World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Compared to the Gulag, McCarthyism is an idiot’s hobby. Indeed, only Nazi camps are more associated with darkness and macabre. Despite the Cold War, the West showed the Gulag little attention compared to that given to Nazi camps and the Holocaust. Some saw Western bias in this limited concern,…

Syria is facing a new crisis. The earthquakes of February 6 killed and injured thousands in Syria, left tens of thousands homeless, and destroyed areas already shattered by almost 12 years of devastating conflict. Even before the earthquakes, over 4.1 million people in northwest Syria required…

The United Nations has released several reports on terrorism, extremism, and armed radicalism, which have been manifested in threats to vulnerable parts of the globe. In Africa, these groups are now recruiting once again, with terrorist movements and armed organizations that have adopted new…

We were watching the earthquake on screens. The scenes were heart-breaking. Villages were crushed as if they never existed. The buildings killed their occupants. Distress calls from under the rubble tried to beat time but were often beaten. Time was long and difficult for those who observed the…

Without a fresh vision for America’s role in the world, many people in Washington link today’s geopolitical challenges with those of yesteryear. China is cast as the new Soviet Union, and its high-tech military advances threaten a potential Sputnik moment. The ominously named Committee on the…

Any news about the mullah regime in Iran is never positive. Rather, it often focus on the systematic terrorism of the Iranian state, such as the attacks on regional marine navigation, the armament of the Houthis in Yemen and Iranian drones that are killing Ukrainians in Europe. The mullah…

The appointment of Sultan Al Jaber to lead the 28th climate summit this year unleashed criticism of some Western media, especially in Britain, and fueled skepticism among environmental activists. While the reaction of most environmental and climate action groups is driven by genuine concern, the…

As crises and disasters storm through the region, the afflicted have found a steady helping hand in its immigrants. The community of around four million Turkish-German dual nationals was the first to help its kin. The approximately one million Syrians who had taken refuge in Germany amid the…

In 1991, Russian General Vladimir Slipchenko coined the term “sixth-generation warfare,” stressing that the era of conventional warfare had ended and that the wars of the future would be fought from a distance through intelligent systems that operate in space. Slipchenko’s projection was echoed…

Until a couple of weeks ago, the high altitude weather and research balloons we all know are up there doing all sorts of non-nefarious things were not even on the public’s risk radar screens. But now they’re certainly a bright pulsing blip on the screen of our fears. In just a couple of weeks,…

As happens in banana republics, the financial and political crises in Lebanon are descending to the point of no return. Indeed, recent leaks to the media indicate that the country is one step away from being knocked off its feet. Reports that the US Treasury Department is on the cusp of imposing…

What do you do when you are stuck in a war that you can neither win nor lose? This is the question that Russian President Vladimir Putin faces as his “Special Operations” against Ukraine enters its second year. The answer is: you stage trompe l'œil shows to hide the fact that you are stuck and…