Europe is now paying the price for its summer complacency, when we hoped that coronavirus would be ‘burned’ by the heat. While the epidemic diminished, it did not disappear. Life opened up somewhat, though, and there was a relief that the worst seemed to be over. Now, in the autumn, …
Read More »Joe Biden says young children who decide they ‘want to be transgender’ should face ‘zero discrimination’
The comment came on Thursday night at an election town hall hosted by ABC News, where a woman who said one of her two daughters is transgender asked Biden what he would do to protect LGBTQ rights. The former vice president said, “I will flat out just change the law.” …
Read More »‘We should not forget who started this stage of war’: Armenian president on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in exclusive RT interview
“We should not forget… who started this stage of war. It was the Azeri side, not the people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Sarkissian told RT’s Ilya Petrenko in an interview. Inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, Nagorno-Karabakh seceded from Azerbaijan in 1991 and declared itself an independent republic after the 1994 armistice. The …
Read More »Russia insists all military action in Nagorno-Karabakh should stop, Putin tells Armenia’s Pashinyan
Russia is concerned with the developments and believes that the immediate goal is to cease hostilities, the Kremlin said in a statement. The phone call between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan was made on Yerevan’s initiative. Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called both his …
Read More »As Italians openly mock BoJo, he should forget about comparisons with Churchill and simply try to hold on to his job
Anyone with the sensibility to care for a pet can understand the conflict among Spaniards towards la corrida – the bullfight – which to the uninitiated seems like inhuman torture of a poor, dumb beast, but which to aficionados is a mesmerising, irresistible spectacle of life versus death. Boris Johnson’s …
Read More »‘Why bother?’ Pelosi AGAIN says Biden should avoid debates because Trump & ‘his henchmen are a danger’
Having previously suggested Biden should forgo any debates with the president, Pelosi was asked on Friday’s ‘CBS This Morning’ whether she still feels the same way. “I do, not that I don’t think he’ll be excellent,” she said. “I just think that the president has no fidelity to fact or …
Read More »DOLLAR will CRASH in 2021, US should brace for double-dip recession, economist warns
“We’ve got data that’s confirmed both the saving and current account dynamic in a much more dramatic fashion than even I was looking for,” Roach told CNBC. According to him, “The current account deficit in the United States, which is the broadest measure of our international imbalance with the rest …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Exposing war crimes should always be legal. Committing and hiding them should not
The Kafkaesque extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, with each frustrating day making it clearer than the day before that what we are watching is nothing other than a staged performance by the US and UK governments to explain why it’s okay for powerful governments to jail journalists who expose inconvenient …
Read More »The UK should just get over it and become the 51st American state
Both have a reputation for having enjoyed the company of women other than their wives, and neither is self-aware enough to realize just how uncool their haircuts are. But at least Boris was British; he could at least lay even a tenuous claim to that legendary Brit sense of playing …
Read More »Australia should be ashamed & appalled by this video of police handcuffing a pregnant woman for posting an anti-lockdown message
Police in Victoria have found a new way to amuse themselves in the time of corona. What with Premier Dan Andrews placing the entire state under house arrest to stop them breathing the same air as anyone else, real crime has taken something of a back seat. There is little …
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