Turkish President Erdogan Blasts The US For "Sending 5,000 Trucks Loaded With Weapons To Northern Syria" On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sharply criticized the United States Armed Forces and its N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies for supplying weapons to Kurdish militias in Syria for free, while refusing to sell defense hardware to Turkey. “We …
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Apr 23
Today’s News 23rd April 2018
European Parliament Urges Boycott Of Soccer World Cup In Russia German Green Party member Rebecca Harms has initiated an open letter calling on EU governments to stay away from the FIFA World Cup taking place in Russia in June. Sixty Members of the European Parliament from 16 member states and 5 different political groups are …
Apr 22
Today’s News 22nd April 2018
Did The West Just Lose World War III By Forfeit? Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation, In the fall of the year 1480, at a point not far from Moscow, two armies faced each other on the opposite banks of the Ugra River. On the one side were the forces of …
Apr 21
Today’s News 21st April 2018
Russia Exposes British Lies On Skripal, But Trail Leads To US Authored by M.K. Bhadrakumar via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Moscow says it has proof that the agent used in the UK attack is a chemical weapon patented in the US. So was this a covert operation aimed at ratcheting up tensions between the West …
Apr 20
Today’s News 20th April 2018
These Are The Men & Women Most-Admired By Brits In 2018 In 2002, David Attenborough was named among the 100 Greatest Britons by a BBC poll. And as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the veteran broadcaster and naturalist is still the most admired man in the UK, according to a new YouGov survey. Widely considered a national …
Apr 19
Today’s News 19th April 2018
The Global Smartphone Boom Has Peaked, IMF Warns As it turns out, Apple executives aren’t the only ones who should be worried about slowing smartphone sales: The trend has the potential to hammer global economic growth – especially in Asia, where the rise of mobile technology has created increasingly complex supply chains. The IMF highlights …
Apr 18
Today’s News 18th April 2018
Tech Firms Promise To Fight Back Against Government Spying In an announcement ostensibly meant to put Russian and Chinese hackers on notice – but we imagine is truly intended to reassure wary foreign customers that American cloud computing firms wont’ turn their data over to the NSA – 31 tech titans from around the world …
Apr 17
Today’s News 17th April 2018
Stoltenberg Brushes Off Greece-Turkey Tensions: "Not An Issue For NATO" In the last two months, tensions between two NATO member states have escalated dramatically – Turkey has threatened to invade Greek islands, Greece has responded, and Greeks now see Turkey as the greatest threat to their existence. But, the rapidly souring tensions between Greece and …
Apr 16
Today’s News 16th April 2018
US Tanks In Europe Get Invisible Futuristic Missile Shield To Counter Russian Threat Back in March, we detailed how the United States Army M1 Abrams tank, an American third-generation main battle tank, was in the process of being upgraded with an invisible missile shield that will destroy all chemical energy anti-tank threats and other threats before reaching …
Apr 15
Today’s News 15th April 2018
The War Machine Springs To Life Over Syria Update: A few short hours after the initial writing of this report, the US, the UK and France conducted a missile air strike against Syria Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, NATO has drawn 1st blood. Will Russia respond? The events of the past few days involving Syria, the …