Above Photo: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley. Getty Images. The nation of Barbados recently became a republic, severing its ties with the British crown. The road to independence began years earlier as part a wider Caribbean movement. On November 30, 2021, on the 55th anniversary of its political independence, Barbados will become a republic. It is commonly assumed this was some sudden decision by Mia Mottley’s government. The most bizarre suggestion came from British voices, who asserted this had to do with Barbados tilting to China. But the roots of this change go back decades, and are anchored in the politics […]
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On Tuesday, Barbados dropped Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and became a republic. This was a result of the accelerated unrest after last year’s anti-racist and anti-colonial demonstrations around the world sparked by the murder of George Floyd. Another factor was the United Kingdom’s ongoing mistreatment of West Indian migrants. At midnight on Tuesday, November 30, Barbados, an island nation in the Caribbean, declared itself a republic. Sandra Prunella Mason was promoted from governor general to president after by Parliament. In a formal ceremony, attended by Prince Charles representing Queen Elizabeth II, the country ceased to be a […]
A relatively rare and heavily customized Ural-432007-0111-31 6-ton truck, allegedly owned by a Russian state-sponsored private military contractor Wagner, was spotted near the Bangui, Central African Republic. The special truck, better known as Wagner-wagon, uses by fighters from the Wagner Group PMC (private military company), Russian state-sponsored private military contractors carrying out deadly force in the region. Wagner is a secretive contractor whose soldiers of fortune played a role in Syria, Lybia, Sudan and eastern Ukraine. This private military company linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin is a Russian businessman indicted in the United States for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Wagner […]
Russia reportedly has deployed two Mi-8AMTSh Hipp military helicopters to the Central African Republic. On Friday, the heavy-lift An-124 Ruslan (Condor) cargo plane delivered two Russian Mi-8AMTSh Hipp multipurpose helicopters to the Bangui M’poko International Airport in the Central African Republic. According to Radio Liberty, Russia has already deployed hundreds of troops in the deeply unstable country amid an alleged coup bid ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Russia has also sent an additional 300 military instructors to the Central African Republic (CAR) to deal with what its foreign ministry calls a “sharp degradation […]
Western media outlets say Russia has been deploying troops to Central African Republic to support Russian state-sponsored private military contractors, or PMCs, operating there. A number of Ilyushin -76 cargo planes from Russia, an ally of President Faustin-Archange, landed in Central African Republic this weekend, the security source and a source at the airport said. Observers identified over a dozen Russian military trucks with soldiers and two armoured personnel carriers at Bangui airport. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Central African Republic officials conformed that Russia sent hundreds of troops into the country after an alleged coup bid that took place ahead […]
PARIS (Sputnik) – French lawmaker Valerie Boyer says she will submit a proposal to the Senate to recognize the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh), where a confrontation between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been ongoing since the end of last month. “To oppose the advance of Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh is also to oppose the expansion of Turkish Islam across Europe. This week I will table a text in the Senate to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh and condemn the actions of Turkey and Azerbaijan,” Boyer wrote on Twitter. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told Le Figaro daily last week that France should […]
An interview with Ashot Beglaryan for VT …by Alla Pierce, Belarus [ Editor’s Note: Alla brings us a perspective on the current fighting based on her earlier trip in 2016, where she reported on the short war. Before that she had reported on the disastrous Ukraine war. Here we are again viewing the continuing scourge of the regional wars being instantly fueled by the ever growing pool of cheap hired gunmen, hiding behind their religious veil of honoring some warped religious duty, and looking for some fast money, or purely for the enjoyment of killing people with no judicial concerns whatsoever. […]
Officials in Yerevan and the unrecognized region of Nagorno-Karabakh have repeatedly accused Israel and Turkey of providing extensive military assistance to Azerbaijan for its war in the region. Azerbaijan has called these claims “over-exaggerated” and has accused Armenia of trying to “undermine” good relations between Baku and Tel Aviv. Arayik Harutyunyan, president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh (the Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh), has accused Israel of being partly responsible for the “genocide” taking place against Armenians in the breakaway republic. “During the April War [of 2016] Israeli authorities not only knew that the weapons they sold Azerbaijan were being used […]
by Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, …and the Institute of Oriental Studies (1816) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ Editor’s Note: The Balkanization of Syria might have seemed to have met its peak after the US coalition defeat, precipitated by the Russian intervention just thirty days after a VT team was in Damascus getting a hands on appraisal of the conflict. It was not pretty. People were packing their bags and telling neighbors who would get what of their furniture. […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the left-wing Unidas Podemos political party Pablo Iglesias said on Saturday that the current corruption scandal involving the royal family represents a “historic moment” for Spain to become a republic. “I think that, as republicans, we need to be able to understand the historic moment of crisis faced by the Spanish monarchy and the model of state that embodies the Spanish monarchy itself. And, I think, we must have courage and boldness to bring to the table the need for Spain to move towards the horizon of a new republic,” Iglesias […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106716/71/1067167136_0:128:3056:1847_1200x675_80_0_0_60f2fd6bd612a4c120b6c9eb393fc743.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009071080384778-russia-will-conduct-observation-flight-over-czech-republic/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia will carry out an observation flight over the Czech Republic this week under the Treaty on Open Skies, the head of Russia’s National Nuclear Risk Reduction Centre, Sergei Ryzhkov, said. “Within the framework of the international Treaty on Open Skies, a group of Russian inspectors plans to carry out an observation flight using the Russian Antonov An-30B aircraft over the territory of Czechia. The observation flight over the territory of Czechia will be conducted in the period of 7-11 September 2020”, Ryzhkov said. Czech specialists on board the Russian plane […]
