Trade on the Medieval Silk Road Was so Rich, it Sustained High Mountain Cities, New Discovery Finds
A pair of lost cities in the highlands of Uzbekistan recently found by archaeologists using lidar demonstrate that the…
Author: Andy Corbley
BRICS Summit Yet Again Passes Without News of Gold-Backed Reserve Currency
As the 2024 BRICS Summit closes in Kazan, Russia, the two major questions held by observers skeptical of the…
10/22 End of the Empire: BRICS+ Summit Kicks off in Kazan as World Leader in Multilateralism Seems Set to Grow
End of the Empire is a once-monthly feature on all news relating to the transition from the unipolar world…
Yahya Sinwar’s Death Unlikely to Change Anything
Throughout the assault on Gaza and the strip’s civilian population, Western leaders have been accused of continuing to support…
Israel ‘unable to take any village’ in Lebanon During Fierce Exchanges with Hezbollah
Even as dozens of Gazans were killed, burned, or buried alive when Israel conducted its latest school/hospital bombing, the…
Beijing Concludes Large-Scale Blockade Exercises Around Taiwan as a ‘Deterrence to Sepratists’
Beijing has just wrapped up large training exercises that focused on blockading Taiwan. The exercises came shortly after provocative…
One Exercise Session or Disturbed Night of Sleep Still Affects Cognition Weeks Later
The everyday effects of sleep, exercise, heart rate, and mood—both good and bad—could linger in our brains for over…
Can the United Nations Survive Israel’s War?
In 1960, during the United Nations peacekeeping operations in the Congo, peacekeepers from Ireland came under heavy attack by…
White House Advisor Urges Israel to Carpet Bomb UN Peacekeepers, Smotrich Says Israel Will Extend to Damascus
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was recently filmed saying that Israel should extend its borders “bit by bit” to…
2024 Year of Elections Continued with Surprise Vote in Japan: Hawkish Ishiba to Rule in Tokyo
As WaL has written multiple times, 2024 has seen more elections and more citizens around the world cast a vote than…
Before and After Pictures Show World’s Largest Dam Removal Dramatically Rewilding Klamath River
22 years ago, the Yurok Tribe of Native Americans launched a campaign to reclaim their ancestral lands along the…
Death, Injury Toll Mounts for the IDF as Israeli Invasion of Lebanon Meets Stiffer Resistance
Strict military censorship, far more constricted than anything seen in Ukraine, prevents almost any information on the number of…
Russia Captures the ‘Balcony,’ Another Town Key to Ukraine’s Donbas Defense
War footage from Russian soldiers claimed to be verified by CNN shows Federation forces raising their flag above the town of…
Julian Assange Speaks for First Time Since Release: ‘I am not free today because the system worked’
At a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday morning, Julian Assange addressed…
Israel Makes it Clear That Allies’ Job Is to Shut-up and Follow Orders,
In the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu and his Likud Party have made it clear to France,…
Elected for Detente with the West, Iran’s Pezeshkian Pushed into Precarious Position Over Lebanon
A feature of the biggest election year in history, where more countries took to the polls than at any…
Israel’s Inevitable Assault on Lebanon Threatens to Drags a Corner of Europe into Conflict: Cyprus
An Israeli assault on Lebanon, which is now looking imminent, will claw the EU into the conflict in the…
Israel-Lebanon War Imminent
One should believe the Likud Party; they’ve kept their word and treated the Gazans like Amalek, the ancient tribe…
09/23 End of the Empire: Israeli Aggression Beginning to Terminate the Abraham Accords
End of the Empire is a once-monthly feature on all news relating to the transition from the unipolar world…
The Ramshackle Reconstruction of Afghanistan Continues as Taliban in Control of 39 Embassies
Story at a glance… The Taliban recently completed its third year in charge of Afghanistan, marked with successes and…