Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security Secretary, has fired nearly all the members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) so that he can apparently “reconstitute” it once a “new model” has been developed. Sounds familiar, eh? Joe Biden got rid of the Keystone Pipeline and then told the out-of-job workers …
Read More »A statue of St. Greta? It’ll be toppled by the mob within 20 years as public opinion inevitably moves on
Enoch Powell, the divisive right-wing Conservative MP famous for his Rivers of Blood speech, once said that all political careers end in failure. And he was proven right after he became a figurehead for Britain’s racist, far-right political movements in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. There was little clamour to …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: 18 years on, no changes were made to ensure that evils of Iraq invasion won’t repeat
The reason it’s so important to stay enraged about Iraq is because it’s never been addressed or rectified in any real way whatsoever. All the corrupt mechanisms which led to the invasion are still in place and its consequences remain. It isn’t something that happened in the past. The Iraq invasion feels kind of like …
Read More »Masks and distancing could be required for several more YEARS, British public health expert says
New cases of Covid-19 in the UK have dropped tenfold since early January, and more than 27 million Britons – over half the adult population – have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Compared to rising cases on the continent and an EU average vaccination rate of around …
Read More »In 13 years, number of Russians who consider their country to be European has dropped by almost half, survey reveals
That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. The survey revealed that the number of Russians who believe the nation to be European has almost halved in less than a decade and a half, with just 28% of Russians now considering …
Read More »Seven years after Crimea rejoined Russia, Western leaders are fooling themselves if they hope peninsula can ever return to Ukraine
“Crimea is ours!” Seven years ago this week, that cry resounded across Russia, following what people in the West call the “annexation” of Crimea but what Russians prefer to call the “reunification” of Russia and Crimea. The annexation/reunification, or “reabsorption,” if you prefer, had serious ramifications. For Ukraine, they were …
Read More »US set to face more migrants on Mexico border than in ‘last 20 years’ – Homeland Security boss
The prediction was made by the chief of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, on Tuesday. “The situation we are currently facing at the southwest border is a difficult one. We are tackling it,” Mayorkas stated as he predicted the situation getting far worse in the future. …
Read More »Ten years on, the US still promotes failed regime-change policy in Syria
Back in 2001, former General Wesley Clark described a memorandum issued by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld which outlined a plan, as General Clark described it, on “how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing …
Read More »Man faces 110 years in prison for trying to solicit child porn on motherhood blogs
A Jacksonville jury convicted 42-year-old Patrick Moran Jr. of trying to “entice minors to produce images and videos depicting child sexual abuse” and being in possession of “materials depicting the sexual exploitation of children,” the DOJ said in a statement on Thursday. Moran is facing a minimum of 15 years …
Read More »LA police was unprepared for George Floyd protest violence ‘not seen in years,’ believed it would be ‘peaceful’, report says
A report commissioned by the Los Angeles, California city council faults the police for arresting too many people, and not enough violent rioters; using too much nonlethal ammunition, but not stopping the riots fast enough; jailing too many protesters, but not setting up field jails; and assuming “racial justice” protests …
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