March 16, 2025
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Criminalizing Diplomacy: When War Is Peace
How was diplomacy criminalised as immoral, while war was celebrated as virtuous? Arguments that diplomacy meant “rewarding” Putin and “legitimising” Russian actions supported the objective of isolating Russia. As the Europeans weaponised diplomacy, war became the only solution and peace-building was outsourced to non-European powers. Continue reading
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Taiwan’s High-Level Security Meeting that portends martial law and a hot war with the PRC
Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Global South Definitely not good news: From Jeff J Brown at Radiosinoland with transcript. Featured Image: William Lai, head of Taiwan’s DPP party is trying to drive his people off a cliff. Continue reading
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With Massive Airstrikes on Yemen, Trump Intensifies Undeclared War Against the Poorest Country in the Arab World
SANA’A, Yemen—On Saturday, Nasser Mohammed Saad was at a friend’s home celebrating iftar—the evening meal where Muslims break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan—when he received a distressed call from his family. His house in the al-Jiraf area, north of Yemen’s capital Sana’a, had suffered significant damage from U.S. airstrikes targeting a… Continue reading
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‘This isn’t war. It’s genocide’: Why the world is silent about massacres in Syria
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant militant group in northwestern Syria, once presented itself as a local opposition force. Just over a month ago, the group was formally disbanded and became part of the Syrian Defense Ministry, yet its origins tell a far more sinister story. Born out of the ashes of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s… Continue reading
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Former Kremlin advisor says ‘best possible outcome is Ukraine’s total capitulation’ | BBC News
From the start of this war, Putin has demanded the “demilitarisation” of Ukraine, which is anathema to Kyiv and its allies. The BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been speaking to political scientist and former Kremlin advisor Sergey Karaganov. Continue reading
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BREAKING LIVESTREAM ON TRUMP BOMBING YEMEN WITH MOHAMMAD MARANDI! 1PM EASTERN MARCH 16TH!
Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Chronicles of Haiphong Continue reading
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Ethnic cleansing? It is 80 years old…
The transformation of Gaza, or at least its coast, into closed housing and tourist developments has already been tested and has been in place for almost a quarter of a century. Continue reading
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Russian Representative to the UN: Diplomacy with the US & the Ceasefire Proposal
Dmitri Polyanskiy, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, discusses diplomacy with the US. Polyanskiy argues that Russia is prepared to continue its military operation until its objectives are achieved through either military means or diplomacy. The US has accepted the key conditions in a peace agreement that must… Continue reading
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“Diplomacy” in a room full of mirrors: postmodernism as a cognitive pathological virus
Postmodernism, with its cognitive relativism and other pseudo-philosophical artifacts, is the place where the West has gone to die. The Western cognitive degenerative disease has entered its terminal stage, and the signs are everywhere. Continue reading