World War 3: Russia ‘NOT SEEKING PEACE’ with Ukraine as it sanctions top public figures
11/2/2018, 7:17:54 AMRUSSIA has introduced fresh financial sanctions for top Ukrainian politicians and business people in a move that shows they are “not really seeking a settlement”, according to a senior fellow on the Atlantic Council. ✔ Mr Cohen said: The Russians are selected high-profile Ukrainians from the government and business to impost as much hurt as possible, including some people who are not anti-Russian, such as the oligarch Victor Pinchuk ✔ Also included on list wa Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Deputy Prime Minister Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze and former Prime Minister Arseniy Tatsenyuk
More than 200 are raped per month in Congo’s Kasai conflict, says new report
11/2/2018, 7:34:54 AMEighty percent of patients at a Doctors Without Borders clinic reported being raped by armed men. ✔ Congolese migrant women who crossed the border after being expelled from Angola wash their clothes and themselves in a river near Kamako, Kasai province near the border with Angola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Oct. 13, 2018 ✔ The conflict has been characterized by its brutality
Displaced villagers in Myanmar at odds with UK charity over land conservation
11/2/2018, 7:59:57 AMKaren people in Tanintharyi region fear project to protect 800,000-acre area will cut them off from ancestral lands ✔ A British conservation charity has become embroiled in a row with villagers displaced by civil war in Myanmar over plans to protect pristine forests housing wild Asian elephants, tigers and sun bears ✔ Photograph: Joshua Carroll The dispute is part of a global pushback against the international conservation movement by forest-dwelling communities
‘Troika of tyranny’: US sanctions entirety of Venezuela, warns Cuba & Nicaragua ‘you're next’
11/2/2018, 1:10:57 AMThe US is slapping far-reaching sanctions on Venezuela in its bid to re-assert hemispheric dominance over what National Security Advisor Bolton dubbed a “Troika of tyranny” in a groan-worthy throwback to Bush’s “axis of evil.” ✔ The administration used political unrest stemming from President Ortega's changes to the social security program as an excuse to zero in on Nicaragua, claiming the US wants free and fair elections in the country and once again showing absolutely no sense of irony – particularly since it was this same President Ortega whose regime fought off US-backed Contra guerrillas during the 1980s
Saudi coalition in Yemen attacks Sanaa sites, clashes in Hodeidah
11/2/2018, 7:54:49 AMThe Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said it attacked Sanaa International A... ✔ The coalition had massed thousands of troops near the city on Wednesday, in a move to pressure the Iran-aligned Houthis to return to U.N.-sponsored peace talks ✔ The sources in Hodeidah said fighting was heard in areas near the airport and the university, and Apache helicopters were spotted in the sky ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Turkey-U.S. start joint Syria patrols but Turkey strikes at Kurds
11/2/2018, 1:15:40 AMTurkish and U.S. troops began joint patrols in northern Syria on Thursday aimed ... ✔ SDF SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN AGAINST IS The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel said Turkish forces shelled and fired on an area near the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on the Turkish border ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
China stocks gain on trade war hopes
11/2/2018, 6:42:02 AMIt follows possible signs of progress on resolving a bitter trade battle between the US and China. ✔ Skip Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump Just had a long and very good conversation with President Xi Jinping of China ✔ Separately, the South China Morning Post - also citing unnamed sources - reported that Mr Trump had offered to host a dinner for the Chinese president after the G20 summit
Saudi-led coalition says attacked airbase, missile sites in Sanaa...
