Bulgaria’s new salvo on the subject of the Macedonian language may repeat all of the old nationalist clichés – but it’s neither an official document nor representative of modern Bulgarian scholarship. Rather it betrays its own insecurities.
Read More »TRIANON CENTENARY STIRS MIXED EMOTIONS ACROSS CENTRAL EUROPE
A hundred years after the Treaty of Trianon redrew the borders of Central Europe, it still generates powerful and opposing feelings of resentment and celebration across the region.
Read More »America’s Pandemic Racism Is As Heart-Wrenching As It Is Sickening
“It’s My Face Man!….I Didn’t Do Nothing Serious Man!….Please!…Please!…Please!…I Can’t Breathe!….Please!…Man!…Please!….Somebody!….Please!…Man!….I Can’t Breathe!….I Can’t Breathe!….Please!….(inaudible),,,,Man!…Can’t Breathe!….My Face!….Just Get Up!….I Can’t Breathe!…Please!….(inaudible)….I Can’t Breathe!…Shit!….I Can’t Move!….Mama!…Mama!…My Knee!….My Nuts!….I’m Through!….I’m Through!….I’m Claustrophobic!….My Stomach Hurts!…My Neck Hurts!….Everythin’ Hurts!…Some Water!…Somethin!….Please!….Please!….Can’t breathe!….Officer!….Don’t Kill Me!….They Gonna’ Kill Me Man!….Come on Man!….I Can’t Breathe!….I Can’t Breathe!…..They Gonna …
Read More »To Calm Turmoil, U.S. Leaders Must Stop Courting Conflict
At May’s end, the police killing of George Floyd sent a wave of unrest rolling through U.S. cities. Rather than easing tensions, the Trump administration has used incendiary rhetoric, called military units to Washington and threatened to send them elsewhere. Cooler heads must prevail.
Read More »EU: Trade with China Trumps Freedom for Hong Kong
The British government announced that it was considering granting citizenship to the nearly three million residents of Hong Kong. The move infuriated China, which fears a massive brain drain from Hong Kong that would jeopardize the city’s role as a global financial and trading hub.
Read More »“The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed By The U.S.-A Country Built On Genocide And Slavery
More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. One man’s death triggers an avalanche of rage in those who for years, decades and centuries, have been humiliated, ruined, and exterminated.
Read More »More than 100 domestically-built missile-launching speed boats join Iran's naval fleet
Iranian naval forces have received more than 100 missile-launching speed boats designed and manufactured by experts at home, in what will boost the Islamic Republic’s offensive power in the strategic Persian Gulf waters.
Read More »Kuwait – Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancements (MSEs) with Canisters
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Kuwait of eighty-four (84) Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancements (MSEs) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $800 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress …
Read More »Israel daily: Saudi among Arab states who back Israel annexation plans
At least three Arab states have greenlighted Israel’s planned annexation of large parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Israel Hayom revealed today.
Read More »Panic in Dubai: 70% of companies to close within 6 months due to COVID-19
A man clad in face mask and latex gloves, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, walks past jewellers’ shops at the Dubai Gold Souk in the Gulf emirate on 13 May, 2020 [KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images]May 23, 2020 at 11:51 am
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