Above Photo: C-SPAN.org. Ret. US Gen. Philip Breedlove wants to escalate the military conflict with Russia but media outlets don’t disclose he works for defense firms. Weapons companies and military contractors stand to book new orders and enjoy heightened demand for new weapons systems, as the United States and NATO countries scale up spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Coincidentally or not, one of the most high-profile advocates for dramatically escalating NATO’s involvement in the war — literally calling for putting troops and arms inside Ukraine — quietly moonlights as a consultant for weapons firms and defense contractors, interests that presumably […]
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Above Photo: Military personnel escort detainees to a U.S. interrogation center at Kandahar airport, Afghanistan. (The Guardian). UK Government Shamefully Cooperated With U.S. In Torture Of Al-Qaeda Suspects. We Americans have had a painful and difficult national debate over the past 20 years relative to torture. Torture was official U.S. government policy from 2002 until at least 2005, and that iteration was not formally outlawed until passage of the McCain-Feinstein Amendment in 2015. (The torture program was a highly-classified secret from 2002 until I revealed it in a nationally-televised interview in December 2007.) In truth, torture has been illegal in the U.S. since […]
With the United States and Russia in a standoff over NATO expansion and Russian troop deployments along the Ukrainian border, US corporate media outlets are demanding that Washington escalate the risk of a broader war while misleading their audiences about important aspects of the conflict. Many in the commentariat called on the US to take steps that would increase the likelihood of war. In the New York Times (12/10/21), retired US Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman wrote that “the United States must support Ukraine by providing more extensive military assistance.” He argued that “the United States should consider an out-of-cycle, division-level military deployment […]
Above photo: U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command establish new bilateral Civil Assistance Plan. Canadian admirals and generals often act as if this country’s armed forces are an appendage of the US military, but it’s a mistake to simply label them US lackeys. As I detailed recently, the Canadian Forces (CF) have assisted their US counterparts through naval missions, special forces deployments, peacekeeping missions, chemical weapons testing, wars and much more. Canadian military leaders are constantly seeking to strengthen their ties with the US military. In 2013 secret discussions were held to “fully integrate” the US and Canadian militaries, according to the CBC. […]
Above Photo: Students and young people are witnesses to the ways in which U.S. education is deeply complicit with war and militarism. (AU Dissenters) The violence wreaked by U.S. wars since 9/11 has been immense — more than 929,000 total deaths, including an estimated 380,000 civilian deaths. And the U.S. has spent a staggering $14 trillion in Pentagon expenditures since the Afghanistan War in 2001, up to one-half of which went directly to defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon. While these facts are outrageous, they aren’t surprising in a country built on colonial violence — a country whose power […]
Rep. Meeks’ Ties To Colombian Paramilitaries Exposed By Sarah Lazare and Maurizio Guerrero, In These Times. November 9, 2020 Rep. Meeks’ Ties To Colombian Paramilitaries Exposed2020-11-092020-11-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/meeks-e1604940032826.jpg200px200px Above photo: U.S. Congressman Gregory Meeks pictured in Berlin on November 25, 2013. John MacDougal/AFP via Getty Images. Ties To Right-Wing Groups in Colombia Could Haunt Democrat Vying for a Powerful Foreign Affairs Role. Rep. Gregory Meeks worked with Colombian politicians tied to right-wing paramilitaries to help push for a corporate-friendly “free trade” deal. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D‑N.Y.), the establishment favorite to replace outgoing Rep. Eliot Engel (D‑N.Y.) as chair of the powerful House Foreign […]
Tusli Gabbard, who was the first Hindu-American to be elected to the US House of Representatives, enjoys close ties with India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The 39-year-old representative from the Hawaii state dropped out of the Presidential race in March of this year and pledged her support to Biden. India has been working on “contingency plans” ahead of the US Presidential vote on 3 November, with a high-ranking official telling Sputnik that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has already reached out to Tulsi Gabbard and Amy Klobuchar to establish “favourable” ties with the Democrats. The official claimed that the […]
At first glance, the small group assembled outside Pornhub’s L.A. office might have looked like employees. They surrounded the building in black T-shirts with white script, framed by the adult site’s signature orange box. Instead of the standard logo, however, the tees read “Traffickinghub.” The sparse and socially distant protest, which happens every week, had been organized by the West Coast arm of Knock Out Abuse, the domestic violence nonprofit whose annual gala, once called a “designer bachelorette party” by the Washington Post, attracts a roster of D.C. insiders and corporate executives—including Hillary Clinton, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, and Wolf Blitzer. The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202010141080769628-pompeo-calls-on-riyadh-to-normalise-ties-with-israel-as-bahrain-and-uae-did-in-september/ Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates signed the Abraham Accords on 15 September after two surprise announcements by US President Donald Trump, who brokered the historic deal. The accords enabled Israel to start official cooperation in a number of spheres with the two Gulf States. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Saudi Arabia to follow in the footsteps of Bahrain and the UAE and normalise its relations with Israel, thus becoming the third Gulf state in history to do so. “We hope Saudi Arabia will consider normalizing its relationships […]
