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Real War of Tanks: Russia’s Kornet missile has now cracked all major Western Bloc tanks

11:21 12.09.2023

Real War of Tanks: Russia’s Kornet missile has now cracked all major Western Bloc tanks

Russia’s Kornet missile has now cracked all major Western Bloc tanks: Challenger 2 kill follows Abrams, Leopard 2 and Merkava IV, “Military Watch Magazine” writes. Following confirmation on September 5 that Russian forces had destroyed a British Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine, Russian sources have widely reported that the Kornet …

22 years of drone warfare and no end in sight

11:20 12.09.2023

22 years of drone warfare and no end in sight

“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.” That’s what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. That hearing was during the Obama years …

Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

12:19 11.09.2023

Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

In modern Ukraine, assassinations date back to at least 2015, when its domestic security service (SBU) created a new body. The elite fifth counter-intelligence directorate started life as a saboteur force in response to the invasion. It later came to focus on what is euphemistically called “wet work”, reveals “The …

US National Security Archive: Chile’s coup at 50

12:07 11.09.2023

US National Security Archive: Chile’s coup at 50

Bombing of the La Moneda Presidential Palace on September 11, 1973 in Santiago de Chile. National Security Archive, The George Washington University published the documents of 11 September 1973 Coup d’état in Chili. “In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes,” Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon several days after …

‘Asia Times’: The Korean war continues with Biden’s renewal of travel ban to North Korea

12:05 11.09.2023

‘Asia Times’: The Korean war continues with Biden’s renewal of travel ban to North Korea

On August 22, the U.S. State Department renewed its ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. This travel ban prohibits as many as 100,000 Korean Americans living in the United States from visiting their relatives in North Korea. The ban was first set in place …

A similar inequality-entrenching tax system in USA and GB

12:05 11.09.2023

A similar inequality-entrenching tax system in USA and GB

“The UK is splitting apart,” a New Statesman analysis last month would agree, “fueled by a tax system that entrenches inequality.” The United States, in the meantime, faces the same split and a similar inequality-entrenching tax system, notes Sam Pizzigati from the Washington Institute for Policy Studies. Eight decades ago, …

Birmingham City Council declares itself bankrupt

10:04 10.09.2023

Birmingham City Council declares itself bankrupt

Birmingham city council, the largest local authority in the country, has in effect declared itself bankrupt, ‘The Guardian’ informs. The notice, preventing all but essential spending to protect core services, was issued with council leaders blaming a £760m bill for equal pay claims, problems installing a new IT system and …

BRICS countries sign a new agreement on joint International Lunar Research Station program

10:02 10.09.2023

BRICS countries sign a new agreement on joint International Lunar Research Station program

Space agencies of China and South Africa signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation at the International Lunar Research Station on September 1, marking South Africa's formal participation in the program. The agreements will bring South Africa onto the team for China and Russia's planned International Lunar Research Station. China …

Geopolitics came to ASEAN countries

10:01 10.09.2023

Geopolitics came to ASEAN countries

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s daylong visit to Jakarta for the ASEAN-India Summit despite the countdown having begun for the G20 summit he’s hosting in New Delhi, stands out as a sign of Indian diplomacy responding to a transformative geopolitical environment in Asia, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international …

US Abrams tank is not for a battle?

9:55 10.09.2023

US Abrams tank is not for a battle?

It would not survive on today's battlefield. According to Defense News, the US Army has cancelled its planned upgrade of the Abrams Tank and is considering a different approach for the tank's future. The Army is basically saying the tank is too heavy and too vulnerable to enemy weapons, confirms …

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