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Coronavirus
was carried into the Earth's atmosphere on a fragment of comet which
spewed out "hundreds of trillions" of viral particles. Medics fear the
disease, which can be spread before victims show any symptoms, could
spark a global pandemic. The emergence of the new strain of coronavirus
is thought to be the result of panspermia - infective agents in space
which eventually reach the Earth's at
Coronavirus
was carried into the Earth's atmosphere on a fragment of comet which
spewed out "hundreds of trillions" of viral particles. Medics fear the
disease, which can be spread before victims show any symptoms, could
spark a global pandemic. The emergence of the new strain of coronavirus
is thought to be the result of panspermia - infective agents in space
which eventually reach the Earth's at
The
U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of
traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in
Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday. The officials,
who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of an announcement, said there
were over 100 cases of TBI, up from the 64 previously reported last
month. The Pentagon declined to comment, b
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While
U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public
banks chartered, Mexico's new president has begun construction on 2,700
branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it
will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference on Jan.
6, he said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not
serving the poor and people outside the cit
President
Trump's 'deal of the century' has been published this week. Mostly, it
has been examined as a purely political project - whether in terms of
the domestic needs of Trump and Netanyahu, or as a maximum squeeze on
Palestinians, which may, or may not, work. But there is another
(implicit) dimension, lying - a little out of sight - behind these
explicit politics. It has been argued, by at lea
Almost
one in three American workers can't quite make ends meet in between
paydays, a new survey has revealed. This doesn't bode well for the US'
service economy, where discretionary spending is the major driver of
growth. Some 32 percent of US workers are unable to stretch their
salaries to cover their needs, according to a survey published on
Tuesday by Salary Finance. Nor is this inability to m
Comment:
At this point, we don't think there's much to the 'coronavirus'
outbreak. BUT China is sure behaving as if there is, tempting other
countries to isolate themselves from her and bringing about the scenario
outlined here... Historically the greatest economic depressions have
started with unexpected events on the periphery of major financial
markets. That was the case in May 1931 with the su
Feb 12
The
CIA and German intelligence spied on the secret communications of
governments around the world for decades in a covert partnership,
controlling a top encryption company and installing backdoor
vulnerabilities in its products. Founded during the Second World War,
the Swiss cryptography firm, Crypto AG, has provided top-of-the-line
devices for encoding communications to some 120 countries. Start
Comment:
And what is Xanax? A mind-altering, highly addictive, yet commonly
prescribed drug to 'induce feelings of calmness that counter feelings of
anxiety and panic'. Scientists testing a small but random sample of
donated blood ready for transfusion have discovered that 70 percent
contained traces of Xanax. Writing in the Journal of Pharmaceutical and
Biomedical earlier this month, researchers
Feb 11
The
timing is right for everyone to understand what Donald Trump is doing,
and try to decrypt the ambiguity of how he is doing it. The
controversial President has a much clearer agenda than anyone can
imagine on both foreign policy and internal affairs, but since he has to
stay in power or even stay alive to achieve his objectives, his
strategy is so refined and subtle that next to no one can see
Barely
into the New Year, 2020 vision has brought many revelations into better
focus, making several ongoing observations perfectly clear. Although
there are those who've been watching the dots of The Matrix assemble
into the big picture for decades now, the election of Donald Trump has
increasingly exposed what was hidden in plain sight for so long. The
awakening for many Americans could be compa
For
the past year, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW) has been roiled by allegations that it manipulated an
investigation to falsely accuse the Syrian government of a chemical
weapons attack. An OPCW report released in March 2019 lent credence to
claims by Islamist militants and Western governments that the Syrian
military killed around 40 civilians with toxic gas in t
The
world is waking up to the fact that human-driven carbon emissions are
responsible for warming our climate, driving unprecedented changes to
ecosystems, and placing us on course for the sixth mass extinction event
in Earth's history. Comment: This opening comment reflects just how
science is at the mercy of the global warming agenda, because it is not
only irrelevant to the article but is also
Feb 10
Oscar-nominated
'For Sama' is a gritty, well produced "documentary" claiming to present
the reality of the five-year siege of the Syrian city of Aleppo. Just
how deceptive is this portrayal? The 90-minute video directed by UK
Channel 4's Waad Al-Kateab and English filmmaker Edward Watts has been
unanimously praised in the mainstream media and it might win this year's
Academy Award for Best Documen
Feb 09
Comment:
Sinn Fein is definitely 'left', but there's more to it than that. It's
also nationalist, and wants a referendum on Irish reunification ASAP.
