Early on June 5, the Israeli Air Force conducted strikes on a Syrian military facility near Masyaf. The strikes were conducted from Lebanese airspace. The Syrian Air Defense Forces intercepted several missiles, however the rest hit their targets. The bombed ...

[this article was written for the Unz Review] I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and ...

Iran has been supplying petroleum products to Venezuela as the Latin American country is facing a severe shortage of gasoline and is struggling to procure it abroad because of US sanctions. The United States has forced two ships carrying Iranian ...

by Francis Lee for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog Unquestionably, the world – circa 2020 – seems currently to be moving away from democratic forms of rule and transmuting into more totalitarian systems (liberal totalitarianism if you will – see ...

South Front The fog of war over the censorship of SouthFront on YouTube and Facebook has cleared away. As we wrote earlier, SouthFront was attacked because of our coverage of the developing COVID-19 crisis. The US Department of Defense accused ...

This is the second tanker from a fleet of five vessels whose cargo is expected to alleviate fuel shortages in the Bolivarian Republic caused by American sanctions. The Venezuelan Air Force has greeted the incoming second Iranian tanker, called Forest, ...

[Note: this article was written for the Unz Review] Amidst the worldwide pandemic induced scare most of us have probably lost track of all the other potential dangers which still threaten international peace and stability.  Allow me to list just a ...

Quick: What’s the reason World War One started? By Ramin Mazaheri for Ooduarere vis the Saker Blog And don’t say it was because leftist Yugoslavian patriot Gavrilo Princip joined with Muslim leftists to assassinate Austrian imperialist Archduke Franz Ferdinand – ...

KIMJONGUNDEAD Some social media users speculated about the way Kim’s doctors might have acted if the reports about his condition were true, but others suggested that the North Korean leader may actually be fine after all. Following speculation about North ...

by Pepe Escobar for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog (cross posted with the Asia Times) History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town ...