Generally speaking, the Lithuanians don’t take much interest in defence matters. We know we’ve got armed forces, but what they’re doing generally passes average civilians by. We usually pay attention to defence matters only in ...

“Just vote?” Just don’t. (Photo Credit: Mark Strandquist/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) I would like members of the “just vote” crowd to ponder if they, given the chance, would say the same to the families of George ...

Lithuania continues to buy American military equipment despite assurances that Belarus has no cause for Lithuanian military buildup concern. Economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many European countries to consider cancelling or ...

With isolation being the key contributor to an increase in drug-related overdose deaths, celebrating National Recovery Month is more important than ever.

#MeToo movement is far from being over. By reporting on these injustices, we hope to bring these issues into the sunlight, where they can breathe in the open air and be seen in all of ...

Joe Biden rates highly with Democratic Party voters on relatability and “get off my lawn” energy. (Photo Credit: Jay Godwin/LBJ Library) Joe Biden began his acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National ...

Ain’t no party like a Klobuchar party ’cause a Klobuchar party don’t ZZZZZZZ… (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Feel the excitement? Not quite. The four-day celebration of the best ...

The oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor located in Eastern Syria has witnessed another escalation between the local Arab populace and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Unexpectedly for the SDF and the U.S. military, the ...

This is how I felt when I heard the Democrats were inviting former Ohio governor and Republican(!) John Kasich to speak at the Democratic National Convention. (Photo Credit: Marc Nozell/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Reportedly, former Ohio ...

The US administration under President Trump has long tried to dissemble Turkey’s not entirely legitimate yet brazenly aggressive military intervention in Libya, where the NATO allies turned regional rivals. The U.S. military is increasingly wary ...

Try to reform the Democratic Party from within or start a new party and overcome the two-party system of electoral dominance? It’s a fundamental question for leftists in the United States and one that hasn’t ...

I hope the Biden campaign ultimately surprises progressives en route to a decisive victory over Donald Trump, I really do. At the same time, I’m not exactly holding my breath either.

COVID-19 and President Trump's relationship to the truth are just two things that will make the 2020 contest both highly unusual as well as a considerable challenge to analyze in an unemotional, nonpartisan way.

Turkey is decided of the use of military force to achieve its goals in Libya

The attack that targeted Al-Watiya air base gave Ankara’s ambitious plans for capturing strategic areas of Sirte port and Jufra airbase a reality check

It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and what it means. Mary Oliver from “Daises” Oliver wrote “It is possible, I ...

Where are your masks? Why are you sitting so close together? AHHHHH! (Photo Credit: Shealah Craighead/Official White House Photo) No one in their right mind would’ve wished for a deadly global pandemic like the one ...

The United States plans to transfer the command of the 5th Corps of the U.S. Army from Kentucky to Poland and 30 American F-16 fighters from Germany to the eastern borders of NATO. In addition, ...

Unfounded statements by UNSMIL Head Stephanie Williams gave the GNA militants a green light to falsify accusations against the Libyan Army.

The Iranian regime has brought nothing but poverty and destruction for Iranian people. Iranian women are under even greater pressure, due to the regime’s misogynist nature. The current situation of the Iranian society has forced ...

The coming days are crucial for the future of Albania. The European Commission will propose the EU negotiating framework within June 2020. Albania must convince all the EU member states on tangible progress on the ...

Arati Kreibich is one of a number of strong progressive candidates looking to make change in the political machine state of New Jersey. Anyone remotely familiar with New Jersey politics knows it is a machine ...

Hours after a CNN reporter was arrested while covering protests in Minneapolis, CBS News reported that an NBC affiliate crew faced its own violent interaction with police in Louisville, Kentucky. While providing live coverage of ...

“A riot is the language of the unheard.” That’s Martin Luther King, Jr., folks. (Photo Credit: Rob Bulmahn/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Admittedly, I am sometimes reticent about opining on movements like Black Lives Matter and the ...

