“Economic analysis suggests that bilateral trade wars are unwinnable in an interconnected world. By firing his latest tariff salvo against China, Trump has further raised the stakes in an increasingly damaging dispute. And America is ...
“Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more lies to make a case for war.” In a press conference that immediately evoked ...
“However, growth remains low, and risks remain tilted to the downside. Most importantly, trade and geopolitical tensions have intensified.” On Sunday, June 9, finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the G20 countries wrapped up ...
Israeli sources say that the Iron Dome system has so far intercepted 85 percent of all Gaza projectiles. A recent report by the Marine Corps Times highlighted an interest by the U.S. Marines Corps (USMC) ...
“Too many people have too much money invested in war.” According to a new study, Global military spending in 2018 reached its highest level since the end of the Cold War era, triggered by an ...
(RFE/RFL) Russian officials and politicians blasted the U.S. decision to suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, with one lawmaker saying Washington had “taken another step toward its destruction.” “I congratulate the ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War? Tensions between the U.S and Russia are threatening to get out of ...
The United Nations (UN) will officially lead an international inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an opinion writer for the Washington Post. UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard will stay in Turkey from ...
China’s economic growth slowed to 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the same period in the previous year, the slowest pace in the past 28 years as the impact of the ...
Amid the endless reporting about the situation at the US-Mexico border, the potential for a growing health crisis remains largely unreported. The large number of people in holding at the border greatly increases the odds ...
US wants to ensure security for Kurdish allies before completely withdrawing its troops from Syria, but Turkey opposes Washington’s request. On Tuesday, Jan. 9, Turkey requested the US hand over 16 US military bases in ...
“We are preparing to defend Venezuela to the last inch when necessary.” Two Russian Tupolev-160 long-range strategic bombers that landed in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 10 sparked outrage and condemnation from U.S. officials. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...
U.S. President Donald Trump responded furiously to French President Emmanuel Macron’s idea to build up Europe’s joint forces. The billionaire tweeted his anger after arriving in Paris on Saturday to commemorate the end of World ...
Pesticide activists are outraged as two new reports detail how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) abuses emergency exemptions of pesticides – a provision in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) – to ...
In a controversial move, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other Disney characters are being removed from Egyptian schools. The government intends to replace the characters with Egyptian war heroes and martyrs and hopes to develop ...
As the trade war escalates between the U.S. and China, some countries in Southeastern Asia could come out winners. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Washington will apply a ten percent tariff on imported ...
An animal cruelty report from Direct Action Everywhere exposed systemic dog abuse at a breeding facility that supplies dogs for animal testing. An investigation by animal rights activists exposed severe instances of animal cruelty at ...
Alexander Williams Jr. a retired U.S District Judge has been tasked with leading an investigation panel that will look into the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) corruption scandal. The investigation comes at a ...
Hundreds of inmates in various U.S. prisons have gone on strike, protesting what they’ve labeled “modern-day slavery.” Solidarity and Support In what may pass as the largest strike in recent history, the 2018 U.S. prison ...
A harrowing scene unfolded in New Haven, Connecticut last week when 100 people overdosed on some form of K2, regularly and inaccurately called synthetic marijuana. While New Haven officials were responding to some 76 people, ...
On Friday, ABC Australia reported that the U.S. would launch a missile attack on Iran as early as next month. The report stemmed from President Donald Trump’s threatening tweet in response to Iranian President Hassan ...
(RadioFree Europe, by Mike Eckel) As U.S.-Russian summits go, the just-concluded meeting in Helsinki between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin ranked high for drama, but, analysts say, surprisingly low in terms of ...
On Tuesday, the U.S. announced it withdrew from the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council and referenced the council’s bias against Israel. The Trump administration’s exit from the council is the latest in a series ...
On Saturday, leaders of seven industrialized nations (Canada, France, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, and Italy) signed a joint statement vowing to overcome protectionism and curb trade barriers as the G7 summit held in ...
More than 50 additional prosecutors and judges have been assigned to work along the US-Mexico border on immigration cases which have surged under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ zero-tolerance policy for illegal border ...
This past Sunday, April 8, 2018, there was an alleged chemical attack on the rebel-controlled city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus. The alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria is pushing the world ...
The UK is using illicit export permits to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to Middle East countries with poor human rights records, according to exclusive data obtained by Middle East Eye (MEE). MEE compared ...
On October 4 2017, four U.S. soldiers, who were part of a 12-man Special Forces team led by Green Berets, died in Niger. They were killed in an attack by about 50 armed terrorists with ties to ...
Israel Attacks Syrian Military Positions, Syria Issues Warnings The On Sunday June 25th 2017, Israel attacked the Syrian government. The attack by Israel was a result of stray fire between the Syrian government, Al Nusra ...
After a June 7th 2017 terrorist attack in Tehran Iran, the government of Iran came out to blame the United States and Saudi Arabia for supporting terrorism. President Trump expressed grief but immediately after said ...
Re-posted with permission from anti war by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2017 US warships have made a habit of wandering around in the Persian Gulf just off the coast of Iran, waiting for Iranian Naval ...
The 2011 intervention in Libya was sparked by the US condemning the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan government. The official justification for the intervention was that Gaddafi was a brutal dictator who had ...
What we don’t hear about often when Syria is discussed are the two competing oil pipelines vying to run through Syria. Both pipelines seek to connect the largest natural gas field in the world, located ...
The U.S. just bombed Syria check out our Couch Talk about the Syria situation. It’s not as simple as many like to make it out to be. The U.S. just fired 50+ Tomahawk cruise missiles at ...
On Tuesday, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the head of America’s European Command, told the House Armed Services Committee that he needs a larger combat force, including an armored division and more warships, to deter Russian forces ...
Another US coalition airstrike has killed 33 civilians at a school in Syria according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This comes only a week after the U.S. deployed 1000 boots on the ...
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