During talks on Friday in Geneva with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked his counterpart to prove a negative. The diplomat urged Moscow to move troops, stationed on its own territory, away from the Ukrainian border so as to “convince the world” it harbored “no …
Read More »The US is hurting democracy around the world, and there’s data to prove it
Of all places, the news of this democratic decline was recently reported in the New York Times. According to data from V-Dem, the US and its allies (defined as countries with a formal or implied mutual defense commitment) have accounted for only 5% of worldwide increases in democracy in the …
Read More »If the EU doesn’t hammer Italy for rejecting gay hate crime bill, it’ll prove it’s one rule for the West & one rule for the rest
The Italian Senate has rejected a bill that would have amended the country’s penal code to ban discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability. The bill, which would have made anti-LGBT violence and misogyny a hate crime, was rejected by 154 to 131 votes. …
Read More »Covid jab figures prove the EU is anything but united, with poorer countries left lagging dangerously behind
Lord knows the European Union could do with a win, so it’s no surprise that the video of a beaming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is all over the place as she celebrates the news that 70% of the bloc’s adults have now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. …
Read More »Sydney residents made to carry ID to prove they’re within 10km of home while exercising during lockdown
According to a New South Wales government notice on Friday – which was signed by Brad Hazzard, NSW’s minister for health and medical research – outdoor “public gatherings,” including exercise, are limited to just two people who must stay within 10km of their homes, as Sydney prepares to enter its …
Read More »Do law firm statements & odd Instagram pictures prove the ruler of Dubai’s daughter Princess Latifa is free? I don’t think so
In March 2018, with the help of a friend, Princess Latifa of Dubai managed to flee her home and controlling father, Sheikh Mohammed, the emirate’s billionaire ruler. After she made it to a ship in international waters in the Indian Ocean, armed commandos swooped with smoke grenades and dragged her back, despite her pleas …
Read More »Leaked ‘confidential’ intel reports on RT DE only prove that German media are working with special services
The Russian hacker must have been hibernating for the past four years, but now he wakes up just before the federal elections to attack German computers. At least that’s what the ARD political magazine Kontraste would have us believe. Once again, Kontraste got this information from a current “situation report …
Read More »Woke Democrats are out to prove ‘Uncle Tim’ Scott is wrong by being racist as hell
If my last article was anything to go by, I was quite impressed by Republican Senator Tim Scott’s rebuttal to Joe Biden. Scott came across as a man with a plan, and the knowledge to execute it. One element of his speech that he emphasized was the idea that America …
Read More »The latest mass shootings in the US prove we must have an uncomfortable conversation about mental health – or more of us will die
The human mind can be a very scary place. In the public health sector, it’s hard to think of an area that has a worse stigma than mental illness. My belief, given what I’ve seen statistically and through personal experience, is that Americans have a cultural phobia about taking it …
Read More »House tells Trump he’ll ‘PROVE’ own guilt by not testifying at impeachment trial – but Trump still REFUSES
In a letter emailed Thursday to Trump’s attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen, the lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) noted that they denied “factual allegations” and “attempted to put critical facts at issue notwithstanding the clear and overwhelming evidence of your constitutional offense.” Raskin requested that Trump …
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