|
Latest Articles: International News
Pat Buchanan: Has Diversity Put Democracy in a Death Spiral?
Post Date: 2017-04-20 20:43:21 by nativist nationalist
3 Comments
“You all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don’t think it’s worth a damn. Churchill is right. The only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that’s any better. … “People say, ‘If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better.’ I say Congress is too damn representative. It’s just as stupid as the people are, just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.” This dismissal of democracy, cited by historian H. W. Brands in “The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War,” is attributed to that great populist Secretary of State ...
Venezuela: Authorities Seize General Motors Plant
Post Date: 2017-04-20 08:41:43 by cranky
5 Comments
General Motors said it has ceased all operations in Venezuela after authorities unexpectedly seized its plant in the city of Valencia. A court in the Zulia state said it imposed a broad embargo on the assets of General Motors Venezolana, C.A., or GMV, which has been in operation for nearly seven decades. GMV said authorities seized its plant Wednesday afternoon and that its associated bank accounts likely are also out of its control, meaning the company cannot make payments, such as employee wages. GMV called the act “improper, absurd, outside of legal logic and due process.” “GMV is taking all legal measures within its reach in order to protect the rights of its workers ...
Trump Has Killed "Beautiful Babies" in Four Countries
Post Date: 2017-04-19 21:44:26 by Deckard
1 Comments
US president Donald Trump sounded sincere when he described how he felt after seeing pictures of "beautiful little babies" allegedly killed by a Syrian government chemical weapons attack on April 4. “These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated," said Trump, and hours later, the US launched nearly 60 tomahawk missiles in response to the allegations. But what about the beautiful little babies killed by US bombs since Trump became president? Is Trump not concerned about those children because they were killed by his missiles, and not Assad’s chemical weapons? In the first three months of his presidency, Trump has dropped bombs – and killed ...
Trump's missing 'armada' finally heading to Korea... maybe...
Post Date: 2017-04-19 09:20:43 by Willie Green
12 Comments
BEIJING — It was supposed to be steaming toward North Korea more than a week ago, an "armada" signaling American resolve. Then it wasn't. Now, it seems the USS Carl Vinson may finally be heading north. "Our deployment has been extended 30 days to provide a persistent presence in the waters off the Korean Peninsula," Rear Adm. Jim Kilby, the commander of Carrier Strike Group One, said in a message posted on the Carl Vinson's Facebook page addressed to "families and loved ones" of the personnel on board. The Carl Vinson, accompanied by a carrier air wing, two guided-missile destroyers and a cruiser, was supposed to have been ordered to sail ...
Russia’s top-secret Arctic base which Vladimir Putin has filled with nuclear-armed warplanes and REINDEER-riding special forces
Post Date: 2017-04-18 19:55:30 by redleghunter
4 Comments
Title: Russia’s top-secret Arctic base which Vladimir Putin has filled with nuclear-armed warplanes and REINDEER-riding special forces The giant complex on the northern ice cap is believed to be fully-armed with missile systems and nuclear-ready fighter jets. Great pics at link. Click for Full Text!
Trump is heading for a do-nothing presidency
Post Date: 2017-04-18 11:15:54 by Willie Green
14 Comments
"George W. Bush, but racist." That's what Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine says President Donald Trump is turning into, as he abandons some of his more idiosyncratic campaign positions and starts listening to Republican Party regulars who favor foreign wars and tax cuts for the rich. This comparison is unfair — to George W. Bush. Bush accomplished things, whether you liked those things or not. I agree with Chait that Trump is failing to promote and advance a policy agenda of his own. But the likely result is that he will do very little, not that he will achieve what a conventional Republican president would achieve, if given a Republican ...
Ann Coulter: I am through with Neocons’ endless wars in the Middle East
Post Date: 2017-04-18 09:14:36 by Deckard
25 Comments
Ann Coulter: “We have been lied to over and over in cases like this and I do not think [Trump's attack on Syria] shows toughness...I've never understood why it is so much worse to die by a chemical than to have your head shot off, or to have your head chopped off. A half a million people have died already, this was 70 people, it makes no sense, whether or not he did it." “Oh, boy. The Israelis are going to hate my new position.”…by Jonas E. Alexis Ladies and gentlemen, Ann Coulter is finally getting tired of perpetual wars in the Middle East. She has recently said she is “tired of regime change” and of “pointless” wars. She has ...
