Certain political groups in the West will not hesitate to use the difficulties brought on by the coronavirus pandemic to carry out their long-lasting plans to topple the Venezuelan government, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said. “Unfortunately, we are seeing how certain countries – we should say, not the countries as a whole, but certain political forces there – are still being driven… by the desire to […]
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Turkey on Thursday slammed a statement by the Greek Foreign Ministry over Turkish maritime jurisdiction areas in the Eastern Mediterranean, Anadolu reports. Hami Aksoy, a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, dubbed the Greek statement “unfortunate and misleading.” “At the core of the Eastern Mediterranean issue lies the maximalist maritime jurisdiction area claims of the Greek/Greek Cypriot duo as well as the disregard of the Turkish […]
In a scathing floor speech dripping with sarcasm, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tore into a few of his Republican colleagues who have publicly objected to the negotiated coronavirus stimulus bill because it provides an additional $600 a week in unemployment benefits. As the massive $2 trillion relief package came up for debate on Wednesday night, Sanders fired one snarky salvo after another at Senators Tim Scott […]
Joe Scarborough tore into President Donald Trump for his bitterly-sarcastic response to the news that Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) doesn’t have the coronavirus. Trump disdain for Romney is hardly a secret, and when the senator put himself into self-quarantine several days ago amid pandemic concerns, Trump responded “gee, that’s too bad” in a way that invited doubts of his sincerity. On Wednesday, Trump unleashed on Romney […]
Russia’s top diplomat in the US has demanded the Human Rights Watch chief stops spreading misinformation about Russia’s readiness to fight Covid-19, after he touted an article claiming it’s letting the wealthy buy up ventilators. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s envoy in Washington, has penned a scathing rebuke to the group’s executive director, Kenneth Roth, who tweeted that the Kremlin was “doing nothing to stop wealthy Russians from […]
US President Donald Trump eviscerated NBC’s Peter Alexander during a coronavirus presser, chewing him out as a “terrible reporter” sending a “very bad signal” to Americans over what the reporter insisted was a softball question. “What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?” Alexander asked the president during a press conference on Friday, after questioning whether Trump’s “impulse to […]
Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif accused the US of taking its policy of “maximum pressure” on Tehran to a “new level of inhumanity” by imposing new sanctions on Iran as it struggles to cope with a huge surge of Covid-19 cases. Zarif tweeted on Friday that The Trump administration was “gleefully” taking pride in “killing Iranian citizens” on Nowruz, the Persian New Year, celebrated on March […]
There has been outrage across the political spectrum over a shocking report that Senate Intelligence chair Richard Burr (R-NC) dumped as much as $1.7 million in stock just before the market tanked, despite publicly maintaining that the government was on top of the coronavirus. Thursday night on Fox News, Tucker Carlson completely tore into the senator from the Tar Heel state. In a scathing end-of-show commentary, […]
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson went on a rant Thursday evening accusing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of “rewarding China” for the coronavirus pandemic, due to the senator’s support for expanding a visa program that grants green cards to immigrants who can make substantial investments in American businesses. The program to which Carlson was referring is the EB-5 visa, or “Immigrant Investor Visa Program” that was enacted in 1990. […]
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is bashing President Donald Trump for what he termed to be an “immoral” response to the coronavirus. In a heated Thursday afternoon news conference at New York’s City Hall, de Blasio ripped Trump for not using every available option to help the city. “I will only say to the president: I don’t understand,” de Blasio said. “And I think […]
An EU report which accuses Russia of waging a disinformation campaign around Covid-19 isn’t backed by a single fact and has nothing to do with common sense. That’s according to Vladimir Putin’s spokesman. Earlier, the Financial Times claimed that it obtained findings by the European External Action Service (EEAS), which insist that the “Russian pro-Kremlin media” is running a “significant disinformation campaign” to stoke “confusion, panic […]
US stock futures stabilized overnight after another widowmaking session on Monday, even as strategists across Wall Street warned their clients not to try and ‘catch the falling knife’ – but in the absence of any concrete headlines, it seems traders in Japan are finally realizing that the White House is moving closer to the type of fiscal stimulus they want to see. And in Europe, though […]
