March 2019 archive

China’s New Silk Road To Extend To Russia's Crimea Russian state sources and officials have confirmed closer cooperation between Beijing and the Crimean peninsula on major Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, citing Chinese diplomats, which represents a continued significant shift in Moscow’s priorities which have historically pit Russia in economic competition with China. Any future BRI …

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Trump's Beijing Blockade Backfires: Not A Single European Country Has Banned Huawei For the past year, as part of Trump’s escalating trade war against China, the Trump administration has been waging a parallel campaign to convince America’s European “allies” (at least until the White House unleashes auto tariffs against Brussles in retaliation for China annexing …

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Germany Backpedals On NATO Spending Promise As France Goes Full Throttle Germany is poised to renege on its promise to boost NATO spending, backtracking on a public commitment last year by Chancellor Angela Merkel to increase German military expenditure to 1.5% of gross domestic product by 2024 – bringing it closer to the 2% level set …

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"A Massive War On Autopilot" – US Airstrikes Surge In Secret War In Somalia With so many little wars to keep track of, you probably haven’t noticed that the US has quietly been increasing its airstrikes against targets in Somalia. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> And, as RT’s Polly Boiko points out,  it seems few …

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Trump's Coup In Venezuela: What You're Not Being Told Authored by Jorge Martin via Venezuelanalysis.com, Washington is growing increasingly desperate as its coup efforts go further south in Venezuela… <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> The failure of the February 23 “humanitarian aid” provocation on the Venezuelan border was a serious blow for Trump’s ongoing coup attempt. There …

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Pity The Nation: War Spending Is Bankrupting America Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to …

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Italians Outraged After Court Rules Woman 'Too Ugly' To Be Raped The Italian Justice Ministry has ordered a preliminary investigation into an appeals court ruling by all-female judges which overturned a rape verdict by arguing in part that the woman who was attacked was too ugly to be a credible rape victim, according to The Star. The …

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Watch Norwegian F-35 Stealth Jet Test Fire First Air-to-Air Missile A Norwegian fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter jet assigned to 332 Squadron of the Royal Norwegian Air Force conducted the first air launch of an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) in Norway, according to the Defence Blog. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Norway joined the F-35 …

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Where Are The Landmines? Due to their indiscriminate and devastating effects, the long-lasting threat posed by their presence and the painstaking efforts required to remove them, anti-personnel landmines have rightfully been prohibited by the United Nations since 1997 – a treaty joined by over 150 countries. Nevertheless, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, there is still an alarmingly …

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Where Cash Is King In Europe How much cash do you have with you at the moment? <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> As Statista’s Martin Armstrong explains,  the answer to this question will probably depend, not only on your bank balance, but also on the country in which you live. As figures from the Access …

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