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2024-03-19T00:33:32+01:00text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netIraq’s President Salih holds talks with US Ambassador
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8-25-22 Iraqi President Barham Salih on Wednesday met with US Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski in Baghdad. According to a statement by the Iraqi presidency bilateral relations and regional developments were on the agenda, as well as fighting terrorism and mitigating the effects of climate change in a region hard hit by changes in the environment. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The meeting comes amidst one of the worst political crises in Iraq in recent years, after influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr won the largest share of seats in the October vote but failed to form a majority government. On Tuesday, hundreds of his supporters rallied in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, demanding the dissolution of parliament and early elections.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netBahrain, Jordan foreign ministers meet in Amman
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netTurkey’s banks are adopting Russian payments system: Erdogan
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8-6-22 Five Turkish banks have adopted Russia’s Mir payments system, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his return from talks with President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. There are serious developments regarding the work that Turkish banks are doing on Russia’s Mir card, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency cited Erdogan as saying on the plane. That’s a relief for both Russian tourists and Turkey, he told reporters. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Payment in rubles will be a source of financial support for both Russia and Turkey, he said, adding the central bank governors of the two countries also met during the visit.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netIsrael to sell Haifa Port to India’s Adani Ports, Gadot group for $1.2 billion
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netSORCHA FAAL: Decisive Russian Break With West Obliterates Socialist-Globalist World Order
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netGermany asks Turkey to refrain from provoking Greece, Ankara condemns Scholz’s stance
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6-1-22 Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Turkey to refrain from provoking Greece, a statement which Ankara condemned. A German government spokesman said on Wednesday: “The chancellor is of the opinion that, given the current situation, it is necessary for all NATO allies to stand together and refrain from provocations among themselves.” “Invading Greek airspace and flying over Greek islands is not okay, it seems counterproductive and against the spirit of the alliance,” the spokesman added. “We cannot accept the questioning of the sovereignty of member states of the European Union.” For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netChile Bans ‘Discrimination Against Mutants and Genetically Altered People’
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5-1222 No longer sci-fi speculation, the transhuman revolution is real; it’s here; it’s unfolding in real time. Man’s transformation into machine – or at least something not entirely human — will accelerate rapidly in the coming decades. The next milestone on the road to transhuman techno-hell is a most unorthodox piece of legislation in Chile – which, along with Argentina, is the global corporate technocracy’s beachhead on the South American continent. The new law “bans discrimination against mutants and genetically altered people“: “Law No. 21.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netAustria Hiring People to “Hunt Down Vaccine Refusers”
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12-21-21 The Austrian government is hiring people to “hunt down vaccine refusers,” according to a report published by Blick. Yes, really. The burden for enforcing the fines unjabbed Austrians will have to pay as part of their punishment will fall to their employers, necessitating a new army of ‘inspectors’ to ensure that process is running smoothly. The city of Linz, which is home to 200,000 inhabitants, has a relatively low vaccination rate of 63 per cent. In response, “Linz now wants to hire people who are supposed to hunt down vaccine refusers,” reports Swiss news outlet Blick.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netSOTN: “Knight’s Move”: A Secret Intelligence Operation to Return Nikola Gruevski to North Macedonia and the Overthrow of the Ruling Political Caste
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netSweden Goes From Being One of the Safest Countries in Europe to the Second Most Dangerous
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5-26-21 A new investigation finds that Sweden has gone from being one of the safest European countries 20 years ago in terms of gun crime to the second most dangerous. The study, published by the country’s National Council on Crime Prevention (Brå), reveals that Sweden is the only country on the continent where shootings have increased substantially since the start of the century. “Most of the fatal shootings in Sweden (around 80 percent) had a link to organised crime, according to the study, a proportion which had risen from 30 to 50 percent in the early 2000s and less than 20 percent in the 1990s. Brå also compared the proportion to other countries: around 60 percent of fatal shootings were linked to organised crime in the Netherlands, while in Finland such events were extremely rare,” reports The Local. After having been ranked 18th out of 22 countries for gun crime from 2000 to 2003, Sweden now ranks in second place, behind only Croatia.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.net‘Game Is Not Over’: Emily Lau Says of HongKongers’ Fight for Democracy