Oman has a lot to lose if it decides formally to normalise ties with Israel, argues Pakistani political analyst and author Sabtain Ahmed Dar, shedding light on Muscat’s longstanding special relations with Tehran, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq’s foreign policy priorities and the sultanate’s role as the Muslim world’s peace broker. After the Sultanate of Oman openly praised the conclusion of peace pacts between Israel and the monarchies of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officially signed at the White House on 15 September, the Israeli and Arab media started speculating that the sultanate may very soon follow in the footsteps […]
The head of Germany’s military counter-intelligence service has been dismissed amid a sweeping probe into hundreds of soldiers for suspected links to far-right extremism, the military’s latest effort to overhaul the agency. Christof Gramm will go into early retirement next month after leading the intelligence organization – known by its acronym, “MAD” – for some five years, the German Defense Ministry announced on Thursday, adding that a successor would be “decided shortly.” The move comes as the latest shake-up at MAD, which has come under fire in recent months over its handling of investigations into more than 500 soldiers for suspected […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080566302_0:70:3072:1798_1200x675_80_0_0_898e72c855cc92411a6b3349964c7a77.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009251080566333-us-attorney-general-says-sub-source-of-steele-dossier-was-probed-for-alleged-russia-ties/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Attorney General William Barr, in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, said the primary sub-source of the Steele Dossier was investigated by the FBI in 2016 for alleged ties to Russian intelligence. “A footnote in the Inspector General’s report contains information, which up till now has been classified and redacted, bearing on the reliability of the Steele dossier,” Barr said in the letter on Thursday. “The FBI has declassified the relevant portion of that footnote, number 334, which states that ‘[t]he Primary Sub-source was the subject of an […]
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son of engaging in corruption in Ukraine during the administration of US President Barack Obama, allegations that the Dem presidential hopeful rejects. Senate Republicans have issued a report lashing out at former vice president and current Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over his role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, during the Obama administration. The report suggests that Hunter Biden’s position on the board of the Burisma company was “awkward” and “problematic”, and allegedly interfered with “efficient execution of policy”. At the […]
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, shown at a news conference last November, says he sees the possibility of closer relations with the U.S. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, shown at a news conference last November, says he sees the possibility of closer relations with the U.S. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Taiwan is not pursuing formal diplomatic ties with the United States for now, but there is “a lot” of room to further strengthen relations, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said in an interview after unprecedented visits by […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates officially opened normal relations Tuesday, signing diplomatic agreements during a White House ceremony that was hosted by President Trump. “The blessings of the peace we make today will be enormous,” Netanyahu said. “First, because this peace will eventually expand to include other Arab states and ultimately, it can end the Arab-Israeli conflict once and for all; second, because the great economic benefits of our partnership will be felt throughout our region … and third, because this is not only a peace between leaders – it’s a peace […]
Following the normalization of relations between Israel and Bahrain, Palestine’s ambassador to Manama was recalled to Ramallah on Friday. On Friday, just weeks after its Persian Gulf neighbor the United Arab Emirates extended recognition and full diplomatic relations to Israel, the Kingdom of Bahrain did the same. In response, the Palestinian Authority has ordered its diplomatic envoy to the island nation to return home. Similar to the UAE, Bahrain is a close US ally and hosts large US military bases; both were also encouraged to recognize Israel over the objections of other Arab states by the US, which brokered both deals. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107860/87/1078608724_0:320:3071:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_e8174d04c6b78214d16c2824faa5cc98.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009091080413702-us-has-revoked-over-1000-visas-to-chinese-nationals-over-alleged-military-ties—state-department/ The US has revoked more than 1,000 visas belonging to Chinese nationals linked to The People’s Liberation Army, according to Wednesday statements issued by a US State Department spokesperson. “We continue to welcome legitimate students and scholars from China who do not further the Chinese Communist Party’s goals of military dominance,” the spokesperson expressed in an email to Reuters. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf expounded on the administration’s decision amid his 2020 State of the Homeland Speech on Wednesday. “We are blocking visas for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties […]
An official stands at the door of an Israeli El Al airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday after flying in from Tel Aviv. Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP hide caption toggle caption Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP An official stands at the door of an Israeli El Al airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday after flying in from Tel Aviv. Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP The official treaty between their countries has not yet been signed, but — amid some opposition in the region — Israelis and Emiratis are […]
For years, the Israeli prime minister has been saying that he will be able to make peace with the Arab nations despite his reluctance to give up on land or redefine Israel’s borders. And now, as the UAE is set to ink its peace agreement with the Jewish state, this tactic of bypassing the Palestinians seems to have yielded results. Although Israel hasn’t inked its peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates yet, the two countries have already started working on a number of joint projects. Later today, the first-ever commercial flight will fly from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi carrying […]
Daily Beast: The latest book to chronicle the twists and turns of the Trump presidency will be published September 1 by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michael Schmidt, and accuses the Justice Department of taking secret steps to protect the president. In my book https://t.co/8QUhtkiv1i I reveal how Rosenstein and Mueller let down the country as seen from inside impeachment. That pains me because I know & used to respect them both. Mueller simply failed. But Rod betrayed us. This is more proof: https://t.co/McpUoNa9bC — Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) August 30, 2020 Schmidt writes that in 2017, the DOJ acted to “narrow the […]
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/middleeast/202008301080320269-israel-engaged-in-many-more-secret-talks-with-arab-leaders-on-establishing-ties-netanyahu-says/ Earlier this month, Israel signed a landmark agreement brokered by the United States that paved the way for establishing diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates, making the Gulf monarchy the third Arab country to forge ties with Israel. Source link
New Delhi (Sputnik): India has put its faith in the Tejas light combat aircraft to counter external threats while slowly phasing out its MiG-21, and MiG-27 fighter aircraft from service. The Tejas made its first flight in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru and the first squadron was formed in 2016. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has deployed the home-grown Tejas fighter aircraft along the border with Pakistan amid increased activities by China in Ladakh and Pakistan administered Kashmir to “deal with any possible action by the adversary”, government sources revealed to local agency ANI. The development came days after Indian Air Force […]
The United Arab Emirates and Israel agreed to normalize relations Thursday following negotiations mediated by the US, with a formal ceremony expected to take place at the White House at a later date. The UAE is just the third Arab state, and the first in the Arabian Peninsula, to recognize the state of Israel since that country’s founding in 1948. Former Obama-era US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro believes Tel Aviv transferred mystery technologies to Abu Dhabi to improve relations after the electrocution and suffocation-based assassination of Mahmoud Mabhouh, founder of Hamas’s military wing, in a hotel room in Dubai in […]
Donald Trump’s senior adviser has hinted that the United Arab Emirates may not be the last Arab nation to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel. Saudi Arabia, a major regional power, has remained silent on the UAE-Israel deal so far. Normalisation of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel is an “inevitability,” Jared Kushner has predicted as the UAE this week became the first Gulf state – and third Arab country overall – to reach such an agreement with Tel Aviv. “I do think that we have other countries that are very interested in moving forward [to establish diplomatic relations with Israel],” Kushner […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Amid border tensions, India is considering the participation of Chinese tech players like Huawei and ZTE in the sharpening and development of its 4G and 5G networks. At this time, India’s state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is clouded by risks of losing non-Chinese equipment maker Nokia over unpaid dues. Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia, which controls 40 percent of BSNL networks in India, has threatened to pull support if dues mounting over $121 million are not cleared “immediately” by the Indian state-run telco. In a letter addressing BSNL Chairman PK Purwar, Nokia has also warned that if […]
