John J. Xenakis - Page 7

Contents: European markets in turmoil over Italy’s unbridled spending proposals; Key proposals from Italy’s M5S-League coalition

Contents: Stage is set for a new humanitarian catastrophe in Syria’s Idlib province; Turkey warns Syria’s Bashar al-Assad not to attack Idlib province

Contents: China escalates militarization of South China Sea, preparing for war; China prepares for war on multiple fronts

Contents: Iranian police clash with marginalized Qashqai tribe in southern Iran; Iranian police kill two as new protests erupt in Iran

Contents: China says that its military exercises are intended to threaten Taiwan; Taiwan, in cooperation with the U.S., strengthens defenses against China

Contents: Taliban launches major military operation in Farah province in Afghanistan; Afghan officials blame Iran and Pakistan; Afghan government continues to lose control to the Taliban

Contents: Gaza violence surges in Palestinian ‘Great March for Return’ into Israel; Opening of US embassy in Jerusalem stirs strong reactions

Contents: North Korea schedules dismantling of nuclear test site as TV ceremony; North Korea offers series of theatrical noncommittal gestures; The most likely Kim-Trump meeting outcome: Mutual accusations and recriminations

Contents: Climate change activists struggle to replace US climate change money; China backs out of its climate change commitments with ‘bifurcation’

Contents: Turkey tightens grip on Syria’s Afrin, and continues to threaten Manbij; Israel-Iran missile barrages in Syria take a pause on Thursday

Contents: Killing of two priests escalates farmer-herder conflict in Benue State, Nigeria; News of revenge attacks by farmers criticized as fake news; Israel, Iran and Syria exchange fire in first direct military confrontation

Contents: Brexit negotiations in crisis as deadlines approach with no agreements; Theresa May’s two delusional proposals – Customs Partnership and Maximum Facilitation

Contents: Cambodia’s dictatorial Hun Sen forces sale of independent Phnom Penh Post; Phnom Penh Post had a combative relationship with Hun Sen

Contents: Pakistan’s interior minister shot by member of loony anti-blasphemy Barelvi sect; Barelvi sect and Tehreek-e-Labaik political party surge in popularity

Contents: Muslim vs Catholic violence surges again in CAR capital city Bangui; Angry protesters bring corpses to MINUSCA headquarters in Bangui; The self-defense group ‘The Force’ gets revenge; Central African Republic crisis civil war continues

Contents: Residents of Yemen’s Socotra island protest UAE military deployment; Rift grows between Saudi Arabia and UAE in Yemen

China deploys cruise and surface-to-air missiles in South China Sea; China’s military attacks US pilots in Djibouti with high-grade blinding lasers

Contents: Armenia’s parliament refuses to support popular opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan; Nikol Pashinyan pledges loyalty to Russia, and everyone else; Armenia in a generational Awakening era

Contents: Nine journalists killed by suicide bombers in Kabul Afghanistan; The Taliban announces the Spring fighting season, codename Al Khandaq; Analysts guess at why Afghanistan’s security situation keeps deteriorating

Contents: Pakistan’s anti-American ‘hope and change’ candidate Imran Khan runs again; Imran Khan threatens an anti-American and pro-Chinese agenda

Contents: Thousands of ethnic Kachins flee from violence by Burma (Myanmar) army; Burma (Myanmar) appears to be entering a full-scale crisis civil war

Contents: Kazakhstan to permit America to use Caspian ports to supply military in Afghanistan; Russia moves to increase dominance over Caspian Sea

Contents: North-South Korea summit begins; Chinese scientists conclude that North Korea’s nuclear test site has become dangerous and unstable; North Korea’s negotiating position collapses, along with Mount Mantap; The politics of the collapse of Mount Mantap

Contents: Armenia’s protesters continue protesting after forcing resignation of prime minister; Fears grow that Armenia’s instability will spill over into Russia; Armenian political chaos follows the path of America in the 1960s

Contents: DR Congo’s Joseph Kabila attacks Catholic Church opposition violently; Burundi’s Nkurunziza uses violence on opposition to his May 17 referendum

Suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills over 50 registering to vote; ISIS Khorasan (ISIS-K) becomes more prominent in South Asia

Contents: North Korea promised to denuclearize in 2008, and proved its sincerity; North Korea suspends all nuclear, missile tests, shuts down nuclear test site

Contents: Socialist Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA oil company near total collapse; Will China or Russia save Venezuela?

Contents: Cuba’s new president Miguel Díaz-Canel makes delusional promise to continue Socialist revolution; The Socialist delusion in Cuba; Cuba’s faltering economy and the dual currency problem

Contents: Al-Qaeda linked JNIM attacks two peacekeeper camps in Timbuktu, Mali; Canada debates whether there’s any point to a peacekeeping force; Thousands of Mali refugees flee into Burkina Faso to escape ethnic violence

Contents: Leader of Armenia’s ‘non-violent velvet revolution’ threatens to paralyze the country; Brief generational history of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan

Contents: Russia ties itself in knots diplomatically over Syria chemical attack; Syria blocks OPCW inspectors from visiting site of chemical attack; As Syria’s al-Assad attacks Idlib, he may consider chemical weapons essential; Syria TV says that its Shayrat airbase has been attacked by missiles

Contents: Israel’s top court orders 207 African migrants to be released from jail; Uganda first agrees to accept Israel’s African migrants, then backs down

Contents: American, British, French attack on Syria signals sharp change in Western policy; Britain publishes its legal justification for military action; Iran, Hezbollah and Syria threaten retaliation against Israel

Contents: UN says DR Congo humanitarian crisis at highest emergency level; DR Congo boycotts its own international humanitarian conference for DR Congo; U.S., France, Britain launch Syria attack in retaliation for al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons

Contents: Japan finds ‘semi-infinite supply’ of rare earth minerals in its territorial waters; Japan’s rare earths discovery represents a defeat for China