Military
China’s highest-ranking general has been fired for not only selling information about the country’s nuclear-weapons program to the U.S. but also for accepting bribes, including the promotion of an officer to defense minister, said people familiar with a high-level briefing on the allegations. China’s defence ministry has opened an investigation into the country’s senior-most general […]
... written on Jan 26 2026He came, he saw, he mocked the European Union’s flagship Green New Deal climate policies as the “Green New Scam”. He then ridiculed Britain for failing to tap more North Sea oil, before laughing at the “catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation” in recent years. It was a wild day, with Trump berating […]
... written on Jan 25 2026Corruption was not born yesterday and it is as old as human civilization. The First Dynasty (3100–2700 BC) of Ancient Egypt noted corruption in its judiciary. In fact, the World Bank estimates international bribery exceeds US$1.5 trillion annually. Corruption permeates all levels of society from low-level public servants accepting petty bribes to national leaders stealing millions of […]
... written on Jan 23 2026Donald Trump has flown to Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos. In his opening address, not only the U.S. president bragged about the U.S. economy – citing reduced inflation, high economic growth and a record-setting stock market – but also happily mocking and ridiculing Europe, while repeating his claim that only the […]
... written on Jan 22 2026When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949 as a collective defence alliance to counter the perceived threat of Soviet expansionism in post-World War II, little did the Western European and Canada realize that 77 years later, the enemy that would attack or colonize one of their own kind would be the United […]
... written on Jan 19 2026As of Tuesday (Jan 13, 2026), the death toll from anti-government protests in Iran reached 1,850, according to data published by the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). Among the dead are 9 children. Over the same 17 days of unrest that have been recorded in 606 locations in 187 cities across all 31 […]
... written on Jan 13 2026Pahlavi was just 18 years old and in the U.S. training to be a jet fighter pilot when the revolution that ousted his father – Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – unfolded in the 1979 Iran Revolution. After his father died in exile in Egypt in 1980, he declared himself the new Shah, but […]
... written on Jan 12 2026Every time the United States makes its move against a sovereign state – either through an invasion or a political intervention – it’s always about oil or the U.S. hegemony, and little about democracy. We had seen it in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on. The entire Middle East […]
... written on Jan 10 2026Since August, the U.S. had assembled warships, jet fighters and roughly 15,000 troops on Venezuela’s doorstep. Bombers deliberately flexed muscle while U.S. intelligence personnel were already inside the South American country. The Pentagon even released videos of American forces in the Caribbean training to raid compounds and conduct night-time flight operations. Still, some politicians and analysts in both […]
... written on Jan 04 2026At a time when the U.S. declares trade war with China and the rest of the world, while trying to also strike a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine, few notice tensions are growing at the top of the world – the Arctic. U.S. President Donald Trump wants Greenland, Russia is modernising its Arctic military […]
... written on Dec 31 2025
