All day Saturday, South Korea braced for a possible new missile test by North Korea as the provocative northern neighbor marked its founding anniversary, just days after its sixth and largest nuclear test rattled global financial markets and further escalated tensions in the region. Throughout the week, South Korean officials warned the North could launch Read More…
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Venezuela Is About To Ditch The Dollar In Major Blow To US: Here’s Why It Matters
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday that Venezuela will be looking to “free” itself from the U.S. dollar next week, Reuters reports. According to the outlet, Maduro will look to use the weakest of two official foreign exchange regimes (essentially the way Venezuela will manage its currency in relation to other currencies and the foreign exchange market), along Read More…
US State Department Approves $3.8 Billion In Arms Sales To Bahrain
The US State Department has approved $3.8 billion in weapons sales to the tiny island nation of Bahrain. The Pentagon confirmed the approval and the State Department has notified Congress, who held up a similar sale last year over Bahrain’s many, many human rights problems. The $3.8 billion sale is almost entirely going to Lockheed Read More…
Media Silence: North Korea Has Repeatedly Offered To Give Up Their Nukes
As the mass media and the establishment figures who keep mainstream outlets afloat continue to beat the drums of war against North Korea, little attention is being paid to one crucial detail regarding the current crisis engulfing the Korean peninsula. You wouldn’t know it if you were to turn on your television every day or simply skim the Read More…
The Bad Guys Are The Ones Invading Sovereign Nations, Not These Guys
Sentient Reaper drone Nikki Haley is now saying that North Korea is “begging for war” in a page borrowed from the classic “she was asking for it” courtroom defense of accused rapists. Pundits and politicians across all conceivable boundaries have always found a way to set aside their differences to advocate for the interests of the Read More…
When Will Raqqa Be Totally Liberated From ISIS?
It’s been over three months since the U.S.-led Coalition along with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have launched its concluding phase of the Raqqa campaign. Despite all promises of the Combined Joint Task Force concerning the end of the operation, the situation on the ground is completely wrong. Furthermore, it is complicated by a huge number Read More…