UK Students Fighting For Universities To Cut Ties With Israeli Apartheid By Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. July 31, 2020 UK Students Fighting For Universities To Cut Ties With Israeli Apartheid2020-07-312020-07-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/an-apartheid-off-campus-bus-stop-action-e1596161203151.png200px200px Above photo: An “Apartheid Off Campus” bus stop action. “We need to be working bottom-up, because we know that top-down will just not work anymore.” Apartheid Off Campus is a newly-formed student network fighting to sever the ties between UK universities and the Israeli occupation. “University students are in a powerful position to campaign in support of Palestinians and against the structures of racism by both challenging/exposing these links and forcing their universities to […]
The bizarre press conference Monday by self-identified doctors promoting hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment has become a campaign issue, with a congressman who attended the event at the steps of the Supreme Court being attacked for doing so. Footage of the event, which was organized by the Tea Party Patriots and starred a handful of doctors who have criticized prevailing views on the pandemic, went viral on Monday afternoon racking up more than 13 million views on Facebook after it was boosted by pro-Trump social media accounts. In it, Dr. Stella Immanuel declared that hydroxychloroquine cures COVID and that masks aren’t […]
The left is currently on a crusade to cancel aspects of American history that they don’t like. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas wants the Democrats to put their money where their mouth is. He recently introduced a resolution to ban organizations which have had ties to slavery and other ugly aspects of the past such as the KKK. In other words, the Democratic party itself. The Hill reports: TRENDING: This Weekend: Please Send Us Photos of Leftist Mob Violence and Rioting from Your City — We Want to Expose the Democrat Destruction Next Week GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would […]
After Cutting Ties With Police, Minneapolis Schools Quietly Hire Private Police By Susan Du, City Pages. July 23, 2020 After Cutting Ties With Police, Minneapolis Schools Quietly Hire Private Police2020-07-232020-07-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/protesters-against-police-at-minneapolis-schools-from-city-pages-e1595536982733.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters against police at Minneapolis schools, from City Pages. In June, like several other public and private institutions, the Minneapolis Board of Education unanimously voted to cancel its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department in response to the killing of George Floyd. Students at North High School and their representative on the school board, KerryJo Felder, suggested an amendment that would allow northside schools to keep their school resource officers (SROs) […]
On July 6, the Trump administration released federal data revealing which “small” businesses were awarded Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans because of the COVID-19 shutdown. In addition to the Kushner family, Trump’s fundraising pal Joe Farrell, and Kanye West, one name stood out among the recipients: the Church of Scientology. The celebrity-obsessed church—which professes that an intergalactic overlord named Xenu brought billions of aliens to Earth 75 million years ago, arranged them at the base of volcanoes, blew them up with hydrogen bombs, and their surviving souls haunt the human race—received three loans of up to $350,000 each for its sites […]
Kelly Preston sat across the table, holding the metal sensors of a Scientology E-meter in her hands. On the other side of the table, facing the meter’s dial, Sunny Pereira prepared to ask Preston three questions. “Do you have any doubts or reservations concerning attesting to the completion of your pregnancy assist?” Pereira asked her. No, Preston answered. It was 1992, and Preston had recently given birth to Jett, her first child with her husband John Travolta, who was one of the most famous names in Scientology. She had met him while they were filming a comedy, The Experts, in 1987 […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – Canadian opposition lawmakers said in a letter to the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada Nancy Belanger that they are calling for an investigation into WE Charity’s efforts to lobby the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “I am thus asking that you investigate whether anyone in the WE organization ought to have registered to lobby public office holders, but failed to do so, which would be an infraction under section 14(1) or any other unidentified sections of the lobbying act,” Conservative Pierre Poilievre, the shadow minister of finance, said in the letter on Friday. The letter was co-signed […]
On Friday new documents were released by the Senate Judiciary Comittee on the Russia Collusion hoax. The second set of documents exposes the outlandish New York Times story that the Trump team had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials.” The declassified documents reveal The New York Times reporting was transparently dishonest and an attempt to fuel the Russiagate narrative in its early stages. The New York Times along with the Washington Post later won Pulitzer Prizes for their junk Trump-Russia collusion reporting that now is confirmed to be factually inaccurate and misleading.If these outlets had any integrity they’d return their […]