Is Italy still Italy if the inhabitants are black Muslim migrants from Africa?
Post Date: 2017-04-18 08:04:25 by HomerBohn
6 Comments
In the ongoing migrant invasion of Europe — an invasion that is welcomed by the governments of western Europe — the village of Sant’Alessio in Calabria, southern Italy is a microcosm. See if you can spot the propaganda in the following “report” by Fanny Carrier of AFP (via France24), April 16, 2017: In the foothills of the Aspromonte mountains in southern Italy, the silence of a once-dying village is broken by the laughter of a small group of refugees. Tiny Sant’Alessio has been welcoming families and vulnerable migrants here for three years in a project which not only provides humanitarian assistance but brings with it invaluable economic and social ...
Easter Bunny Is Real: Foster Parents Lose Children After Refusing to ‘Lie’
Post Date: 2017-04-18 06:38:04 by Deckard
4 Comments
Two Canadian foster parents had their foster children removed from their home because they refused to say the Easter Bunny is real. The Christian couple has taken court action, saying their rights have been violated. Derek and Frances Baars filed court papers against Hamilton Children’s Aid Society after the agency said they must tell their foster children that the Easter Bunny is a “real entity.” “We were committed to not lying to children,” Derek Baars said, adding “they could expect the truth from us and we expected the truth from them.” The couple, who are devout Christians, told the agency that they “do not endorse Santa Claus or the Easter ...
Why Trusting US Government and Mainstream Media Makes You a Dupe
Post Date: 2017-04-17 14:27:55 by Deckard
6 Comments
Who trusts the U.S. government and American newsmedia nowadays? Only dupes possibly can. Just look at the recent history, for the evidence on that:The U.S. Government and ‘news’media lied us into invading Iraq in 2003, and hid their coup that overthrew the democratically elected progressive government in Iran in 1953, and lied to say that the CIA wasn’t behind the overthrow and ’suicide' of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 — and now they’re lying us into war yet again, this war against Syria (where we, and our allied jihadists who are fighting to overthrow Assad, have already destroyed the lives of the people). ...
Trump Replaces John Kerry as Flip-Flop Gold Medalist
Post Date: 2017-04-17 06:46:34 by Deckard
10 Comments
Trump's voters are watching the Washington Establishment capture Donald Trump.His reversals are now heralded by the mainstream media. The Washington Post has continued to attack him 24x7, yet it admits he is taking centrist positions. The BBC has also noted it.He campaigned against ObamaCare. He failed to promote repeal. The accent was on "replace." Paul Ryan's compromise was a disaster. The Freedom Caucus in the House of Representatives blocked it. Trump declared war on them. But he has no clout in their districts. Most of them pulled better than he did last November.The Export-Import Bank has subsidized big businesses for decades. Candidate Trump said he was against it. ...
North Korean Missile Launch Fails ‘Almost Immediately’, U.S. Military Says
Post Date: 2017-04-15 21:24:56 by Hondo68
5 Comments
North Korea attempted a missile launch Sunday morning local time (5:21pm ET), but it failed "almost immediately" United States military officials confirmed to NBC News. South Korea's military detected the same results, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The launch was attempted from Sinpo, a city on North Korea's east coast, some 400 miles from Japan,according to U.S. Pacific Command. Early assessments suggested the projectile was not an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the continental U.S., two U.S. military officials told NBC News. The attempted launch comes just one day after the North held a massive parade to ...