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5--17-21 In Hong Kong, the struggle for democracy and freedom will continue despite the local government’s crackdown on opposition figures, activists, and press freedom, said Hong Kong’s “Iron Lady” Emily Lau. “I can tell you the game is not over. We will continue to struggle to defend our free lifestyle and our freedoms but in a peaceful and non-violent way,” Lau said in a recent interview on The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program. Hong Kong, a former British colony, has seen a drastic deterioration of press and other freedom as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has tightened its grip over the city. According to Washington-based nonprofit Freedom House, Hong Kong saw its score for civil liberties dropped from 45 in 2017 to 37 this year.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netThe Biden Admin Claims Trump Placed Improper Sanctions on Iran Yet They Can’t Name A Single One
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April 23, 2021 The Biden administration made serious allegations against the Trump administration claiming it imposes improper sanctions on Iran. The Biden administration alleged that Trump placed sanctions on Iran for terrorism but the real reason was to make it harder for future administrations to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. However, when Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked State Department official Ned Price to name one example of an improperly placed sanction by Trump he could not name a single one. The reporter asked Price eight times to name a sanction by the Trump administration that was dubiously placed on Iran. The Daily Wire reports: “Yesterday, a senior State Department official talked about this administration’s belief that the previous administration had disingenuously or improperly imposed sanctions on Iran for terrorism, ostensibly for terrorism reasons, but they were really designed to make it harder for any future administration to return to the nuclear deal,” Lee said.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netTaiwan Vows to “Open Fire” on Chinese Drones Swarming Its Islands
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4-10-21 Taiwan and China have heated relations and have had for a long time but since Joe Biden came on the scene China is bolder and is even sending drones over the country of Taiwan. In response, Taiwan says they are going to shoot down the drones. The American Military News reported a couple of days ago: Taiwan said Wednesday that it is willing to shoot down Chinese drones that have been flying near Taiwan-occupied Pratas Island in the South China Sea, a response to what analysts view as the latest pressure tactic from Beijing. Ocean Affairs Council Chair Lee Chung-wei told Taiwan’s legislature that the Taiwanese coastguard had recently identified Chinese unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating near Pratas, which sits about 170 nautical miles to the southeast of Hong Kong in the northern part of the South China Sea. TRENDING: HUGE NEWS: Attorney Matthew DePerno Releases Michigan Elections Forensics Report - 66,194 Unregistered Ballots Tallied in JUST 9 COUNTIES Lee indicated that Taiwanese forces would open fire on UAVs that fly over the island, which is also claimed by the People’s Republic of China.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netSecretly, Biden’s Foreign Policies Are Trump’s Foreign Policies
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2-24-21 Biden’s foreign policies are putting Democratic Party lipstick onto the Republican Party’s pig. That’s his ‘change’, on U.S. foreign policies. Though U.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netMyanmar coup removes central bank chief, alarming global financiers
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2-14-21 Bank of Japan concerned that years of cooperation risk turning backward TOKYO -- As news of the military coup in Myanmar reached the halls of the Bank of Japan, staff raced to gather information about the ongoing developments. "They have apparently kicked out the central bank governor as well." The shocking news was passed up the command chain at the head office in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. On Feb.1, Myanmar's military took control of the country's administrative, legislative and judicial branches, detaining de facto leader State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and several other democratically elected officials.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netMyanmars military leader Min Aung Hlaing says that the military had to intervent
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2-10-21 [Forwarded from US Military Voice] [ Video ] BREAKING: Myanmars military leader Min Aung Hlaing says that the military had to intervent to end up an Goverment that tookover by an election fraud. Soon the military will assure a real democratic election procedere again and eleminate the foreign forces that are manipulating the democracy not only in Myanmar but also globally as the 2020 US election had proven! 🇺🇸 t.me/USmilitaryVoice SEE VIDEO: /resources/uploads/files/Myanmars military leader Min Aung Hlaing.MP4text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netIMF SENT 350 MILLION IN CASH TO MYANMAR DAYS BEFORE MILILTARY TAKEOVER, REPORT SAYS
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netFULL TEXT: STATEMENT FROM MYANMAR MILITARY ON STATE OF EMERGENCY
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netBREAKING: Burmese Military Arrests Country’s Leaders For Alleged Election Fraud
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1-31-21 The election commission had refused to probe substantial evidence of vote fraud in the November 2020 election. Share on FacebookShare on Twitter The leaders of the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar have been arrested by the nation’s military for allegedly committing massive vote fraud during the November 2020 elections. Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint were both arrested in morning raids on Monday by the nation’s armed forces, after widespread allegations that they had committed election fraud. The official results of the November election in Myanmar, also known as Burma, showed a victory for the liberal National League for Democracy (NLD), which is led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The conservative nationalist Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which is supported by many members of the country’s military, lost several seats.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netJUST IN - Explosion in Madrid. The shock has been felt throughout the city. Emergency services have arrived.
