Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) has launched a new military operation against the forces loyal to Benghazi-based warlord Khalifa Haftar, the GNA Press Centre has announced. Haftar has been trying to seize control of the capital Tripoli since April last year, backed by the UAE and Egypt. Operation Peace Storm was launched in response to Haftar’s repeated violations of the ceasefire and attacks on […]
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Win McNamee/Getty Images News that the Justice Department is seeking new emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic went viral, so to speak, on Saturday. And whether those responding were politically on the left or the right, generally speaking, the response was a resounding “hell no.” The article at Politico that rocketed across social media explains it this way: The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for […]
America’s response to a global pandemic has been lackluster, to say the least. Despite the near-constant stream of baffling and misleading utterances spewed by the president, the reality is that the ability to test for the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 has paled in comparison to nations like South Korea, which has been examining 20,000 people a day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only managed […]
The coronavirus outbreak in Iran could lead to an increase in Tehran-sponsored attacks on the U.S. and its allies, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East said Thursday. Regimes like Iran’s tend to look to external threats during moments of crisis, Marine Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie of U.S. Central Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee. While McKenzie cautioned that he and his staff […]
Colombian Farmers Continue Push Against Mining, For Peace By Sandra Cuffie, Towardfreedom.org March 11, 2020 Colombian Farmers Continue Push Against Mining, For Peace2020-03-112020-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/ariel-velasquez-2048×1537-e1583959238591.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Towardfreedom.org In La Soledad, coffee farmer Ariel Velásquez wants to protect water sources and lands from mining. Photo by Sandra Cuffe. “What we have has cost us a lot of sweat,” said Ariel Velásquez, as an iridescent green hummingbird flitted between […]
BitGo, one of the largest and oldest custodians for digital assets, is joining the fast-growing business of lending out bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to big investors. The Palo Alto-based company announced Thursday it is now offering institutional digital asset lending services. Founded in 2013 by CEO Mike Belshe, BitGo started testing the new service a few months ago to big investors and has already racked up […]
An initiative by National Basketball Association (NBA) player Spencer Dinwiddie to tokenize the value of professional athletes’ contracts has engaged a specialist investment bank to manage an upcoming offering. DREAM Fan Shares (DFS) announced Tuesday it has brought in New York-based Tritaurian Capital, a FINRA-registered investment bank and broker-dealer providing specialized private placement expertise, to help facilitate the company’s inaugural offering in securities linked to athletes’ […]
Production of electric vehicles is predicted to top four million worldwide this year. As demand for electric cars soars, the cobalt crisis being faced by the industry will only worsen, experts warn. The hosts of Keiser Report discuss the trend for electric cars, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk has popularized. “We are running into the same old conflict that we had with the combustion engine, oil-based […]
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Friday that Israel aims to push Iran out of Syria within the upcoming 12 months, Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post reported. “I have a goal that within 12 months Iran will leave Syria,” he confirmed in an interview with the Israeli newspaper. “Iran has nothing to look for in Syria,” Bennett added. “They are not neighbours, they have no reason to […]
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes billed President Donald Trump‘s advisors as “corrupt,” and “authoritarian” over a new report alleging a staff purge due to employees not being “pro-Trump” enough. The report from Axios revealed a list of “deep state” staffer targets the administration seeks to purge. Hayes began by explaining that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu – who oversaw the prosecution of Michael Flynn and […]
What happens to your bitcoin after you die? This is more than just a philosophical question: It could involve a substantial amount of currency. The question of crypto and the Great Beyond is what prompted about 20 or so developers to get together in London recently to experiment with repurposing the current lightning protocol to send private messages as a “dead man’s button,” a system that […]
Footage from Syria purports to show a US armored personnel carrier trying to push a Russian military jeep off the road as the jeep tried an overtake maneuver. A video, posted on social media on Wednesday, shows what appears to be a Russian military convoy moving alongside an American one. At one point, a Russian Tigr heavy jeep tries to overtake an Oshkosh M-ATV armored vehicle […]
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has marked the latest national event commemorating the death of IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by tweeting a deeply provocative statement asserting that “wealthy Zionists” control America. The United States has reached the “peak of arrogance,” and is controlled by “wealthy Zionists and their corporate owners,” which makes it a “manifestation of oppression, abhorred by the world,” he said further, as reported in The […]
World 14:18 GMT 14.02.2020(updated 14:19 GMT 14.02.2020) Get short URL https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/107774/45/1077744553.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202002141078316080-us-senate-to-push-for-more-military-assistance-for-ukraine—senator/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Senate will push to provide more assistance to Ukraine, including military support, US Senator John Barasso told reporters in Kiev on Friday. “We are going to continue to push for more assistance, specifically military assistance for Ukraine,” Barasso said. “There is a bipartisan commitment […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjárt warns that the United Nations is spending money on facilitating a program of mass migration that threatens the “whole of humanity.” Instead of spending money on counter-terrorism, the UN is funding programs that encourage people to leave their homelands and head to western countries, Szijjártó told a conference in Vienna on Tuesday. This […]