It is astonishing that a number of attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and a rocket blasted near the US embassy in Iraq’s Green Zone have not ignited a full scale conflagration in the volatile region.
That Dr Mohammad Mursi, the first ever democratically elected president of Egypt, was murdered is not in doubt. He may have collapsed in a Cairo court and died but there is a history to his six years of incarceration suffering extreme mistreatment at the hands of regime thugs.
Forty years ago a momentous event took place when the Shah of the Pahlavi dynasty, installed by the CIA, fled Iran, ushering in Iran’s Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on February 1, 1979.
Donald Trump’s crude and uncouth conduct revives memories of John Wayne of cowboy movies’ fame (or infamy).
There is something remarkable about the fortitude and resilience of the Palestinian people in resisting 70 years of a brutal Israeli occupation, one of the longest military occupations in history.
By declaring Jerusalem as the ‘capital’ of Israel, Donald Trump has simply advanced the Zionist project so that he could get their support for his re-election.
Africa is not a poor continent; it is poorly managed because the ruling elite in cahoots with foreign masters are busy plundering the resources of this continent leading to mass poverty and famine.
The Zionists are alien invaders in Palestine. They use myth and brute force to impose themselves, with help from imperialist powers, on the lands of the Palestinian people. It is a colonial settler entity.
The spectre of famine haunts parts of Africa again, with more than 20 million people facing starvation across Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan.