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On Muslim Brotherhood, Trump Weighs Siding With Autocrats and Roiling Middle East

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 18 Comments • 5 years ago

Mr. Trump’s hard-line national security adviser at the time, Michael T. Flynn, started a review of whether the United States should impose sweeping sanctions on millions of people across the...

China’s secret internment camps

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

New large-scale construction has been popping up in the deserts of western China. From the sky, these buildings look much like factories or schools. But closer inspection reveals watchtowers...

Trump’s foolish Iran policy only makes war more likely

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

I t is unclear what , if anything, Iran can do to induce the United States and its regional allies to halt their escalating war of attrition before it provokes all-out conflict. When...

Scheer says he will move Canadian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • World News • 10 Comments • 5 years ago

Scheer says he will move Canadian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press, Reported by the Toronto Star, May 7, 2019 Conservative Leader...

ISLAMIC JIHAD ADMITS BABY, PREGNANT WOMAN KILLED BY THEIR OWN ROCKETS

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • World News • 7 Comments • 5 years ago

ISLAMIC JIHAD ADMITS BABY, PREGNANT WOMAN KILLED BY THEIR OWN ROCKETS The report was published in a Telegram account related to Hamas. BY ROSSELLA TERCATIN, Jerusalem Post, MAY 7, 2019...

US deploys aircraft carrier and bombers after 'troubling indications' from Iran

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 13 Comments • 5 years ago

The United States is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber taskforce to the Middle East to send a clear message to Iran that any attack on US interests or its allies will be met with...

The Real Trump Foreign Policy: Stoking the G.O.P. Base

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 6 Comments • 5 years ago

Doug Chayka Americans can be forgiven if they struggle to find any coherence in the Trump administration’s foreign policy. It zigs and zags, with senior administration officials...

Sigal Samuel answers 8 key questions about the Chinese crackdown on Uighur Muslims

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 23 Comments • 5 years ago

Over the past year , Vox Future Perfect reporter Sigal Samuel has been investigating China’s campaign of repression against Uighur Muslims, 1 million of whom are being held in internment camps...

Don't tell us to halt the violence, tell the Americans, Afghan Taliban say

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-born U.S. diplomat , entered a sixth round of talks with the hardline Islamist group in Qatar this week in a bid to end America’s longest war. “In our opening...

U.S. military stops tracking key metric on Afghan war as situation deteriorates

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 13 Comments • 5 years ago

The move comes as U.S. and Taliban officials have held several rounds of talks aimed at ensuring a safe exit for U.S. forces in return for a Taliban guarantee that Afghanistan will not be...

Uncovering Iran's sanctions-busting sale of fuel oil on the high seas

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 20 Comments • 5 years ago

The sources said it appeared that the supertanker was selling Iranian oil in violation of U.S. sanctions. If confirmed, the sale would shine a rare light on how traders and shippers were...

MAN STORMS GERMAN CHURCH YELLING 'ALLAHU AKBAR,' INJURES 9 PEOPLE

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • World News • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

MAN STORMS GERMAN CHURCH YELLING 'ALLAHU AKBAR,' INJURES 9 PEOPLE The attacker has been identified as a 36-year-old Somali man. BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAl , jerusalem post, APRIL...

Trump Mistakes Which Sri Lankan Official He Talked To And When

Via: tessylo • World News • 11 Comments • 5 years ago

World Trump Mistakes Which Sri Lankan Official He Talked To And When Amy Russo, HuffPost 14 hours ago The now-deleted Monday tweet ― archived by Factba In yet...

More than 280 injured in Sri Lanka blasts that hit three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday

Via: perrie-halpern • World News • 27 Comments • 5 years ago

By Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A Sri Lanka hospital spokesman says six Easter Sunday blasts killed at least 30 people and wounded 283 others. National Hospital spokesman Dr. Samindi...

On South America's largest solar farm, Chinese power radiates

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 9 Comments • 5 years ago

Local officials said they had sought help at home, the United States and Europe without success. Potential lenders and partners, they said, were spooked by the project’s size and the...

Fox News Found A Whole New Way To Freak Out About Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton

Via: tessylo • World News • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

World Fox News Found A Whole New Way To Freak Out About Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton Ed Mazza, HuffPost 3 hours ago Former President Barack Obama and former...

Rome's 'Holy Stairs' uncovered for first time in 300 years

Via: perrie-halpern • World News • 6 Comments • 5 years ago

By Reuters ROME — Rome's "Holy Stairs," which some Catholics believe were climbed by Jesus in Jerusalem, have been uncovered from a protective wooden casing for the first time in nearly three...

Massive fire breaks out in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris

Via: jasper2529 • World News • 66 Comments • 5 years ago

A massive fire broke out at the famed Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday afternoon, officials said. Black smoke could be seen from a distance billowing out from the top of the...

European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched "Every Day"

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • World News • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched "Every Day" by Raymond Ibrahim , Gatestone Institute, April 14, 2019 In February, vandals desecrated and smashed crosses...

Secret Mossad files show underground Iran nuke facility older than admitted

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • World News • 30 Comments • 5 years ago

Secret Mossad files show underground Iran nuke facility older than admitted This discovery could be significant because it shows that Iran is still lying to the international community...

The Brexit referendum helped break British politics. Could another one fix it?

Via: perrie-halpern • World News • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

By Alexander Smith LONDON — Britain is mired deep in its most serious political crisis in a generation. Almost three years ago, the country voted in a referendum to leave the...

'Cow toilets' in Netherlands aim to cut e-moo-ssions

Via: badfish-hd-h-u • World News • 21 Comments • 5 years ago

Teaching cows to use the toilet is not the easiest task, but a Dutch inventor is banking on a new bovine urinal to help cut emissions that cause environmental damage. Tests have started on a farm...

Analysis: Trump Really Does Inspire More Hate Crimes

Via: don-overton • World News • 21 Comments • 5 years ago

Over the past week Donald Trump has been lambasted for emboldening white nationalism after a white nationalist killed 50 Muslims at two New Zealand mosques. When a reporter asked the...

How To Identify A Globalist Criminal

Via: don-overton • World News • 0 Comments • 5 years ago

in my work analyzing the behavior and motives of globalists I often hear people question the validity of the label. Sometimes this is done by those who are purely uneducated about the background...

Five percent? EU leaders doubt May's Brexit vote chances

Via: bob-nelson • World News • 7 Comments • 5 years ago

Following more than an hour of explanations that with days left until Britain might crash out she could win over lawmakers who have twice rejected her EU withdrawal deal, May left the...

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