When he first waded into the domestic affairs of France, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan probably thought he could rely on the muscle of fellow Muslim leaders, including bellicose Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to help see off complaints about over-reach. However, in just six months, the relationship between Islamabad …
Read More »EU citizens losing faith in AstraZeneca vaccine, poll shows, but new trial data reveal jab more effective than originally thought
On Monday, the embattled pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca published positive results from its US trial, which showed the jab to have 79% efficacy in preventing symptomatic Covid-19 and to be 100% effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalization. The study, which involved over 32,000 participants, found no increased risk of thrombotic …
Read More »‘The unblinking eye’: Boris Johnson confirms British citizens are 24/7 targets of government military & intelligence cyber ops
The UK government’s long-awaited ‘Integrated Review’ has finally been released. Officially billed as “a comprehensive articulation” of London’s “national security and international policy,” it intends to “[shape] the open international order of the future.” An audacious ambition indeed, and the Review’s pledges are certainly bold – among other things, Whitehall …
Read More »Land of the fee, home of the grave? For all its international posturing and boasting, the US can’t even take care of its citizens
Between the Covid-19 pandemic and the disastrous economic fallout engendered by government responses to that outbreak, the US has proven itself shockingly incapable of actually functioning in any way its peers might consider “normal.” Whether it’s keeping the lights on in American households, providing healthcare that cures rather than kills, …
Read More »Latvia goes further than a simple ban on Russian TV news – Riga will FINE citizens for watching ‘illegal’ cross border channels
Earlier this month, local media reported that the Seimas, the Baltic nation’s parliament, had adopted a bill in its final reading that will criminalize people for watching unauthorized broadcasts. The networks that will be affected are said to include dozens of Russian television channels for which signals can be picked …
Read More »Unvaccinated citizens’ names should be DISCLOSED, new proposal by Israeli PM suggests amid slowdown in immunization campaign
The PM said that the proposed “quick legislation” would allow local authorities to “receive data” on those who have not been vaccinated yet. The aim is to “encourage them to be vaccinated and save lives,” Netanyahu explained at a cabinet meeting on Sunday. According to the Haaretz newspaper, the idea …
Read More »Conscript army can’t end ‘forever wars’ & teach Americans to be better citizens. Dismantling all-volunteer military’s a bad idea
A pair of recent articles have raised the question as to whether America is well-served by the all-volunteer military that has existed since the end of the Vietnam War. Rajan Menon, a political scientist from the City College of New York, writes in Foreign Policy that the forever wars currently …
Read More »Feeling triggered? More than one in three Latvians feel urge to ‘SHOOT’ fellow citizens who make life in the country worse
Local media in the Baltic nation reported on Sunday that a new study by public pollster SKDS found a large proportion of those surveyed felt aggression towards those “who make life in the country what it is at the moment.” More than one in ten respondents said they often experienced …
Read More »‘Health dictatorship’: French citizens who refuse Covid-19 jab may be BANNED from public transport under ‘Green Passport’ plan
Gaining the support of Prime Minister Jean Castex’s cabinet earlier this week, the bill proposes to deny “access to transport or to some locations, as well as certain activities” to those unable to prove that they received a “preventative treatment” for Covid-19, including a vaccine, or produce a negative virus …
Read More »‘Stay home’ to beat Covid-19, Texas mayor tells citizens – from vacation in MEXICO
“We need to stay home if you can. This is not the time to relax. We are going to be looking really closely… We may have to close things down if we are not careful,” the Democrat mayor told Austin residents in a November 9 video. He made no mention …
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