The dispute over the fate of General Lee statue reached its climax early on Wednesday morning, when municipal workers turned up on Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue with a cherry-picker. As they were removing the statue from its graffiti-covered podium, the debate over whether it was the right move raged on. …
Read More »For the US, India is little more than a pawn to be deployed against China – not a nation to be respected on its own terms
Friends with benefits It is often said that the US has no permanent allies – only permanent interests. Allies come and allies go, but US national interest (i.e. global hegemony) remains paramount. All relationships are transactional – an ally is only as good as the geopolitical benefits they bring. The …
Read More »‘Little Britain meets The Thick of It’: Boris Jonson slammed for clumsy photo op in Afghanistan crisis centre
Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visited the Foregn Office crisis centre on Friday, with BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ broadcasting clips from the visit later that night. From the outset, Johnson turned up the cringe factor, greeting staff with a cheery “what’s happening?” and bumping elbows, even though nobody in the room …
Read More »Kamala Harris’ role in Afghan fiasco does little to dispel the idea she was a ‘diversity hire’
Merit exists for a reason. There should always be some sort of qualification when it comes to anyone who is picked for a job. There needs to be something that gives the impression that this particular individual can actually handle what’s in front of them. When Kamala Harris was announced …
Read More »Khabib’s cousin Usman Nurmagomedov admits to feeling ‘a little pressure’ as he looks to extend undefeated streak at Bellator 255
Nurmagomedov fights in front of American fans for the first time in his career at the event which will take place at The Forum in Inglewood, California in a fight which comes almost exactly four months after the highly-touted lightweight fighter earned a clear-cut unanimous decision win in his debut …
Read More »The US has bombed Syria and Iraq again, apparently just because it can, giving little or no thought to the consequences
Sometimes one must wonder if those who plan military strikes at the Pentagon have any situational awareness about the geopolitical realities in the regions they attack, or if their actions are guided by ignorance-laced hubris that shields them from any connection to the real world. This disconnect with reality was …
Read More »Too little too late: Central banks are about 10 years behind the times with their crypto plans, economist tells RT’s Boom Bust
“What’s interesting about this whole question of efficiency of cryptocurrency is its energy consumption or inefficiency that actually minimizes the amount of units that can be created in the cryptocurrency world,” Tucker told Boom Bust. “And we know that central banks have specialized, especially in the last 15 months, in …
Read More »Biden’s supply chain ‘master plan’ is little more than a political tantrum that reheats Trump’s America First strategy
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced the findings of its comprehensive supply chain task force, a 100-day review dedicated to finding critical vulnerabilities in American imports and overseas dependencies. The document predictably made a new series of recommendations geared towards the reestablishment of US competitiveness and primacy, the reshoring of …
Read More »Kremlin says Putin & Biden summit ‘very, very important’, but warns little prospect of a ‘re-set’ & a high chance of disagreement
That’s according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who told reporters on Friday at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum that there was a risk that expectations for the summit might spiral out of control. In his view, the head-to-head on June 16 in Geneva will be “very, very important,” but …
Read More »‘I’ll never let a little white man disrespect me’: Basketball queen Cambage rips into coach who brought up 6ft 8in star’s weight
Las Vegas Aces center Cambage took to Instagram to vent her anger on Sunday following her team’s 65-72 home loss to Connecticut Sun, accusing rival coach Curt Miller of screaming “come on, she’s 300lbs!” in an attempt to get a favorable call from a referee. “Something went down in today’s …
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