News agencies continue to broadcast video about the situation in the Syrian city of Homs, where airstrikes performed by armed opposition continue lashing the southern province. [youtube]bEczSaj8uD8[/youtube]
Geopolitics
China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, carrying the country’s first ever female astronaut along with her two male colleagues, blasted off earlier from the steppes of Gansu province in the north west, to cheers from a crowd at a special seeing-off ceremony. The three astronauts will have to link up with Beijing’s laboratory […]
Earlier this month, The Observer reported that “The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich ‘consuming’ countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn ‘producing’ nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed.” Journalist Ed Vulliamy informed […]
The unthinkable looks possible: a global financial crisis reminiscent of the one in 2008: A full-blown crisis to start in Greece, quickly move to the rest of Europe and then hit the US. Stocks and oil would plunge, the euro would sink against the U.S. dollar, and big banks would […]
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has run two articles alleging that Syrian Sunni rebels committed the Houla massacre, reporting that the victims were largely from Alawi and Shia minorities in Houla. . This is important because the Syrian government has been blamed for the massacre and the massacre has […]
The first joint US-NZ military exercises on New Zealand soil in decades have recently finished. . Read the rest here
[ … … neat … like in THX-1138 ] A recent Supreme Court ruling on the appeals of Gitmo detainees leaves them with no ‘legal’ option but to die in detention. By not taking any of these cases, the Supreme Court has ensured that the government does not need to […]
This could soon be a thing of the past – British forces engaged in simultaneous conflict on two fronts as they were in Afghanistan and Iraq. [youtube]Sd1NiF-hM70[/youtube]
The US and Israel are engaged in extensive strategic, political and military cooperation. This cooperation is broad and includes American aid, intelligence sharing, and joint military exercises. American military aid to Israel comes in different forms, including grants, special project allocations and loans. According to ifamericansknew.org, Israel receives about $3 […]
[ … and Dr Paul Buchanan does his level best to publically perpetuate some cultural myths ] Serious analysis of government policy is a vital function of the media in a democratic society. But in New Zealand we are often poorly served because the mind set of many journalists and […]