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Sign of Heaven over Israel

10:58 19.04.2023

Sign of Heaven over Israel

Israeli experts said ‘an unusually bright meteor was visible over the country on Saturday afternoon’, with some observers reporting to have heard a large explosion afterward. The Israeli Astronomical Association (IAA) said it had received reports of the bolide being visible for several seconds over central and northern Israel at …

‘Survival’ is very powerful motivator to drive US-China cooperation

12:59 18.04.2023

‘Survival’ is very powerful motivator to drive US-China cooperation

There have been debates of whether China and the US have entered a new cold war, and there has been much hype of a potential hot war between the two major powers. Is there a real risk that bilateral relations will descend into war? During the Boao Forum for Asia …

How Putin became a Hero on African TV

11:40 18.04.2023

How Putin became a Hero on African TV

Henri Doué Taï, 80, a retired oil company administrator, watches the channel from his living room in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city. A framed photograph of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, sat nestled among family pictures. He was joined by his 41-year-old nephew, Serge Bah, who had studied oil engineering …

Ukraine’s spring offensive ‘a likely death trap’ for US & NATO

11:38 18.04.2023

Ukraine’s spring offensive ‘a likely death trap’ for US & NATO

Under US guidance, Ukraine is planning a major counteroffensive likely later this spring when the fields and secondary roads that are not asphalted dry out. Right now most military vehicles cannot operate over open fields and have real difficulty on unpaved secondary roads, “Asia Times” notes. According to the leaked …

WP: Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show

11:37 18.04.2023

WP: Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show

Taiwan is unlikely to thwart Chinese military air superiority in a cross-strait conflict, while tactics such as China’s use of civilian ships for military purposes have eroded U.S. spy agencies’ ability to detect a pending invasion, according to leaked Pentagon assessments that contain troubling details about the self-governed island’s ability …

‘French Revolution’ in America? Why not?

11:03 17.04.2023

‘French Revolution’ in America? Why not?

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary, Victor Davis Hanson, a distinguished fellow of the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, exclaims. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on …

The USA and the West are no longer ‘examples’ for UAE

11:02 17.04.2023

The USA and the West are no longer ‘examples’ for UAE

It started with Saudi Arabia. President Biden was met with cool, if not cold, greetings during his visit to Riyadh last July. Then the Saudis picked China to mediate their rapprochement with Iran. Nobody from Washington or Brussels was in the room to get the two old enemies shaking hands. …

Russia-China-India bloc is forming in the East

11:00 17.04.2023

Russia-China-India bloc is forming in the East

A potentially consequential meeting in New Delhi went conspicuously unnoticed in much of the West. On the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council, met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a private interaction, ‘The Diplomat’ from Arlington, USA, …

Seymour Hersh: Rampant corruption in Kyiv. ‘Lots of Americans’ are involved?

10:41 16.04.2023

Seymour Hersh: Rampant corruption in Kyiv. ‘Lots of Americans’ are involved?

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia, American prominent journalist Seymour Hersh confesses. It is unknown how much the Zalensky government …

Fake climate solutions that are making climate change worse

10:40 16.04.2023

Fake climate solutions that are making climate change worse

“We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction,” notes Vijay Kolinjivadi, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp, at ‘Al Jazeera’. There is the fatal confusion between efficiency and ecology. We are being duped to believe that buying more “energy efficient” or “green” products can …

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