Turkey to speed up Libya troop deployment to prevent ‘slide into chaos’
‘If today Libya becomes like Syria, then the turn will come for the other countries in the region,’ – Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister Published on MEE, Dec 29, [...]
Pro-coup Venezuelan soldiers who fled to the US now locked up in ICE Detention Centre
In an ironic twist worthy of an Alanis Morissette song, participants in U.S.-backed coup are now in an ICE detention camp. By Alan MacLeod Published on Mint Press News, Dec 27, 2019 [...]
Chemical weapons watchdog is just an American lap dog
A spate of leaks from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the international inspectorate created for the purpose of implementing the Chemical Weapons [...]
December update: peace and warmongering policies are a total failure
Written exclusively for the New Cold War website, this update is the last of 2019 from our regular contributor on Ukraine, Dmitriy Kovalevich. This month he unravels the mayhem left by the failed [...]
Major defeat for the US and its allies at the OAS, a victory for Evo!
On December 18, in Washington, DC, the CARICOM (bloc of Caribbean states) resolution presented to the Organization of American States (OAS) reads as follows: “Rejection of violence and call for [...]
Confrontation in Libya
We would like to remind our readers that the situation in Libya has been unstable since 2011, when U.S.-supported insurgents toppled the nation’s leader Muammar al‑Gaddafi. In 2012, militants [...]
India needs a proper refugee law, not a CAA suffused with discriminatory intent
There are six major flaws in India’s new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which add up to a calculated violation of judicial precedent, constitutional norms and international law. By Rajeev [...]
China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a [...]
News and analysis headlines for week ending December 23, 2019
Washington’s refined art of torturing China may ignite a war The arrogance of BBC News Britain faces a long and bumpy road ahead Coup leaders in Bolivia issue arrest warrant for Evo Morales The [...]
Washington’s refined art of torturing China may ignite a war
In the last two decades, China has not gone through the extreme agony, as Russia did during the era of the so-called Perestroika, and Yeltsin’s lunacy. However, before President Xi came to [...]
