White House says measures will “end our outdated approach,” promote change in Cuba consistent “with US national security interests”
White House says measures will “end our outdated approach,” promote change in Cuba consistent “with US national security interests”
On Monday night, an estimated 15,000 people joined Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West, in a march through Dresden, Germany, carrying banners bearing slogans such as “Zero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers”, “Protect our homeland” and “Stop the Islamisation”. The Anglo-Saxon presstitutes were unsurprisingly wild-eyed with indignation about the “extremists”, but could find no
Read more: Thousands rally in Dresden against criminal immigrants
In the matter between Clive Derby-Lewis and Minister of Justice and Correctional Services/Mrs. L. Hani/the SA Communist Party concerning Derby-Lewis’s application for prison release on medical grounds (Case No. 78689/2014), the Gauteng High Court ordered, inter alia, that the second and third respondents make a submission to the court no later than January 9, 2015.
Read more: Open letter from Gaye Derby-Lewis to the S. African Communist Party and Mrs. L. Hani
Growth in Angola and Nigeria, the only sub- Saharan African members of Opec, would slow next year because of weaker crude prices, according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch’s 2015 growth projection for Nigeria was revised down to 5.2 percent from 6.4 percent, Carmen Altenkirch and Richard Fox, sovereign analysts at the ratings company, said in a
Read more: Growth in Angola and Nigeria slow on weaker crude
Closing the EFF’s national people’s assembly in Bloemfontein yesterday, party president Julius Malema called on members to “block mines” in which magnate Patrice Motsepe (African Rainbow Minerals), Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa ( Lonmin) and National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete (Gold Fields) had interests. Malema described the proposed mass action as a protest against the way
It is an outdated strategy which worked against the USSR, but won’t work against contemporary Russia, for these reasons: Falling ruble insulates Russia from budgetary problems which might have resulted from falling oil price US is destroying its own shale industry while leaving Russia’s oil industry intact Cheap ruble is good for the Russian economy
Read more: Why “defeat Russia with cheap oil” strategy is failing
Three security guards from the controversial security firm G4S have been cleared of manslaughter, despite accusations they killed a 46-year-old man by forcibly restraining him on a charter airline flight. Jimnmy Mubenga, from Angola, died on the 12 October 2010 after being restrained by guards at Heathrow Airport while on a British Airways flight. He
Read more: G4S guards accused of migrant’s death found innocent
The Russian Ministry of Justice discovered another foreign agent. And this time it is not a human rights organization or a union of observers, but an entire school for training of human resources for the State Department. For several years an organization called “Moscow School of Civic Education” operated in Russia’s capital. It was in
A Russian loan to France’s National Front. Invitations to Moscow for leaders of Austria’s Freedom Party. Praise for Vladimir Putin from the head of Britain’s anti-European Union party. As the diplomatic chill over Ukraine deepens, the Kremlin is keen to enlist Europe’s far-right parties in its campaign for influence in the West. Russia fears that NATO
Just hours before he publicly responded last week to the Senate Intelligence Committee report accusing the Central Intelligence Agency of torture and deceit, John O. Brennan, the CIA’s director, stopped by the White House to meet with President Obama. Ostensibly, he was there for an intelligence briefing. But the messages delivered later that day by
Is the most dangerous country in the world the United States of America? According to a new poll from WIN and Gallup International, the U.S. represents the largest threat to world peace today. In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 nations and
Read more: WIN/Gallup poll: US represents threat to world peace
By Craig Murray Former British Ambassador To Uzbekistan In the summer of 2004, I warned Tony Blair’s Foreign Office that Britain was using intelligence material which had been obtained by the CIA under torture. Two months later I was sacked as the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan on the orders of Downing Street, bringing to an
Up to 160 Australians have either been involved in fighting in the Middle East or actively supporting it, officials have said. At leats 20 are believed to have returned to Australia and pose a security risk, the head of the national spy agency said last week, according to Reuters. As The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Highlighting
NATO is an opportunity for the United States to extend its influence
NATO is an opportunity for the United States to extend its influence
