Microsoft committed to protecting democratic freedoms. Then it funded an Israeli facial recognition firm that secretly watched West Bank Palestinians. By Olivia Solon NBC News Microsoft has invested in a startup that uses facial recognition to surveil Palestinians throughout the West Bank, in spite of the tech giant’s public pledge […]
Middle East
So, no oil shortage any time soon. The timing of this announcement seems somewhat convenient. Think Rouhani’s been keeping this under his hat? MH Press TV – Nov 10, 2019 President Hassan Rouhani says Iran has discovered a new oil field containing 53 billion barrels of crude in southwestern Khuzestan […]
Hypocrite Hillary cries crocodile tears: What a croc! As always the Russians are having a field day with this news: RTSun, 13 Oct 2019 01:22 UTC © UnknownFormer US Sec. of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton has retweeted a post by an NBC correspondent about ‘atrocities’ unleashed by Turkey’s incursion […]
IS “666” Kushner’s Deal Of the Century a big deal or no deal? Alastair CrookeStrategic CultureTue, 25 Jun 2019 20:46 UTC It is nothing new to say that the ‘Deal of the Century’ is – and always was – in essence an economic project. Indeed, it seems that its political […]
India’s dispatch of naval and air assets to the Gulf in response to the latest US-provoked crisis there is anti-Iranian to the core and intended to serve as an exercise for improving the South Asian state’s interoperability with its new American military-strategic ally. By Andrew Korybko Source: Eurasia Future June […]
In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exactly zero evidence. Caitlin Johnstone – Sign of the Times June 14, 2019 In […]
Media reports say two large oil tankers have come under attack in the Sea of Oman. Thu Jun 13, 2019 05:34AM Iran’s Al-Alam television network cited local sources in Oman as saying that two successive explosions were heard in the Sea of Oman on Thursday morning. The sources said the blasts […]
Storm clouds brewing, or “just being cautious”? RT reports on unfolding events at the Iranian US Embassy in the Middle East and tensions in Iran. RTWed, 15 May 2019 22:00 UTC © Reuters / Shannon Stapleton Germany and the Netherlands halted training of Iraqi troops hours afterthe US said it […]
A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group will arrive in the Middle East within days, U.S. defense officials said, ending the longest period in two decades that such a military presence has been absent from the region. Nancy A. Youssef – Wall Street Journal Dec 3, 2018 F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets […]
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