Daily Archives: July 18, 2016

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Oslo angered by the Saudi Arabia financial donations to Daesh [IS].

This should be a joyous time for the UK when efforts turn towards throwing off EU bondage and exploring the sunny uplands of free will and expanded world trade.

President Sisi issued a response to the military coup in Turkey. "The Turkish military coup against Erdogan was resulted from his failed policies in the region", he wrote in his Face Book page.

Jim W. Dean - I predict that China and its competing neighbors will come up with some formula for sharing the South China Sea, and with many layers to it. One of those could be insisting that the area should become a demilitarized zone for any outside navies capable of a preemptive strike.

Russia’s new ion collider that is now under construction in the town of Dubna north of Moscow is capable of producing results of the Nobel Prize level, Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov said on Thursday.

After the United States signed a military memorandum of understanding with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) last week, some Iraqi MPs have considered the move a violation of the sovereignty of Iraq and have asked the Iraqi government to take a stance against the deal.

An unidentified unmanned aircraft violated Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights on Sunday. Neither two Patriot missiles, nor one air-to-air missile fired from an Israeli fighter reportedly managed to take down the mystery UAV that retreated into Syria.

A short explanation of who's behind the Turkish coup attempt and why - plus a challenge to my VT colleague Ian Greenhalgh.

It is typical for people who have run out of arguments, or who are too lazy to muster convincing arguments, to resort to ad hominem attacks.