But the primary source of its support is likely drawn from a decade of
austerity measures and the failure of neo-liberalism. Needless to say,
the entire media-political establishment spent the entire election
campaign warning the Irish people that vo
Feb 08
For
the first time on the record, a senior official confirmed Israel's
secret unconventional war in Syria, aimed at preventing Iranian
encroachment. But what did Israel gain from exposing its
'anti-intervention' lie after so many years of denial? In his final days
as the Israel Defense Forces' Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi
Eisenkot confirmed, on the record, that Israel had directly suppo
For
the first time on the record, a senior official confirmed Israel's
secret unconventional war in Syria, aimed at preventing Iranian
encroachment. But what did Israel gain from exposing its
'anti-intervention' lie after so many years of denial? In his final days
as the Israel Defense Forces' Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi
Eisenkot confirmed, on the record, that Israel had directly suppo
Feb 06
The
Iowa caucus scandal has continued to get more egregious by the hour,
with new revelations routinely pouring in about extremely suspicious
manipulations taking place which all just so happen to disadvantage the
campaign of Bernie Sanders in the first Democratic electoral contest of
2020. By the time you read this article, there will likely have been
more. Following the failure of an extremely s
Feb 05
Recombination
technology has been in use in molecular virology since the 1980s. The
structure of the 2019-NCoV virus genome provides a very strong clue on
the likely origin of the virus. Unlike other related coronaviruses, the
2019-nCoV virus has a unique sequence about 1,378 bp (nucleotide base
pairs) long that is not found in related coronaviruses. Looking at the
phylogenetic tree recently publi
This
is the full English-language original version of the interview that
Andrew Korybko gave to Argentinian journalist Santiago Mayor, who then
published a shortened form of it in the Buenos Aires newspaper "Tiempo
Argentino": 1. In your book about the theory of the Hybrid War, you
review the different American geopolitical theories throughout history
to arrive at the current project of the "Euras
I
never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm a little worried about
Donald Trump. I'm worried he may be on the verge of a sudden, major
heart attack, or a stroke, or a fatal golfing accident. Food poisoning
is another possibility. Or he could overdose on prescription medication.
A tanning bed mishap is not out of the question. He could accidentally
hang himself during autoerotic asphyxiation,
An
app supposedly meant to ensure quick reporting of the Iowa caucus
results was developed by a firm deeply tied to the Democratic
establishment and went kaputt at the crucial moment. What are the
chances? It may sound like a conspiracy theory, but Americans can be
excused for their distrust of the system after what happened in 2016 -
and the facts that have been dug up on the group behind the fai
Feb 03
I
have read through the entire 181 pages of Trump's "peace deal" for
Israel, and it is breathtaking. It is not just that the "solution" it
proposes is ludicrously one-sided, it is the entire analysis of the
problem to be solved which reads as pure, unadulterated zionist
propaganda. For example, the word "violence" is used repeatedly. But it
only ever refers to violence by Arabs. There is not one s
Feb 02
Comment:
Y'all know the script by now. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseum... London
police have shot a man dead in the city's Streatham area in a
"terrorist-related" incident. Several people have been stabbed, and
video footage shared on social media shows armed police and ambulances
on the street. Armed police officers descended on the London suburb of
Streatham on Sunday afternoon, and shot a knife-wi
First
it was Facebook, then all of New Zealand; now Twitter has decided to
suspend Zero Hedge. Just as in the prior bans, which were eventually
overturned, so in this case it is unclear what prompted Twitter's abrupt
censorship: the only notification we received from twitter was the
following:
Twitter
has suspended the independent news outlet Zero Hedge. The publication,
which enjoyed a following of over 673,000 followers on Twitter, was
unceremoniously nuked from the social media platform following its