11/2/2018, 12:36:55 AMThe Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen attacked Sanaa International Airport a... ✔ The Houthis, who drove the government into exile in 2014, control much of north Yemen, including the capital Sanaa ✔ The United States and Britain have called for an end to the war that has driven the impoverished country to the bring of famine ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Japanese journalist freed from Syria says sorry for involving gov't
11/2/2018, 7:15:00 AMFreelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda apologized on Friday for getting the Japanese government involved in efforts to rescue him from Syria where he was held in captivity for more than three years. "I'm sorry for involving the Japanese government in the case," Yasuda, 44, said in front of hundreds of reporters… ✔ Photo: AP/Eugene Hoshiko According to a document distributed at the press conference, Yasuda was held in around 10 locations after entering Syria, including residential homes and a large detention center ✔ A former staff reporter on a local newspaper in central Japan, Yasuda was detained in Iraq in 2004
Trump and China's Xi Jinping have led their nations into a dark new era of strategic competition — and no one on either side knows where the lights are
11/2/2018, 6:48:53 AMFormer Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd says the US and China are headed for conflict. ✔ China was delighted when Trump took took shots at US-led global institutions, which allowed Beijing to make its own unilateral moves ✔ We talked about many subjects, with a heavy emphasis on Trade, Trump wrote ✔ Those discussions are moving along nicely with meetings being scheduled at the G-20 in Argentina ✔ So, its time to wake up and smell the communism, Kevin
The Cold War bunkers that cover a country
11/2/2018, 1:11:32 AMFearing invasion during the Cold War, Albania’s leader Enver Hoxha forced his country to build tens of thousands of bunkers. Long after the regime’s collapse, many still remain. ✔ It is a spring morning and the sun is already high and hot ✔ As inspiration, they looked at some of the huge fortifications built in Europe before and during World War Two, such as the Maginot Line, which the French constructed amid the fear of a German invasion in the 1930s
Trump is showing he 'actually wants' a trade deal with China, Stanford expert says
11/2/2018, 3:24:47 AMThe U.S.-China trade conflict is "the single biggest drag" on the United States going into next year, according to Lanhee Chen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. ✔ They're looking to be able to say: 'Look, we have reached even a very small measure of agreement on something,' and use that as a catalyst to get some additional resolution on the U.S.-China trade issue, said Chen, who is also director of domestic policy studies in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University
Yasuda accepts blame for long captivity by Syrian terrorists
11/2/2018, 7:56:23 AMReleased freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda said on Nov. 2 he had no one to blame but himself for be ✔ Released freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda said on Nov. 2 he had no one to blame but himself for being taken hostage in war-torn Syria and apologized to the Japanese government for putting it in a difficult position ✔ He was asked if he planned to return to conflict zones in the future to continue reporting from there
Saudi-led forces conduct mass strikes on Yemeni capital & beyond, despite US ‘calls for ceasefire’
11/2/2018, 12:42:21 AMThe Saudi-led coalition has carried out a series of airstrikes against “legitimate military targets” in Sanaa and elsewhere across Yemen, several days after senior US officials somewhat hypocritically called for a ceasefire. ✔ So far there have been no official reports of casualties from the raids, which come in the midst of a renewed UN-led peace effort, which is this time backed by the United States ✔ Local reports indicate that the raids are continuing ✔ DETAILS TO FOLLOW Trends: Saudi-led coalition strikes in YemenYemen news
Trump sanctions set to bite Iran, but what next?
11/2/2018, 2:44:59 AM✔ In a recent tweet Pompeo crowed that the International Monetary Fund is predicting a 3.6 percent contraction of Iran's economy next year ✔ But Tehran has been winning few friends, with France and Denmark recently accusing the clerical state's intelligence agencies of plotting to attack Iranian opponents in Europe
Jamal Khashoggi killing resets US relations in the Middle East
11/2/2018, 6:04:10 AMundefined ✔ It also hosts Fethullah Gulen, the man Ankara blames for the putsch attempt ✔ Prince Mohammed’s ruinous war in Yemen shows the Saudis have no answer to Iran’s winning formula of militias plus missiles and Washington looks as though it is now calling a halt to the conflict ✔ The crown prince is looking more like a liability than an asset
Most Conservative Americans Who Identify as 'Patriots' Have No Idea Who the Real Enemy Is
11/2/2018, 6:28:04 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 ✔ I’m telling you: People who want to demonize the Muslim states (except Saudi Arabia, of course) and idolize the State of Israel do NOT get itnot in any form or fashion
Opinion | Relax, people: We survived Nixon. We’ll survive Trump.
