United Nations warns of sectarian hatred by jihadists in Syria: Moscow vindicated Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The United Nations (UN) finally issued a serious statement about the role of Islamic jihadists in Syria. This may appear rather late in the day, after all, the Syrian government stated this a long time [...]
Jihadists flock to Mali and al-Shabaab leaves Kismayo in Somalia: Gulf Islamism Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Events on the ground in northern Mali and in Kismayo in Somalia are gathering apace. This applies to the al-Shabaab (al-Shabab) leaving their last major stronghold in Kismayo after coming under attack from African [...]
CIA director visits Turkey: Israel, Iraq, Iran, Syria, US foreign policy and Erdogan Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times David Petraeus visited Turkey alongside the senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman whereby many important issues related to the geopolitics of America will have been discussed. Petraeus is the current director of the [...]
Popular Superstitions in Japanese Culture Rhiannon Thomas Modern Tokyo Times Being “lucky” is a foreign concept in Japan. While an English-speaking person might wish someone “good luck” before a test or an interview, in Japanese you tell someone “Ganbatte!”: “work hard” or “do your best.” Luck is far from an important factor in one’s success. [...]
France and Turkey want a terrorist free zone to destroy the independence of Syria Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times France and Turkey are in favor of creating “terrorist free zones” in order to create “areas of cancer” to destroy the independence of Syria. It is abundantly clear that leaders in Paris [...]
Iraq and Pakistan: Shia Muslims killed while preparing for Eid and convulsions from Syria Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In recent days well over one hundred mainly Shia Muslims have been killed by countless numbers of terrorists attacks in Iraq and Pakistan. The massacre in Pakistan was one major incident whereby [...]
Japan announces growth of 0.3% in the second quarter of 2012 Hiroshi Saito and Joachim de Villiers Modern Tokyo Times The government of Japan must be alarmed by the announcement that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by a feeble 0.3% in the second quarter of 2012. During the first quarter of 2012 the GDP rate [...]
Washington, Ankara, Doha and Riyadh are paving the way for al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times The Obama administration along with allies in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have paved the way for al-Qaeda and other Islamist organizations to proliferate in Iraq and Syria. It appears that [...]
Many dead in Turkey after clashes between the PKK and the armed forces of Turkey Joachim de Villiers and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Kurdish rebels and the armed forces of Turkey have clashed after Kurdish rebels launched an attack against a border post. It is currently known that 19 people have been killed [...]
Saudi Arabia authors a new draft at the UN against Syria: UN is shamed by this Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Saudi Arabia is in the forefront of pushing a new draft which is non-binding against the government of Syria. The action taken by Saudi Arabia and supported by Bahrain and [...]
Islamists enter Aleppo in Syria and Russia implies that US is endorsing terrorism: Syria needs help Jibril Khoury and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Political leaders in Washington, Riyadh, London, Ankara, Paris, and Doha, continue to encourage the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to enter major cities in Syria in order to overthrow the government [...]
Spain unnerves the stock market after 10-year bonds reach an alarming rate James Jomo and Olivier LeCourt Modern Tokyo Times The Prime Minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, faces more internal pressures because of the reality that many regional governments are alarmingly indebted. In the last few days Valencia asked for economic assistance from the central [...]
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