report that the origins of the deadly coronavirus (2019-nCoV) may have a
man-made origin, in addition to reports that the Chinese government may
be suppressing the total number of people
Comment:
Chutzpah! Billionaire speculator George Soros has called for Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his COO to be deposed, accusing them of seeking
to "maximize profits" without regard for consequences, in perhaps the
most ironic attack ever. Zuckerberg and Facebook Chief Operating Officer
Sheryl Sandberg "follow only one guiding principle: maximize profits
irrespective of the consequences," So
Feb 01
A
persistent American lawyer has uncovered the undeniable fact that the
FBI has been continuously lying, including giving false testimony in
court, in response to Freedom of Information requests for its records on
Seth Rich. The FBI has previously given affidavits that it has no
records regarding Seth Rich. A Freedom of Information request to the FBI
which did not mention Seth Rich, but asked for
It's
time to take a deep breath and dial down the hysteria. I am not
downplaying the seriousness of the new Coronavirus that has been
spreading around the world. People are dying and every death is a
tragedy, but it is not the end of civilization as we know it, contrary
to some media outlets which risk causing undue alarm and panic. The
headlines are ominous: "Wuhan is Ground Zero for Deadly Coron
Over
the past few days, the mainstream press has vigorously pushed back
against a theory about the origins of the coronavirus that has now
infected as many as 70,000+ people in Wuhan alone (depending on whom you
believe). The theory is that China obtained the coronavirus via a
Canadian research program, and started molding it into a bioweapon at
the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. Politifact point
Jan 31
Comment:
UPDATE January 31 We're losing track of how many times the number has
been revised. It seems American troops keep getting injured by that
Iranian attack. What were the Iranians using, time bombs? Here's the
latest revision: The U.S. military has once again raised the number of
U.S. service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran's
missile strike on an Iraqi base earlier this
Dissatisfaction
with democracy within developed countries is at its highest level in
almost 25 years, according to University of Cambridge researchers.
Academics have analysed what they say is the biggest global dataset on
attitudes towards democracy, based on four million people in 3,500
surveys. The UK and the United States had particularly high levels of
discontent. "Across the globe, democracy
Comment:
British media was abuzz last week over this actor's outspoken comments
on 'woke culture'. If you don't know before who Laurence Fox is, you
will soon! Not into purple hair? Don't think a lecture on your own toxic
masculinity sounds like good pillow talk? Won't go to see Little Women
on a date? Well that means you are probably a white supremacist, if not a
mass murderer. That's according t
Jan 30
Comment:
In the aftermath of British actor and comedian Ricky Gervais tearing
into woke Hollywood celebrities' virtue-signaling at the Golden Globes
awards ceremony earlier this month, another British actor recently
joined the fray, making no-holds-barred appearances on British TV and
radio. Only Fox, unlike Gervais, is most certainly not joking... In what
turned out to be the last year of his lif
An
Irish political analyst explained the reasons behind Washington's
failure to respond to Iran's retaliatory missile attack against a US
base in Iraq on Jan. 8, saying that "the US is aware that Iran is
willing and able to engage in a major conflict if necessary..."
Following is the full text of the interview.
Jan 29
Comment:
Yes, you read that headline correctly: John 'Pizzagate' Podesta is
gonna play possibly the deciding role in who the Dems nominate to run
against Trump. You couldn't make this sh*tshow up! Democrats hoping
their party learned from its 2016 failure have been horrified to
discover many of those behind Hillary Clinton's losing campaign -
including John Podesta of hacked email fame - have majo
A
new study has delivered a huge reality shock to career politicians and
liberal elites — that dissatisfaction with democracy has been rising for
decades, and especially in the developed world is approaching an
all-time global high. World leaders love to toot the horn of democracy.