US Senator Bernie Sanders, one of two Democratic candidates in the race to run in the upcoming presidential elections, has criticised his country’s support for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, and likened their regimes to a “dictatorship”. This came during a televised debate held on Sunday with his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden; the former vice president. “I have been leading all efforts against […]
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday slammed the US sanctions against Iran as “anti-human,” as the country battles the deadly coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. The sanctions create a strong barrier for Iran that has been hit heavily by the virus known as COVID-19, the ministry said in a statement. “Illegal unilateral US sanctions, imposed since May 2018 as part of the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign, are a powerful […]
It appears some Russians really don’t like the idea of being quarantined over Covid-19. After a well-publicized hospital breakout in Saint Petersburg last month, a Moscow patient decided to play copycat. Apparently unconcerned about infecting others around the capital, a woman suspected of having coronavirus escaped from a medical facility, according to Denis Protsenko, the head physician at Moscow’s Kommunarka Hospital. “I have to deal with […]
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias’ remarks on social media are “concrete evidence of the inconsistent, double-standard, illegal and inhumane policies” pursued by this country, said Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday, referring to the asylum seekers along the Turkey-Greece border, Anadolu Agency reports. In a written statement, Hami Aksoy said, “Greece does not protect the borders of the European Union, to the contrary, disgracefully tramples on the very […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized Iran’s efforts at “biological defense” against Covid-19, but conspicuously avoided addressing Ayatollah Khamenei’s claim that the virus was a “biological attack.” Khamenei all but accused the US of weaponizing coronavirus in a speech on Thursday, announcing the establishment of a military “Health and Treatment Base” to fight the disease. He declared that the facility “may also be regarded […]
Piers Morgan has lost patience with Boris Johnson over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, questioning whether he “knows what he’s doing” as football fixtures were canceled hours after the British PM said they should go ahead. Johnson said on Thursday that the UK was “considering” following other European countries and banning mass events, but that it would have “little effect” on the spread of the […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has slammed legislation introduced by House Democrats to tackle coronavirus as an “ideological wish list” which he vowed to block because it creates a “thicket of bureaucracy.” McConnell said that instead he wants a smaller, non-controversial coronavirus response package. * U.S.. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MCCONNELL CALLS HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ CORONAVIRUS BILL ‘IDEOLOGICAL WISH LIST’ * MCCONNELL SAYS HE SEEKS SMALLER, NON-CONTROVERSIAL […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ron Klain, Obama’s Ebola czar, slammed the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus, stating, “Everything the president’s said has been wrong,” during an interview for New York Magazine. Klain claimed that Donald Trump and his administration have failed due to their lack of “competence” and “confidence,” calling testing “a fiasco of the first order.” “Like, if we had ordered the capacity to test 30 […]
Amnesty International has criticised Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum for justifying the abduction and enforced disappearance of his own daughter, Sheikha Latifa, claiming it was a “private family matter”, adding that state-sanctioned abduction and inhuman treatment are not family affairs. The rights watchdog described the sheikh’s behaviour as a gross violation of human rights and a cause of international concern. Amnesty International’s Middle East Research […]
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has slammed plans for new “apartheid” transport infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, in a scathing lead editorial. “While the public’s attention is focused on the coronavirus and the endless attempts to form a government,” the paper wrote, “Israel has started planning a new road in the West Bank that Defence Minister Naftali Bennett has already nicknamed ‘the sovereignty road’.” ‘Sovereignty’ is the […]
Athens’ treatment of thousands of refugees who have massed on the Turkey-Greece border is comparable to atrocities carried out by Nazi Germany, Turkey’s president has claimed amid the latest migrant row with the EU. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Greece in an address on Wednesday, claiming that Ankara’s Mediterranean neighbor has mistreated a flood of refugees that are trying to enter the EU […]
It would appear that two things have sparked fear in President Trump’s heart this morning: 1) The prediction markets are now betting on a Democrat win in November… 2) And Trump knows that any meaningful fiscal policy juice to rescue stocks (oh yeah and the economy) will take weeks if not months if ever to achieve (and as we noted previously, may corner Trump into rolling […]