Liu Xia “Ready to Die” Amid Renewed Calls for Release Since the death of imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo last July, the extra-legal house arrest his wife Liu Xia has endured since his award in 2010 has continued despite hopes for her release. Following months of delays, her friend [...]
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THE NEW AXIS: tHE WORLD CONSIGNS tRump TO AN AXIS OF EVIL
Russia, Saudi Arabia are getting increasingly chummy, and that has big implications for OPEC and oil prices Yep, MAGA works great. BTW, Russia is also building a pipeline across North Korea. IraMAGAn is part of this axis too, along with Iraq. Iraq has sold a huge gas field to China. As for I[...]
Krauthammer: That’s all she wrote, folks
Influential conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer announced Friday he’s lost his battle against cancer, has only a few weeks to live, and has written his last column. Krauthammer, 68, is an Oxford and Harvard-educated psychiatrist who became a quadraplegic in college as a result of a diving [...]
President Trump Brings an ALL STAR Team to Negotiate With Kim Jung Un
Donald Trump has assembled a unique team to negotiate with Kim Jung Un . The Team includes John Bolton, the great leader who inspired President GW Bush to invade Iraq, Sebastian Gorka, adviser to both Donald Trump and far right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Sean Hannity,the scion of Fau[...]
June 3rd, 2018 - 11:33 am § in Foreign Affairs
While Trump’s US Infrastructure rots, Trump’s oil policies build ultra fast trains in Saudi Arabia
Haramain train makes pilot trip[...]
May 29th, 2018 - 8:42 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
China Has Dispatched Warships to Challenge U.S. Vessels Sailing Near Disputed Islands
While Trump plays at being President and dumps anyone with actual expertise, China is playing the US the way Ali played Forman. Slowly and carefully, China has effectively taken control of the South China Sea, and therefore of Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. Meanwhile Trump thinks Preside[...]
May 27th, 2018 - 6:22 pm § in Foreign Affairs
NK Threatens US “hack” Media
U.S. Media Warned against Misleading Public Opinion Date: 27/05/2018 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) — Fox News TV, CBS and CNN of the U.S. recently let U.S. high-ranking officials appear in their programs and quoted them as saying about th[...]
May 26th, 2018 - 12:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Korea Moves Ahead Without the Donald
HUGS! South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got together for a very friendly meeting aimed at staving off a return to U.S.-led pressure and sanctions against Pyongyang, threatened by Trump. Mr. Moon said he was “perplexed” by Mr. Trump’s cancellation of the Sin[...]
Mussolini is back!
The far-right Lega and anti-establishment Five Star parties chose law professor Giuseppe Conte as their consensus pick for Italy’s next prime minister, despite his lack of governing experience. Mattarella giving Conte a mandate to form Italy’s next government clears one of the final hurdles for [...]
Reports of Mohammed bin Salman’s death are greatly exaggerated?
The interwebs spread the story that Trump ally Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia had been assassinated. ,The buddy of Kushner had disappeared from public view after prolonged heavy gunfire was heard at the royal palace in Riyadh in the middle of the night on April 21. The Pri[...]