Is the Next US Aggression on Syria Already Scheduled?
9/3/2018, 8:15:40 AMThe things that please are those that are asked for again and again-Horace Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran-John McCain President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price…-Donald Trump It is difficult to have a dialogue with people who confuse Austria and Australia-Vladimir Putin ✔ The biggest difference is that this time around the Russian naval task force in the eastern Mediterranean is much bigger than last time: 15 ships including two advanced frigates, the Admiral Grigorovich and the Admiral Essen (see a detailed report here: Link ) and two 636.3-class advanced diesel-attack submarines
‘Assad has won the war’: French foreign minister makes Syria admission
9/3/2018, 10:23:42 AMFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has admitted Bashar Assad has won the war in Syria. However, he was quick to hit out at the Syrian leader, accusing him of failing to “win the peace” in the war-torn country. ✔ But he hasn’t won the peace, Le Drian said, speaking to France-Inter radio on Sunday ✔ France, alongside its Western allies, has harshly criticized the government of President Assad over the last number of years ✔ It coordinated with the UK and the US to carry out air raids against Syrian government forces in April
Provocations Have a History of Escalating Into War
9/3/2018, 10:19:33 AMThe Russian Government and President Putin are coming under pressure not from US sanctions, which are very good for Russia as they force Russia into independence, but from Russian patriots who are tiring of Putin’s non-confrontational responses to Washington’s never-ending insults and military provocations. Russian patriots don’t want war, but they do want their country’s honor defended, and they believe Putin is failing in this job. Some of them are saying that Putin himself is a West-worshipping Atlanticist Integrationist. ✔ However, American hubris can certainly prevail over facts, in which case Putin would have to destroy the sources of the attack ✔ When confronted with such deluded and ideological force, does turning the other cheek work or does it encourage more provocation ✔ This is the question before the Russian government
Myanmar court jails Reuters reporters for seven years in landmark...
9/3/2018, 10:39:58 AMA Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy in the Southeast Asian country. ✔ Kyaw Soe Oo also said the reporters had committed no crime and that they would maintain their fight for press freedom ✔ What I want to say to the government is: you can put us in jail, but do not close the eyes and ears of the people, he said ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Special Report: How Myanmar punished two reporters for uncovering...
9/3/2018, 11:55:08 AMTime and again, Myanmar's government appeared at risk of blowing its prosecution of two young journalists who had exposed a massacre of 10 Muslim men and implicated security forces in the killings. ✔ Why are you writing about ‘kalars’ at a time like this ✔ I would like to say that injustice will never defeat us ✔ In the end, the defense’s ability to punch holes in the prosecution’s case proved to be insufficient ammunition ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Reuters Journalists In Myanmar Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Breaching State Secrets Act
9/3/2018, 8:53:44 AMThe two reporters had been investigating a massacre of Rohingya villagers when they were arrested last year. ✔ Kyaw Soe Oo also said the reporters had committed no crime and that they would maintain their fight for press freedom ✔ (Additional reporting by Antoni Slodkowski, Shoon Naing, Aye Min Thant; Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Philip McClellan) Download
Israel signals it could attack Iranian weaponry in Iraq
9/3/2018, 10:18:52 AMIsrael signaled on Monday that it could attack suspected Iranian military assets in Iraq, as it has done with scores of air strikes in war-torn Syria. ✔ Israel sees in Iran’s regional expansion an attempt to open up new fronts against it ✔ Security Council resolution endorsing the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran ✔ The Trump administration abandoned that deal in May, citing, among other factors, Iran’s ballistic missile projects ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
12 big questions at the halfway stage of Bodyguard, by Jim Shelley
9/3/2018, 9:22:14 AMJulia Montague (the rabidly ambitious Home Secretary played with icy grace by Keeley Hawes) was the target of the bomb as she made a speech about the anti-terrorist legislation. ✔ Bodyguard reached the halfway stage with a bang, and a hell of a lot of suspects ✔ Actually, particularly them… They were double-crossing, undermining, or plotting against someone ✔ A: It sounds unlikely but certainly not impossible ✔ A: Possibly never given that they haven’t noticed so far – or registered his panic attacks, heavy drinking, rages, PTSD, scars from Afghanistan, history of cocaine use, and allegations of serious sexual assault