To take just three recent examples, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau and
even Barack Obama have all weighed in on how gr
Western
elites and their lackeys in the media despise Russian president
Vladimir Putin and they make no bones about it. The reasons for this
should be fairly obvious. Putin has rolled back US ambitions in Syria
and Ukraine, aligned himself with Washington's biggest strategic rival
in Asia, China, and is currently strengthening his economic ties with
Europe which poses a long-term threat to US domi
In
this essay, I introduce a slew of neologisms -- new words -- to capture
the tone and substance of much discourse, rhetoric, dysfunction, and
bias in academia and psychology. The first is: Orwelexicon: Twisting the
meaning of words in order to advance a political or policy agenda. For
example, consider Diversity Statements. "Diversity" statements do not
refer to diversity as normally defined, wh
Comment:
This is the FOURTH time the Pentagon has revised its casualty estimate
upwards since the airstrikes on January 8th... The Pentagon said on
Tuesday 50 US service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain
injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this
month, 16 more than the military had previously announced. Donald Trump
and other top officials initially said Ira
Comment:
This is the FOURTH time the Pentagon has revised its casualty estimate
upwards since the airstrikes on January 8th... The Pentagon said on
Tuesday 50 US service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain
injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this
month, 16 more than the military had previously announced. Donald Trump
and other top officials initially said Ira
Jan 27
A
Taliban spokesman claims the group has shot down a US military aircraft
over eastern Afghanistan. The US military said on Monday it was
investigating reports of a crash in Taliban-controlled territory.
Footage purportedly taken from the snowy wreckage site showed the US air
force insignia on the charred fuselage. A spokesman for the Taliban,
Zabihullah Mujahid, said in a statement posted online:
Jan 25
A
silent war is being waged on our food supply. Tonight we get a rare
glimpse into the operations of the well-oiled machine that is
incessantly at work to strip you of your ability to feed your family.
Watch this video to see just how far Harvard and Yale professors will go
in order to censor studies demonstrating that beef is perfectly
healthy. #BEEFGATE Sources
Jan 24
Comment:
First the Pentagon said there were 'zero casualties'. Then early
reports about some 200 injured US troops being flown to Israel for
treatment were retracted as 'fake news'. Then they admitted 11
casualties. Now, just over weeks later, the Pentagon has increased that
number to '34', and 'promises to review how it reports injuries'... The
Pentagon said Friday that 34 U.S. service members su
Comment:
First the Pentagon said there were 'zero casualties'. Then early
reports about some 200 injured US troops being flown to Israel for
treatment were retracted as 'fake news'. Then they admitted 11
casualties. Now, just over weeks later, the Pentagon has increased that
number to '34', and 'promises to review how it reports injuries'... The
Pentagon said Friday that 34 U.S. service members su
Comment:
We're not sure that the turnout was in the millions, but Western
observers in Baghdad today reported a sea of people many miles long in
every direction. It looks like the chickens have finally come home to
roost on America's bloody adventures in Mesopotamia. A massive
demonstration -called for by a prominent Shia cleric- has flooded the
streets of the Iraq's capital Baghdad, with thousand
The
Justice Department has concluded that it should have ended its
surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser earlier than it did
because it lacked "insufficient predication" to continue eavesdropping,
according to an order made public Thursday by a secretive intelligence
court. The FBI obtained a warrant in 2016 to eavesdrop on former Trump
national security aide Carter Page on suspicions th
New
research has shown that despite being marketed as a healthy
alternative, soybean oil, America's most popular oil, causes
neurological changes in the brains of mice, and may contribute to autism
and dementia in humans. Extracted from the seeds of soybeans and used
in everything from fast food to animal feed and even baby formula,
soybean oil is easily the most widely consumed oil in the US, ubi
Jan 23
Summary:
7 Chinese cities, around 23 million people, effectively under
quarantine Multiple cases across the world - from Scotland to Singapore
and USA 634 Infected (according to Chinese officials) 18 Dead (following
1st death outside Wuhan) WHO says "not the time to declare a global
health emergency" "Make no mistake: This is an emergency in China,"
Tedros said. "But it has not yet become a global
Suing
Hillary Clinton for defamation is necessary in order to keep the former
first lady and her powerful allies from smearing Americans who seek
"peace and freedom" for all, Tulsi Gabbard has argued. The Democratic
presidential hopeful released a scathing statement in defense of her
suit against Clinton, noting that the former secretary of state's
attempt to smear her as "the favorite of the Russ
Comment:
Who else has the balls to stand up against The Killary like this?
Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit
Wednesday against former First Lady Hillary Clinton. A press report
released from Gabbard's campaign announced the lawsuit Wednesday.
Gabbard's lawyers previously demanded Clinton retract her comments,
where she claimed Gabbard was the Russian's favorite candid
The
Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone --
a total that's larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the
Defense Department's continuing difficulty in balancing its books. The
latest estimate is up from $30.7 trillion in 2018 and $29 trillion in
2017, the first year adjustments were tracked in a concerted way,
according to Pentagon figures and a lawmaker w
Jan 22
Last
week, the IMF issued a stark warning about the global economy. While
most large Western states are vulnerable to a new crisis, Russia has
prepared its defenses. Kristalina Georgieva isn't any sort of conspiracy
theorist; she's the head of the International Monetary Fund. And when
she warns that the global economy risks another "Great Depression," you
would think everyone would listen. But the
Comment:
First they said there were 'zero casualties'. Then early reports about
some 200 injured US troops being flown to Israel for treatment were
retracted. Then they admitted 11 casualties. Now, two weeks later,
they've increased that number 'by a few', with 'more potentially to
come'... Additional U.S. troops have been flown out of Iraq for closer
evaluation of potential concussion injuries fr
Masked
gunmen on Wednesday ambushed and killed the local commander of a
paramilitary security force in southwest Iran, an associate of Iran's
top general recently killed in an American drone strike in Baghdad. The
slain commander, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, headed the Basij forces, a
paramilitary wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used
for internal security and other tasks, in the t
As
the Chinese coronavirus spreads rapidly around the globe, governments
worldwide are making a show of doing something. But are their measures
effective, or just exercises in population control? On Wednesday, the
World Health Organization may declare an international public health
emergency. Whether or not they do this will greatly affect the response
of both the Chinese government and others in
Jan 21
A
former inspector with the OPCW has accused the chemical weapons
watchdog of issuing a sanitized report on the alleged 2018 attack in
Douma, Syria, arguing it ignored serious reservations of its own
fact-finding team. The OPCW's final report on the Douma incident,
released last March, omitted key findings of its own inspection team
which would have cast serious doubt on whether a chemical attack
Jan 20
In
the West, there is a new wave of political correctness at work: it is
all about one's sexual orientation; who has sex with whom, and how.
