Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, admitted that the years of US domination may be over. Milley believes that maintaining the peace between the “great powers” in a tri-polar configuration will be significantly more difficult than in …
Read More »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 Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling, stating that Brussels has sent its services to analyze it “thoroughly and swiftly” before taking its next steps. “EU law has primacy over national law, including constitutional …
Read More »‘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 to Brussels,” Szijjarto said in an interview with Swiss daily Blick. Competitiveness among member states must also be increased, the minister said, suggesting European countries should not be restrained by …
Read More »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 on EU digital economy policies has reached a whopping €100 million ($114.4 million). More than 600 companies have been involved in such activities, with at least 20% of them being …
Read More »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 of the nation’s biggest city, which are home to some 2 million people. According to the new rule, officers will have the right to shut down businesses, workplaces, construction sites …
Read More »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, the latest effort to curtail presidential war powers, which have steadily accrued to the executive branch over several decades. “I believe that we have become far too comfortable with the …
Read More »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 month – told the Washington Post on Monday that he would step down from leadership. He said after several meetings he had agreed to make way for neurosurgeon Ariel Henry, …
Read More »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 Soviet war against the Mujahideen in the Central Asian nation. And yet, it’s a lesson that officials in the US Pentagon seem to have missed. Perhaps “never” is an exaggeration: …
Read More »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 Washington’s call to keep open the last United Nations aid crossing into Syria, in an opposition-held northwest part of the country at Bab al-Hawa on the Turkish border. It is …
Read More »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 the German concept of wehrhafte Demokratie – or militant democracy – has arrived on our shores, dictating that some of our rights are sacrificed in the interests of order. Once …
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