The US administration appreciates Poland's contributions of over 2% to NATO, its decision to purchase American Patriot air-defense systems, and its staunch opposition to the Russian-European Nord Stream 2 undersea gas pipeline. In a clearly pointed gesture, Moscow's expected reaction was not mentioned, but the presidents agreed that Russia was Read more…
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies Read more…
“You couldn't make it up,” said Andrea Römmele, a professor of political science at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Three years later, as a nationalist and populist backlash is spreading, Ms. In the election, her party saw a significant decline in voter support and a far-right party, the Read more…
In 2013, Moscow ended the joint Russian-US Cooperative Threat Reduction program (the Nunn-Lugar program) because it is now able to manage these issues on its own. The cooperation over the secure storage of weapons-grade materials was suspended in 2014. A special program to upgrade the transportation infrastructure has been in place since Read more…
In a Saturday night email to the Senate Judiciary Committee also received by several news outlets, Leland Ingham Keyser – a “longtime friend” of Blasey Ford's said through her attorney: “Simply put, Ms. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as 'PJ' who supposedly was present at the party she Read more…
And while we have yet to see channel check data on the latest iPhone sales in the US, anecdotal reports from China suggest that Tim Cook's latest product offerings may be nothing short of a complete flop, as retailers and resellers in Hong Kong and mainland China reported one of Read more…
Totally lacking from this fantasy are any inconvenient historical facts. On that epochal day of June 15, 2001, two major events happened. When Habsburg Spain and its allies decisively defeated the huge fleet of the mighty Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, Spain's imperial domination over Europe Read more…
And I don't think any mind's are going to be changed.” Watch: Brennan, meanwhile, suggested in a Tuesday MSNBC interview that government officials should resign rather than comply with President Trump's order to release the records. Brennan, who now serves as an MSNBC contributor, has been a vocal critic of Trump's over the Read more…
It's perfectly OK to ask such questions, as long as you don't continue to ask them, over and over, and over again, after the facts have been explained to you. Apparently, Hasan has just about had it with these Putin-loving Trump-apologists proposing that general dissatisfaction with global capitalism, neoliberalism, and identity politics Read more…
More than seven years after NATO launched a regime change war in Libya on the side of anti-Gaddafi rebels, the West is again being asked to intervene as the country further descends into civil war. Except this time it's the internationally recognized government since installed in Tripoli that is at Read more…