Small question, big consequences: Is North Korea a nuke power?
9/26/2018, 8:49:39 AMUNITED NATIONS--As Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un stand on the brink of a widely expected Summit No. 2 ✔ It is possible to manage the nuclear program and put some cap on its further development, provided the Kim family still feels it has the deterrent value it needs, Lankov wrote, though he added that North Korea will expect generous concessions for any freeze, and might not stick to it even then
Ending the war in Syria: 'We do not want the Gaddafi scenario'
9/26/2018, 10:04:52 AMPERSPECTIVE : Dr Bassma Kodmani, co-founder of think tank the Arab Reform Initiative, is part of the delegation of the democratic opposition in the Gen... ✔ Dr Bassma Kodmani, co-founder of think tank the Arab Reform Initiative, is part of the delegation of the democratic opposition in the Geneva peace talks on Syria ✔ Kodmani says what is then needed is a new constitution, as well as free and fair elections monitored by the UN ✔ Assad will have to go at some point in an orderly manner
Here comes the 30-year trade war
9/26/2018, 10:57:11 AMAlibaba’s Jack Ma has warned that the ongoing US-China trade war could last at least 20 years. As we’ll see, it’s actually more like 30 – up to 2049, the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Steve Bannon always boasted that President Trump was bound to conduct a “sophisticated form of economic warfare” to confront China. The logic underpinning the warfare is that if you squeeze the Chinese economy hard enough Beijing will submit and “play by the rules.” ✔ After all socialism with Chinese characteristics, as codified by Deng Xiaoping and renewed by Xi Jinping, excels in exploiting and bypassing internal contradictions ✔ A flimsy developed strategy by the Quad (US, India, Japan, Australia) has no potential to derail BRI’s reach, complexity, wealth of capital and human resources
A new report estimates that more than 380,000 people have died in South Sudan’s civil war
9/26/2018, 10:06:46 AMFor years, the international community has said only that tens of thousands have died. ✔ Women were raped, children were burned alive, and some families even reported forced cannibalism ✔ South Sudan’s then-first vice president, Riek Machar, left, and President Salva Kiir sit to be photographed after the first meeting of a new transitional coalition government in the capital, Juba, in April 2016
Donald Trump’s lack of a Middle East strategy benefits Iran
9/26/2018, 10:23:31 AMundefined ✔ Donald Trump’s decision to personally chair the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday and put Iran in the pillory as a rogue state promises to be a hot ticket and higher on histrionics than his warm-up speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday ✔ It has been pretty much in place since shortly after Mr Trump arrived in the White House ✔ This is the strategy Iran has pursued since the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah’s monarchy ✔ Everyone is riding a tiger in this still highly volatile conflict
Analysis | Russia is trying to influence the 2018 U.S. election. But this time the U.S. is prepared.
9/26/2018, 10:24:31 AMThe Kremlin's calculus is different now that it knows the U.S. is ready to counter its attacks. ✔ Basil’s Cathedral seen in the background, in central Moscow, Feb. 6 ✔ These factors include political polarization; an open mass media market with room for marginal opinions; a pivotal historic event that could be influenced by such an attack; and a country that is unaware and unprepared such an attack might be coming
U.S. removing some missile systems from Middle East: WSJ
9/26/2018, 10:45:37 AMThe United States is pulling some of its anti-aircraft and missile batteries out... ✔ Meanwhile, Russia and the United States have been facing diplomatic rifts over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, involvement in the Syrian conflict and alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
U.S. Pulling Some Missile-Defense Systems Out of Mideast
9/26/2018, 9:55:24 AMThe Pentagon is removing U.S. missile systems from the Middle East next month, U.S. military officials said, a move that will leave American allies with fewer defenses as the White House ramps up its rhetoric against what it says are threats posed by Iran. ✔ U.S. Air Force personnel next to a Patriot missile-defense system at the Hatzor Air Base in Israel during a joint military exercise earlier this year ✔ Bill Urban, a spokesman for the command in Tampa, Fla ✔ That is in part because Iran lacks the kind of missile capability required to level precision attacks
Germany, Saudi Arabia turn page on diplomatic dispute
9/26/2018, 11:42:14 AMdi Arabia have agreed to end a prolonged diplomatic row that prompted the kingdo... ✔ After weeks of delay, the new German ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Joerg Ranau, is now expected to receive his accreditation and take up his position in Riyadh ✔ It is unclear how recent arms deliveries fit with this ban ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
US Evangelical Pastors Are the World's #1 Warmongers - the Opposite of Christian Behavior
9/26/2018, 11:22:14 AMThe author is a prominent American Christian conservative who was a presidential candidate for the paleoconservative Constitution Party in 2008, when he was endorsed by Ron Paul. ✔ The author is a prominent American Christian conservative who was a presidential candidate for the paleoconservative Constitution Party in 2008, when he was endorsed by Ron Paul ✔ If we should hear the booming of cannon on the deep which girdles this island; if we should see at our doors the marks of carnage and bloodshed; then should we more thoroughly appreciate what war means
What is Asda's petrol price today, why have they cut prices and will it get even cheaper?
