India prevented a Japan Self-Defense Forces plane from landing in its territory on Thursday, Sanae Takaichi, a policy chief of the ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), told local media on Thursday. The aircraft was scheduled to collect supplies from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Mumbai …
Read More »Moscow responds to US security proposal ‘cherry picking’
The US has “failed to provide a constructive answer” to all the key elements of Russia’s proposals on security guarantees, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official response to Washington on Thursday. The ten-page document was handed over in Moscow to American ambassador John Sullivan. Washington has “cherry …
Read More »How picking a Soviet-born radical for a Treasury post backfired on Biden
She was called by some “Joe Biden’s most dangerous nominee.” Saule Omarova, the president’s pick for one of the US Treasury’s top posts, was born and raised in Kazakhstan back in 1966 when that nation was part of the former Soviet Union. From the word go, her views on banking and …
Read More »Israel is picking so many fights on multiple fronts that several wars could break out at any time. Meanwhile, the US stays silent
Israeli police forces this week raided the Damascus Gate (Bab al-Amud), located at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City, injuring at least 70 unarmed Palestinians, who had set up celebrations for the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday, considered to be a Palestinian national holiday. At least 35 Palestinians were arrested, the majority of …
Read More »In picking up the phone to Xi Jinping, has Biden just blinked first in the great showdown between America and China?
US President Joe Biden this week telephoned Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The call was the first direct contact between the two men since February. Fairly unremarkable, right? Not quite. The exchange did not produce any solid commitments between the two countries, yet a White House readout of the conversation stated …
Read More »Hit piece on Republican Senator’s cotton-picking ancestors backfires for Washington Post, but team Trump doesn’t race to his aid
Politicians often embellish their family histories. Elizabeth Warren lied about her Native American ancestry and was christened “Pocahontas” by Donald Trump for her fib. Kamala Harris was ridiculed when she claimed that she cried out “Fweedom!” as a two-year-old at a civil rights march. Sen. Tim Scott, a black Republican …
Read More »Biden is picking up where Trump left off as US readies itself for a titanic tech cold war with China
It’s now abundantly clear that Joe Biden is carrying on the United States’ technology war against China where Donald Trump left it, signalling further continuity with his predecessor’s confrontational policy against Beijing. Yesterday, the US Department of Commerce announced that it had added seven Chinese supercomputer companies to the dreaded …
Read More »Picking an official embroiled in a ‘white man’ bias row to run the Sarah vigil probe is a massive own goal for tone-deaf cops
With more than 20 police officers injured, some with broken arms and ribs, in the Bristol ‘Kill the Bill’ riots following a demonstration against proposed legislation aimed at preventing exactly this type of flare-up, you might think public sympathy with the forces of law and order would enjoy a rare …
Read More »Wage war: Biden blasted for picking a fight in Syria, letting minimum wage slide at home
The Democrats’ proposed $15 national minimum wage increase cannot be included in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus bill, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled on Thursday. MacDonough, a Democrat who serves as a referee of sorts in the upper house, declared that the bill does not fall under budget rules, …
Read More »Biden signals US return to full-on globalism and foreign meddling by picking interventionist Anthony Blinken as secretary of state
Biden, the nominal president-elect, announced his selection of Blinken along with other members of his foreign-policy and national-security team, which is filled with such veteran Washington insiders as John Kerry, the new climate czar and formerly secretary of state in the Obama-Biden administration. READ MORE: Biden supporters rush to defend …
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