Polish explorers check a footage from a remote-operated vehicle deep in the Czech Republic’s deepest cave. (AP Photo/ Marcin Jamkowski) World’s Deepest Freshwater Cave, Located in Czech Republic, is Now Even Deeper The world’s deepest freshwater cave in the Czech Republic just got a whole lot deeper https://t.co/hXorUsXMJ1 — Canadian Geographers (@CanGeographers) August 31, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The Hranice Abyss has now measured to be 3280 feet deep, far surpassing its original measurement of 1,300 feet. Using geophysical techniques, electrodes, and small explosives were used to find the true depth. Sediment covered the trenches that reached over a half mile […]
The Ongoing US Dominance Of The Dominican Republic By Narciso Isa Conde, Noticias sin. August 22, 2020 The Ongoing US Dominance Of The Dominican Republic2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/lus-abindar-with-mike-pompeo-getty-images-e1598106836489.jpg200px200px Above photo: Luís Abindar with Mike Pompeo. Getty Images. The Adventures of Pompeo in the Transfer of Leadership in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. gave particular importance to the inauguration of the new president of the Dominican Republic, Luís Abindar by sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary for Hemispheric Affairs Michael Kosak. That’s enough to show the geopolitical importance that the super-power has given to this country and to this island that it shares […]
United Nations Security Council members attend a meeting at UN headquarters in New York, December 18, 2018. (Reuters file photo) The United Nations Security Council has rejected a US resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran that is due to expire in October, as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over an American threat to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on the Islamic Republic. “The Security Council’s failure to act decisively in defense of international peace and security is inexcusable,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on […]
Under a pair of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations, crowd-equity platform Republic has raised $16 million through the sale of its Republic Note security token. Announced Wednesday, the firm secured commitments of $11 million through a Regulation D offering. An additional $5 million from non-accredited investors was committed through a Regulation A+ offering that has yet to be approved. “What we did was a Reg D and a ‘testing the waters’ under Reg A+,” Republic CEO Kendrick Nguyen explained in a phone call. “We will hold [the non-accredited investors’] space until we can qualify the Reg A+ and close […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007071079820021-two-trains-collide-in-czech-republic-three-people-reported-dead-dozens-injured/ According to media reports, the accident happened on the line from Pernink to Karlovy Vary. At least three people were killed and dozens more injured after two trains collided head-on in the Czech Republic, local television reported. MORE TO FOLLOW Source link
How an Alaskan Volcano Is Linked to the Decline of the Roman Republic by Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com The two years after Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C. were rife with bad luck. The sky turned dark, the weather grew cold, and Mediterranean civilizations experienced drought and famine. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has pinned down an explosive explanation for these strange occurrences: As detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a volcanic eruption some 6,000 miles away from Rome may have thrown off the region’s weather patterns—and perhaps even contributed to the rise of the Roman Empire. The new study […]
While the eruption in question did occur around the time of the Roman Republic’s demise, it wasn’t immediately clear whether it actually helped the emerging Roman Empire to consolidate its hold during that period. A massive volcanic eruption that occurred during first century BC at Mount Okmok in Alaska might’ve contributed to “2 years of weird weather and famine” that occurred following the assassination of Julius Caesar, Science Magazine reports. According to the media outlet, while the darkening of the sky immediately after Caesar’s demise in 44 BC was likely caused by a “known, small” eruption of Mount Etna, authors of […]
The two countries share a 796 km-long border and, despite a brief border conflict in 1919, and the annexation of a small strip of Czechoslovak territory by Poland in 1938, enjoy good relations. In an incident that went unnoticed by pretty much everyone, a group of Polish troops accidentally ‘invaded’ a piece of Czech territory and occupied a small village. The incursion began last month when, as part of the temporary closure of the border between the two countries due to the coronavirus, Polish troops were ordered to block a bridge over the Troja River separating the Czech village of Pelhrimovy […]
You’d be forgiven for not knowing that the Polish military recently invaded and briefly occupied territory in the Czech Republic. Seems like headline news, sure — but it appears that even the Polish troops didn’t know what they were doing. A spokesperson for the Czech Foreign Ministry confirmed to NPR on Saturday that “Polish soldiers mistakenly deterred our citizens from entering a church on the Czech territory in close vicinity of the Czech-Polish borders.” Czech officials say the incident happened in late May near a small village known as Pelhřimovy, just across the border from Poland. They added that their diplomats […]