Gareth Porter reports on the echoing by some corporate press of a counter-terrorism narrative that threatens a goal shared by Washington and Kabul: eradicating the IS-K organization.
The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply, wrote Joe Lauria.