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …and PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The US is pushing targeted UN countries into forming defensive agreements because the countries know they can be picked off one by one. In strengthening ties with Syria, Iran is simply borrowing a page from America’s WWI slogan, “It’s better to fight them over there”, regardless of the lack of historical evidence that Germany had the US in its long term crosshairs. FDR’s Works Progress Administration had failed at creating any permanent jobs, and since the magic elixir of stagnate economies has often been “Let’s get into a war”, […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – During a virtual address to students at Georgetown University, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, urged the Trump administration to restore ties with the UN World Health Organization (WHO), saying it is needed to confront pandemics like the current coronavirus. “They are an imperfect organization. They have made mistakes, but I would like to see the mistakes corrected and for them to be much more in line with the kind of things we need,” Fauci said on Tuesday. “So I hope that this kind of tension between the United States […]
via Twitter Trump’s real addiction has been prostitutes and porn stars. It is also his weakness and why Roy Cohn, Barr, Guiliani and Cohen spent much of their lives cleaning up his messes. We also know Trump won’t turn down a little girl when Epstein offers one. (link) Who else did Melania date? It’s also why 140,000 Americans are dead and why America is drowning. Snopes.com: “Epstein stated that he introduced Donald Trump in 1998 to his future wife Melania” Editor’s note: We have confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein owned a modeling agency where he brought girls in from Slovenia to be […]
Federal prosecutors allege that a top immunologist at Ohio State University illegally concealed Chinese funding for his research and attempted to flee the country before his arrest in Alaska in May. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday, the Justice Department accuses Song Guo Zheng, the Ronald L. Whisler MD Chair in Rheumatology and Immunology at Ohio State’s medical school, of fraudulently obtaining federal grant funds from the National Institutes of Health and making false statements to investigators. Zheng, prosecutors say, obtained nearly $5 million in federal research grants without disclosing ties to Chinese entities and additional grant funds provided by […]
BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing-Washington relations are at the lowest level since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday during a China-US think tank media forum. “More alarmingly, China-US relations, one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world, is faced with the most severe challenge since the establishment of diplomatic ties,” Wang said, as quoted by the Foreign Ministry in a press release. The minister added that some politicians from the United States are trying to “portray China as an adversary, and even an enemy,” as they seek to limit China’s […]
The Truth About Russian-Taliban Ties By Andrew Korybko, One World. July 5, 2020 The Truth About Russian-Taliban Ties2020-07-052020-07-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/lavrov_taliban.jpg200px200px It’s as intriguing as the fake news about them. Russia doesn’t exploit the Taliban as a proxy for killing Americans, but seeks to nurture equally close relations with it along the lines of the ones that it presently enjoys with Pakistan. Moscow seems to believe that the group will likely return to power one of these days (ideally through peaceful means), so it makes sense to get on its good side. Once the war finally ends, Russia will require the Taliban’s goodwill to […]
The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore by Matthew Shear/Smithsonianmag.com October 2016 Each year, two million visitors walk or roll from the entrance of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in South Dakota, to the Avenue of Flags, to peer up at the 60-foot visages of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Dedicated 75 years ago this month, Mount Rushmore was intended by its creator, Gutzon Borglum, to be a celebration of not only these four presidents but also the nation’s unprecedented greatness. “This colossus is our mark,” he wrote with typical bombast. Yet Borglum’s own sordid story shows that this […]
Former high-dollar Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy has long maintained that the Qatari government was behind the hacking of his emails and their distribution to the press. Now, he’s implicating a former senior aide to Jared Kushner, who Broidy says advised a firm that helped orchestrate the hacking campaign while serving in the White House. Broidy’s new allegation is buried in a 112-page legal filing submitted in a federal court in New York last week, where his legal team is suing the firm Global Risk Advisors over what Broidy, a prominent Qatar critic, describes as the firm’s central role in Doha’s efforts […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/85/1079738549_0:204:2001:1329_1200x675_80_0_0_ba02a3bdfab9e1d3f9978d7cc596ffd4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006281079738579-seoul-aims-to-boost-marine-shipping-industry-ties-with-china-japan-amid-pandemic—report/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said on Sunday that Seoul was planning to grow its ties with neighbouring China and Japan in the marine shipping industry to cope with COVID-19 pandemic by using advanced technologies, the state-run Yonhap news agency reported. According to the media outlet, the country is expected to discuss such prospects with Beijing and Tokyo during an online ministerial meeting scheduled for Monday. “South Korea, China, and Japan have been enjoying economic growth through specialization and cooperation, connected by marine logistics”, Oceans Minister Moon Seong-hyeok said, […]
