G20 Summit: For the First Time the West Couldn’t Dictate, but Had to Listen

G20 Summit: For the First Time the West Couldn’t Dictate, but Had to Listen

China has spent months organizing the G20 Summit in Hangzhou. They had their own ideas and it was a sort of coming out for Chinese, showing to the international community that they are a real global power politically and economically. Even before the start of the Summit, President Xi Jinping was trying to discuss the…

Obama says Americans Too ‘Lazy’ to Explore the World, Triggers Backlash at Home

Obama says Americans Too ‘Lazy’ to Explore the World, Triggers Backlash at Home

President Barack Obama says Americans are so uninterested in the rest of the world because they are “lazy” and don’t feel like knowing about “other people.” His remarks have not gone unnoticed at home, where angered Americans suggested he stay abroad. “[…] We are such a big country we haven’t always had to know about…

Airstrike Kills Top Nusra Commander Outside Aleppo, as Syrian Army Retakes New Neighborhood

Airstrike Kills Top Nusra Commander Outside Aleppo, as Syrian Army Retakes New Neighborhood

Senior Al-Nusra Front commander, known under the alias Abu Omar Saraqeb, was reportedly killed in a targeted airstrike on the village of Kafr Naha, 15 km north of Aleppo. In the city, Syrian government forces regained control over Ramousah district. The airstrike reportedly hit a group of Jabhat Fath Al-Sham militants as they were convening…

US Spy Planes Intercepted Near Russian Border had Transponders Off – Russian MoD

US Spy Planes Intercepted Near Russian Border had Transponders Off – Russian MoD

US spy planes have twice tried to approach the Russian border over the Black Sea with their transponders off, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that SU-27 fighter jets were scrambled in response. “On September 7, the US P-8 Poseidon surveillance airplanes tried to approach the Russian border twice… with their transponders off,” Russian Defense…

A Dog Is Re-Elected Mayor for a Third Term, Proving Politicians Are Useless

A Dog Is Re-Elected Mayor for a Third Term, Proving Politicians Are Useless

As millions of Americans struggle to decide whether to elect a volatile narcissist or a calculated warmongering criminal as their next leader, one Minnesota town is doing politics right — they just re-elected a dog to his third term as mayor. Duke, a nine-year-old Great Pyrenees, was first elected mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota in 2014….