On September 24, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Syrian military will receive the S-300 air defense system within two weeks, adding that the system has a range of 250km and is capable of intercepting several air targets simultaneously. The defense minister added that all HQs of the Syrian Air Defense Forces (SADF)…
Iran admitted to a recent missile strike against Kurdish militants in Iraq. The attack took place almost two weeks ago on 8 September and was shortly thereafter confirmed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), but Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari commented on it last Thursday by remarking that the “IRGC’s recent revenge against the terrorists…
Iran’s nuclear program is the most intensively monitored on the planet. It has no military component, no credible evidence suggesting otherwise. All the huffing, puffing and posturing histrionics by Netanyahu and other Iranophobes can’t refute cold hard facts. IAEA officials have unimpeded access to all Iranian sites designated for inspection. Twelve consecutive agency reports unequivocally…
Senator Ted Cruz is lobbying to prevent a Chinese company from purchasing a Mexican radio station that broadcasts into the US. He’s uncomfortable with the fact that a Hong Kong-based company wants to buy a radio station near Tijuana because he fears that this might be a front for the Chinese government to pump “propaganda”…
A mere two years ago Russia had just one LNG project and one could rarely read about it in media outlets. With Yamal LNG, however, that has now changed completely, with a whole plethora of energy analysts in awe as NOVATEK’s project defies expectations. The project has achieved something that is entirely at odds with…
When WhatsApp sold its giant messaging platform to Facebook for $22 billion, “I sold my users’ privacy,” one of the company’s co-founders said. WhatsApp founder Mike Acton has opened up about some of the moral struggles he has faced since selling the encrypted messaging app to Facebook, a company that makes money by collecting information on its users and selling that…
