Tweeting out a photo of what he said were three rockets that failed to launch during Sunday’s attack on the embassy, Trump said they came from Iran and that there was “chatter” about additional attacks against Americans in Iraq. “Some friendly health advice to Iran: If one American is killed, …
Read More »Iran’s president compares Trump to hanged Saddam, predicts US president may meet same fate
“The day that madman was hanged was the day people celebrated their final victory,” Rouhani said Wednesday at a Cabinet meeting in Tehran. “Trump’s fate won’t be much better than Saddam’s.” The inflammatory remarks may ratchet up tensions with Washington at a time when media outlets such as Forbes and …
Read More »France sends warplanes to Central African Republic for flyover to prop up president ahead of vote in former colony
Macron “ordered a flyover of Central African territory by fighter planes” at the request of CAR President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, and it took place on Wednesday, the Elysee Palace said in a readout of the phone call between the two leaders. The flyover was conducted in agreement with MINUSCA, the UN …
Read More »Trump vetoes the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, sends it back to Congress
Trump announced he had vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, making good on an earlier promise to send the annual defense spending bill back to Congress to be reworked. The NDAA “fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and …
Read More »As rival US administrations antagonize China & Russia in turn, it’s clear for Beijing & Moscow they must stick together
On Tuesday, Japan and South Korea were alarmed by a joint Russia-China bomber patrol which came close to their airspace, described as “a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing.” The jets flew down the Korean Eastern Sea (Sea of Japan) before heading south towards the East …
Read More »Georgia election official who scoffed at Trump’s fraud claims says woman used his home address to ‘illegally vote’
Gabriel Sterling, the Voting System Implementation Manager for Georgia’s Secretary of State, revealed that a woman listed his address as her own when voting in the 2020 presidential election, and that she had also requested an absentee ballot, using the same incorrect address, for the state’s upcoming Senate runoff contest. …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: EVERYONE was wrong about Trump
After weeks of speculation and desperate hopes that Donald Trump might be preparing to pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and/or WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before leaving office on January 20th, what the latest round of presidential pardons has delivered is about as far from that as you can conceivably imagine. “In an audacious pre-Christmas …
Read More »WATCH: Authorities employ WRESTLERS to enforce mask wearing in public
In an apparent bid to enforce extreme compliance with mask wearing rules in public, authorities in the central Mexican city of over 380,000 residents, roughly 300km from the capital, decided to, playfully, stomp out the problem of non-compliance. Footage shared by city hall shows the hell-raising ‘health officers’ on patrol …
Read More »The billions given away by the ex-Mrs Bezos result from dodgy business practices that kill competition, so hold the accolades
One of Muhammad Ali’s best boasts was, “I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark,” and that comes to mind every time an Amazon package turns up on my doorstep. The doorbell rings, …
Read More »Never Trump pundit-extraordinaire Bill Kristol predicts Trump MEGA COUP on Xmas Eve, based on…hearsay
From repeated accusations of his “white supremacy,” to allegations that he’s been in bed with Moscow since the 1980s, facts have often taken a back seat to reality during the most breathless coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency. While such alarmist rhetoric has emanated mostly from online #resistance types and the …
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