Aug 29,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah As many feared, the US team led by the president’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner ended its effort to resuscitate the moribund Palestinian-Israeli peace process without any tangible result. And yet, neither of the two directly concerned sides nor the Arab capitals […]
Trump’s speech, which asked India to ‘help more’ with Afghanistan, amounted to calling for calm while also setting the house on fire Abhishek Parajuli 120 comments If Donald Trump had read this anecdote from a book by a formerBritish Army Officer, the Afghan strategy he laid out on Monday might […]
Palestinians should not waste their time by expecting concrete results from Jared Kushner’s mediation efforts. Jared Kushner’s pro-Israel bias is not a secret to anyone, writes Fraihat [AP] by Ibrahim Fraihat @i_fraihat Ibrahim Fraihat is Associate Professor of International Conflict Resolution at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. White […]
Breitbart, with Bannon once again running it, is already openly deriding Trump with one piece headlined ‘His McMaster’s Voice: Is Trump’s Afghanistan policy that different from Obama’s?’ Kim Sengupta The sending of more troops to Afghanistan by Donald Trump was not, in the end, unexpected. It was, however, a […]
He is now so enfeebled that the Generals and Admirals are not just emboldened to ignore his orders with contempt (not a blind bit of notice was taken of his ban on transgender people in the military). They are dictating foreign policy even when it directly undermines the support of […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP KABUL An Afghan man watches the TV broadcast of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech, in Kabul, Afghanistan August 22, 2017. (REUTERS Photo) U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed success in Afghanistan, but analysts say his strategy contains nothing new against enemies which his predecessors […]
Open-ended commitment to send in more troops leaves US and allies without clear mission in middle of worsening conflict Donald Trump’s proposed troop reinforcement of about 4,000 is ‘a drop in the ocean’. Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Images Simon Tisdall Tuesday 22 August 2017 10.35 BSTLast modified on Tuesday 22 August 201711.05 BST […]
Aug 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralysed; and the world is looking on in astonishment and dread. If we are […]
The grown-ups in the US administration may think it wise to keep Donald Trump as far away from negotiations as possible Kim Sengupta 51 comments Donald Trump’s talk of annihilating North Korea with “fire and fury likes of which the world has never seen” – a threat delivered from his […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for kicking American diplomats out of Russia, saying the move was good for the U.S. economy. Trump said that he wanted to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for ousting hundreds of US embassy employees “because we’re […]
MELIH ALTINOK@melihaltinok A man watches a television news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump at a railway station in Seoul, Aug. 9, 2017. A possible nuclear war following the tension between Washington and Pyongyang is a dangerous threat for every country Having had […]
When you really looked into it, the British ‘interfered’ with the US election just as much as Russians allegedly did. So where’s the big fuss about that? Mary Dejevsky @IndyVoices Thursday 13 July 2017 14:30 BST It might seem a long way to travel for a day of Gallic pomp. […]
By Reuters – Jul 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian rebel fighters from the Faylaq Al Rahman brigade carry their homemade 12.7mm sniper rifle in Ain Tarma, in the eastern Ghouta area, a rebel stronghold east of the capital Damascus, on Tuesday (AFP photo) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration […]
Likewise, the reason people came around to the idea of voting for Jeremy Corbyn is different to what you might intuitively think Slavoj Zizek 31 comments How to account for the strange fact that Donald Trump, a lewd and morally destitute person, the very opposite of Christian decency, can function […]
Saturday, 15 July 2017 Ramzy Baroud It has been nearly six months since Donald Trump took office as the 45th President of the United States. The lavish inauguration at the Capitol Building in Washington DC stood at odds with the country’s struggling economy, growing poverty and financial uncertainty for millions […]
Published time: 8 Jul, 2017 21:13 Get short URL Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev © Odd Andersen / AFP Donald Trump’s positive impressions about his “tremendous” first meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg is a good thing, but concrete steps are now needed […]
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the internationally famed physicist and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge University, expressed gloom and doom about the future of planet Earth and the people living on it. In a rare television interview conducted with him […]
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]
‘We don’t have a policy in Syria,’ one former US State Department official told me. ‘Everybody in the Middle East knows that whatever is said by the Pentagon, State Department or National Security Council lacks authority because whatever assurances they give may be contradicted within the hour by a presidential tweet or […]
America still wins praise for its people, culture and civil liberties BY RICHARD WIKE, BRUCE STOKES, JACOB POUSHTER AND JANELL FETTEROLF Although he has only been in office a few months, Donald Trump’s presidency has had a major impact on how the world sees the United States. Trump and many […]