Putin made a telling blunder in a shouting match with Ukraine's president, France's Hollande says
9/3/2018, 11:57:12 AMRussian President Vladimir Putin got so angry during a shouting match with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that he revealed he was lying about Russia's role in a military uprising in eastern Ukraine, former French President Francois Hollande wrote in a book reflecting on his time in office. ✔ The strategy involves multi-domain fighting, economic pressure, and total distortion of facts on the ground ✔ This showed that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine ✔ In Minsk, Poroshenko asserted Ukraine's sovereignty as its leader ✔ Russia still denies any official involvement in the fighting and remains under the sanctions imposed in 2014
Trump is dangerous again as his Kim Jong-un ‘breakthrough’ turns sour | Simon Tisdall
9/3/2018, 9:10:16 AMFaced by the collapse of his only diplomatic ‘achievement’ and worried about his support at home, the president could go rogue, says the foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall ✔ American bungling has thrown into question Moon’s planned visit to Pyongyang next month – and has certainly rendered it more difficult ✔ Trump’s naive and egotistic blundering threatens more made-in-America disasters from east Asia to the Middle East and Europe
Militants must be 'cleaned out' of Syria's Idlib, Iran says
9/3/2018, 11:55:11 AMIran called on Monday for militants to be "cleaned out" of Syria's Idlib province, as it prepared for talks with Syria and Russia about confronting the last major enclave held by rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. ✔ JIHADIST ALLIANCE The meeting will focus on the battle against remaining militant groups in Syria, Zarif said ✔ In the meeting that we will have in Tehran next Friday as a continuation of the three-way political round the methods of how to confront extremist and terrorist groups, like Tahrir al-Sham, will be examined, Zarif said, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Pakistan girds for 'exchanges' with Pompeo as U.S. halts military...
9/3/2018, 11:27:27 AMPakistan's new government said he will "have exchanges" with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over Washington's cancellation of a $300 million disbursement for the Pakistani military when he visits Islamabad on Wednesday. ✔ U.S. officials have repeatedly accused Pakistan of playing a double game, by covertly providing safe havens for Afghan Taliban insurgents and fighters from the Haqqani group, who are waging a 17-year-old war against Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government
‘We don’t want to live in Middle East & Africa’: Czech PM blasts EU migration policy
9/3/2018, 11:09:05 AMEurope must fight for its culture and values amidst the migration crisis, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has declared. He says recent riots in Germany show how the uncontrolled influx of migrants leads to explosive situations. ✔ Chemnitz is just right around the corner! Babis said on Sunday, recalling the chaos that engulfed the eastern German city last week during pro and anti-migrant rallies held there ✔ Speaking on Czech TV channel Prima, Babis stressed that events in Chemnitz demonstrate how the influx of migrants creates explosive situations, when foreigners clash with native-born citizens
Peace at critical stage: Moon
9/3/2018, 8:09:51 AMundefined ✔ Seoul proposed sending the special envoys and Pyongyang accepted, implying it was also frustrated with the current situation ✔ The country is desperate, said Im, who is President Moon's top confidant, adding strategic patience and U.S. consent are the key criteria to achieve a historic transition
‘They don’t care about children’: Kadyrov blasts US for halting Palestinian aid
9/3/2018, 9:29:57 AMRamzan Kadyrov has stated that the US decision to end funding of the UN agency providing aid to Palestinians was proof that Washington did not care about ordinary people when it meddled in other nations’ affairs. ✔ How shall we understand the touching speeches in which American politicians mention humanism and human rights when at the same time Palestinian children lose the right for a decent life , he wrote ✔ Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you
Yemen's president Hadi heads to US for medical treatment
9/3/2018, 10:49:50 AMHadi has been receiving treatment for a heart condition since 2011, according to news reports. ✔ He was supposed to serve a two-year term but repeatedly postponed elections as negotiations over a new constitution through a National Dialogue Conference failed ✔ According to the UN, at least 10,000 people have been killed since the start of the conflict
The point of sharp power
