Politics

Women around the globe have been taking to the streets today in protest against the new US president Donald Trump. In Washington DC, half a million people have been turning out to stand up for gender equality, healthcare for women and other issues thought to be threatened under Trump’s presidency. In London, thousands marched from the US embassy on Grosvenor Square to Trafalgar Square in a stand united against Trump. Demonstrators have even be marching against him in Antarctica. BREAKING: Antarctica announces #womensmarch, expanding the movement to 7 continents!

India is about to deploy almost 500 main battle tanks (MBTs) along its Western and Northern borders with Pakistan. The move substantially increases a large tank force that is already there and according to analysts could be an indication that India is preparing to activate its ‘Cold Start’ doctrine if required. Pakistan has already vowed that it would use all the weapons at its disposal to defend it’s country, including nuclear weapons.

A secret 1983 CIA intelligence report suggested that the US should encourage Saddam Hussein to attack Syria to secure Iraq’s oil pipeline Hafez al-Assad had closed Iraq’s oil pipeline and as a result had a ‘hammerlock’ on US interests in both Lebanon and in the Gulf The report by ex- CIA official Graham Fuller, said that America should consider ‘urging Iraq to take the war to Syria’, noting that Saddam was ‘fighting for his life’ in the Iran-Iraq war.

Following German media's outcry that "the demons have been unchained", Asian media decried President Trump's isolationist policies, fearing they will chill the global economy and sow widespread international discord, as "the reality show has become reality," warning the world was now in "unpredictable territory... spreading unease, division, and conflict throughout the world."

While perhaps not as entirely hysterical as German media's 'opinion'...

Drone king Barack Obama took a final jab at Russia before leaving office. During his last press conference on Wednesday, Barack Obama, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, said that the United States must stand up for the principle that “big countries don’t go around and invade and bully smaller countries.“ Obama was referring to Russia, after the they came to defend Crimea and Ukraine following a US-led color revolution.