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1-20-21 JUST IN - Explosion in Madrid. The shock has been felt throughout the city. Emergency services have arrived. SEE VIDEO: https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1351894738895568898 text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netNew Trade Zone in Asia-Pacific Could Ensure Chinese Global Leadership
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11-16-20 On November 15th, 15 nations in Asia-Pacific, after eight years of negotiations, sealed the largest trade agreement in the world, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). China is part of this new association, which surprises experts for its dimensions: the agreement will not only create the largest free trade area in the world, but will also cover 30% of the world’s GDP and a third of the world’s population. Several world powers are part of the new bloc, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand – however, the Chinese presence is the most notorious. In fact, the success in the celebration of the RCEP is the result of long and detailed negotiations, which lasted almost a decade and were able to ..text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netThe US Alliance with India: Bipartisan Issue of Strategic Importance
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10-31-20 The US’ alliance with India will remain a mainstay of its grand strategy regardless of who wins next week’s elections since it’s a bipartisan issue of the highest importance for its permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”). *** The US-Indian Alliance Analysts are scrambling to speculate the possible foreign policy changes that a Biden presidency might bring if he wins next week’s election, but one aspect of American grand strategy that isn’t likely to change is the US’ alliance with India. The two Great Powers formalized their military partnership earlier this week with the signing of the “Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement” (BECA), the third so-called “foundational pact” after the “Logistics Exchange Memorandum Of Agreement” (LEMOA) and “Communication Compatibility and Security Agreement” (COMCASA) which collectively improve these countries’ military interoperability. Neither side hides their shared anti-Chinese intentions either, as the author explained at length in his September analysis about how..text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netTrump announces peace deal between Sudan and Israel, says more nations will normalize relations
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10-24-20 President Trump on Friday announced a peace deal that would normalize ties with between Israel and Sudan, claiming there "would be many more peace deals to come in the Middle East." Trump invited reporters into the Oval Office while he was on the phone with the leaders of Israel and Sudan to discuss the latest U.S.-brokered deal in the run-up to Election Day. "Three months ago, no one thought this was possible.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netTrump Announces HUGE Foreign Policy Victory
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October 23, 2020 President Trump made the groundbreaking announcement that Sudan will become the third Arab state to normalize ties with Israel, joining with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The historic deal brokered in the run-up to election day will help deepen ties with the United States. Trump’s announcement follows his conditional agreement to remove the nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if Sudan agrees to pay compensation to the American victims of terror attacks. In a report from Fox News: It also delivers a foreign policy achievement for Trump just days before the U.S.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netPoland Strikes $18 Billion Nuclear Power Deal With US
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10-21-20 The United States and Poland closed a nuclear power deal potentially worth $18 billion as the Central European country seeks to reduce its reliance on coal and Russian natural gas. While the deal is not yet final, there is a pretty good chance that Warsaw will pick the U.S. over its main competitors on the international nuclear energy scene, namely China and Russia. “We are hopeful that the ultimate decisions that are made by Poland .text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netChinese Regime Presents ‘Urgent Threat’ to Institutions and Freedoms in the West: Canadian MP Garnett Genuis
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10-10-20 The gravest security threat the free world faces is ongoing efforts by the Chinese regime and other non-state actors to influence elites and take over control of democratic institutions for their own purposes, says Canadian MP Garnett Genuis. “It is a real and pressing and urgent threat to our way of life when our municipalities, our universities, private companies, community organizations, and political parties can be co-opted and pushed and pulled to serve the interests of a foreign power—interests and values that are hostile to our own,” Genuis told Jan Jekielek on Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders. As the Conservative Party’s shadow minister for international development and human rights and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, Genuis says there’s a need for more awareness about the Chinese regime’s covert influence operations “in every country, at every level.” “There’s a need for a broader recognition of the risk… a recognition of the fact that elites at every level are subject to efforts at this kind of co-opting, whether it’s school boards, small town mayors, university presidents, individual members of parliament—there’s a lot of attempt at this kind of influence,” he said. “It’s so important for people in the free world, in every country at every level, to develop greater awareness about this.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netCuba Says: Doctors, Not Bombs
