Author: Tanonomah

Israel claims to have killed Hamas’s political and military leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Hamas has yet to confirm the claim. The Israeli military said on Thursday that Sinwar had been positively identified after he was killed the day before. Commentators spoke about Sinwar and what he means to the Palestinian resistance movement. Iran’s mission to the United Nations spoke of Sinwar as a “martyr”. “When Muslims look up to the Martyr Sinwar standing on the battlefield – in combat attire and out in the open, not in a hideout, facing the enemy – the spirit of resistance will be strengthened,” the…

Saudi Arabia’s plan to increase crude production could seriously undercut Russia’s fossil fuel revenues needed for its war against Ukraine, Politico reported on Oct. 3. Riyadh plans to abandon its unofficial price target of $100 per barrel and drive up production to ensure its dominant position in the global market, even at the cost of dropping oil prices, the Financial Times reported last week, citing its sources. Russia is greatly reliant on oil and gas profits, which have represented almost one-third of the country’s total federal revenue in 2023 and 42% in 2022. Fossil fuel profits thus play a key role in funding Russia’s expensive war machine.…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Ankara on Tuesday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Turkish National Defense Minister Yasar Guler and his Iraqi counterpart Thabet al-Abbasi also attended the meeting. No other details were immediately available. Source : aa

Toronto, Alaska (16/11 – 50) Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious forces, toward objectives not necessarily in the people’s interest. Now that the so-called “pandemic”, declared by the mysterious self-appointed World Health Organization, and followed obediently by governments everywhere, has been decreed “finished”, we should devote a moment to introspection, considering who is running the show and for whose benefit, as governments gaily abdicated their vested responsibility to govern. Pandemic is over? I hope they told those killer viruses who destroyed the population of Europe and North America. What? Oh, just 1% mortality?…

London (15/11 – 67) The streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka, erupted into celebration on July 13, 2022 after weeks of peaceful protests forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in war crimes when he was defense secretary, had presided over an economic catastrophe amid allegations of widespread corruption and impunity. But a year later, despite some superficial changes, there is no sustained improvement in the country’s economic situation that impinges many people’s human rights. The acute shortage of fuel that was the most visible feature of the economic crisis has eased. But more than six million people – nearly 30…

Action, intrigue, sleight of hand, comical blundering, the pocketing of a few (million) patacas … all this and more is yours in the Vegas-on-Sea you see on screens large and small. How much of it is fantasy, wishful thinking or a version of the truth is for the viewer to decide: after all, the illusory quality of the mirage that is Macau has always been potential television and movie gold. Modern “gold” is the subject of television series The Thunder (2019; available on iQiyi). Shot partly in Macau, the 48-part saga, starring Hong Kong’s Simon Yam Tat-wah, is a drugs-war…

The agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, earlier this year, to reestablish diplomatic ties marks a new era in Iranian involvement in Middle Eastern politics. It is part of regional phenomenon where governments are putting aside their differences after years of bitter rivalry and confrontation. Of all the regional actors, Iran and its proxies stand the most to gain from this realignment. Indeed, many Arab governments are now seeking to improve their ties with Iran and have expressed interest in working with it on various issues. Iran, by contrast, has offered no meaningful concessions in its rapprochement with Arab governments.…

Arab leaders on Saturday urged an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, pressing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to convince Israel, but the top U.S. diplomat said such a halt right now would only allow Palestinian militant group Hamas to regroup and attack Israel again. In a rare public disagreement at a news conference in Amman, foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, standing alongside Blinken, repeatedly pushed for a cessation of hostilities, saying the death of thousands of civilians could not be justified as self-defense. They also refused to discuss in-depth what comes next for Gaza, when…

As civilian casualties mount in the Gaza Strip and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing his country for a “long and difficult” war, it is worth looking at the recent examples of US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to see what lies in store, not only for the Palestinians but also for the invading/occupying force. The answer is, nothing good for anybody involved. While there are plenty of similarities between these situations, there are also key differences. Let’s look at some of both. In each case, you have a massively armed nation that, triggered by a devastating attack, unleashes…

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will visit China in the upcoming week as the crisis-hit country makes progress on debt restructuring talks with its biggest lender. Wickremesinghe took office in July last year, after a popular uprising, brought on by an economic meltdown, had forced his predecessor out of power. His Oct. 15-19 visit to Beijing will be his first to China since then. Wickremesinghe, who is also finance minister, has been leading Sri Lanka’s push to manage its heavy debt and keep funds flowing from a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. He will attend a Belt and…