TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
The announcement on Wednesday that the U.S. will withdraw all remaining troops from Syria within the next month looked at first like a rare victory for Donald Trump in his admittedly erratic opposition to senseless wars of adventure. “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there,” the president tweeted with an unmistakable air of triumph. After Read More…
Iraq is historically one of the most enlightened countries in the world, where mankind first began to read, to write, to create proper cities; where Sumerians seem to have been the first to harness the wheel, to use irrigation and to weave textile. It is where it was decided that a circle would be made Read More…
Recently teleSUR released an article with a first hand account of the barbarism that took place during the Iraqi war. Told by Vincent Emanuele, who was stationed in Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 2003-2005, he pulls the veil from the horrors that were allowed to take place following the invasion of Iraq. He goes on to discuss how Read More…
In 1920, the Ottoman Empire came to an end in Paris with the Treaty of Sèvres (a sister document to the much more famous Treaty of Versailles). The treaty required the forfeiture of all non-Turkish land and set the stage for the creation of the modern Turkish state. The last caliphate was at an end. Read More…