September 2018 archive

Paul Craig Roberts: Where Does Our Attention Belong – Kavanaugh Or Yemen? Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, There are reports that the Washington-initiated and militarily-supported Saudi Arabian war against Yemen have a starving Yemeni population eating leaves. The Saudis, with Washington’s GPS support, continue to target school buses, massacring children as an element of the …

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EU, UK, Russia, & China Join Together To Dodge US Sanctions On Iran Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York is a place where world leaders are able to hold important meetings behind closed doors. Russia, China, the UK, Germany, France, and the EU seized …

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Slovak Police Arrest Suspects In Mafia Hit That Nearly Brought Down Government Seven months after Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova were assassinated in what’s believed to have been a paid hit organized by an Italian organized crime group with deep ties to the Slovakian government, local police have finally arrested …

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US And Turkey "Quietly" Making Progress At "Highest Levels" On Release Of American Pastor A new report in Middle East Eye says Pastor Andrew Brunson could very soon be released from Turkish detention after months of immense US pressure on Ankara has sent the Turkish lira into a nosedive. In the past weeks the issue has been out of …

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Fountain Of Youth Discovered? Recently released figures from Eurostat reveal the regions/areas in the European Union where men and women have the longest life expectancies. As Statista’s chart shows, Madrid is top of the list for both genders, with women born in Madrid in 2016 expected to live until they are 87.8 years old. Men in the community of …

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Watch Algerian First Arrivals: Spain's 2019 Migration Crisis Will Dwarf Italy's Disaster According to GEFIRA’s source, these migrants left Algeria. Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Turkey are functioning now as transit countries while neither Frontex nor the European Union are showing any signs to solve the problems. A total of 152 immigrants aboard 13 pateras have …

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In Stunning Theft, $104 Million In Banknotes Disappears From Liberian Central Bank Liberia is still struggling with the aftermath of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the stubbornly low prices of coffee and other commodities that its exporters rely on to bring in badly needed foreign capital. But to the country’s lengthy list of problems, we …

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A Path To War? China Cancels US Trade Talks As 'Skirmish' Escalates Following a surge in Chinese, European, and much of the US equity markets this week amid hopes that the so-called ‘trade skirmish’ was less ‘war-like’ than expected, China just dropped an early Saturday morning (local time) tape bomb that is sure to resurrect …

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Kavanaugh Accuser Misses 10PM Deadline, Grassley Grants Demand For One More Day Update: Grassley has granted Ford an additional day to decide on next week’s testimony.  In several late Friday tweets, Grassley wrote: “Five times now we hv granted extension for Dr Ford to decide if she wants to proceed w her desire stated one …

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Italy Is Suffering The Worst 'Brain-Drain' In Europe Figures released today by Eurostat have revealed a concentration of the European Union’s scientists and engineers in the UK and Germany. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong points out, combined, the two countries are home to 38 percent while at the same time only accounting for 29 percent of the …

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