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  US President Barack Obama has admitted that Washington’s reliance on drones has its negative sides. Obama was asked about whether US drone warfare could be a Pandora’s box in an interview with CNN on December 7, 2016. “I recognize the danger of a… war from a distance that starts looking like a…
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  On December 13, 2016, Gates compared Trump to JFK on CNBC’s Squawk Box, saying that Trump has an opportunity to establish “American leadership through innovation.” While he didn’t outright say Trump would suffer the same fate as the late President, his decision to compare him to a man who is most…
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Washington’s pursuit of hegemony has fallen short of its goal, causing havoc and collapse of states, Bashar Assad said in an interview. Syria’s head believes that US meddling in the conflict aims to “save what is left” from its fading global preeminence. In an interview to Iranian magazine…
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…saying Washington is to blame if its policies end in failure in the Arab state “Nobody officially invited the United States to Syria. And if their mission fails, that will be their own fault” Czech President said in an interview with local media, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported on…
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  A contractor working for the National Security Agency (NSA) was arrested by the FBI following his alleged theft of “state secrets”. More specifically, the contractor, Harold Thomas Martin, is charged with stealing highly classified source codes developed to covertly hack the networks of foreign governments,…
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Reykjavik’s city council voted to ban Israeli goods in a symbolic gesture to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The city council of Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital, has voted to ban all Israeli-made goods in protest of the continuing “occupation of Palestinian…
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  At the end of September 2016, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani has criticized the US for providing various terrorist groups with political and military support, saying the foreign-backed crisis in Syria would be solved only through intra-Syrian talks. “The only…
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  Miami Beach citizens have confronted city authorities over the aerial spraying of a toxic substance intended to kill disease-carrying mosquitos in an effort to stop the spread of the Zika virus.The number of mosquito-borne Zika infections in and around Miami Beach has been on the rise, resulting in county…
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  Fear of hackers reading private emails in cloud-based systems like Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or Yahoo has recently sent regular people and public officials scrambling to delete entire accounts full of messages dating back years. What we don’t expect is our own (US) government to hack our email – but…
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  Over one million people took to the streets in France this June (2016) in protest against an ever-increasing totalitarian French government, in some of the largest anti-government protests the country has ever seen.     On Tuesday June 14, witnesses described “war zone”…
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