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The EU Parliament votes: What we’re watching for?

8:24 10.06.2024

The EU Parliament votes: What we’re watching for?

More than 300 million voters in the 27 countries that make up the European Union are heading to the polls to elect the new European Parliament’s 720 members. But in casting their ballots they’ll do more than that. The new balance of power in the Parliament will shape the next …

Netanyahu's government is on the verge of collapse and fall

8:24 10.06.2024

Netanyahu's government is on the verge of collapse and fall

Israeli minister Benny Gantz (photo) announced in a speech on Sunday his party's withdrawal from the emergency government formed after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. Gantz says as he exits coalition, AXIOS informs. Gadi Eizenkot, former IDF chief of staff and current minister without portfolio, also announced …

Reuters: “Moscow looks East from Russia's window to Europe”

8:51 09.06.2024

Reuters: “Moscow looks East from Russia's window to Europe”

Cut off from the West, Russia is pitching its $2 trillion economy to giants like China and Saudi Arabia and longer-term prospects like Zimbabwe and Afghanistan at its St. Petersburg economic forum (photo), which was founded by the tsars as a ‘window to Europe’, writes Reuters. The theme of the …

Some ‘internal policy’ features of the US foreign policy branch

8:50 09.06.2024

Some ‘internal policy’ features of the US foreign policy branch

The State Department’s practices of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring has led to potential inefficiencies in hiring and concerns about the quality of employees in the foreign service, according to a report from The Heritage Foundation, FOX News reports. "Ideologically driven bureaucrats at the State Department are severely undermining …

Chinese officials urge EU: “Avoid protectionist actions”

8:49 09.06.2024

Chinese officials urge EU: “Avoid protectionist actions”

Chinese officials and experts also highlighted the deeper repercussions from any EU protectionist actions, given the massive amount of trade between China and the EU in the auto industry. While there is competition, mutual interests are much greater, they stressed, calling on the EU to re...

Minnesota Democrats reject amendment to ‘require informing people if they’re eating bugs’

8:47 09.06.2024

Minnesota Democrats reject amendment to ‘require informing people if they’re eating bugs’

Democrats in the Minnesota Senate voted down an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs or “cell-cultured” products to be labeled as such. The omnibus agriculture policy bill, also known as S.F. 4225, was discussed, amended, and passed by the Minnesota Senate. According to the bill’s author, Sen. Aric …

British life-style: Britain's shameful military housing – damp, mouldy homes riddled with pests, shoddy gas and electrical fittings

9:44 08.06.2024

British life-style: Britain's shameful military housing – damp, mouldy homes riddled with pests, shoddy gas and electrical fittings

Britain's shameful military housing is a 'sinking ship' that is a 'tax on the goodwill' of the “UK's armed forces heroes”, a landmark review has found, ‘The Daily Mail’ informs. Damp, mouldy homes, riddled with pests and plagued by shoddy gas and electrical fittings are among the persistent woes troops …

“Second Crimea War” and Western perilous historical amnesia

9:43 08.06.2024

“Second Crimea War” and Western perilous historical amnesia

In Europe, there are more and more articles, counting western losses as result of the collective West aggression against Russia. This text is from a magazine ‘European Conservative’: Scarcely a day goes by when Crimea is not in the news. The Crimean Peninsula, the home of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, …

View from India: Why red lines on Western weapons are crucial for Russia

9:42 08.06.2024

View from India: Why red lines on Western weapons are crucial for Russia

NATO is trying to shift the Ukraine conflict into Russia, and the lack of a response will be seen as a sign of weakness, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. On May 31, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the Biden administration’s decision to allow Ukraine …

Bulgarian president: NATO is bringing us to Nuclear Armageddon

9:41 08.06.2024

Bulgarian president: NATO is bringing us to Nuclear Armageddon

Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev (photo) has accused NATO of getting involved in the war in Ukraine, which, he said, risks escalation and a ‘nuclear Armageddon’. His statement claims that it was NATO that started the war in Ukraine and could escalate It further to a nuclear war. Russia invaded Ukraine …

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