army prepares for war

  

  New paramilitary force says it is ready to defend the country in the event of a Russian ground invasion. *Only first names have been used in some instances to protect identities. Ukrainian soldiers shuffle through a sprawling post-Soviet factory. They enter a dusty auditorium, laughing as they fumble around in …

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