Marines Begin Amphibious Landing Exercises In Sweden Ahead Of Massive NATO War Games The Marine Corps Times on Tuesday reported the details of the run-up to what’s being described as NATO’s largest ever military games in a decade, called Trident Juncture, set to take place right up along Russia’s border with Europe. Currently, the US Marine Corps …

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Sweden's Anti-Immigration Party Set For Record Wins As Election Days Away A surge in populism has sent Sweden’s far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) Party surging in the polls leading up to the country’s September 9 election – placing them neck and neck with the Moderate party. The current ruling party, the Swedish Social Democrats (S), however, remain strongly in …

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Dijsselbloem: Greece Should Have Been Grateful For European Aid, Kept Mouth Shut Greece should have been grateful for European aid and kept its mouth shut. That’s the clear message from former Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem in an interview this weekend. He has clearly not recovered yet from the traumatic experience with former Greek finance Minister …

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US Strategy In Syria: "Create Quagmires Until We Get What We Want" Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, In 2013, top Obama Administration officials described their policy in the Syrian War as one of keeping the war going. The administration wanted a big seat at the table for a political settlement, which officials clarified meant ensuring …

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Vigilantes With A Badge: Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives And Freedoms Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final …

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Israel Developing Missiles To Strike Any Target In Mideast Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced earlier this week that Israel is purchasing new, advanced missiles that he states can strike “anywhere in the Middle East.” The Jerusalem Post said the Defense Ministry’s decision to purchase precision ground-to-ground rockets “is nothing short of a revolution,” as the region …

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Where People Are Most And Least Proud To Be European Late last year, Pew Research polled people in 15 countries across Europe about how proud they were to identify as European. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy shows in the following infographic, respondents in Finland had the highest level of pride with 87 percent saying they were very or somewhat …

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UAE Buys World's Largest Rocket Launcher "Jobaria" From Turkey One of the leading firms in the Turkish defense industry, Roketsan, set a record with world’s largest rocket artillery, capable of launching hundreds of rockets in 2 minutes from a single military vehicle, the company announced on Saturday. Jobaria, a Multiple Cradle Launcher (MCL), was developed by …

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Ireland's Dwindling Catholic Masses Over the weekend, Pope Francis visited Ireland, the country’s first papal visit since John Paul II’s memorable trip in 1979. The Ireland Francis visited is a very different place compared to 1979 with the Irish Catholic church rocked by scandals including sexual abuse, illegal adoptions, cover-ups and the exploitation of women in mother-and-baby …

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"Not Commercially Viable" – British Airways, Air France, KLM Axe Flights To Iran British Airways announced Thursday it plans to stop service to Tehran after its last scheduled flight on September 22.  A British Airways (BA) spokesperson announced the move, which comes after the latest round US sanctions went into effect against Iran this month: “We …

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