Archives for 12月 2018

土耳其的埃尔多安誓言“采取一切措施”以规避对伊朗的制裁

国会和总统自己的政府中的老鹰将使用埃尔多安周四宣布的“支持伊朗”作为反对将军队带回家,并继续叙利亚地面行动以抵制伊朗扩张的举措。

Turkey Erdogan | Iran Rouhani

Following Wednesday's unexpected and dramatic full and "immediate" withdrawal of all US forces from Syria, Turkey has announced it will not play ball on Iran sanctions. According to a translation of the Turkish president's words on Thursday during a previously planned summit with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Ankara, journalist Abdullah

以色列政府联系小组投诉后Donorbox Shutters BDS筹款

极右翼的以色列政府联系的Shurat HaDin游说Donorbox关闭巴勒斯坦BDS组织的筹款页面。

BDS

JERUSALEM (AP) — A U.S. software company said Friday it blocked the fundraising account of the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel following a complaint by a pro-Israel group that the campaign has links to militant organizations. Donorbox, which makes fundraising management software, confirmed that the BDS campaign's account was

如果法国的黄背心抗议者获胜,将会发生什么?

如果抗议者的要求得到满足,就会有其他人被迫支付这笔费用。最有可能数千万或数亿人将被“征税”。他们不会生活在法国,欧盟,甚至是附近的任何地方。

France | Yellow Vest | Protesters

What if protesters in Paris win, and the French government gives in to all their demands? What if taxes are reduced, wages increased, President Macron steps down? I am not talking only about the fuel tax; attempts to impose it have been already abandoned. I am not talking about an increase of the minimum wage – the government already agreed to

特朗普决定撤出叙利亚的真正原因

特朗普决定阻止土耳其离开北约,加入与俄罗斯,中国和伊朗的更深层联盟,这比在中东边缘进一步愚弄更为重要。

President Donald Trump, left, talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, as they arrive together for a family photo at a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 11, 2018. Pablo Martinez Monsivais | AP

Last Friday President Trump had another long phone call with the Turkish President Erdogan. Thereafter he overruled all his advisors and decided to remove the U.S. boots from Syria and to also end the air war. This was the first time Trump took a decisive stand against the borg, the permanent neoconservative and interventionist establishment in

纽约时报专栏作家罗斯杜塔在他的哈佛时代为凶残的独裁者皮诺切特辩护

保守派“纽约时报”专栏作家罗斯·杜塔特(Ross Douthat)是众多企业媒体人士中的一员,他们为智利凶残的美国资本主义独裁者奥古斯托·皮诺切特辩护。

Ross Douthat

Grayzone Project -- Back in his Ivy League college days, right-wing New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote an op-ed defending the US-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose military junta murdered and disappeared thousands of dissidents and tortured tens of thousands more. Intellectual historian Timothy Barker dug through columns that

特朗普推特的美国部队撤军计划将把东北叙利亚交给土耳其人

在推动更大的冲突和军事干预之前放弃军事撤离是一种既定的美国战术。

U.S. Soldiers | Syria

WASHINGTON -- In what is being characterized by some as a “drastic reversal,” reports in both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have claimed that the Trump administration is set to rapidly withdraw U.S. military forces from northeastern Syria, where the U.S. has occupied around 30 percent of Syrian territory since mid-2016. The