Pakistani officials say flash floods overnight have killed 30 people in northern Pakistan, near the Afghan border. Maghfirat Shah, the mayor of Chitral district, says heavy monsoon rains and flash floods overnight washed away a mosque and several houses in Arsun, an area of Chitral. A spokesman for the disaster management authority, Yousuf Zia, […]
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Russia, US want to cooperate in Syria but ‘Are Suspicious of Each Other’
“The leak suggests a serious effort in Moscow and Washington to find some greater common ground on targeting the terrorists,” he said, referring to unconfirmed media reports that the Obama Administration proposed a new deal with Russia on Syria. Under the agreement, the United States and Russia will join forces to improve targeting and conduct an “expanded” bombing campaign against al-Nusra Front, the […]
Mass Migration Will Make Europe Unrecognisable, Could Lead to War
Last week in Washington, I met an old friend who is one of the smartest strategy wonks I know. His business is crystal ball-gazing. During our conversation, he offered some speculations about what could happen to our world over the next decade or two which made my hair stand on end. He predicts that the […]
NASA Caught Using Green Screen To Fake Astronaut Footage
A video has been leaked featuring George Bush Sr. visiting NASA which inadvertently shows British Astronaut Tim Peak standing in front of a blue screen with a grid pattern on it. The screen appears to be between him and a film set showing the ISS. This appears to be the first “behind the scenes” look […]
New Jersey teenager threatened with legal action by high school over pro-Palestine activism
Bethany Koval, a remarkably brazen and aware 16 year old teenage activist from Fair Lawn, New Jersey studying at Fair Lawn High School was targeted for her political activism yesterday. What began over Koval’s commentary of the Gaza beach bombing: “I spoke of the death tolls and called Israel’s govt a terrorist“, resulted in her being called […]
Haqqani Network has Become Achilles Heel of USA
by Asif Haroon Raja Civil war in Afghanistan is raging since 1976. It saw relative calm and stability during brief spell of Taliban rule, but peace was snatched away by USA and the country was again pushed into the inferno. Ongoing war lit in October 2001 is continuing and has become the longest war […]
9/11 Unveiled (part 7 of 10): The Achilles Heel
by Enver Masud Achilles, the son of King Peleus of Thessaly and the shape-changing nymph Thetis, is the central character of Homer’s great poem, the Iliad. The Achilles’ heel is named for the only part of the body of the Greek hero that was vulnerable. Stretching the metaphor a bit, the collapse time, i.e. […]