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Read More »Biden claims he was Israel ‘liaison’ when he was really in law school
Speaking at a menorah lighting for Hanukkah on Thursday, Biden claimed he had been a “liaison” between Israel and Egypt at the time. In fact, Biden was still a student at the Syracuse University College of Law during the brief 1967 conflict – and Meir herself would not be elected …
Read More »‘Vladimir Putin’s pipeline weapon’: What’s really going on with Nord Stream 2?
The mega-project, completed in September after numerous roadblocks, is still far from supplying European customers, due to approval hurdles in the EU. What is Nord Stream 2? The 1,230-kilometer-long route is a new export gas pipeline running from Russia across the Baltic Sea to Germany. It runs parallel to the …
Read More »The UK’s Hamas ban shows what it really thinks of a two-state solution
An announcement by Home Secretary Priti Patel that she will put to Parliament that the political wing of Hamas be proscribed a terrorist group has sparked outrage among Palestinians, and received great public support from Israelis. Hamas is a Palestinian political party that currently governs the besieged Gaza Strip. Its …
Read More »Germans facing ‘really terrible Christmas’
Speaking on Thursday, the director of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, reiterated the case for new, strict countermeasures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. “We are currently heading toward a serious emergency,” Wieler stated, adding “we are going to have a really terrible Christmas if we don’t take countermeasures …
Read More »Is an EU army really the answer to the bloc’s ‘strategic gaps’?
For an organisation that hijacked Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ as its supranational anthem, there seems to be a surprisingly hearty appetite for turning the European Union into something far beyond its original scope as a club for political elites and a mutually beneficial trade alliance. And no one typifies that …
Read More »Distrust of authority is what really turns many into ‘anti-vaxxers’
Fear is a powerful emotion that can cloud thinking, impair judgement and cause some people to regress to a state in which they passively do as they are told and seek protection from anyone who promises security or a ready-made solution for their angst. Fear and propaganda astutely sown in …
Read More »Facebook whistleblower giving Zuckerberg a good kicking is all good fun but ignores what is really at stake: freedom of speech
It’s not been a great week for Facebook. What began in the UK with a glowing piece on Dr. Priscilla Chan, aka Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg, with a shoot on the cover of a Sunday newspaper supplement, was followed by a kicking from a former-employee-turned-whistleblower in front of a key parliamentary …
Read More »So, the word ‘spooky’ is racist now? Actually, what’s really frightening is this policing of language!
The National Theatre of Scotland has decided that the use of the word ‘spooky’ has ‘racist’ and ‘oppressive’ connotations. Since it is unlikely that anyone has used ‘spooky’ as a “racial slur,” it is evident that potentially any term can become a target of the language police. Philip Roth, the …
Read More »Are an ex-NSA chief’s calls for a ‘global cyberattack radar’ really a way for Washington to be able to start wars via false flag?
Keith Alexander, who served as Director of the National Security Agency from 2005 to 2014, has called on the US and its ‘Five Eyes’ allies to construct a global unified cyber-defense ‘radar’ to protect critical infrastructure from foreign hackers. Speaking at an Australian Strategic Policy Institute webinar alongside Abigail Bradshaw, …
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