Facebook targets 30,000 accounts in crackdown on fake news in France
Post Date: 2017-04-15 18:43:35 by Justified
3 Comments
Facebook targets 30,000 accounts in crackdown on fake news in France Ivana Kottasova "Our priority, of course, is to remove the accounts with the largest footprint, with a high amount of activity and a broad reach," Facebook security manager Shabnam Shaik said in a blog post. The social media giant acknowledged, however, that the purge will not remove all accounts that are spreading fake news. "We know we have to keep getting better," said Shaik. "These accounts were targeted because they are fake. Full stop," a Facebook spokesman told CNNTech. He said that taking down fake accounts helps prevent hoaxes, spam, political trolling and fake news. "We ...
Trump wants gold-plated carriage ride with Queen during UK visit
Post Date: 2017-04-15 17:29:23 by Willie Green
10 Comments
President Trump has requested a ride with Queen Elizabeth II in a gold-plated carriage during his visit to the United Kingdom this October, according to a report by The Times of London.The tradition of world leaders taking a carriage ride along the mall from the Royal Mews to Buckingham Palace with the Queen is not entirely unusual.The decision has not yet been confirmed, and aspects of Trump's visit are still in flux. While President Obama chose not to ride in such a carriage during his U.K. visit, other world leaders — including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Chinese President Xi Jinping — have taken such ...
Italian Emma Morano, last known survivor of 19th century, dies at 117
Post Date: 2017-04-15 16:04:57 by nativist nationalist
2 Comments
Rome (AFP) - Emma Morano, an Italian woman believed to have been the oldest person alive and the last survivor of the 19th century, died Saturday at the age of 117, Italian media reported. Morano, born on November 29 1899, died at her home in Verbania, in northern Italy, the reports said. "She had an extraordinary life, and we will always remember her strength to move forward in life," said Silvia Marchionini, the mayor of Verbania, a small village of some 2,000 residents. According to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), Morano ceded the crown of the world's oldest human being to Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900. Morano's death, at the ...
Russia Says Syria Invited Chemical Weapons Experts to Idlib
Post Date: 2017-04-15 15:10:46 by Tooconservative
2 Comments
Russia called for international inspectors to visit Idlib, where the U.S. accused Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad of carrying out a deadly chemical weapons attack against his own citizens. Syria’s government invited the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to visit the site of the April 4 incident and the airbase that the U.S. later bombed, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Representatives of United Nations Security Council members, the European Union and the Middle East should travel with OPCW inspectors to ensure a “transparent” investigation, he said at a meeting with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed Al Thani Saturday in Moscow. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Kremlin on the Potomac: Trump’s White House makes Americans into strangers in a strange land
Post Date: 2017-04-15 10:52:55 by Willie Green
2 Comments
Donald Trump’s administration is a black box of confusion, chaos and incompetence. Those on the outside looking in are left confused and bewildered, desperately seeking signs and portents of what the most powerful man in the world will do next. This is not normal. In a time of global crises and increasing tensions it is also very dangerous.The United States is supposed to be the world’s leading democracy. The health of a democracy is highly dependent on transparency and accountability. Trump’s administration has repeatedly shown his disdain for both of those fundamental principles. This is a lubricant for America’s further descent into fascism. It also signals to a much ...
North Korea Deports 600,000 from Capital as Trump Sends Armada Their Way
Post Date: 2017-04-15 07:04:20 by HomerBohn
10 Comments
Following the missile strike on Syria, President Trump has now sent an armada North Korea’s way, and they have decided to evacuate 600,000 people from the capital. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave the order to evacuate, according to Korea Joongang Daily. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently ordered the deportation of nearly 600,000 Pyongyang residents to the suburbs, a local source told the JoongAng Ilbo Monday. The deportation represents one-fourth of Pyongyang’s current population of 2.6 million. It is not known when they will be forced to move or to where. “Population control was the pretext of the latest order,” said the source, who asked for anonymity, ...
The Syria Strikes: A Conspiracy Theory
Post Date: 2017-04-14 18:53:17 by Deckard
2 Comments
On the morning of April 4th 2017, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on the verge of a military victory against the terrorist insurgency in his country and on the eve of peace talks that would secure his position as president, decided to use chemical weapons he didn’t have against a target of no military significance in front of as many cameras as possible to cross the one red line that would insure his own government’s downfall. Soon after, the Academy Award-winning White Helmets–noted for their Oscar-worthy performances, persistent proximity to Al Qaeda, and financial dependence on USAID–bravely risked their lives, handling Sarin victims barehanded against every ...
