Qatar has all but said that the French-made Matra Super 530F air-to-air missile that Italian authorities recently recovered was among those it sold to Spain 25 years ago. Police in Italy seized the missile, which was inside its specially-built container marked as being part of a sale to Qatar, during raids on Monday targeting individuals […]
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Confusion Surrounding Italian Nazis in Ukraine, Missiles and Donbas War…
Fast pacing news can be confusing. Reports appear which contradict each other. They miss some significant details. News that was fake news can suddenly becomes right. Correct versions of the news can become fake news. Here is a live case that shows how and why this can happen. Yesterday the Italian state police arrested a […]
Ousted UK Ambassador Leaked U.S. Intelligence…
Leaked U.K. diplomatic cables critical of President Trump have led Britain’s ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, to announce his departure from Washington earlier than expected. But the story is not yet concluded. According to one current and one former U.S. government official speaking on the condition of anonymity, Darroch repeatedly leaked classified U.S. intelligence information, including […]
Lindsey Graham Tells Europe: We Will Sanction You ‘to the ground’ If You Do Business with Iran…
If European countries continue to support Iran’s uranium enrichment, the United States should “grind them into the ground” with sanctions, Sen. Lindsey Graham said. Graham’s warning comes days after Tehran announced it was beginning to enrich uranium beyond limits set forth in the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. European signatories to the deal have attempted to […]
“Massive Loss of Life”: 3,500 Deaths as Simultaneous Ebola and Measles Outbreaks Hit Congo…
World Health Organization (WHO) officials released new staggering numbers this week on the death toll from central Africa’s latest deadly Ebola virus outbreak. Confirmed deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo have risen to 1,536 since the outbreak began there a little under a year ago. And by July 7, a total of 2,418 what […]
More Leaked UK British Leaked Cables Where the Rather Partisan Ambassador Suggests Trump Axed Iran Deal to Spite Obama…
Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal as an act of ‘diplomatic vandalism’ to spite his predecessor Barack Obama, Britain’s Ambassador to Washington wrote in a bombshell memo to Downing Street. Sir Kim Darroch’s claim – made after Boris Johnson made a doomed trip to the White House to change the President’s mind – is […]
Beijing to Impose Sanctions on U.S. Firms Involved in $2.2B Taiwan Arms Deal…
Beijing said on Friday it will issue sanctions against the U.S. companies involved in the latest arms sale to Taiwan, as tensions between China and the United States continue to rise. The foreign ministry said in a brief statement that the move by Washington had violated China’s territorial sovereignty and national security. “To protect our […]
New Generation of Political Exiles Leave Bolsonaro’s Brazil ‘to stay alive’…
At times, the solitude and separation from family and friends have plunged Jean Wyllys into despair. “I’ve been through moments of deep sadness, I’ve spent the whole night crying,” he said, speaking by phone from his new home in Berlin. “So I avoid thinking about it too much. I’ve kept very busy, I’ve written a […]
Germany’s Angela Merkel Seen Shaking for Third Time Within Weeks…
The German chancellor was seen slightly shaking while greeting Finland’s prime minister in Berlin. It’s the third time in recent weeks that this has been noticed during public appearances. German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to be shaking in Berlin on Wednesday while receiving Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne, according to reporters and witnesses. Video of […]
Russian Nuclear Sub Wreck Leaking Radiation 100,000 Times Higher Than Normal…
Researchers in Norway have discovered radiation levels in excess of 100,000 times normal next to a Soviet-era nuclear submarine which sank in the Arctic 30 years ago – a reading which is higher than those taken 12 years ago, according to Norwegian news outlet TV2. Researchers in Norway have discovered radiation levels in excess of […]
World’s Largest Distributor of Child Pornography Denied Bail…
Eric Eoin Marques, who has an address at Mountjoy Square, is wanted by US authorities on charges including conspiring to distribute and advertise child pornography and advertising and distributing child pornography. The FBI believe he was the owner and administrator of an anonymous web hosting service known as Freedom Hosting and the world’s largest facilitator […]
UK’s Tommy Robinson’s Desperate Plea to President Trump…
Political prisoner Tommy Robinson says, “I feel like I’m two days away from being sentenced to death.” Robinson faces being murdered in prison for the crime of reporting on pedophile rape gangs in the U.K. President Trump should offer him political asylum and take a stand for the freedom of the press around the world. […]
Just What Was That Stricken Russian Submarine Carrying?…
The Russians aren’t saying but this might be a clue: “Russian servicemen ‘averted planetary catastrophe’ during nuclear submarine accident, military official claims at funeral Kremlin refuses to reveal mission of vessel, citing state secrets.” Tragic, and potentially disastrous for the immediate area if the reactor casing had opened but not something you’d call “a planetary […]
Germany, UK, France Urge Iran to Reverse Decision on JCPOA Commitments…
France, Britain and Germany, the three European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, have asked the Islamic Republic to reverse its decision to enrich uranium beyond the limits set in the agreement. Iran announced Sunday that it was set to increase enrichment purity to levels higher than 3.67 percent after the three major […]
Will the Ukraine Parliament Election Reverse the Maidan Putsch, Drive the Galacians from Power?…
The US State Department, the Republican Party Institute and Igor Kolomoisky can’t all be wrong about what the overwhelming majority of Ukrainian voters is thinking – that there is a civil war in the Ukraine which cannot be won by US arms, money, and putsches in Kiev. The question to be decided on polling day, […]
Iran: 20% Enrichment Among Options on Table for Third Phase of JCPOA Modifications…
“The level of Iran’s (uranium) enrichment has exceeded 3.67% and at present the purity level of the produced materials is nearly 4.5%,” Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi told FNA on Monday. He added that the current level of enrichment fully meets Iran’s needs to fuel for the nuclear power […]
China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border…
Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders into the Xinjiang region, where authorities are conducting a massive campaign of surveillance and oppression against the local Muslim population, are being forced to install a piece of malware on their phones that gives all of their text messages as well as other pieces of data to the authorities, a […]
Russia Launches “Floating Chernobyl” Bound for the Arctic…
Next month, the world’s first floating nuclear power unit (FPU) dubbed ‘Academik Lomonosov’ will be towed via the Northern Sea Route to its final destination in the Far East, after almost two decades in construction. Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant has two KLT-40S reactor units that collectively generate 70 MW of energy. A year […]
Europe Circumvents U.S. Sanctions on Iran…
Europe has found a way of circumventing U.S. sanctions on Iran. The governments of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have developed a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to enable European businesses to maintain non-dollar trade with Iran without breaking U.S. sanctions. That SPV, known as INSTEX, is now up and running. The three governments announced […]
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No, Iran Is Not Rushing to Build a Nuclear Weapon…
John Mearsheimer is a political science scholar who adheres to the realist school of thought. He developed a theory of offensive realism that at times produces valid predictions of the behavior of some states. But his theory does not account for cultural factors and its predictions fail when these predominate in a state’s decisions. His […]
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