The IRGC broke its silence on the incident on Tuesday, providing its account of the altercation between the corp’s navy (IRGCN) gunboats and the US Coast Guard ship Maui, which occurred early on Monday. The US warship group has been engaged in “unprofessional behavior such as flying helicopters, firing flares …
Read More »Firing blanks: The UK’s $61.5 billion military expenditure in 2020 is a misguided attempt to show it’s still a global big gun
The coronavirus pandemic cost the world trillions of dollars in lost economic output last year, with most countries entering recession at some point during 2020. Despite the world economy contracting by 4.4%, last year’s global military expenditure reached new heights, at almost $2 trillion (USD). This is a 2.6% increase on the previous …
Read More »French pilot sues after he was shot at on firing range in extreme hazing ritual
The recruit, a man in his 30s, was posted to Solenzara Air Base on the island of Corsica in 2019. Arriving on the island that March, he was given no time to enjoy the balmy Corsican spring. Instead, he claims he was treated with suspicion and hostility by his new …
Read More »South Carolina House OKs bill reviving FIRING SQUADS as execution method for death row inmates
Green-lit in a 66-43 House vote on Wednesday, the law will permit death row inmates to choose execution by firing squad or electrocution if lethal injection drugs are not available. Having already passed through the State Senate, the bill needs only to be signed by Governor Henry McMaster, who has …
Read More »Sharpshooter: UFC superstar Chimaev takes to firing range with heavy weaponry ahead of octagon return (VIDEO)
After a stunning showing of three wins (in two weight classes) in the span of just 66 days last year, it had seemed as if Chimaev’s path to MMA superstardom was unfurling in front of his eyes. One by one they came, with John Phillips, Rhys McKee and then Gerald …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Meditations on US forces firing a howitzer into the empty desert ‘just to say we’re here’
“In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil facility that served as the operational headquarters for the final push to erase the caliphate, in 2019. These days, the only military action there is from US forces firing a 155-millimetre howitzer twice …
Read More »India and Pakistan agree to stop firing across disputed Kashmir border in move towards ‘sustainable peace’
A ceasefire between India-administered and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir has technically been in place since 2003. However, both countries have regularly violated the truce. The disputed Kashmir border has been the site of frequent gunfire, with Pakistan claiming Indian forces fired across the Line of Control (LoC), which divides the two countries, …
Read More »Norilsk Nickel in firing line again after $2 BILLION fine for fuel leak: Fatal factory collapse due to ‘gross safety violations’
The Russian Emergencies Ministry confirmed in the early hours of the morning that the incident at a factory shop gallery had left at least four people in need of rescue. Another two were able to escape the wreckage before emergency workers arrived. “One of the hospitalized people died in the …
Read More »#CancelDisneyPlus: Boycott campaign claims ‘Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano’s firing was politically motivated
No stranger to internet controversy, Carano shared a post from another user on her Instagram page on Wednesday which described how Jews were treated in Nazi Germany, as part of a broader commentary about political persecution. The post caused a major meltdown on social media, with #FireGinaCarano quickly trending on …
Read More »#CancelDisneyPlus: Boycott campaign claims ‘Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano’s firing was politically motivated
No stranger to internet controversy, Carano shared a post from another user on her Instagram page on Wednesday which described how Jews were treated in Nazi Germany, as part of a broader commentary about political persecution. The post caused a major meltdown on social media, with #FireGinaCarano quickly trending on …
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