Center on Global Energy Policy Excerpts below, read entirely at link above Many analysts expecting President Donald Trump’s first foreign trip to yield breakthrough deals on Iran or Gaza may have found his recent four-day jaunt through Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates somewhat underwhelming. But the commercial deals Trump struck on artificial […]
Ukraine’s official website Ukraine wants more sanctions against Russia. Ukraine wants more weapons. Resource potential and strategic partnerships The Ukrainian delegation held an analytical briefing on the current security, economic, and humanitarian situation in Ukraine for 23 senators from both parties of the U.S. Congress. Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak provided […]
Original url from my censored site- I’d been lookin’ through the old place for this one https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2017/01/trumps-presidency-dangerous-deception.html Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Trump’s Presidency: A Dangerous Deception This had to be up before Trump’s inauguration. So, finally here it is! Personally speaking here. I’ve never been a believer in “the Donald” as the leader of any […]
The Pearl Harbor example suggests what? Given the fact the US nuked Japan. Twice. Satellite Images Show Aftermath of ‘Pearl Harbor’ Strike on Russia The claims could not be independently verified and Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry and the Kremlin for comment. Over the top headlines and very dramatic rhetoric feature large in […]
Radio Free Europe Dozens of Russia’s long-range bombers have been destroyed by drones smuggled into the country, claims Ukraine. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) released video it said showed Russian aircraft in flames at the Belaya airfield in the Irkutsk region bordering Mongolia on June 1. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed that air bases in five different […]
BBC At least three people have died after a highway bridge collapsed in a region close to the Ukraine border, according to Russian emergency services. The bridge in Bryansk brought down several heavy trucks onto a moving passenger train, with 31 people also reportedly injured. The Russian Emergencies Ministry said fire and rescue units were […]
Economist via Archive.ph Selected excerpts- read entirely at the links above Tariffs particularly enthuse Donald Trump because foreigners pay them—at least as he sees it—and merely threatening them is an easy way to mess with other countries. Two months on from “Liberation Day”, the president and his allies in Congress are trying the same trick […]
As mentioned the other day. The US and Israel have interests in Libya. Turkey and Russia do as well. I’ll try to bring something from my former site about a deal made between Turkey and Libya- it’s mentioned in the World Politics piece below and it is the agreement that annoyed Greece and Egypt to […]
Haftar is tied into both the US and Israel- we’ll get to that after this latest news, keeping in mind Israel views Libya as the destination of choice for the ethnically cleansed Palestinians. Libya’s eastern-based government said yesterday it may announce a force majeure on oil fields and ports citing “repeated assaults on the National […]
For a change. I thought this a bit of interesting news A study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) found that Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors — a class of anti-inflammatory drugs — can suppress a key part of the immune response, potentially allowing viruses like influenza and COVID-19 to replicate and spread […]