A statue of Confederate general and slave owner Wade Hampton III on horseback in the grounds of South Carolina State House. Epics/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Epics/Getty Images A statue of Confederate general and slave owner Wade Hampton III on horseback in the grounds of South Carolina State House. Epics/Getty Images Growing up, Skip Auld says he didn’t know much about the man his great-grandfather was named after. It wasn’t a part of family lore, he says, and he always went by his nickname, Skip. At birth, Skip Auld was named Hampton — for his great-grandfather, whose namesake was Wade […]
Belgrade wants to keep balancing its ties with the West, China and Russia, as Serbia seeks to join the EU and reach a settlement with Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday, ahead of a parliamentary election. Vucic’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party is a frontrunner in a parliamentary election on June 21. He told Reuters that Serbia was ready to talk to the breakaway province Kosovo “without a timeline” and “in good faith,” but that mutual recognition was not on the agenda. “We are ready for talks but… no white flag,” the president said in an interview. “We believe it is […]
Washington has earlier mulled moving its troops, which are reportedly equipped with nuclear weapons, from Germany, where they are currently stationed, to Poland, closer to Russia’s borders. The suggestion was triggered by opposition from German parties to continuing the deployment of American forces in the country. The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned that the already complicated relations between Moscow and NATO might become even worse if the US moves its troops from Germany to Poland, in line with the recent suggestions. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
The case was one of the key issues souring the already deteriorating relations between Turkey and the US, along with Washington’s reluctance to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a major Turkish opposition figure, which Ankara accuses of staging a military coup attempt. A Turkish court has sentenced US Consulate employee Metin Topuz to 8 years and 9 months in prison on charges of espionage and aiding a terrorist group, Anadolu News Agency reports. Topuz, who was working as a liaison officer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), is accused of contacting law enforcement officials linked to Fethullah Gülen, an Islamic scholar, major […]
A video from a 4 June protest against the death of African-American man George Floyd while in police custody shows a man go up to walking policemen and waving a gadget before being pushed to the ground. Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by a Buffalo policeman during a George Floyd protest earlier this month, has denied links to Antifa after President Trump suggested Tuesday that he could be a “provocateur” member of the left-wing organisation. Kelly Zarcone, Gugino’s attorney, told TMZ that President Trump is wrong to draw connections between her client and the group, which Donald […]
Greg Glassman, the founder and CEO of CrossFit, resigned on Tuesday after the left-wing outrage mob came for him. Gym owners, brands, celebrities and athletes began abandoning CrossFit after Glassman reportedly said “I do not mourn George Floyd” during a Zoom call. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman allegedly made the statement several times during a call with gym owners on Saturday. Glassman had also joked that it’s “FLOYD-19” in a tweet responding to a post from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation which called racism a “critical public health issue.” TRENDING: Chicago Mayor Now Pleading With Walmart And Other Companies Not […]
Gym owners, brands, celebrities and athletes are abandoning CrossFit after he reportedly said “I do not mourn George Floyd” during a Zoom call. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman allegedly made the statement several times during a call with gym owners on Saturday. Glassman had also joked that it’s “FLOYD-19” in a tweet responding to a post from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation which called racism a “critical public health issue.” It’s FLOYD-19. — Greg Glassman (@CrossFitCEO) June 6, 2020 TRENDING: Chicago Mayor Now Pleading With Walmart And Other Companies Not To Leave The City George Floyd once robbed a pregnant […]
UK 13:18 GMT 08.06.2020Get short URL While incumbent US President Donald Trump appears to have good personal relations with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, relations between the two nations have not always fared as well, often mired in disagreements, specifically on London’s decision to allow Huawei in the country’s 5G networks. Several former British diplomats have commented on the possible implications of the presidential election in the US on the UK, revealing that the victory of either of the two candidates will bear bad news for London. In comments made for Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics, several diplomats highlighted the destructive role […]
WHO pushes to keep ties with ‘generous’ U.S. despite Trump’s exit move by Kate Kelland, Josephine Mason Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday praised the United States’ “immense” and “generous” contribution to global health in a push to salvage relations after President Donald Trump said he was severing ties with the U.N. agency. Accusing it of pandering to China and overlooking an initially secretive response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Trump said on Friday he was ending Washington’s relationship with the WHO. But WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online media briefing he hoped […]
