John J. Xenakis - Page 13

Contents: Trump imposes unilateral financial sanctions on North Korea; Sanctions fall far short of military blockade first proposed; North Korea threatens a ‘Pacific Ocean nuclear test’

Contents: With Trump’s sanctions in place, Venezuela expected to go bankrupt soon; Analyst advises Venezuela to keep its assets safe from creditors; Maduro tells Venezuelans to breed and eat rabbits

Contents: Next, Turkey will teach that the sun orbits around the earth; Stanislav Petrov, “The man who saved the world,” dies at age 77

Contents: The huge Equifax data breach puts makes many people vulnerable to identity theft; Steps you should consider taking to protect yourself; Equifax and the rise of Generation-X; Release of DOJ memo reveals massive criminal fraud by JP Morgan in financial crisis

Contents: Hamas announces it will reconcile with the Fatah and Palestinian Authority; Egypt forces Hamas to capitulate to Fatah and reconcile.

Contents: Burma’s (Myanmar’s) ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas leading to humanitarian catastrophe; at press conference, Boris Johnson and Rex Tillerson make delusional statements; Rohingya genocide forces India to choose between Burma and Bangladesh; North Korea fires another ballistic missile over Japan

Contents: China kidnaps and tortures Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che for sham confession; Kidnapping and sham trial of Lee Ming-che brings China-Taiwan relations to another low.

Contents: Students at Pakistan’s prestigious Karachi University implicated in terrorism; Pakistan says that there is ‘no terrorist wing at Karachi University’

Contents: The colorful Mikhail Saakashvili ‘invades’ Ukraine from Poland and threatens revolution; Saakashvili to ‘march on Kiev’ and challenge Poroshenko government

Contents: China demands that Indonesia end plans to rename its own territorial waters; Indonesia blocks China’s repeated attempts to annex Indonesia’s Natuna Islands

Contents: Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi under fire for allowing Rohingya ethnic cleansing; BBC reporter Jonathan Head returns from Burma’s government-controlled visit; Generational explanation for Burma’s genocide and ethnic cleansing; The future of Burma and the Rohingyas

Contents: UN report confirms al-Assad’s massive Sarin gas attack on April 4; Israeli warplanes strike Syrian chemical weapons site in Masyaf

Contents: UN: Burundi’s Hutu government attacks on Tutsis are crimes against humanity; Violence by the Imbonerakure, Nkurunziza’s ‘visionary’ youth wing

Contents: Putin says that North Korea would rather ‘eat grass’ than end its nuclear program; North Korea threatens the United States with ‘gift packages’

Contents: America’s UN ambassador Nikki Haley says North Korea is ‘begging for war’; China’s UN ambassador Liu Jieyi responds to Haley; Trump approves more powerful weapons sales to South Korea

Contents: Will we have to accept a world in which North Korea is a nuclear power?; World leaders express outrage and call nuclear test ‘unacceptable’; Will the United States take some military action against North Korea?

Contents: Floods in South Asia kill 1,400 people in four countries; Kenya’s president Kenyatta lashes out as Supreme Court judges as ‘crooks’; Burmese Buddhist attacks on Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar becoming full-scale genocide

Contents: Kenya’s Supreme Court issues ‘historic’ ruling, overturning presidential election; John Kerry and other election observers come under harsh criticism

Contents: Vietnam protests China’s military drills near the Gulf of Tonkin in South China Sea; India and Vietnam become allies in confronting China

Contents: Anti-government tensions grow in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions; Violence grows as Cameroon cracks down on Anglophone activists; Cameroon will use police and soldiers to force children to go to school.

Contents: Britain’s Labor party makes dramatic U-turn on Brexit policy proposals; UK’s Tory government struggles with Brexit policy positions; Ireland calls Theresa May’s Irish border proposal ‘delusional’

Contents: China and India announce pullback agreement on Doklam Plateau; Many unanswered questions about the China-India Doklam agreement; North Korea launches ballistic missile into Japan’s airspace

Contents: Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar/Burma escalates dramatically; Rise of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) militant insurgency

UAE reacts furiously to Qatar’s restoring diplomatic relations with Iran; As Hajj approaches, Iran and Qatar remain in dispute with Saudi Arabia

Contents: Thailand’s former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra flees to Dubai; Collapse of Thailand’s democracy; Brief generational history of Thailand

Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron accuses EU countries of ‘social and fiscal dumping’; Britain sees a big fall in net migration since Brexit vote

Contents: Afghan and Eritrean migrants clash at site of ‘Jungle’ in Calais France; Authorities fear that a new ‘Jungle’ is forming in Calais France

Contents: Philippines maid Lorain Asuncion employed in Hong Kong killed in mainland city; Demand for Filipina maids creates thriving black market in China; Hong Kong cracks down hard on illegal foreign workers

Contents: Done with Mosul, Iraqi forces begin operation to eject ISIS from Tal Afar; Turkey warns of sectarian war following battle of Tal Afar; President Trump to announce US strategy in Afghanistan

Contents: Chinese vessels massing near Philippines island in South China Sea; Official warns may be necessary to invoke US-Philippines mutual defense treaty

Contents: Erdogan tells Turks living in Germany not to vote for Angela Merkel; Germany accuses Erdogan of extortion by ‘hostage diplomacy’

Contents: Barcelona attackers apparently had multiple coordinated attacks planned; ISIS takes credit for the Barcelona attack; White House officials appear to differ on North Korea military option

Contents: China opens a new front in its border war with India; Survey of Bhutan’s people shows high anxiety over border confrontation; North Korea apparently backs down from the threat to attack Guam

Contents: Jihadists attack multiple targets in Mali and Burkina Faso; France calls for international peacekeeping in G5 Sahel force

Contents: Pakistan celebrates its 70th birthday, wondering what Pakistan is; Generational history of the 1947 Partition War that created Pakistan and India

Contents: Kenya’s election commission announces that Uhuru Kenyatta is reelected president; Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga promises to ‘remove’ the Uhuru Kenyatta government