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Biden to recognize Armenian genocide
Biden “is expected to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I as an act of genocide,” Reuters reported on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 (read story here), noting this is “likely to infuriate Turkey and further strain already fraye[...]
April 15th, 2021 - 7:14 pm § in America, Biden, China, Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Russia
Biden’s foreign policy takes shape
Every nation’s foreign policy is driven by self-interest and domestic politics, and the U.S. is no exception. That reality is reflected in the foreign policy actions the Biden administration announced on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Keep in mind that President Biden has been involved in domestic [...]
Russia’s worrying moves against Ukraine
Russia is rapidly building up military forces on its Ukraine border and rebuffing diplomatic calls for de-escalation as fighting picks up between Ukrainian troops and Ukrainian-Russian separatists in the disputed Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. President Biden, through his press secretary, is [...]
Russia’s arctic military buildup
“Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic,” CNN reported on Monday, April 5, 2021. Satellite photos show “a stark and continuous build-up of Russian military bases and hardware on the country’s Arctic coastline, together with underground storage facilitie[...]
April 5th, 2021 - 12:26 am § in Russia
Russia’s “apocalypse” weapon is real
Weapons experts and Western officials are expressing “particular concern” about a new Russian “super-weapon,” a reactor-powered stealth torpedo called the “Poseidon” designed to sneak past coastal defenses and “inundate U.S. coastal cities with radioactive t[...]
Where Russian dissident politician Alexey Navalny is now
First they tried to kill him, then after West German doctors saved his life, and with extreme bravery he returned to Russia to give his people hope, they sent him to the Gulag. Read story here. They’ll pay a price (story here). Meanwhile, let’s not forget kind of country Russia is (a dic[...]
February 26th, 2021 - 2:13 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
North Korean public transportation
You load your luggage and kids on it, then push it. (Read story here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Vaccine development update
From BBC (story and charts here): “The big three” “The three vaccine frontrunners are those developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca. Pfizer and Moderna have both developed RNA vaccines … [that] inject a tiny fragment of the virus’s genetic code into[...]
Who says renewable energy is a pipe dream?
“Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year,” CNN reported on Sunday, January 24, 2021, adding, “The shift comes as other sources, such as wind and solar power, have … nearly doubled since 2015.” That&#[...]