Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has made it clear that his country can use force to curb Iran’s nuclear development without informing US President Joe Biden. “Israel will do whatever it needs to do to protect its security. And we don’t need anybody’s permission for that. That’s been the case …
Read More »Having unvaxxed kids ‘doesn’t make any sense,’ Fauci says
White House health adviser Anthony Fauci has pushed back on parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids based on the low number of serious cases among children, insisting their arguments don’t make sense. Fauci took a morre blunt approach with parents hesitant to vaccinate their little ones during a Thursday …
Read More »US doesn’t want Iran to have missiles. Some of its neighbors are fine though
Recent news reports, based on analysis of high-resolution photographs, conclude that Saudi Arabia has purchased from China the technology necessary to manufacture solid-fuel ballistic missiles. This news comes at a time when the US is seeking to ratchet the pressure up on Iran in an effort to compel it to …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: US hegemony doesn’t make the world more peaceful
“I would not rule out military action,” Senator Roger Wicker told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. “I think we start making a mistake when we take options off the table. So I would hope the president keeps that option on the table.” “What does military action mean, senator?” Cavuto asked. “Well, …
Read More »Hunter Biden’s wife says infamous laptop ‘doesn’t exist’
Confronted outside his art exhibit at an New York gallery on Thursday, Biden was asked if he had retrieved the infamous laptop which featured emails about overseas business dealings, along with explicit footage of him apparently doing drugs and cavorting with various women. Biden’s wife Melissa Cohen interjected to respond …
Read More »Top US general’s talk about a ‘tri-polar world’ is about money, but that doesn’t make it any less true
“We’re entering into a tri-polar world with the US, Russia and China being all great powers,” Milley said on Wednesday at the Aspen Security Forum. He explained that the “liberal rules-based world order” established after the Second World War was designed to prevent a war between great powers, and that …
Read More »G20 squabbles show Western leaders can’t agree on much, which doesn’t bode well for COP26
The leaders of the Western world met for the G20 summit in Rome over the weekend. And if that was the prelude to what is going to happen at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, then they’d better rename it FLOP26, because it will end in failure. All the weekend’s G20 …
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 »The Sudan crisis lays bare the stakes of US-China competition in Africa… and doesn’t augur well for Washington
Sudan is a country in turmoil, yet again. Following a coup by the country’s military against the provisional government, which had pledged to establish a democracy in the African nation following the collapse of Omar al-Bashir’s autocratic rule in 2019, violent protests have rocked Khartoum and seen at least seven people …
Read More »Moscow’s relationship with NATO can’t be described as ‘catastrophic’ because it simply doesn’t exist AT ALL – Russian FM Lavrov
On Monday, speaking to the press in Norway following talks with his counterpart Anniken Huitfeldt, Lavrov stated that Russia and the US-led bloc no longer have any communication at all. “I wouldn’t call the relations between Russia and NATO catastrophic because to be catastrophic you have to have at least …
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