Although ISIS releases nearly 40 pieces of propaganda each and every day via the group’s sprawling network of production units located in at least a dozen countries, one person you don’t hear from very often is TIME magazine’s runner-up for “person of the year”, Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Submitted by Daniel Spaulding via 21stCenturyWine.com,
In American politics the nation of Russia, especially as personified in its leader Vladimir Putin, becomes all things to all men.
Submitted by Dmitry Orlov via ClubOrlov.com, (author of The Five Stages Of Collapse)
Back in September, we noted that the US was set to send 20 new nuclear bombs to Germany each of which has four times the destructive power of the explosive dropped on Hiroshima.
“[These] new attack options against Russia” constitute “a conscious provocation of [Germany’s] Russian neighbors,” one member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats warned. Sergei Lavrov’s de facto number-two, Maria Zakharova said the move represented an “infringement of Articles 1 and 2 of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
The fight to check the spread of Islamic State in Afghanistan is making for some strange bedfellows.