Credder is a More Honest NewsGuard, But There’s No Way to Create an Incorruptible News Rating App

Credder is a More Honest NewsGuard, But There’s No Way to Create an Incorruptible News Rating App

The NewsGuard news rating app was a blatant attempt to direct news consumers to pro-establishment sources while punishing alternative outlets with low trust ratings — but will the newly launched Credder be any different? A better question to ask might be, can any news rating app — no matter who its founders, backers and users…

Do Spies Run the World?

Do Spies Run the World?

Jeeves, the excellent valet of Mr Wooster, had an ace up his sleeve: if going was tough, he had used his access to the records of the Junior Ganymede club, and there he could find embarrassing stuff against anybody who had ever employed a valet or a butler, for these gentleman’s gentlemen were obliged to inscribe…

Russia Took Pakistan’s Side in South Asia’s Tit-for-Tat Missile Tests

Russia Took Pakistan’s Side in South Asia’s Tit-for-Tat Missile Tests

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov staunchly defended Pakistan’s “sovereign right to take care of its security” amidst South Asia’s tit-for-tat missile tests, with this unprecedented statement not only signifying the strength of the Russian-Pakistani Strategic Partnership, but also potentially being a response to the Indian Ambassador to the US’ recent hint that his country…

India’s Strategic Alliance with U.S.: Towards an Anti-Russian Military Pivot

India’s Strategic Alliance with U.S.: Towards an Anti-Russian Military Pivot

India’s much-touted and over-hyped policy of “multi-alignment” is seeming more and more like a cover for unconvincingly disguising the country’s strategic alliance the US, especially after its Ambassador to America strongly hinted that Modi will undertake an anti-Russian military pivot during his second term in office. There’s little doubt that India will ditch Russia like…

Daesh is Getting Ready to Infiltrate into Central Asia from Afghanistan

Daesh is Getting Ready to Infiltrate into Central Asia from Afghanistan

Russia’s FSB Director warned that approximately 5,000 Syrian-hardened Daesh terrorists of Central Asian origin are amassing along Afghanistan’s northern border region in preparation for infiltrating back into their homelands under the cover of being refugees and labor migrants, representing a dire threat to the region’s stability that could catalyze a chain reaction of crises that…