Imagine the reaction in the global Muslim community if a western nation imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Muslims solely for being Muslim and subjected them to torture, “re-education” that amounts to treating their religious faith as a pathological mental illness, forcefully separating parents and children, incarcerating the children in state-run orphanages, and on and on […]
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Qatari Academic Seen in Video Explaining How Muslim Men Should Beat Their Wives…
A leading academic and cleric from World Cup host country Qatar has filmed a shocking guide on how Muslim men should beat their wives. The vile video features Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj demonstrating how to “punish” a woman in accordance with Islamic law. In a further sick move, the sociologist used a school-age boy called Nayef […]
Tory Support Splinters, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party Nearly Even in Polls…
The bitter fallout from Brexit is threatening to break the Tory party apart, as a Europhile former cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell on Sunday announces he is defecting to the independent MPs’ group Change UK, and a new opinion poll shows Conservative support plummeting to a five-year low as anti-EU parties surge. The latest defections come […]
The Lost Syria Phone of German Islamic State Widow Omaima Abdi…
Here with English subs. I got the phone content of top German #ISIS widow Omaima Abdi. 1000s of pics show she carries gun, arms her child &marries jihadist Deso Dogg. She returned to Hamburg &now lives as if nothing happened. Why story about German #ISIS widow Omaima Abdi crucial? Normally ISIS members give interviews & […]
Kushner: Peace Plan Will Be Revealed After Ramadan…
Kushner told some 100 foreign ambassadors in Washington on Wednesday that the plan would require an “open mind” from both sides – both of whom will be forced to make compromises, according to source cited by Reuters. The source quoted Kushner as saying that the “the plan will require concessions from both sides but won’t […]
Notre Dame Was 15 Minutes from Destruction; Here’s What Was Saved and What Was Lost…
Notre-Dame cathedral was 15-30 minutes from total destruction after a huge fire destroyed its wooden roof and spire, the French government said on Monday night. “Just 15 minutes or half an hour later and it would have been too late to save it,” junior interior minister Laurent Nunez told reporters outside the cathedral. The Paris […]
Sudan’s Bashir Transferred to Jail Notorious for Holding Political Prisoners During His Regime…
Sudan’s ousted President Omar al-Bashir was transferred on Tuesday evening to Kober prison, a maximum-security prison notorious for holding political prisoners during his 30-year dictatorship, two prison officials who witnessed his arrival told CNN. Several other regime figures are being held at the jail and kept separately to Bashir, who is under intensified security measures, […]
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Banned From School Over Sexism Concerns…
A school in Catalonia, Spain, has withdrawn from its library 200 classic children’s books such as Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood because of their depiction of sexist stereotypes. After analyzing the contents of its library for children up to the age of 6, the management of Taber School in Barcelona found that around […]
Peru’s Ex-President Garcia Dies After Shooting Himself to Avoid Arrest…
Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday, April 17, after shooting himself as police arrived at his house to arrest him in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said on Wednesday. Garcia, who had repeatedly denied wrongdoing, was 69. President Martin Vizcarra said on Twitter that he was “consternated” […]
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un Summit in Vladivostok…
Yonhap reports that Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un will be meeting next week in Vladivostok, Russia. Putin will meet Kim before he attends an international forum in Beijing from April 26-29. The forum is about Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” initiative, a grand geopolitical strategy to connect China with Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe […]
Mercenaries, Spies, and Double Agents Gather En Masse in Bogotá…
Small families with bedrolls loiter quietly on the red-brick sidewalks outside the high-end eateries and upscale boutiques of Bogotá’s northern neighborhoods, taking handouts. Along the gritty, honking avenues farther south, young men push cartloads of candy for sale or shoulder food-delivery backpacks as employees of one of the Colombian capital’s fastest-growing startups. They are Venezuelan […]
Crime in Mexico: 8500 Homicides in First Quarter of 2019…
As President Trump declared a national emergency over the humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border, our southern neighbour Mexico is on track to record its most violent year on record, according to security experts. The first quarter of 2019 would also be the most violent first three-month period of any year since the […]
How Corruption, Voter Fraud and a Neoliberal Turn Led Ecuador’s Lenin to Give Up Assange…
Desperate to ingratiate his government with Washington and distract the public from his mounting scandals, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has sacrificed Julian Assange – and his country’s independence. The images of six Metropolitan police officers dragging Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London have provoked rage by citizens around the world. Many have […]
SO FAR DONATIONS FROM FRANCE’S RICHEST FAMILIES EXCEED €600M TO RESTORE NOTRE-DAME…
French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral after it was ravaged by fire on Monday, saying that he would launch a national funding campaign as international fundraising gathered momentum.”I say to you very solemnly this evening: this cathedral will be rebuilt by us all together. … We will rebuild Notre Dame because […]
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Amid Trade War Fears, EU Overrules France and Green Lights Talks with U.S….
European Union countries on Monday overruled France and gave the green light for Brussels to open trade talks with Washington as soon as possible and defuse trans-Atlantic tensions. The EU’s 28 member states had struggled for months to agree on a mandate to open the talks, with some fearing the delay would restart a trade […]
Farage Plans Revolution as Brexit Party Targets EU Election…
One of the United Kingdom’s strongest Brexit proponents launched a new party this week; unveiling the official ‘Brexit Party’ after Theresa May’s government failed to fulfill its promise to leave the European Union. Nigel Farage -a staunch ally of President Trump- addressed supporters Friday and vowed to kick-off a new campaign ahead of next month’s […]
Israel’s Lunar Lander Crashes On Moon; Team Will Still Collect $1m Prize…
Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft failed to land on the moon today after suffering a catastrophic engine and communications failure. Launched along with a host of other satellites as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the lander – a joint project between privately funded non-profit SpaceIL and government-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) – lost […]
Millions of Chinese Youth ‘Volunteers’ to be Sent to Villages in Echo of Maoist Policy…
China is planning to send millions of youth “volunteers” back to villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago. The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students to “rural zones” by 2022 in order to “increase their skills, […]
Venezuelan Ex-Spy Chief Turned Defector Arrested in Spain…
Hugo Carvajal, the former director of Venezuela’s military intelligence and a high-profile critic of the Nicolás Maduro regime, has been arrested in Spain and is awaiting extradition to the United States on drug charges, according to local reports. Carvajal has been in the U.S. cross-hairs since at least 2014 on allegations that he helped Colombian […]
Roger Scruton: An Apology for Thinking…
I recently gave an interview to the New Statesman, on the assumption that, as the magazine’s former wine critic I would be treated with respect, and that the journalist, George Eaton, was sincere in wanting to talk to me about my intellectual life. Not for the first time I am forced to acknowledge what a […]