In a landmark move, the Biden administration has advised the US Supreme Court that Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian man who has been in US custody for nearly 20 years, can provide limited testimony for use in a Polish criminal investigation into his torture at a CIA “black site” in that …
Read More »America’s supply-chain crisis will drag into 2022, Pete Buttigieg tells CNN… taking brief break from his paternity leave
“Certainly, a lot of the challenges that we’ve been experiencing this year will continue into next year,” the former presidential candidate told CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday. Buttigieg tried to put a positive spin on the protracted crisis, arguing that it reflects surging US demand for consumer goods. “Retail …
Read More »Marine who criticized America’s chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal docked $5,000 in pay, given letter of reprimand
Scheller remained defiant at his court martial hearing, saying before the proceedings that he stands by his comments on the matter. “I feel good about everything I said,” he declared before being given his punishment. Scheller posted multiple videos that went viral in which he blamed military leadership and poor …
Read More »How Covid catastrophizing & a colossal crimewave are causing America’s second Great Retail Panic
Veteran media fearmongers have spent the last two years predicting the imminent doom of a society deprived of hairspray and baked beans in some sort of great retail apocalypse, the likes of which our materialistic society hasn’t seen since the Great Depression. But according to these chroniclers of collapse, this …
Read More »Police blame violence in America, pursue gunman after college football game row ends in fatal shooting outside Alabama home
The incident kicked off during Texas A&M’s shock 41-38 win over top-ranked team Alabama, according to Bessemer Police. A pair of men who had gathered to see the much-hyped showdown in a Birmingham, Alabama suburb began arguing over which was the better team, forcing the homeowner to ask them to …
Read More »Why it now suits America to cool the talk of Beijing’s Uighur ‘genocide’ in Xinjiang
In his last day in office, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo affirmed that the Uighurs’ situation in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region amounted to “genocide”– one of the gravest crimes in international law, forever haunting the world through the legacy of Nazism. Unsurprisingly, the designation, which constitutes the crime …
Read More »Bisexual Superman will ‘destroy America,’ say outraged conservatives
Jon Kent, son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is a thoroughly modern superhero. He fights climate change and school shootings, and uses his superpowers to stop the deportation of illegal immigrants. Now, in the latest issue of ‘Superman: Son of Kal-El’, he comes out as bisexual, with the comic’s …
Read More »America’s debt crisis could well shake the world. Cut off by sanctions & suspicion, Russia should ironically find itself insulated
An American financial and currency crisis seems to be building, ready to flood the world and result in dramatic shifts in the international distribution of power. However, Russia has been preparing for the coming tumult, with a strategy that can be summarized as simply getting out of the splash zone. …
Read More »The dead hand of America: Iraq vote won’t solve the failures of West’s nation-building 18 years after Saddam’s removal
Two years ago, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to demand an end to corruption, misgovernance and a sectarian political system, imposed by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein, that allows for the systematic plundering of the state and its national resources. The system, known as …
Read More »China’s proposed new laws to tackle Big Tech’s excesses show what America should be doing to reign in Facebook… but won’t
This week, members of the United States Congress are hearing testimony from former Silicon Valley data scientist Frances Haugen about unethical business practices by Facebook. Already, Haugen’s statements to the media show a company obsessed with profit over people – but they demonstrate a deeper systemic issue. In a ‘60 Minutes’ …
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