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America must find its middle ground

12:07 15.04.2024

America must find its middle ground

Regardless of who wins November’s presidential election, America is likely to see new outbursts of protest, revealing a pessimism and anger that threatens to become the norm in US politics. The nation must come together to recreate a middle ground, writes Michael Auslin, a PhD at the Hoover Institution, Stanford …

Bloomberg: Niger receives Russian military instructors

12:06 15.04.2024

Bloomberg: Niger receives Russian military instructors

Russia boosted its influence in West Africa’s Sahel region by sending military instructors to Niger, its first such deployment, Bloomberg informs. The instructors, who arrived in the country last Wednesday, brought an air-defense system and will train Nigerien troops, state-owned Radio Television du Niger reported late Thursday. RTN broadcast images …

Iran answers to the Israeli provocation

10:57 14.04.2024

Iran answers to the Israeli provocation

Tel Aviv condemned the move as a “dangerous escalation” and said its forces were on high alert, writes Will Porter, an assistant news editor at the Libertarian Institute and a regular contributor at Antiwar.com. Find more of his work at Consortium News and ZeroHedge. The Iranian military has launched an …

Britain is ‘not prepared for war’, former defence ministers warn

10:42 14.04.2024

Britain is ‘not prepared for war’, former defence ministers warn

Britain is not prepare for war, former defence ministers James Heappey (left) and Ben Wallace (right) have warned. Former Armed Forces Minister James Heappey who left his role last month said told The Telegraph Government has not ensured plans are in place for how the whole nation would respond if …

Study reveals up to 11 million tons of plastic polluting ocean floors

10:42 14.04.2024

Study reveals up to 11 million tons of plastic polluting ocean floors

"Every minute, a garbage truck's worth of plastic enters the ocean," researchers said. The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth's ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week. Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research …

Bad IDEA: Voters in many countries sceptical of democracy

10:41 14.04.2024

Bad IDEA: Voters in many countries sceptical of democracy

Voters in many countries are suffering a crisis of faith in their democracies and institutions, a survey by a governance watchdog showed, painting a bleak picture in a year in which more than half of the world's population holds elections, Reuters reports. With the United States, India, Britain and the …

Congress was shocking: The Biden Administration has massively undercounted Ukraine aid

10:40 14.04.2024

Congress was shocking: The Biden Administration has massively undercounted Ukraine aid

One of the worst kept secrets in Washington is no one actually knows just how much money the United States has spent in support of Ukraine, writes ‘The American Conservative’. Over the past year, however, conservatives in Congress have been pushing President Joe Biden and his administration for the real …

The first Russian educational space in a school in Niger

8:59 13.04.2024

The first Russian educational space in a school in Niger

The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) named after Patrice Lumumba has opened the first Russian educational space in Niamey, the capital of Niger. The opening ceremony took place at the Centre Eveil ecole Artistique Petits Pas school on April 5, reports the African Initiative. The opening and the signing …

View from Washington: Will NATO Fight?

8:57 13.04.2024

View from Washington: Will NATO Fight?

In 2014 I wrote the article asking the question, ‘Will NATO Fight, Talk or Trade?’ That was well before the Russian military operation in Ukraine that started in February, 2022. It was also before Europe, the US and others imposed heavy sanctions on Russia. It was before Germany lost its …

‘Automated murder’: Israel’s ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) in Gaza

8:56 13.04.2024

‘Automated murder’: Israel’s ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) in Gaza

‘+972 Magazine’ and ‘Local Call’, independent publications in Israel-Palestine, reported that as the Israel Defense Forces press their savage invasion of the Gaza Strip, they deploy an artificial intelligence program called Lavender that so far has marked some 37,000 Palestinians as kill targets. In the early weeks of the Israeli …

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