May 2019 archive

Putin Has Rejected Iran's S-400 Missile Request Over Soaring Gulf Tensions Bloomberg reports that Russia’s President Putin has rejected a controversial Iranian request to buy S-400 missile defense systems on the basis of current soaring tensions between Tehran and Washington following accusations of “sabotage” attacks on oil tankers and a pipeline in the gulf region.  The …

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US Troops To Be Based In Saudi Arabia, Qatar Against "Iran Threat" Just hours after US National Security Advisor John Bolton formally accused Tehran of conducing the May 12 tanker “sabotage” attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s foreign ministry has responded that “we are ready for war” amid fears that Washington could still be …

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London Somalis Sending Teens Back To Africa To Escape Stabbings Hundreds of British Muslims of Somali descent are sending their teenage children back to East Africa in order to avoid injury or death via stabbing, according to the BBC.  London has experienced 51 stabbing deaths in 2019, while the UK overall has seen 100. According to the report, …

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Austrian Government Collapses After Youngest-Ever Chancellor Loses Confidence Vote Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been removed from office in a stunning culmination of a scandal wherein a political ally was caught red-handed on tape discussing bribes from a woman he thought was the niece of a Russian oligarch.   <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Sebastian Kurz with …

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"Everything Is Under Scrutiny": 38,000 Layoffs Across Auto Industry May Only Be The Beginning Automakers can’t help but acknowledge the global recession in their industry after a decade of growth. As a result, they are slashing payroll across the board, according to Bloomberg. Countries like China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the United States …

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Shielding The World From US Chaos Is No Easy Task Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Donald Trump’s foreign policy relies heavily on putting to use to the tools available to the Empire: economic terrorism, threats of war, diplomatic pressure, trade wars, etc. But in resorting to tried-and-true imperialism, it is isolating itself internationally from traditional allies and …

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This Might Be Where The Very First Total Nuclear War Starts Via National Interest, This article by Dilip Hiro originally appeared at War is Boring in 2016. Undoubtedly, for nearly two decades the most dangerous place on Earth has been the Indian-Pakistani border in Kashmir. It’s possible that a small spark from artillery and rocket exchanges across …

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Chinese Diplomat Warns UK: Ditch Huawei At Your Own Peril Even with the 90 day delay, the Trump administration’s decision to blacklist Huawei and other foreign telecoms suspected of threatening national security has already prompted a handful of suppliers to cut ties with the Chinese telecoms giant, for fear that continuing to do business with …

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The World Is Getting Increasingly Dumber, Study Finds Western Europe is home to a cluster of developed economies that boost some of the highest standards of living in the world. But that could soon change. Because as Evan Horowitz writes on NBC News’s new “Think” vertical, IQ scores in France, Scandinavia, Britain, Germany and even …

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Ukraine's Comedian-Turned-President Vows "First Task" Is To "End War In Donbass" There’s fresh hope that unrest in Donbass raging since 2014 could find resolution as Ukraine’s new president, comedian and presidential impersonator turned overnight real political leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was just sworn in on Monday, and immediately he is dissolving parliament and urging peaceful settlement in the country’s east.  …

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