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10-7-20 he World Peace Council formally registered the candidacy of Cuba’s Henry Reeve medical contingent for the Nobel Peace Prize In a letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the World Peace Council formally registered the candidacy of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics for the Nobel Peace Prize. Emphasizing the great challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has meant for humanity, and the essential role international solidarity plays in aiding those who suffer most during such emergencies, the letter draws attention to the work of the island’s health professionals, stating: “We see as the most sincere example of such international solidarity the work that the Cuban medical contingent “Henry Reeve” has been performing since much before the coronavirus outbreak was announced.” In listing the dozens of countries in different regions of the world that have been ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netSaudi Arabia Sees Oil At $50 Until 2023
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10-6-20 Saudi Arabia appears to be more upbeat about the immediate future of oil prices than fundamentals warrant, according to Goldman Sachs analysts. These have calculated that the Saudi budget plan is based on a Brent average of $50 a barrel between 2020 and 2023, according to Bloomberg. “Using our own estimates for the breakdown of government revenues, we calculate that the numbers presented in the budget statement are based on an average oil price of around $50 a barrel between 2020 and 2023,” one UK-based Goldman analyst told Bloomberg. However, even at $50 a barrel, which is far from certain, Brent would be cheaper than Saudi Arabia needs it to be to shrink its deficit. Even the Saudis themselves have acknowledged the effect the pandemic has had on their finances.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netArmenia "Ready" To Establish Ceasefire With Azerbaijan, Cites 'Proof' Of Turkish Jet Attacks
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10-3-20 Armenia said on Friday that it is ready to work towards a ceasefire in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, where the country has been battling with Azerbaijan since Sunday. Armenia’s foreign ministry said it “stands ready” to work with the US, France, and Russia “to re-establish a ceasefire regime.” The US, France, and Russia co-chair the Minsk Group, which was set up in 1992 by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote negotiations and peace talks over Nagorno-Karabakh. Soldiers of the pro-Armenian independent Karabakh Defense Army, AFP via Getty Turkey has been accused of intervening in the conflict on behalf of Azerbaijan. On Friday, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he has evidence of Turkish support.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netJapan After Abe Shinzo: Suga Has Inherited Abe’s “Beautiful Japan”. What Will Happen to It?
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9-28-20 On August 28, Abe Shinzo resigned from his eight year rule of Japan as prime minister to be succeeded by his former Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, who became the prime minister of Japan on September 16. The world is asking what will happen to Japan under Suga who has inherited the complex and challenging legacies of Abe. The most important legacy of Abe Shinzo is his dream of making Japan a “Beautiful Country”, which the majority of Japanese people seem to refuse. The beautiful country is what his grandfather Nobusuke Kishi tried to construct and he succeeded. Abe’s beautiful country is founded on racism and the authoritarian governance inherited from the pre-1945 era.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netMali Opens Its Doors to Russia
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0-25-20 With strict pressure from the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the August coup leaders have installed an interim government that will run state affairs until next elections. Plucked from obscurity, the former Defense Minister Bah Ndaw became the transitional President, while Colonel Assimi Goita serves as Vice President. The transitional committee made up of representatives of political parties, civil and religious groups agreed on both positions. According to their biographical reports, both had part of their professional military training in the Soviet Union and Russia respectively. The transitional civilian government, swearing-in ceremony and inauguration into office took place on Sept 25, completely closed the political chapter on the political administration of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netPutin Withdraws Russian Troops From Belarus Border After Uneventful Lukashenko Meeting
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9-15-20 We noted that during Monday's much anticipated meeting between embattled Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Putin in Sochi, the Russian leader appeared unmoved by Lukashenko's urging that the two countries prepare their armies to "resist" the external threat of NATO forces. Though Putin announced a $1.5 billion loan to Belarus, he made it clear that the smaller Russian neighbor which was formerly part of the Soviet Union would have to solve its own problems internally and in a “calm manner”. Underscoring that Kremlin focus appears to be moving away from any level of direct intervention, it has ordered national guard troops and police away from the border. Russian media showed live images of truckloads of the border security units returning to their regular bases on Tuesday morning.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netUS Judge Rules Saudi Royals Must Answer 9/11 Lawsuit Questions
