Southfront has an excellent longread on the Turkish role in the war on Syria from its very beginning. The piece includes a list of the groups Turkey currently supports and gives an outlook on Turkey’s plans: Turkish Strategy In Northern Syria: Military Operations, Turkish-backed Groups And Idlib Issue. The conclusion: In the contemporary military and […]
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Putin: Israel Didn’t Down Il-20, Chain of Tragic Circumstances Led to Incident…
Vladimir Putin has addressed the downing of a Russian IL-20 by a Syrian surface-to-air missile on Monday evening. Earlier Moscow blamed Israeli jets for having provoked the tragic accident. Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences over the death of the crew of the aircraft Il-20 downed in Syria. “When people die, especially in such […]
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The Skripal Affair: Petrov, Boshirov and the Burden of Proof…
For some time now, I have been concerned that our generation has been busy burying some of the most cherished legal concepts that many of our forebears seemed to instinctively understand, and which were enshrined into English Common Law. Concepts such as innocent until proven guilty, and that the burden of proof rests with the […]
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Merkel Confronts a Defining Moment as the Global Order Realigns…
Ask Angela Merkel to reflect on her political legacy and she’ll tell you she’s got too much on her plate to worry about it. “I’m totally busy,” Merkel said on RTL television when quizzed on life after politics in an interview aired Thursday. “I haven’t thought about that question.” After nearly 13 years in office, […]
Monster Storm #Mangkhut Batters Hong Kong and Southern China…
Monster storm Mangkhut ripped through Hong Kong, Macau and cities dotted around the coastline of southern China as it swept across the region. On Saturday, it barreled into the Philippines, causing extensive damage and killing up to 50 people. Already the United Nations Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System is predicting that 43.4 million people […]
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Anti-Nazi Hashtag Campaign Tries to Correct East Germany’s Far-Right Image…
A new social media campaign is aiming to redress the perception that eastern Germany is in the grip of far-right populists and neo-Nazis. The blogger Stefan Krabbes has started “the other East” hashtag, which has been taken up enthusiastically. Eastern Germany is divided these days, but if there’s one thing that unites people who join […]
Pope Francis to Meet with U.S. Cardinals Thursday to Discuss McCarrick Debacle…
Pope Francis will meet with USCCB President Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and other U.S. prelates to discuss the ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick aspect of the Church’s sex abuse crisis Thursday, the Vatican has announced. DiNardo made the request for a papal audience in August. Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the head of Pope Francis’ papal Commission for the […]
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Leaked Sex Abuse Report Rocks German Church, 3,677 Victims…
Two German major media outlets – Der Spiegel and Die Zeit – leaked today the findings of a sexual abuse commission funded by the German Bishops’ Conference and which Cardinal Reinhard Marx had planned to present to the public on 25 September. The report shows that many abusing priests were simply transferred to other parishes […]
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Joint China-Russia Week Long War Games Signals Growing Military Ties…
More details have emerged revealing just how extensive the joint China-Russia week long ‘Vostok’ war games will be, set to kick off Tuesday, which is to involve a combined total of 300,000 troops, 36,000 military vehicles, 1,000 aircraft, two Russian naval fleets and all airborne units, along with a contingent from China, a clear sign […]
Iraq’s Haidar Abadi Has Fallen with the Burned Walls of the Iranian Consulate in Basra…
The US favourite candidate for the prime ministership Haidar Abadi lost his last chance to renew his mandate for a second term when riots caused arson around the southern city of Basra and burned down the walls of the Iranian consulate in the city. While the inhabitants demonstrated for their justified demands (fresh water, electricity, […]
UK Launches New Wave of Anti-Russia Hysteria to Pursue its Own Hidden Agenda…
Prime Minister Theresa May made a statement to accuse Russia of being behind the Skripal poisoning case. She went to address the parliament right after prosecutors accused two Russian men, allegedly military intelligence officers, to perpetrate the assassination attempt. These are the first criminal charges in the case that has spoiled the West-Russian relations so […]
The Skripal Poisoning: The Accused Russians, Petrov and Boshirov, and the Missing 42 Minutes…
Not for the first time in the Skripal Case, there are some distinctly odd things to come out of an official timeline. This time, it is the timeline put out by the Metropolitan Police on 5th September, when they formally accused two people – named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, of being the perpetrators […]
Palestinian Hospitals, Patients Latest Victims of U.S. Funding Cuts…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to cut aid to hospitals in West Bank and Gaza will threaten the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Palestinians, experts say. In an official statement released Saturday, the U.S. State Department said that after reviewing a multi-million assistance program to the Palestinian Authority, it had decided the cause was […]
Letter Confirms Viganò Claim: Vatican Knew of McCarrick Abuse in 2000…
A Vatican letter to a New York priest confirms the Holy See knew of sexual abuse allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2000, Catholic News Service reported Friday. The U.S. bishops’ official news service, Catholic News Service (CNS) also says the 12-year-old letter “confirms elements” of the explosive 11-page testimony of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. […]
British Airways Hacked With Details of 380k Credit Cards Stolen…
British Airways said Thursday that the personal and financial details of customers making bookings between August 21 and September 5 were stolen in a data breach involving 380,000 payment cards. “We are investigating, as a matter of urgency, the theft of customer data from our website and our mobile app. The stolen data did not […]
What Has Pope Francis Covered Up?
The Catholic Church is confronting a series of interconnected scandals so shameful that its very survival is threatened. Pope Francis himself is accused of covering up the activities of one of the nastiest sexual predators ever to wear a cardinal’s hat: his close ally Theodore McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, DC. Popes John Paul […]
Brazil Museum Fire Ruins 700 Ancient Egyptian Artifacts…
The massive fire that recently hit the National Museum of Brazil destroyed all 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts displayed in the pharaonic hall, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement Thursday. “According to a preliminary report, the fire that engulfed all sections destroyed all its artifacts including those in the pharaonic hall, which contained […]
British Labour Just Adopted a Definition of Anti-Semitism That Is Anti-Semitic…
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected head of the UK’s Labour Party, dire warnings of anti-Semitism have been a mainstay of the country’s daily headlines (MW articles). Prominent figures claiming to fight this wave of anti-Jewish hatred unfailingly cited one silver bullet: the so-called IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of anti-Semitism. Only by enforcing […]
The Strange Timestamp in the New Novichok ‘Evidence’…
Today, in a politically convenient moment, the British government released new information about the poisoning of the British spy Sergej Skripal, his daughter, and three other persons. It claims to have identified two men with Russian passports who arrived in London from Moscow on March 2, went to Salisbury on March 3 on a ‘reconnaissance’ […]
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WATCH: Mexican Mayor Seeks Asylum in U.S. After Cartel Threats…
Over the weekend, Elvia Del Socorro Ortega, the newly elected councilwoman for the city of Buenavista, Michoacan, published a video where she announced she was stepping down from her position and leaving her political party MORENA. In addition to being a councilwoman-elect, Socorro was set to take over as mayor of Buenavista following the murder […]
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