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Pentagon says world will have three ‘great powers’ – and US will be ‘challenged’

Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, admitted…

2 years ago

Brussels to use ‘ALL powers’ to ensure its law reigns supreme over Poland’s after landmark Warsaw court ruling – EU chief

In a statement issued on Friday, the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed her deep “concern” over Warsaw’s…

3 years ago

‘No further powers to Brussels’: Hungary’s foreign minister calls for more sovereignty within the EU

“The EU is strong when its member states are sovereign and strong themselves, and that means – no further powers…

3 years ago

Google, Facebook & Microsoft top EU lobbying spending amid clampdown on Big Tech’s powers by Brussels – study

The paper, published by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl campaign groups on Tuesday, revealed that the annual spending on lobbying…

3 years ago

Sydney widens police powers, orders citizens to wear masks AT ALL TIMES outside home amid surge in cases

Police in New South Wales were given carte blanche on Thursday to enforce sweeping Covid-19 lockdown measures in eight areas…

3 years ago

US senators Sanders, Murphy & Lee introduce bipartisan bill to rein in presidential war powers & foreign weapons deals

Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) put forward the National Security Powers Act on Tuesday,…

3 years ago

Haiti’s interim PM says he’ll resign after US & Western powers endorse his rival in sudden reversal

The interim PM – who has also filled in as president since Moise was shot dead by gunmen earlier this…

3 years ago

The world’s great powers – like Soviets, Brits & Americans – have been chased out of Afghanistan… so why do outsiders keep trying?

The scene comes from the 2005 film, ‘The Ninth Company’, possibly the most popular film about the bloody and ill-fated…

3 years ago

Western powers are using aid as a cover to keep a terrorist-ruled Syrian region afloat…just because it’s anti-Assad

Among the matters under discussion by US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday was…

3 years ago

The end of free speech: Why is Britain handing huge new powers of censorship to tech giants to control what we write and say?

As the British nanny state widens its scope with the government’s new Online Safety Bill it is a sign that…

3 years ago