World 19:16 GMT 03.06.2020Get short URL Top Huawei manager, Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in Canada on US accusations against the company for allegedly violating American sanctions against Iran, re-introduced in 2018, and selling Tehran US-made equipment. The Chinese tech giant denies the accusations. Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei scrambled to conceal ties to Hong Kong-based Skycom Tech Co, which purportedly supplied Iran with banned American computer equipment in 2013, Reuters reported, citing obtained documents allegedly belonging to the two companies. The documents, a set of memos, letters and agreements purportedly belonging to Huawei and Skycom, show that the Chinese […]
World 14:30 GMT 02.06.2020(updated 14:39 GMT 02.06.2020) Get short URL Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202006021079499087-us-slaps-sanctions-on-four-entities-four-tankers-over-ties-with-venezuela/ Recently, Venezuela received a large tanker shipment of gasoline from Iran, another country under US sanctions, amid domestic fuel shortages. At the same time, US media reports suggested that several tankers carrying Iranian oil turned away from the Latin American state due to pressure from Washington on their owners. The US Treasury has slapped sanctions on four entities, one registered in Greece and three more in the Marshall Islands, as well as four tankers belonging to these companies, over their alleged assistance to […]
World 16:29 GMT 01.06.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107933/69/1079336926_0:185:3000:1873_1200x675_80_0_0_69b2c4d8f3ae808d7bbea0b3843c4f7e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006011079489210-who-says-wishes-for-collaboration-with-us-to-continue-after-trump-announces-cutting-ties/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), on Monday said that the organization wishes to continue collaborating with the United States even though US President Donald Trump decided to cut ties with WHO. “We have received questions about Friday’s announcement by the president of the United States of America. The world has long benefited from the strong, collaborative engagement with the government and the people of the United States. The US government’s and its people’s contribution and generosity towards global health, […]
While the White House insists that ties were broken with the global health body due to its alleged incompetence in containing the outbreak of the coronavirus, some experts suggest that there could be more to Washington’s motivations than meets the eye. US President Donald Trump announced on 29 May that his country would be terminating its membership in the World Health Organisation (WHO), citing a lack of the reforms that Washington demanded to see carried out in the international organisation. Prior to the announcement, Politico reported that the US was planning to replace the WHO’s function with domestic institutions under the […]
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., pushed for subpoena for Blue Star Strategies, a consulting firm with ties to Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., pushed for subpoena for Blue Star Strategies, a consulting firm with ties to Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company. Andrew Harnik/AP Updated at 1:26 p.m. ET The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to subpoena documents and depositions from Blue Star Strategies, a consulting company that worked […]
The FBI claims Dr. Qing Wang received more than $3.6 million in grants from the NIH while also collecting money for the same research from the Chinese government. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP The FBI claims Dr. Qing Wang received more than $3.6 million in grants from the NIH while also collecting money for the same research from the Chinese government. Jose Luis Magana/AP A former Cleveland Clinic Foundation doctor was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court on Thursday on charges of wire fraud and making false claims to obtain millions in federal grant funding. It […]
US 22:08 GMT 13.05.2020(updated 22:09 GMT 13.05.2020) Get short URL The FBI has arrested a researcher for NASA who reportedly did not disclose his connections to the Chinese government and other Chinese entities. According to the US Justice Department (DoJ), Simon Saw-Teong Ang, a 63-year-old Arkansas professor, was arrested Friday and charged with wire fraud. “In the one-count complaint, Ang was charged with one count of Wire Fraud. The complaint charges that Ang had close ties with the Chinese government and Chinese companies, and failed to disclose those ties when required to do so in order to receive grant money from […]
Germany’s chancellor has lamented what she says was irrefutable proof of a Russian “hacking attack” on her Bundestag office, adding that she is working day and night to fix relationships with Moscow despite the “painful” incident. Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the hacking allegations while speaking to MPs on Wednesday. “I can honestly say that it hurts me,” she said of the perceived Russian involvement in a computer network attack on her Bundestag constituency office back in 2015. “I’m striving towards better relationships with Russia every day,” Merkel said, arguing that there is “hard evidence” that some unspecified “Russian forces” were behind […]