9/26/2018, 9:18:56 AMASDA has become the first of the supermarket giants to cut the price of unleaded petrol – a pump price war that motorists may benefit from. Petrol prices will fall by up to 2p a litre follow… ✔ Asda says its national diesel price cap will remain at 130.7p a litre ✔ Petrol Retailers Association chairman Brian Madderson said: The worst outlook of above $100 oil could send pump prices towards the record levels of 142ppl for petrol and 148ppl for diesel reached in April 2012
Iran can afford to play a waiting game with Donald Trump
9/26/2018, 11:04:10 AMNot long after the rest of the world had openly laughed at his boss as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, US National Security Advisor John Bolton mustered his best Jacobean menace on Tuesday. ✔ MUST WATCH Bolton to Iran: Hell to pay if you cross us 01:35 (CNN)Not long after the rest of the world had openly laughed at his boss as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, US National Security Advisor John Bolton mustered his best Jacobean menace on Tuesday ✔ The Pentagon can only respond by staying around in Northern Syria -- by doing more of the same, rather than leaving months down the line
Hope for new summit
9/26/2018, 8:08:18 AMundefined ✔ It can be said that President Moon has played his role as a mediator to the best of his ability as he helped broker another summit between Trump and Kim ✔ We hope that Trump and Kim will make a real breakthrough in the denuclearization process when they meet for a second time
Asda becomes the first supermarket to cut the cost of petrol
9/26/2018, 10:43:38 AMFrom today, petrol prices will be slashed, bringing Asda's national price cap down. The shift in price is set to benefit motorists as petrol prices will fall by up to 2p a litre, as wholesale costs drop. ✔ Over the past six months the cost of filling up a typical 55-litre family car that runs on petrol or diesel has risen by around £6 ✔ Oil is traded through the US dollar, and as the conversion rate is currently so poor, petrol prices have become more expensive
Monkeypox outbreak fears grow as medic is third to be infected with disease
9/26/2018, 10:36:55 AMA HEALTHCARE worker is the third person to be diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK, as fears of an outbreak grow. The patient, the first to have contracted the virus in the UK, is believed to have ca… ✔ Public Health England contacted passengers on the plane who were sat close to the man to warn they may have been exposed to the infection ✔ If the rash spreads to the eyes it can cause blindness ✔ The first human case was diagnosed in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lift the refugee cap, Mr. Trump. America needs more: Madeleine Albright and Bob Menendez
9/26/2018, 9:21:19 AMTrump says refugees are dangerous, but it's far more risky to isolate America from the rest of the world than to open our doors to the desperate. ✔ Refugees have created diverse, thriving communities in places like Camden and Elizabeth in New Jersey and Denver, Colorado ✔ Madeleine Albright was United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton ✔ Bob Menendez represents New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee
Fear of migrants in rural France dwindles but locals remain wary
9/26/2018, 11:30:20 AMWhen the quiet French town of Forges-les-Bains was chosen to host a centre for young male asylum seekers in 2016, there was uproar. ✔ The disused hospital earmarked for the project was firebombed, some 250 residents staged a protest and NGO workers assisting the group of Afghans had their car tyres slashed ✔ It's quiet and the people are nice, Gul, who was scarred by police violence on the migrant route in Bulgaria, said as he hoisted his belongings onto a truck bound for a shelter 30 kilometres away
Statue wars: what should we do with troublesome monuments?
9/26/2018, 11:21:32 AMThe global protest movement to tear down urban memorials that reinforce racism is rewriting the very story of our cities. Should any monument be safe? ✔ The promise of neoliberalism was the promise that the burden of history was being lifted from your shoulders ✔ At worst, they will be fully rehabilitated and weaponised ✔ Follow Guardian Cities on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to join the discussion, and explore our archive here
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