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9-14-20 U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in a written ruling unsealed late Thursday ordered Saudi Arabia to make the royals — and other Saudi witnesses, including current and former government official — available for depositions. It was unclear how and when the witnesses will be deposed, but the decision means “we can start uncovering what they know,” plaintiff’s attorney Jim Kreindler said Friday. -AP Bandar (left) has been close to multiple US administrations One of the two ordered to give depositions is Prince Bandar bin Sultan - a former Saudi intelligence chief who was the kingdom's US ambassador from 1983 to 2005, according to court papers.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netAfghan Peace Talk Spoiler Bomb Fails To Kill Its Target
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9-10-20 On September 9 2001 two suicide bombers killed Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Resistance in Afghanistan. Massoud’s intelligence chief at that time was the CIA trained Amrullah Saleh. After the NATO invasion of Afghanistan Saleh became the head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security which was and is seen as CIA controlled. After leading the NDS for several years Saleh went into politics and founded his own party. During the last election cycle, which ended inconclusively, Saleh supported the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netAfghan Vice President Targeted in Roadside Bomb Attack, Survives Blast; 10 Others Killed
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9-9-20 KABUL—A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said. The attack killed at least 10 people. The Taliban denied involvement in the attack, which comes just ahead of long-awaited peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Qatar’s capital Doha...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netTurkey’s Erdogan: From Haga Sophia to the Shores of Tripoli and Beyond
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7-31-20 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has clearly decided to launch an offensive on multiple fronts, taking advantage of what he clearly perceives as a geopolitical vacuum. From his recent call to Islamic prayer at the Haga Sophia in Istanbul, to his breaking of the arms embargo to back the Tripoli regime against the advance of General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army in the East, from continuing military presence inside Syria to refusal to stop drilling for oil and gas in waters off Cyprus, as well as actions in Africa, Erdogan is clearly in an aggressive mode. Is there a larger strategy behind all this, far more than as a diversion from domestic Turkish economic problems? In recent weeks the Erdogan government has made aggressive moves on multiple fronts that have led many to question their overall aims. In Libya Turkey’s Erdogan has boldly..text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netElon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia
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7-31-20 On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second US “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk soon after, “You know what wasn’t in the best interest of people? The US government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you could obtain the lithium there.” Musk then wrote: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” Musk refers here to the coup against President Evo Morales Ayma, who was removed illegally from his office in November 2019. Morales had just won an election for a term that was to have begun in January 2020.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netPressure for Sanctions Against Turkey Increases as Tensions with Greece Grow
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7-27-20 Divided on how to deal with Turkey, some European leaders are calling for sanctions and others are calling for a reset in Euro-Turkish relations. French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, have been in a hurry in recent days to push for sanctions against Turkey because of its provocations against Greece and Cyprus. “Regarding the situation in the Mediterranean, we have all seen the military actions on the part of Turkey. We have also seen the decision on Hagia Sophia, which is an example of religious chauvinism. A symbol and monument of peace and reconciliation has now changed,” Weber said last Thursday.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netThe ‘Social Justice’ Crusading Companies Have Remained Silent on China’s Hong Kong Takeover
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July 17, 2020 Many American companies engage in a tactic known as virtue signaling, they put out big fluffy messages on social media but don’t do anything to address the issues they claim to care about. It is evident that they do not actually care about issues because now that the crackdown is in Hong Kong, a place where they operate they have chosen to say nothing and do nothing. Here are spineless companies who are all bark and no bite when it comes to the big issues: 1.) American Express American Express @AmericanExpress From intern to full-time, #TeamAmex colleague Daniela A. has seen first-hand how Amex embraces diversity.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netHong Kong Security Law Is Common Sense, Not Controversial
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6-17-20 China’s special administration region of Hong Kong saw the passing of a security law outlawing acts universally recognized as criminal and threats to any nation’s security and sovereignty. Despite what would appear to be common sense legislation, the Western media has cried “controversy.” While the West claims it fears curbs on freedoms inside China – it is becoming increasingly clear that the West’s real fears revolve around the “freedom” of its proxies and their attempts to maintain Hong Kong as a defacto Western foothold. British state media, the BBC in their article, “Hong Kong security law: What is it and is it worrying?,” would note: Hong Kong was always meant to have a security law, but ..text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netWorkers on the Edge in Bangladesh. Covid Lockdown Undermines Garment Industry