11/2/2018, 12:13:56 AMThe idea that this president has ushered in an end to the hopeful, optimistic vision for conservatism is absurd. ✔ Thiessen Columnist focusing on foreign and domestic policy Bio Follow Columnist November 1 at 6:20 PM Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the election of President Richard M ✔ While Nixon boasted over dramatic cuts in defense spending, Trump has enacted historic increases
Analysis | President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days
11/2/2018, 7:16:59 AMTrump made more false or misleading claims in the seven weeks before the midterms than he did in the first 9 months of his presidency ✔ The most expensive elevator ever is the 1,070-foot-high Bailong Elevator, set in a Chinese mountain range ✔ (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form Sign up for The Fact Checker weekly newsletter The Fact Checker is a verified signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network code of principles
This 1950's American BEST SELLER Exposes Jewish Control of US Since WW1, Jewish Role in Russian Revolution
11/2/2018, 7:20:08 AMA Book That Will Blow You Away and Your Mind Wide Open While I was on my bike ride here in Scottsdale (July 27, 2017), thinking about the new Russia sanctions that had just been passed by the warmongers in Washington, what came to me was that I should revisit the book “The Iron Curtain Over America” by Colonel John Beaty. Col. Beaty worked in military intelligence during WW II. So he was an “insider” who was privy to the real story of what happened back then. ✔ A lengthy article, Moscow’s RED LETTER DAY in American History, by William La Varre in the American Legion Magazine (August, 1951) says the move was arranged by Litvinoff, of deceitful smiles, and by Henry Morgenthau and Dean Acheson, both proteges of Felix Frankfurter
Shares soar as Trump hints at possible US-China trade deal
11/2/2018, 6:28:15 AMThe president’s positive remarks about a call with Xi Jinping, and a report that he has asked officials to draw up terms, lift battered markets ✔ There was a also a strong gain of 3% for the export-oriented Kospi index in South Korea ✔ While we are still cautious over a full resolution of recent tensions in the medium term, resumption of dialogue between Washington and Beijing would be good enough to investors for now, he told Bloomberg
‘You descend into hell by coming here’: how Texas shut the door on refugees
11/2/2018, 7:28:46 AMThe long read: At the US-Mexico border, asylum seekers are trapped in a hostile environment ✔ Miles was aware of El Paso’s abysmal rates, which caused its attorneys no shortage of misery ✔ (We feel like such losers, she told me, letting out a bitter laugh ✔ See vqronline.org It was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute
Analysis | One month after Jamal Khashoggi’s killing, these key questions remain unanswered
11/2/2018, 5:39:46 AMSaudi Arabia finally admitted to killing Khashoggi, but the case is far from closed. ✔ Protesters gathered at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington after Jamal Khashoggi's death in October ✔ Some of the details of what happened in the consulate have been confirmed, but a number of key questions in the case are still unanswered: 1 ✔ But the kingdom has repeatedly denied that Mohammed had any involvement ✔ I support him, and nothing is going to change that, no matter what
Saudi prince 'said Khashoggi was dangerous'
11/2/2018, 2:34:03 AMMohammed bin Salman reportedly told US officials the writer had been a member of an Islamist group. ✔ Hatice Cengiz: We didn't say any goodbyes On Wednesday and his body dismembered in accordance with plans made in advance ✔ Turkish media had previously quoted sources as saying Khashoggi had been tortured ✔ Earlier, , where a Saudi-led coalition has been fighting local Houthi rebels
Europe's coming year of reckoning
11/2/2018, 6:22:39 AMundefined ✔ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking his country down the path of authoritarianism ✔ Will Europeans manage to hold on to their sovereignty, or will their self-inflicted disunity render them ever more dependent on other powers ✔ Copyright belongs to Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org)
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