Full disclosure: I have known Alex Salmond for well over 30 years. I sat in the British parliament with him for decades, liked and admired him. I fundamentally disagree with the essentially shared project of both him and Nicola Sturgeon to partition the small island of Britain along an imaginary …
Read More »Pay up, Zuck: Canada allies with Australia in ‘battle’ against Facebook over news content
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday that he would begin drafting legislation that could resemble Australia’s bid to make Facebook and other companies pay a licensing fee to feature domestically created content on their platforms. “Canada is at the forefront of this battle… we are really among the …
Read More »What wins the Battle of the Super-Fighters: the US’ F-35, or Russia’s Su-57?
For almost three decades, the US held a monopoly over low-observable combat aircraft. It introduced the world to stealth with the F-117A Nighthawk in the early 1980s and was the first to enter the age of fifth-generation fighters back in 1997, when the F-22A Raptor took flight. As the world …
Read More »Israel’s ‘fake news war room’ set up to tackle vaccine disinformation loses battle to Telegram, unit’s head admits
More than 2.4 million Israelis have already been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by getting both shots of the Pfizer jab. That’s roughly 27 percent of the country’s population of nine-million and the highest per-capita figure anywhere in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data. But recently the pace of …
Read More »$60 billion court battle: Russian deputy Justice Minister says Yukos oligarchs seeking ‘legal protection for illegal behavior’
Speaking exclusively to RT, Mikhail Galperin outlined how the Russian defense team has several arguments, but the one with particular precedent-setting ramifications concerns its contention that international law should not be abused to protect criminals. On Friday, the Supreme Court in The Hague started hearings over a complaint brought against Russia …
Read More »WallStreetBets coin listed atop bitcoin as battle between GameStop investors & Wall Street rages on
The website listed a coin dubbed WallStreetBets (WSB) above the world’s top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, earlier this week. As of Sunday, WallStreetBets still outranked major cryptocurrencies, as it gained nearly 130 percent in the past 24 hours and over 1,160 percent in a week. The price of the WallStreetBets token is …
Read More »Halting Nord Stream 2 construction may result in legal battle, German minister warns
“If we stop the project now, we will inflict a great deal of harm, casting doubt on the reliability of decisions made on the basis of principles of the rule of law and would probably face court proceedings,” Federal Minister Svenja Schulze said in an interview with Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). …
Read More »Texas attorney general ‘congratulates’ President Biden & vows to battle his imminent ‘illegal & unconstitutional’ actions
“Congrats, President Biden. On Inauguration Day, I wish our country the best,” Paxton said in a statement on Wednesday, beginning on a genial note. The withering statement came some two hours after Biden’s inauguration in the nation’s capital, where he was sworn in by US Supreme Court Chief Justice John …
Read More »‘Turning point in the battle for control’: Edward Snowden, others warn of consequences to Trump’s Facebook ban
Many are celebrating the announcement by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that President Trump will be banned from posting content on the social media platform, as well as Instagram, for at least the next two weeks following violence at the US Capitol – but others are warning that this moment could …
Read More »It’s time for BoJo to ditch his exhausted deadweight lieutenants as UK’s battle against Covid takes its toll
Fighting the coronavirus pandemic risks overwhelming British PM Boris Johnson, but a quick fix to his in-tray of mounting problems would be to ditch the clapped-out, leg-weary hacks surrounding him and bring back former advisor Dominic Cummings. Today. At least Barnard Castle’s most famous visitor knows a thing or two …
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