War

According to a new report from Yahoo News, North Korea has stated both South Korea’s president and her U.S. allies will suffer a “miserable end”: Pyongyang declared it would wage a “retaliatory battle of justice” against Park Geun-Hye, with its artillery units standing ready to turn her office into a “sea of flames and ashes”. “What the DPRK warns is not hot air. It will be clearly proved by the miserable end the US and the Park group will meet while going reckless,” said the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK), using the formal name for North Korea.

A top Kurdish commander says that the impending battle to liberate Mosul in northern Iraq from Islamic State forces could turn into a bloodbath. Polad Jangi Talabani says that sectarian disputes between Iraqi Arab Muslims needs to be settled somewhat before considering attacking Mosul that has been under Islamic State control since 10th June 2014. ISIL militants easily took over major parts of Iraq mainly due to the tension that exists between Sunnis and Shiites since the removal of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

The Paris attacks occurred shortly after France announced that they intended to officially recognize Palestine as its own sovereign state. Netanyahu had ominously warned France that they were making a “grave mistake” in making their decision shortly before the Charlie Hebdo attacks and Paris shootings in the months following. Is it a coincidence that Brussels has become the latest victim of a terrorist attack by ISIS militants shortly before their parliament was also due to vote on whether or not to officially recognise Palestine?

The “war on drugs” is actually a way for the federal government to target “black people”, a former Nixon White House adviser admitted a few years ago.  John Ehrlichman, who acted as counsel to former President Richard Nixon, explained the unfortunate use of the policy in a new article for Harper’s: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying”.

Following on from Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels that killed at least 34 people, authorities in the country may regret a commercial released two months ago in which they ridiculed the idea that the city was a hotbed for ‘Islamic radicalism’.  In January the city’s tourism department, VisitBrussels, unveiled a #CallBrussels campaign – reassuring tourists that Brussels was a safe place to visit even though the city housed terrorists linked to the Paris Attacks.