BELGRADE, THURSDAY TERRITORY, RESOURCES AND treasure are out, stadium events are in, says a political philosopher who believes mankind is going through a transition so profound that when it is over what remains will not recognize what went before. Hegel Bertrand of the Swift Twain Institute in Ontario says his latest research confirms his theory…

KABUL THE LATEST TALIBAN effort to erase women from daily life in Afghanistan is to be countered by a cunning CIA scheme to inundate the wretched Asian country with millions of windows disguised as walls. The Taliban has ordered that all windows which give views of women, with the capacity to promote obscene acts, are…

RAMALLAH AS THE TEMPERATURE of the deteriorating relations between Ireland and Israel continues to rise, the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank, the semi-officially recognized de facto Government of partially-recognized Palestine, has demonstrated that because it is so busy quietly co-operating with the Israelis in fighting sundry militant Palestinian groups in its own fiefdom,…

LONDON AFTER MORE THAN a century, the true story of the famous 1914 WW1 Christmas Truce football match between England and Germany has been released with previously classified British Government files, and it reveals a humiliating failure of nerve by England during a final penalty shootout. “These documents were marked Ultra Secret and withheld for…

DAMASCUS WRITERS FOLLOWING ITS MISTAKEN rescue of an Assad regime thug from a prison where he had apparently been torturing people not long before, CNN has been told that its future lies in rescuing tyrant henchmen rather than providing objective news. “Look, CNN’s ratings have been diving over the past few years, it’s time they…

KHAN YOUNIS “THEY HAVE RECOGNIZED the state of Palestine and we are the Government of Gaza, a constituent part of Palestine. We have a right to an embassy and since the Israelis are leaving, their embassy building will suit us fine.” The Hamas official, who spoke these words, was forced to break off his conversation…

NICOSIA “FORTY YEARS AGO I was supplying Stinger missiles to these guys, to help them fight the Soviets. Then, they were freedom loving patriots. After 9/11 they were mad dogs only good for putting down and so for the past twenty years I’ve been helping to hunt them to the ends of the earth. Now,…

TEHERAN SO WHO WAS in on the downfall of Bashar Al Assad? Well, neither the Russians nor the Iranians came to his help. For the Iranians, his departure means their use of Syria to supply their proxies, Hezbollah, in Lebanon is pretty much gone. One nil to Israel. Hezbollah will remain immobilized for the moment.…

KYIV AS BASHAR AL ASSAD and his family buy winter clothing in Moscow, news from those surrounding current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggests that a small band of Ukrainians played a part in the overthrow of the Syrian tyrant. “There’s been a Ukrainian community in Syria for decades,” insisted a close confidante of the Ukrainian…

DAMASCUS “THIS HAD TO have been arranged. It looks an awful lot like Afghanistan. It’s fun for Western intelligence in the short term. It’s a sign of Russian and Iranian weakness. I don’t know what season they’re going to label it. Arab revolutions are always seasonal, it seems. But in the longer term, there an…