Day: December 6, 2016

The Rules of the (Trump) Game

December 6, 2016 Opinion

Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be the new head of the Pentagon, is a model functionary of the Empire of Chaos. His call sign is – what else – “chaos”. The Marin…

Now in Bangladesh, Rohingya Muslims Describe Rape, Murder in Myanmar

December 6, 2016 Asia

The Myanmar soldiers came in the morning, the young mother says. They set fire to the concrete-and-thatch homes, forcing the villagers to cluster together. When some of her neighbors tried to escape i…

China Expands its Presence in Europe

December 6, 2016 Opinion

The development of Sino-European relations has emerged as one of central issues boggling the minds of the key players involved in a new global political game. The magnitude of the issue renders it wor…

The West vs Russia: Towards the End of Pax Americana?

December 6, 2016 Opinion

A peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between Mikhail Gorbachow and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new dimension of a global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russi…

Syrian War Report – December 6, 2016: Militant Counter-Attack Fails in Aleppo

December 6, 2016 Middle East

Two Russian medical specialists were killed and another injured as result of militant shelling of a Russian mobile military hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo on December 5. The hospital was shelle…

The US Navy is Spending Money like a Drunken Sailor

December 6, 2016 Military

The world’s mightiest navy is at risk of being sunk — not by a superior enemy, but by its own inability to acquire ships that work at a price that even the richest military on the planet can afford. T…

Indian Air Force to Train Vietnamese Pilots to Fly Sukhoi Su-30 Jets

December 6, 2016 Military

Vietnamese pilots will be trained by Indian Air Force instructors in Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets amid bilateral efforts to boost defense ties, Indian media report. Su-30s, in similar versio…

The True History of Chemotherapy & the Pharmaceutical Monopoly

December 6, 2016 Miscellaneous

In 2016, approximately 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States alone, and approximately 600,000 people will die from the disease. The number of new cancer cases is 454.8 p…