Suddenly, the mass media in London, Paris and New York is greatly
concerned about who has the right to change his or her sex, and who does
not want to belong to any 'traditional' gender bracket. Thinking about
'it', writing about it, doing it, is considered "
Jan 18
Demonstrators
shouted slogans denouncing the police, President Macron and his pension
reforms on Saturday. French police have fired tear gas at protesters
hurling projectiles and arrested dozens of people as thousands of
"yellow vest" anti-government protesters returned to the streets of
Paris. Demonstrators on Saturday shouted slogans denouncing the police,
President Emmanuel Macron and his pensi
Not
one UK national newspaper has described Sultan Qaboos as a dictator,
despite his being the Middle East's longest-serving autocrat, having
taken power in 1970. Qaboos' half century in power was more than twice
as long as Saddam Hussein's 24-year-rule in Iraq and even surpassed
Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years in Libya. Qaboos acted as Oman's prime
minister, defence minister, finance minister, foreign
By
the series of actions in recent months in Iraq and across the Middle
East, Washington has forced a strategic shift towards China, and to an
extent Russia, and away from the United States. If events continue on
their present trajectory it could well be that a main reason why
Washington backed the destabilization of Assad in Syria - to block a
planned Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline - will now happe
The
Raging Twenties started with a bang with the targeted assassination of
Iran's General Qasem Soleimani. Yet a bigger bang awaits us throughout
the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia,
which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes
of Eurasia integration. Every game-changing act in geopolitics and
geoeconomics in the coming decade will have t
On
20 December 2019 President Vladimir Putin intervened very publicly to
correct the West's fake history of the origins and waging of World War
II. Four days later, obviously exasperated, he took aim at Poland,
characterising the Polish ambassador in Berlin during the latter 1930s,
Jósef Lipski, as "a bastard and anti-Semitic pig". The Polish governing
elite was notoriously anti-Semitic, and in 19
Jan 17
Comment:
This interests us today because it's the same location from which
missiles were fired at Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 last week - Shahid
Moddares missile base, near the village of Bidkaneh, west of Tehran.
Then too, the Iranians insisted the incident was 'an accident'...
Israeli agents were responsible for a devastating blast last November
that damaged an important Iranian military facilit
Comment:
This interests us today because it's the same location from which
missiles were fired at Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 last week. Then too,
the Iranians insisted the incident was 'an accident'... Israeli agents
were responsible for a devastating blast last November that damaged an
important Iranian military facility, according to an email written by
the head of a leading private American in
The
University of California Santa Barbara wants to hire a professor of
woke alchemy: Can you imagine wasting your money, your mind, and your
life studying this garbage? As a Twitter follower of mine said: Ross
Douthat writes an extremely sobering column about the collapse of the
academic humanities (this "queer migrations" position sounds like social
science, not humanities, but the general theme
Comment:
The vast majority of what you hear about Iran is Fake News,
literally... In 2018, President Donald Trump was seeking to jettison the
landmark nuclear deal that his predecessor had signed with Iran in
2015, and he was looking for ways to win over a skeptical press. The
White House claimed that the nuclear deal had allowed Iran to increase
its military budget, and Washington Post reporters
Comment:
The Pentagon's P.R. operation regarding the damage Iran inflicted on
its largest airbase in Iraq, and regarding U.S. casualties, continues...
Eleven U.S. service members were flown out of Al- Assad Air Base in
Iraq and treated for concussion symptoms after Iran's rocket attack
targeting two Iraqi military bases earlier this month, a spokesman for
U.S. Central Command revealed Thursday nig
Jan 16
Warsaw
was liberated by Soviet forces 75 years ago today — and Polish
officials have cloaked the pivotal event in myths ever since. Yet,
newly-released historical documents help shed some light on the truth.
Official Warsaw had no plans to celebrate this date — but it is not the
first time that Poland has ignored the liberation of its state capital.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the ear
The
claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a "terrorist" on a
mission to carry out an "imminent" attack that would kill hundreds of
Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything
else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure,
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing from Tehran's Imam
Khomeini International Airport on the morning of Janua
The
claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a "terrorist" on a
mission to carry out an "imminent" attack that would kill hundreds of
Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything
else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure,
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing from Tehran's Imam
Khomeini International Airport on the morning of Janua
It's
almost unheard of for medical journals to get blowback for studies
before the data are published. But that's what happened to the Annals of
Internal Medicine last fall as editors were about to post several
studies showing that the evidence linking red meat consumption with
cardiovascular disease and cancer is too weak to recommend that adults
eat less of it. Annals Editor-in-Chief Christine L
The
proposal had been one of the nation's broadest, but it came under
intense criticism from vaccine skeptics. It began as one of the nation's
broadest proposed bans on religious exemptions to childhood vaccines.
