War

US Vice President Joe Biden said that Washington recognizes the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is as much of a threat to Turkey as ISIS. Speaking alongside the Turkish prime minister during a press conference in Istanbul, Biden voiced his support for a Turkish crackdown, saying Kurdish militants and IS are ‘terror groups plain and simple’ He told reporters that ISIS was “not the only existential threat to the people of Turkey, the PKK is equally a threat and we are aware of that” Turkey has however been criticised over its campaign against Kurdish militants.

A U.S. professor has claimed that China is ready to deliver a nuclear strike on U.S. territory at any moment.  Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor in the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College, says that the Chinese Navy is being set-up in order to launch a nuclear strike against America. Pravdareport.com reports: One particular graphic of the Chinese ballistic missile strikes by nuclear-armed rockets against the United States, published in the Naval & Merchant Ships counts for a lot!

Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared his support for establishing a Palestinian state, saying that the Palestinian capital should reside in east Jerusalem – an area within the pre-1967-war borders.  Jinping, addressing the Cairo-based Arab League, said that the Palestinian problem “should not be marginalized”. In a speech designed to assert China’s political clout in the Middle East, the Chinese leader said: “China supports the peaceful process in the Middle East [and] the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital being eastern Jerusalem“.

Guantanamo Bay guards have accused the CIA of killing three prisoners at the notorious U.S. military detention camp in Cuba. Sergeant Joseph Hickman, a former guard, tells Radio Sputnik that the government’s version of the deaths of three Gitmo detainees who were found hanged in their cells in 2006 is not the true story. Sputnik reports: On the night of June 9, 2006, Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani were found dead inside their detention block at Guantanamo Bay.

Earlier this week, we documented the riots that took place in tiny Heesch where 1,000 Dutch protesters took to the streets to demonstrate their extreme displeasure at the town’s decision to settle some 500 refugees.