Archives for 3月 2020

与古巴政府一毛钱的美国人学习医学

古巴政府一直在通过一项鲜为人知的几十年计划向美国人支付学费,以研究医学,以便返回美国并为贫困社区服务。

Cuba medical school Feature photo

It’s a medical school like no other: the largest of its kind in the world. The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba hosts students from well over 100 countries and every year, dozens of American students are paid to go there to train as doctors. Paid, that is, by the Cuban government on the proviso that they return to the U.S.

回忆特蕾莎·哈尔萨(Theresa Halsa):尊敬的巴勒斯坦抵抗军老兵

巴勒斯坦武装抵抗运动的资深人士特蕾莎·哈尔萨(Theresa Halsa)在以色列监狱中幸存了数十年。她最近在66岁时死于癌症。

Theresa Halsa Feature photo

Amman, Jordan -- “I didn’t join the Palestinian resistance because I experienced suffering, I joined out of a sense of patriotism,” Theresa Halasa, a revered veteran of the Palestinian resistance said this in an interview in 2009. Halasa died in Amman on March 28, 2020, after succumbing to cancer. She was 65 years old. In 1972, Halasa was one of

美国被指控利用食品援助向叙利亚卢克班难民营的武装分子走私武器

据俄罗斯军事消息来源称,联合国援助卡车不仅被用于向受难平民运送食物和物资,还向马格哈维尔·透拉运送武器和弹药。

A U.S.-backed anti-government fighter mans a heavy automatic machine gun, left, next to an American soldier as they take their positions at Tanf, a border crossing between Syria and Iraq (Hammurabi’s Justice News/AP)

DAMASCUS (Mideast Discourse) -- While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken center stage in the media, little attention is being paid to a tragedy playing out in southeastern Syria. Far away from the western media coverage of the “Islamic State of Idlib”, the scene is set in a desolate area on the border between Syria and Iraq, adjacent to the illegal

拜登的外交政策团队暗示与中国的战争与俄罗斯的冲突

布鲁金斯学会根据拜登外交政策小组的采访进行的分析表明,外交政策与特朗普总统领导下的五角大楼的外交政策极为相似。

Joe Biden Foreign Policy Feature photo

After closely conversing with senior foreign policy experts on Joe Biden’s team, Thomas Wright, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe for the influential think-tank the Brookings Institute, penned an unintentionally hair-raising article on what a Biden presidency would look like for the rest of the world. He explains to his elite

国际货币基金组织根据政权变更向委内瑞拉提供紧急COVID-19贷款

国际货币基金组织拒绝向委内瑞拉提供COVID-19紧急贷款,除非它同意推翻马杜罗总统并安装华盛顿支持的胡安·瓜伊多。

Venezuela coronavirus Feature photo

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) blocked a request from Venezuela for an emergency loan to deal with the COVID–19 pandemic on the grounds that President Nicolas Maduro “lacked recognition.” “IMF engagement with member countries is predicated on official government recognition by the international community, as reflected in

咀嚼吐出来:退伍军人退休时会发生什么?

2200万美国人在军队中服役。尽管军队在公共生活中不断魅力四射,但许多人的现实是,一旦不再使用它们,它们就会像垃圾一样被倒在路边。

US Veterans

The phrase “military-industrial complex” is thrown around a lot. But the fact remains that the United States spends almost as much on war as the rest of the world combined. American troops are stationed in around 150 countries in around foreign 800 military bases; nobody seems to know the precise figure. Depending on the definition used, the United