But after weeks of sustained and boisterous protests by vaccine
skeptics, as well as a last-minute effort to amend the proposed bill to
win the support of key lawmakers, the effort collap
They
say life comes at you fast. A seemingly routine 'state-of-the-nation'
address by Vladimir Putin unexpectedly turned into one of the most
memorable afternoons in recent Russian political history. On Wednesday,
Russia's government resigned. Dmitry Medvedev departed the political
frontline, Vladimir Putin effectively confirmed he will leave the
presidency at the end of his present term, and Mikh
Jan 15
When
the Pentagon confirmed the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem
Soleimani, U.S. President Donald Trump took to social media to post a
single image of the American flag to the adulation of his followers.
Unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of the other flag synonymous
with U.S. foreign policy, that of the 'false flag' utilized to deceive
the public and stir up support for endles
According
to a document circulating in cyberspace, James Hogan (a Pentagon
official), during his correspondence with Bennie Thompson (Chairman of
the US House Committee on Homeland Security), officially announced the
damage to the Ain al-Assad air base. The statistics published in his
letter show that the United States, contrary to what the media has
reported, suffered heavy losses. The informatio
There
remain a lot of unanswered questions and implausible explanations in
the story of the Ukrainian airliner shot down near Tehran on January
8th, 2020. And while the Iranians have publicly and officially taken
responsibility, there may be other reasons for them taking
responsibility besides their actually having done it. I can think of
several, and I will propose a few. But one thing I am certa
Jan 13
Commendably,
Iran has apologized for shooting down the passenger jet and killing all
176 people on board. It shows integrity to take responsibility for the
disastrous loss of life at a time of intense adversity. Now will other
parties also show similar humility in admitting their role for creating
precarious conditions where death seems an inevitable outcome?
Specifically, can US President Donald
A
Thursday evening software update at Facebook accidentally allowed
anyone to view exactly who is posting under the accounts of public
figures, businesses and other entities, according to Wired. The result?
For starters, some 3 million followers of teenage climate activist Greta
Thunberg have been reading posts written by her father, Svante
Thunberg, and a climate activist in India who serves as a
The
most important conservative thinker of his generation, the philosopher
Sir Roger Scruton, has died. He was 75 and suffering from cancer. In his
life he published scores of books on a dizzying number of topics,
ranging through politics, art, music, the philosophy of Emmanuel Kant,
religion, and fox hunting. He also wrote fiction, including the novels
Notes from Underground and The Disappeared a
Comment:
Yesterday, 12 Jan 2020, marked the 10-year anniversary of the
devastating earthquake that was almost a direct hit on Haiti's capital,
Port-au-Prince. The US launched a huge relief operation, albeit a
heavily militarized one, effectively ending up with an occupying force
of over 20,000 troops. We were alarmed at the time by the speed of the
initial US mobilization of 10,000 Marines. This w
Jan 12
Comment:
And why is this interesting? Because the US, immediately after the
Ukraine Airlines plane was shot down near Tehran last week, said a
missile or two fired from an Iranian TOR-1M air defense system (bought
from Russia) was the culprit... Latest round of leaks suggest Russia
gave Israel codes to access Iran's Tor- M1 air-defense systems. Russia
provided Israel security codes to access Iran'
Commander
of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)
Amir-Ali Hajizadeh has, in a press conference, outlined the details of
the "unintentional" downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, which
crashed in Tehran Wednesday. In his comments on Saturday, Brigadier
General Hajizadeh said the IRGC Aerospace Force accepts full
responsibility for the tragic incident, and is ready to
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west is still finding it extraordinarily difficult to come to terms
with China's remarkable ascent By 2010, China was beginning to have an
impact on the global consciousness in a new way. Prior to the western
financial crisis, it had been seen as the new but very junior kid on the
block. The financial crash changed all that. Before 2008 the
conventional western wisdom had been that sooner or l
Western
intelligence claims about the airliner shoot-down by Iran have been
proven correct - after the Iranian authorities owned up to the disaster.
Iran's air commander General Amir Ali Hajizadeh delivered the grim news
that a defense
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