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How should the Pentagon target China?

11 June 2021

A heated debate is taking place at the Pentagon between two visions of the role to be assigned to US forces vis-à-vis China. Should they be remotely positioned and be exposed only to missiles, or sit nearby and risk being attacked by enemy soldiers?
The two options involve very different troop (...)

Hezbollah ready to meet basic needs of Lebanese people

11 June 2021

During a televised speech on 8 June 2021, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah cautioned Lebanese politicians.
After denouncing the shortage of medicines - arranged by the distributors, according to him - the problems hampering fuel, electricity and, now, food supplies, he exhorted (...)

Biden administration reactivates the Quad

10 June 2021

Within the framework of the DoD China Task Force, the United States made overtures to the other members of the “Quad” (Australia, India, Japan, USA).
The reported purpose of the initiative was to reactivate this structure in order to convert it into a military alliance for the defense of (...)

Pentagon given order to abandon Middle East and focus on Far East

10 June 2021

The Department of Defense’s China Task Force has handed in its report. Although classified, it can be easily deduced that it condemns the gap between declarations and actions.
The creation of this working group was announced in February, just hours before a telephone conversation between (...)

SDF kill ten protesters in Minbej (Syria)

5 June 2021

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which acts as a facade for the US military occupation of northeastern Syria, has instituted compulsory conscription for service in Uncle Sam’s armed forces.
The population – loyal to the Syrian Arab Republic – took to the streets to protest. The Kurdish (...)

Perpetrator of crimes against humanity arrested by Interpol in Turkey

5 June 2021

Arkan Taha Ahmad was arrested by Interpol in Bolu (Turkey). This ISIL officer orchestrated the Camp Speicher massacre in Tikrit, Iraq.
As the Islamic State was gaining ground in 2014, the jihadists slaughtered all the “infidels” within the garrison after noting down the names and ranks of each (...)

European Council challenging e-Privacy

3 June 2021

The European Council, comprising European Heads of State and Government, is aiming to set up an e-mail monitoring system. This initiative being extremely unpopular since it would undercut individual freedoms even further, it is promoted under the noble pretext of curtailing child pornography. (...)

European embassies soon to reopen in Syria

3 June 2021

Greece and Cyprus will soon reopen their embassies in Damascus, which were shut down in 2012.
The Czech Republic is the only member of the European Union to have kept its embassy open throughout the war. The ambassador represented President Miloš Zeman (pro-Syria) and did not report to the (...)

Morocco’s show of strength against Spain

2 June 2021

Relying on the United States’ recognition of its full sovereignty in exchange for the normalization of its relations with Israel, Morocco does not intend to cede one inch with regard to the “Spanish Sahara” which it considers its territory.
Washington’s support for Morocco against Spain and (...)

Iranian presidential election under increasing supervision

2 June 2021

The presidential campaign in Iran kicked off on Friday, 28 May. The Council of Guardians shortlisted a number of candidates and excluded others, in particular former Parliament Speaker Ali Laridjani and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ex-President of the Republic.
On 27 May, Leader of the Revolution (...)

Protest in London against Covid Passeport

1 June 2021

On 29 May 2021, at least 50,000 people gathered in front of Parliament in London to demonstrate against the sanitary passport, introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic.
The participants reject this restriction of their individual freedoms under the guise of public health, emphasizing that (...)

Denmark spied on European politicians on Washington’s behalf

31 May 2021

On 30 May 2021, the Danish media rekindled earlier reports that the Danish secret services spied on top European leaders on behalf of the United States. The German press followed suit by denouncing the wiretapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Numerous governments expressed their “concern”.
In (...)

Black figures against NYT and Democratic Party racism

31 May 2021

The book Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers , released on 18 May, is making a sensation in the United States.
It is a critique, by some two dozen eminent black scholars, of the New York Times’ account of American history (Project 1619), which (...)

Bashar al-Assad votes braving Western recriminations

26 May 2021

On 26 May 2021, Syria organized a presidential election on its territory and in all of its embassies.
The United States and its allies have dubbed this election, like the previous one, “neither free nor fair”. They were convinced that the Syrians who had fled abroad (mainly to Lebanon and (...)

German cars and water shortage in Guinea

26 May 2021

The German automobile industry is heavily reliant on aluminum production and therefore on the import of Guinean bauxite.
Therefore, over the past five yers, the federal government has granted $ 293 million to mining companies in Guinea as a guarantee.
However, a petition signed by more than (...)

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