9/3/2018, 9:11:52 AMThe view that despotism is incompatible with "soft power is a popular one. Yet Russia and China are projecting more influence beyond their borders than at any time in recent memory. ✔ Any significant liberalization would contradict these regimes’ own political needs and objectives to retain control at any cost ✔ The analytical trap is to assume that authoritarian governments, which suppress political pluralism and free expression in order to maintain power at home, would be inclined to act differently internationally ✔ © Project Syndicate, 2018 www.project-syndicate.org
Donald Trump scraps $300M Pakistan aid cash over terrorism claims
9/3/2018, 9:25:37 AMTHE US military is scrapping a $300 million (£232m) aid package to Pakistan because of its failure to tackle terrorism. ✔ Donald Trump accused Pakistan of 'lies and deceit' (Image: AFP/GETTY) The Pentagon has threatened similar crakdowns on aid in the past but this year's move could get more attention from Islamabad and its new prime minister Imran Khan at a time when its economy is struggling
Trump Doesn’t Want Peace With the EU, A Deeper Schism Fits His Plans Perfectly
9/3/2018, 9:13:38 AMDonald Trump is on a mission. His goal? Destroy the post-WWII institutional order that has outlived its usefulness. And there have been a number of major moves that fundamentally tear at the fabric of that order. In a span of a day we’ve had the following things occur in quick succession. ✔ Destroy the post-WWII institutional order that has outlived its usefulness ✔ And there have been a number of major moves that fundamentally tear at the fabric of that order ✔ And as I said above, his big bluff on this was called ✔ And The Davos Crowd are hell-bent on destroying the multiplicity of cultures that make Europe what it is
Bodyguard's Richard Madden bares his bum in raunchy third episode
9/3/2018, 10:55:39 AMFans were left aghast on Sunday night as they watched the two leading stars of BBC's Bodyguard, Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes have their steamiest sex scene to date. ✔ It has gripped the nation with its dramatic plot-lines, romance and cliffhangers ✔ However others were left less than impressed with their on-screen dalliance, with some branding the sex scenes, 'daft, bizarre and unbelievable' ✔ One fan wrote: 'The Bodyguard would be equally as good and more believable without the daft sex scenes.' 'The gratuitous sex adds nothing to the story
AP PHOTOS: Memorable 2-week Asian Games end in Indonesia
9/3/2018, 8:20:35 AMJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Asian Games ended on Sunday, with China, Japan and South Korea — as always — dominating the two-week event. But several other nations clo ✔ JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) The Asian Games ended on Sunday, with China, Japan and South Korea as always dominating the two-week event ✔ China led with 289 overall medals, including 132 gold ✔ Japan won 205 medals (75 gold), while South Korea had 177 (49 gold) ✔ weightlifting at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia
South Korea's fertility rate set to hit record low
9/3/2018, 10:44:41 AMResearch warns falling average number of babies born per woman will cause shortfalls for healthcare and pensions ✔ South Korea’s fertility rate is set to hit an all time low this year, setting the country up for a host of problems including underfunded pensions, expanding debt and economic decline ✔ Women are getting married and having children later in life, if at all, for fear of being denied promotions and facing discrimination at work
Stocks’ Return to Records Paves Way for Volatile Autumn
9/3/2018, 11:07:32 AMU.S. stocks are at all-time highs after an August rally, prompting some investors to brace for a reckoning heading into what historically has been a weak stretch for markets. ✔ Good times: Traders Andrew Silverman, left, Gregory Rowe, center, and Robert Charmak share a laugh Friday as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange ✔ The pace of the gains, as well as that much of it came on relatively low trading volumes, has left some investors wary of a possible pullback
Bengal among incredible images in the Wildlife photography competition
9/3/2018, 10:55:44 AMPhotographer Emmanuel Rondeau, France, captured this tiger in central Bhutan - a photo which made him a contender in the the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. ✔ When this sun bear saw its keeper, Ms Garthwaite says it started screaming in fear © Sue Forbes/Wildlife Photographer of the Year Sue Forbes from the UK captured this amazing moment a booby hunts a flying fish northeast of D’Arros Island in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles
U.S. prisoners' strike is a reminder how common inmate labor is
9/3/2018, 10:06:15 AMInmates work for low or no wages, producing consumer goods, answering customer service calls or fighting wildfires ✔ The first section of the amendment makes clear that people convicted of a crime can be forced to work as punishment but says nothing about whether they have to be compensated ✔ But as I've shown, the question of compensation is an open one ✔ This article was originally published on The Conversation
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