This week, Iran announced it would start enriching uranium to 60% purity after reporting an alleged Israeli sabotage attack at its Natanz nuclear facility, a move it said was intended to undermine indirect Iranian-US negotiations for a return to the 2015 agreement. Speaking on Thursday, Rouhani dismissed US and European …
Read More »Admitting ‘monumental failure’? Obama roasted for saying US achieved ‘all that we can’ in Afghanistan as Biden reveals exit plan
Biden announced on Wednesday that American forces will leave Afghanistan by September. Explaining his decision, he said that he refused to continue the cycle of “extending or expanding” the US military presence in the country, adding that waiting to create “ideal conditions” for a withdrawal was no longer viable. He …
Read More »Beijing tells Japanese politicians to drink Fukushima’s wastewater to prove it’s safe before they dump it into the ocean
Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reinforced Beijing’s opposition to Tokyo’s decision to dump more than one million tons of “treated” nuclear wastewater into the ocean. “Japan’s claims that the safety of nuclear wastewater relies only on unilaterally obtained data, which is completely unconvincing… The Tokyo Electric …
Read More »US imposes new sanctions against Russia, expels ten diplomats & targets national debt in move Moscow may view as major escalation
The move, which the White House says is in response to alleged interference by Moscow in the 2020 US presidential election, will see American companies banned from directly buying shares in Russia’s national debt. The Kremlin has consistently denied that it made any attempt to meddle in the contest, in …
Read More »How divorced is US corporate world from real economy? RT’s Boom Bust digs into increased CEO pay amid Covid-19 misery
According to the report, the median pay of chief executives at 300 public companies is on track for a record, jumping from $12.8 million in pre-pandemic 2019 to $13.7 million last year. RT’s Boom Bust discussed the staggering figures and rising inequality with author Professor Richard Wolff, host of the …
Read More »France calls on nationals to leave Pakistan, citing ‘serious threats’ to their security amid deadly anti-French protests
“Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French companies are recommended to temporarily leave the country,” read the letter from the French embassy to its citizens in Pakistan on Thursday. The move comes after a week of intense protests against French interests in the country, …
Read More »Putin WON’T meet Biden in near future, Kremlin says. Moscow not ruling out talks, but disappointed about new sanctions speculation
Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the White House’s invitation to meet “in a third country in the coming months” would not be possible to organise, at least in the short term. Asked whether the talks were likely to go ahead on that timeframe, …
Read More »Taiwan ‘very willing’ to work with US to counter China’s ‘adventurous maneuvers and provocations’
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen met a delegation of former US officials, including former Senator Chris Dodd and former Deputy Secretaries of State Richard Armitage and James Steinberg, on Thursday. The president of the island, which Beijing considers an integral part of the country, condemned China’s military activities off its coast, …
Read More »How dare AI assume xyrs gender? Crusader against binary facial recognition takes their act to EC summit
Living under the thumb of the metastasizing array of genders that demand to be taken seriously, those who want a return to a tech-lite world where the government doesn’t care what’s in your pants seem to be fighting a losing battle. But in their quixotic struggle, they have found themselves …
Read More »CNN retreats from Daunte Wright protest after crew member is pelted in the head with water bottle (VIDEO)
CNN’s Miguel Marquez and his team were covering the fourth night of demonstrations in the Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday, which were sparked by Wright’s killing during a traffic stop. Videos posted to social media show that the CNN crew was harassed and eventually driven away from the area by protesters …
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