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US may seize Afghanistan’s national reserves, but its threat to isolate Taliban is, indeed, ‘unmoored from reality’

As Taliban forces were on their final push to take the Afghan capital, the West was issuing threats of reprisals,…

3 years ago

Biden administration warns of threat from anti-lockdown ‘extremists’ & terrorist sympathizers marking 9/11 anniversary

A DHS bulletin published Friday said that “anti-government, anti-authority violent extremists” may try to “exploit the emergence of Covid-19 variants…

3 years ago

Apple’s new anti-child abuse tech is a real threat to privacy and the authority of human judgment

The road to hell has always been paved with good intentions.And so it is with Apple’s new detection tool, called…

3 years ago

Threat of domestic vaccine passports will help ‘cajole’ young people into getting jabbed, UK Foreign Secretary Raab admits

With more than 70% of adults in the country fully vaccinated, uptake among the young is still lacking, Raab said…

3 years ago

Cyber-warfare has never posed a greater threat to the world. But are the US & Russia now ready to agree on the rules of the game?

Cybersecurity and digital crime now represents a major and growing thorn in the side for relations between the great powers.…

3 years ago

Breast-binding woke icon Emma Corrin is far more of a threat to young girls than the Page 3 ‘stunnas’ who bared their boobs

Unlike most other body parts, breasts are subject to the vagaries of fashion. One year, 1930s-inspired androgyny is all the…

3 years ago

Social media is not as big a threat to humanity as the self-selected experts who think they have a right to police it

There is no doubt that social media is a powerful instrument for mobilising people. It is also clear that it…

3 years ago

The switched-on, censorious billionaires of Silicon Valley are now the greatest threat to free speech and the pursuit of truth

If anyone still naively believes that Facebook is a force for good and not the vanguard of the elite’s pacification…

3 years ago

National security threat or nothingburger? Lawmakers send mixed signals after being briefed on UFOs

The Navy and FBI informed members of the House Intelligence Committee about the government’s findings on Wednesday, ahead of a…

3 years ago

Stop hyping up ‘China threat theory,’ Beijing tells NATO, which labeled it ‘systemic challenge’ to security

The 30-nation military bloc said on Monday that “China’s stated ambitions and assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based…

3 years ago