Politics

Turkish President Erdogan has issued an angry warning to Germany, saying that if they dare to recognise the Armenian genocide, Turkey will cut off diplomatic ties with the country.  Following the Berlin vote to officially recognise the mass-killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces in the First World War as an “act of genocide,” Erdogan hit back by delivering a furious televised speech in Turkey. Alaraby.co.uk reports: Turkey would never accept the charge that Ottoman troops were guilty of “genocide”, he said.

Assad’s military forces have entered the province of Raqqa in order to confront ISIS for the first time since 2014.  Syrian regime forces alongside Russian forces have entered Raqqa with the aim of eliminating ISIS’ Syrian headquarters and regaining control of the area. Speisa.com reports: On Saturday, Bashar al-Assad’s army entered into the province of Raqqa for the first time since IS conquered large areas of northern Syria in 2014, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) today.

While the US political and financial establishment has been firmly opposed to a Trump presidency, an unexpected supporter for the presumptive GOP candidate has emerged in Russia, where the head of the Russian Upper House Committee for Foreign Relations, Konstantin Kosachev, said that a victory for Donald Trump in the US presidential elections would provide the "shake up" Washington needs and could be the catalyst to reverse the rapidly deteriorating trend in US-Russian relations.

With the most ironically perfect timing this week, President Obama "umm'd", "ahh'd", and "if'd" in a stuttering mess during his veiled denunciation of Donald Trump stump speech for Hillary Clinton, when horror of all horrors - his teleprompter froze...

Enjoy what could be the strangest public appearance yet for President Obama...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSxo9-Z5Ki0

It's no secret that the United States Spends more on its military than any other country in the world by far. To help understand the context of just how massive the the US spending is, the following video from howmuch.net shows each country's share of of total military spending for the last 25 years (1990-2015).