As the culture war rages over gender identity, men with cervixes, ‘pregnant people’ and who has the right to abuse whom, an unlikely alliance may be emerging between two much maligned ‘minorities’ – women and black men. The 2020 kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard and the conviction last week …
Read More »Canada’s Trudeau says he has clear mandate to get country through pandemic after opposition concedes election defeat
“Thank you, Canada,” Trudeau, who won his third term as PM, wrote on Twitter. The Leftist leader said he was grateful to the Canadians “for putting your trust in the Liberal team, for choosing a brighter future.” In his speech before a small group of supporters in Montreal, Trudeau claimed …
Read More »Australia made ‘very clear’ to France submarine deal could be scrapped, PM Morrison says, after Paris brands it ‘stab in the back’
Speaking to radio 5aa, Morrison affirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron was made well aware that Canberra was considering other options that would serve Australia’s “national interest.” The Australian prime minister claimed he made it “very clear” in late June while dining with his French counterpart that there were “significant …
Read More »Two-faced Facebook’s hypocrisy on freedom of speech reveals it is now a clear and present danger to democracy
So, the truth is finally out: despite all the claims, promises and knee-bending by Facebook’s PR department, not all the platform’s three billion users are equal. Some, it seems, are privileged, sometimes by accident, but mainly by design. This is the inescapable truth that The Wall Street Journal has revealed …
Read More »‘Clear attack on Afghan territory’: Taliban condemns US strike allegedly targeting ISIS ‘planner’ behind deadly Kabul blast
The US carried out the drone strike early Saturday, targeting a hideout said to be used by Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), a regional offshoot of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). The strike was conducted in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. The Taliban, which has recently seized control of …
Read More »Taliban air force clear for takeoff? Militants show off captured aircraft as fighting approaches Kabul outskirts (VIDEOS)
In recent days, the Taliban have captured large swaths of territory in Afghanistan, seizing multiple provincial capitals. It now reportedly controls about two thirds of the Afghan provinces. The group took large spoils from the government troops, capturing tons of munitions and weaponry, as well as hundreds of armored and …
Read More »As US finally drops it’s opposition to Nord Stream 2, it’s clear plans to block the pipeline were always about money, not security
Signing a new agreement with Berlin, the US has put itself behind Germany as its key ally in Europe. Not Ukraine, which has thrown up no end of objections and appeals over the project. As would be expected, there has been a furious reaction in some quarters. Some are hysterical …
Read More »The US’ haphazard withdrawal from Bagram Air Base shows it never had any clear plan in Afghanistan
The US abandoned the Bagram Airfield “after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left,” the Associated Press news agency reported on Tuesday, citing Afghan …
Read More »Xi Jinping has made it very clear: The days of the West bullying China are gone for good
If anyone needed a marker of where China has come from, where it is now, and where it is heading, it came at Thursday’s event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party (CPC), where Xi Jinping made a defiant address. Xi stated that “no one should underestimate …
Read More »Blinken says US airstrikes on Iraq & Syria send ‘clear’ message to Iran-backed militias
The US conducted airstrikes on Sunday against what the Pentagon said were “facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region.” They were launched “at President Biden’s direction,” it stated, and ordered after drone strikes by these militias on US personnel and facilities in Iraq. READ MORE: Pentagon announces …
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