There is a surprising debate taking place in in the West – they are arguing about French President Emmanuel Macron’s call not to humiliate Russia. The point here is not that the question itself is ridiculous – generally speaking, the West cannot currently humble our country. Because you can only humiliate someone …
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An Iraqi citizen living in the US has been charged in a scheme to murder former President George W. Bush. He is accused of planning to help members of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group enter the country and assassinate the ex-president. An FBI terrorism task force arrested Shihab Ahmed …
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Speaking to a Russian prankster posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Former US President George W. Bush advised Kiev to focus on eliminating as many Russian troops as possible. Bush suggested that a military victory over Russia would see many of Ukraine’s issues “go off the table.” The undated prank …
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Former US President George W. Bush made an embarrassing gaffe, perhaps a Freudian slip, when speaking on the importance of democracy and threats to democracy from abroad, and taking aim specifically at Russia. “Russian elections are rigged,” he said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the …
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Former US President George W. Bush inadvertently condemned the “invasion of Iraq” while blasting Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a slip-up which he blamed on his old age. Speaking in Dallas on Wednesday for an event hosted by the eponymous George W. Bush Institute, the ex-commander-in-chief railed against the Russian government under …
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Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd in an incident that triggered race riots across the US in 2020, has been spared the death penalty on federal civil-rights charges after a judge accepted his plea agreement. US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson approved …
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Current and former Western leaders who have achieved eternal notoriety for launching the Iraq War, as well as other military disasters, are clearly the wrong people to lecture Russia over its actions in Ukraine. As George W. Bush and Tony Blair are emerging from political retirement to pontificate on Russia’s …
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The four-year-old niece of George Floyd was struck in a shooting on New Year’s day, according to local media reports, which noted that the child was hit in the stomach and may have suffered broken ribs. Gunfire erupted outside a Houston, Texas apartment building around 3am last Saturday and seriously …
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Abbott pardoned eight Texans on Thursday for crimes committed between 1965 and 2013. The list of pardoned individuals notably excluded George Floyd, whose posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction was recommended by the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles in October. The board eventually withdrew 25 clemency recommendations, including …
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Appearing on the latest episode of Marc Maron’s ‘WTF’ podcast, Clooney turned his attention to the Baldwin situation, which has rocked Hollywood and led to many critics pointing blame for the situation at least partly at Baldwin’s feet. “Look, he may be a d**k, I don’t know the guy at …
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