In a written statement to Parliament on Monday, Minister for Defence Procurement Jeremy Quin said that the Ajax tank programme, already beset by failures, had engendered adverse health effects among the troops trialing the hardware. Quin said that while 121 personnel had previously been identified as requiring urgent hearing assessments, …
Read More »Why is El Salvador on course to be one of the fastest-growing economies in the world? Keiser Report explains
Max and Stacy discuss what will all of this mean for the country’s economy as a whole.
Read More »Deadlier than Covid-19, but less contagious: What we know about Nipah bat-borne virus threatening to become new scourge in India
A specialist team was sent to the southern state of Kerala to assist local medics, after samples from the deceased child returned positive results the presence of Nipah. Before he succumbed on Sunday, the boy had shown symptoms of brain and heart muscle inflammation – conditions known respectively as encephalitis …
Read More »US working with Taliban on securing additional flights from Afghan capital – secretary of state
Speaking at a news conference in Qatar on Tuesday, Blinken said the US has been communicating with the Taliban to secure agreements for more charter flights to leave safely. He vowed to hold the Taliban to their promise that all those with travel documents wanting to leave the country would …
Read More »With its plan to unite Eurasia from sea to sea, Russia is betting the days of total US economic supremacy are now coming to an end
The annual Eastern Economic Forum, held in Vladivostok, has just come to an end. Focusing on the development of Russia’s Far East and enhancing interconnectivity between Russia and Asia, it has become a key arena for the promotion of Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership. The Partnership is a relatively new initiative. …
Read More »Slavoj Zizek: The Taliban is the proof that our modernity is an unfinished project
The American or European populist Right fanatically opposes Muslim fundamentalism in which it sees the main threat to Western Christian civilization. They claim Europe is on the verge of becoming “Europistan”. For the European as well as for American populists, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is the ultimate humiliation of …
Read More »G7 countries invite Russia & China for joint meeting on Afghanistan, Tokyo reveals, but Moscow bemoans lack of clarity from group
Maria Zakharova was speaking to the TASS news agency after Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told a TV program that the G7 foreign ministers would be meeting with their counterparts from China and Russia on September 8 to discuss a joint response to the crisis prompted by the American withdrawal …
Read More »Brazil and Argentina point the finger at each another, but there’s plenty of blame to go around after their global embarrassment
Europe may snatch its best talent for their clubs, who take advantage of the poor finances and organization of its counterparts across the Atlantic, and the desire youngsters in the favelas and barrios have to play in the Champions League while establishing financial security for generations to come through astronomical salaries …
Read More »Europe’s high energy prices are just the beginning
Of course, natural gas prices are soaring everywhere—not just in Europe. The US benchmark price for natural gas has nearly doubled over the last year, with front-month Henry Hub prices reaching $4.690/MMBtu as of September 6. And that’s despite record natural gas production in hot basins like Appalachia. But US …
Read More »Can the perpetually underfunded NHS please just look after our health rather than wasting time and money lecturing us about race?
You would think that during a pandemic everyone who works in the NHS would be run off their feet keeping us safe from Covid. In the main this seems to be the case, and I know from friends who work in the NHS that they have been exceptionally busy and …
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