An Israeli missile strike on Saturday reportedly killed five in a Hezbollah and Iranian convoy. Antiwar.com reported that the strike hit a Damascus suburb and the artillery used was believed to be surface-to-air missiles. Tel Aviv did not comment on reports of the strike. SANA, Syria’s state news agency, reported that the Syrian air defenses shot...
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ETHIOPIA WAR DISASTER WORSENS
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took to Facebook on Sunday to appeal to his countrymen to take up arms to thwart the military offensive by Tigrayan forces in the northern region of the country. Abiy, the former Nobel Peace Prize winner who went to war with Tigray after a local election during the COVID-19 outbreak,...
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DUH! PENTAGON SURPRISED BY CHINA’S TEST OF HYPERSONIC MISSILE
Yes, America’s Pentagon. The “brilliant” leaders of America’s Military Industrial Complex who, as we keep reporting, have an unblemished post World War II track record of costly, deadly military failures were blindsided by China’s military advancements we have long been forecasting. Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley said...
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TOP U.S. OFFICIAL ‘ROCK SOLID’ BS: PROMISES TO DEFEND TAIWAN
Sandra Oudkirk, the de facto head of the U.S. embassy in Taipei, continued to stress Washington’s commitment to defending Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion and said the relationship is “rock solid.” Oudkirk, the head of the American Institute in Taiwan, issued the phrase that has been uttered by many officials in President...
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REFUGEE CRISIS WORSENING: POLAND TO DEPLOY ADDITIONAL 10,000 TROOPS AT BORDER
Another strain in the relationship between Poland and the EU has been Warsaw’s approach to handling the migrant crisis along its eastern border with Belarus. Poland has been accused of taking a “heavy-handed” approach to the crisis, by erecting a barbed wire fence and has been accused by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
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POLAND’S LINK WITH EU WORSENS. POLEXIT NEXT?
It was to be the court ruling heard across Europe. Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal earlier this month ruled that a portion of the EU treaty law—which is the law of the land in Europe—is “incompatible with the Polish constitution” and the country’s constitution should take precedence. (SEE: “POLEXIT PROTESTS IN POLAND: ‘EXIT THE EU’ TREND GROWING”...
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U.S. INTELLIGENCE? AN OXYMORON! NO “INTELLIGENCE” IN AFGHAN FORECAST
No top U.S. intelligence agency predicted that the Taliban would take over Kabul with such ease and before troops were withdrawn from the country in August, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal, which obtained a review of the classified assessments, reported that there was a general consensus that the Taliban were on the...
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HEALTHCARE WORKERS SAY “TAKE THIS JOB—AND JAB—AND SHOVE IT!”
An article appearing on 23 October in The Wall Street Journal deals with a topic repeatedly addressed in Trends Journal: that healthcare workers will choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19, often at the cost of their jobs; see, for example, “MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WOULD QUIT THEIR JOBS THAN TAKE THE JAB. WILL THEY BACK...
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ISRAEL TO ATTACK IRAN? WASHINGTON GIVES THE GREEN LIGHT TO THE ‘MILITARY OPTION’
By Philip Giraldi, PhD, Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest Some might recall candidate Joe Biden’s pledge to work to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which was a multilateral agreement intended to limit Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. The JCPOA was signed by President Barack Obama in...
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JUDGE PROTECTS SEEKERS OF RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION TO VAX MANDATE
The Epoch Times reports, on 29 October, that civilians and military personnel who have filed suit for religious exemptions from Pres. Biden’s vaccine mandates are now protected by a restraining order and temporary injunction issued on 28 October by federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Bill Clinton appointee. The judge’s ruling prevents those plaintiffs from...