The Wars Are Coming
Post Date: 2017-04-14 15:27:07 by Deckard
30 Comments
Well, I hate to say I told you so, but…I told you so. Look, I was suspicious of Trump from the beginning. But for a couple weeks into his presidency, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I didn’t just criticize the man day in and day out from Day One. After a couple weeks, though, it became very obvious that he was no different than any other president. I’ve been predicting he’d get us into two no-win wars long before this deal with Syria and North Korea began. Well, this morning the news has “revealed” photos of a North Korean nuclear test site they’re about to go hot with a new test on. Right, just like the Syrian gas attack, ...
WikiLeaks: The Afghan Tunnels the US Just Bombed — “They were built by the CIA”
Post Date: 2017-04-14 13:34:37 by Deckard
3 Comments
As The Trump administration is flexing its military muscle, having stood up to Syria and its ally Russia, and while it’s now relishing in the news it has dropped the nation’s largest most-powerful non-nuclear bomb on a cave complex in Eastern Afghanistan, one critic was quick to point out one little-known fact. Wikileaks tweeted a simple but true statement concerning the origin of the cave complex the Americans are so proud to have reportedly destroyed. “Those tunnels the U.S is bombing in Afghanistan? They were built by the CIA,” Wikileaks tweeted. Linked to the tweet was a New York Times article from 2005, which described a similar cave complex in detail, ...
North Korea Threatens to Nuke the U.S. at the Slightest Provocation
Post Date: 2017-04-14 11:00:54 by HomerBohn
6 Comments
Threats towards the United States from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are hardly uncommon, but the bizarre Pyongyang regime is stepping up their war rhetoric in the wake of President Trump’s Syria strikes. Noting the escalating training exercises the U.S. is conducting across the border to the south of their country, North Korean state media warned Tuesday that they would unleash a nuclear weapons attack at the slightest provocation from U.S. military forces. The state’s official newspaper said the regime was ready to respond to any aggression. “Our revolutionary strong army is keenly watching every move by enemy elements with our nuclear sights focused on the U.S. ...
President Assad Latest Interview 4/13/2017
Post Date: 2017-04-14 05:37:28 by Hondo68
0 Comments
Syria's President Bashar-al Assad says reports of a chemical attack by his forces were "100% fabrication". In an exclusive video interview with AFP news agency, he said "there was no order to make any attack". More than 80 people were killed in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April, and hundreds suffered symptoms consistent with a nerve agent. Witnesses said they saw warplanes attack the town but Russia says a rebel depot of chemical munitions was hit.
(Houston) Scorpion stings man on United flight to Calgary
Post Date: 2017-04-13 20:53:55 by Hondo68
1 Comments
A scorpion stung a United Airlines passenger mid-flight 7 Hours Ago | 00:40 A creature that appeared to be a scorpion fell from an overhead bin and stung a man on a United Airlines flight, the company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. According to multiple reports, passenger Richard Bell was on a United flight from Houston to Calgary on Sunday, when the creature fell from an overhead bin and stung him. United told CNBC the airline crew immediately consulted with a physician on the ground who provided guidance throughout the incident. The company said the man's injuries were non-life threatening. "Medical personnel met the aircraft after it arrived in ...
China signaling North Korea to clean up — or else?
Post Date: 2017-04-13 16:21:51 by Tooconservative
0 Comments
No one needs to look for tarot cards to figure out why Donald Trump ordered the USS Carl Vinson task group to sail for the Korean peninsula — he’s sending a message to North Korea. That message was already received in Pyongyang, but as Bloomberg reports today, it has been picked up by our allies too, with varying degrees of public enthusiasm. South Korea and Japan have played down the significance of the move and are sending signals of their own back to Washington to tread carefully: South Korea doesn’t support a preemptive strike and is closely coordinating with the Trump administration, according to an Asian government official familiar with North Korean issues ...
Latest [Newer] 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 [Older]
|
