“The Frustrated Indian”, a popular Indian media outlet with over 1.2 million followers on Facebook, is propagating fake news by alleging that the recent military coup in Mali was a Russian-backed regime change effort to spoil China’s Silk Road plans in the Sahel, which represents yet another desperate and discredited effort by the South Asian…
1. Studies on the effectiveness of face masks So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. A May 2020 meta-study on pandemic influenza published by the US CDC found that face masks had…
As Washington and Beijing continue to spar over the latter’s assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea, the war of words has the two nations lurching ever closer to an actual shooting war, with all that will entail. The dispute has escalated in the past days and weeks, with the US slapping sanctions…
“The Caucasus is Ground Zero in the New Cold War between the U.S. and Russia.” I wrote that several years ago, and it’s still true, particularly after Armenia decisively repulsed a mid-July attack by Azerbaijan. Perhaps dozens of Azeris died in the battles, including a major-general, colonel, and two majors. Armenia reported far fewer deaths…
It would always come to this. At some point there would be a reckoning for BLM and Antifa. The shootings in Kenosha, WI are a dividing line for America. This is the moment where normal people finally said, “Enough. There will be consequences. “ This is a war between radicalized lunatics bathed in unquenchable envy…
One of the more bizarre indications that Trump Washington is interested in the Arctic was made a year ago when he said he would like to buy Greenland, a vast territory that is administered by Denmark. It is about the same size as Saudi Arabia, and slightly smaller than India — a big country in…