The charge of racism is partially right and partially wrong. The murder of George Forbes is a malevolent metaphor of life in the United States under the ruling class. Racism is a huge part of ...

At the height of the technology developed a few years earlier, Microsoft’s founder was forced to describe the phenomenon by predicting that it would change everything in the years to come in his famous memo, ...

Joe Biden is the Democratic Party presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders gave up the fight and endorsed him, and Elizabeth Warren has evidently abandoned her principles to try to become Biden’s VP pick. So yeah, a ...

Earth Day was different this year. Filmmaker Michael Moore released his bombshell climate change documentary, Planet of the Humans, on YouTube on April 21, the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The film ...

After chief of intelligence of the Libyan Government of the National Accord (GNA) Abdulkader Al-Tuhami died under mysterious circumstances, a number of media outlets who happened to be affiliated to Turkey downplayed the importance of ...

Rather than accept responsibility for our declining competitiveness, the US is shifting responsibility by starting a new Cold War with China.

While the European Union imposed fifteen conditions for the opening of the accession negotiations with Albania, instead of working on those conditions the Albanian premier Edi Rama recently proposed the plan of legalizing the cultivation ...

Before the outbreak of the Syrian conflict Yasser Aslan used to teach programming. With the war and ever dwindling economy, Yasser, the only breadwinner in the family of six, had to look for additional sources ...

The worst-case coronavirus scenario is not the mass deaths it is causing. It is that people are being led to accept mass death - to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 ...

2016 Democrats: Well, I don’t think we can find a candidate more unpopular than Hillary going forward. 2020 Democrats: Hold my beer. Amid her 2018 take-down of President Donald Trump, members of his administration, media ...

Hot takes are a scourge upon opinion journalism and the forming of opinions more generally.

Health systems are racing to review the abundant evidence available from many countries on the effectiveness of various policies to reduce transmission rates.

“We’re all in this together.” Stop me if you’ve heard this sentiment before. At least outwardly, a spirit of fraternity is abundant these days. Celebrities are donating and raising money for charitable causes. Commercials from ...

The lack of compassion for anyone is one of Trump’s defining characteristics. Another characteristic commonly used to define Donald Trump is narcissist. Trump’s tweets and comments have been, and continue to be self-aggrandizing, demeaning, racist ...

The situation in the area of M4 highway (Aleppo-Latakia) of Idlib province remains tense in relation to the activities of terrorist groups. Particularly, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham members held another protest near al-Nayrab village on April ...

Like growing millions of Americans who are not sick from Covid 19, but from Trump’s setting new standards for derangement, I determined to discover what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually means. And where it came from. I ...

In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the Cornoavirus has created a brave new world. And in other ways, the arrangement has reinforced the cowardly old one. Class ...

Turkey’s foreign policy centered around Recep Erdogan’s ambitions has been devised as a giant web weaved all across Middle East, Northern Africa and Europe. Now the Turkish leader may fall prey to his own schemes. ...

William Shakespeare called our world a stage because just as actors make their entry and exits onto a stage, so we all enter into this world, move through different stages in life on this earth, ...

If you were playing a game by its rules, discovered the rules were unfair, and learned that the penalty for losing the game was death, would you not flip over the table?

Stupidity Is Killing Us When did America become so stupid? There have recently been rallies at state capitols of “Liberate Michigan,” “Liberate Texas,” etc., which the president has fueled on Twitter. The rallies advocate for ...

Imagine your immune system as your body’s defense mechanism. Typically, it does a remarkable job of protecting you against invadersーmicroorganisms that cause disease. However, at times, the immune system falls short, letting an invader in, ...

At the end of the day, there is no substitute for integrity.

While the economic fallout of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis is not yet fully understood, it is safe to say that the effects will be severe. Around the world, governments are providing bailouts and promising to ...

Written with Earth Day in mind: Carl Sagan in his book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human in Space, wrote Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our ...