Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Lucretius (99-55 BC), De Rerum Natura Some 1,000 years after its birth, mainstream Christianity was still in competition with other religions in Europe and the Middle East. Often these religions were so intermixed with Christianity, or Christianity was so intermixed with them, […]
US Forces in Syria Airlift 10 Daesh Militants to Deir Ez-Zor Province, Reports Say
MOSCOW, February 28 (Sputnik) – The United States’ armed forces have airlifted 10 militants affiliated with the Daesh* terrorist organisation from their non-authorised military base in the northeastern Syrian town of Ash Shaddadi to the eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor, state-run Syrian news agency SANA reported on Sunday, citing its local sources. According to the […]
Thirty years Ago. The 1991 Gulf War: The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on “The Highway of Death”
I want to give testimony on what are called the “highways of death.” These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with […]