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6-36-30 The global COVID-19 response is shaking garment supply chains and changing how Canadian unions do solidarity with Bangladeshi workers. am speaking with Kalpona Akter, president of the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF). It is March 19. Governments around the world have ordered the temporary closure of retail outlets and other businesses, putting millions of people out of work. The shutdown in the West put immediate pressure on global supply chains, in particular for sectors like clothing.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netReport: New Iranian law will make country 'go back to pen and paper'
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Islamic regime bans Israeli technology June 8, 2020 Iran has been hit with new U.S. sanctions since President Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal arranged by Barack Obama that sent $1.7 billion in cash to the rogue Islamic regime. But it's not only the United States that is squeezing the nation's economy.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netChina “Optimistic” with regard to Post Coronavirus World and Relations with US
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5-30-20 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's press conference Listening to Mr. Wang was therefore a refreshing reminder that everything really isn’t as bad as Trump says that it is. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held an impressive press conference on Sunday where he answered questions about a wide variety of topics from the dozens of journalists that were present. The insight that he shared was a reassuring reminder that there exists an alternative to the US’ gloomy predictions about the future. American officials and opinion makers have painted a bleak picture of the post-coronavirus world, pushing the narrative that globalization is doomed and everything is in chaos.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netFirst of Five Iranian Tankers Docks in Venezuela Without Incident
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5-25-20 irst some facts about international maritime law. No nation may interfere in the right of other states to engage in international trade. No nation may enact legislation, regulations, or take other actions that contravene international agreements, treaties, or a body of customs that comprise the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). High seas interdiction of nonthreatening vessels is what piracy is all about. UNCLOS defines it as follows: “(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netRegime Change Back In Focus: Pompeo Targets Iran, Cuba & Venezuela In Epic Tweet Thread
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5-20-20 Given the very noticeable rise in threatening rhetoric focused on Iran over the past week, it seems thoughts of regime change in Tehran are once again top of the agenda. Or perhaps simultaneously the administration needs a significant distraction of sorts amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the persistent national reopening question and agenda. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went gloves off on Twitter, attacking Iran's 'Supreme Leader' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blasting him as “anti-Semitic”, “disgusting” and as someone representing “hate speech,” according to...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netThe Prospects of Russia and India Jointly Leading a New Non-Aligned Movement
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5-28-30 Abstract The ongoing global systemic transition is transforming international relations from its erstwhile unipolarity to what experts agree is either multipolarity or, less popularly, bipolarity. However one chooses to describe the present world order, it’s clear that the US and China are the main global players, which places Russia and India – decades-long strategic partners – in a junior position vis-a-vis both of them, especially their mutual Chinese neighbor with whom they share membership in BRICS and the SCO. The neorealist school of International Relations Theory preaches the need to pursue national interests, which sometimes align with others’, and it is argued in the...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netAUSTRALIAl GREASING THE REVOLVING DOOR: PALANTIR RECRUITS DOWN UNDER
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text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netGreece’s Renewed Relations with Syria Further Isolates Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean
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5-8-20 On Tuesday, the Greek Foreign Ministry finally announced a restoration of relations between Greece and Syria and assigned former ambassador to Syria and Russia, Tasia Athanassiou, as a Special Envoy of Greece’s Foreign Ministry for Syria. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias confirmed this from his Twitter. The appointment of Athanassiou is extremely strategic as she was Greece’s ambassador to Damascus from 2009 to 2012, meaning she is already familiar with Syria and their authorities. The Greek Foreign Ministry said that contacts will be made for the “international aspects of Syria and related humanitarian action, as well as coordination of..text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netAnti-Maduro Incursion Ends in Capture of Two Americans
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May 5, 2020 Kremlion.ru via Wikimedia Commons Venezuela’s besieged socialist President Nicolás Maduro has announced to the world that his security forces captured two U.S. citizens among a group of 13 “terrorists” after a failed raid. Officials in Caracas claimed the raid intended to capture the socialist leader.text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.fourwinds10.netHEZBOLLAH AND THE GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON
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