What is a tariff? A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Tariffs can target specific goods imported from all nations or can target all goods from a single nation or group of nations. Any combination of the aforementioned applications of tariffs is also possible. What are economic sanctions? Economic […]
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Skripal, Crime, Chemical Weapons and Duterte: The Connections Nobody Dares to Make
Both Russian and western media have taken a keen interest in the alleged poisoning of a former UK spy of Russian origin called Sergey Skripal who along with his daughter fell ill after allegedly coming into contact with a “military grade nerve agent” in the English city of Salisbury. Currently, […]
Lack of Accountability for Crimes Leads to Further Aggression
The West firmly supported tyrants like Saddam Hussein, while elsewhere public figures such as Nelson Mandela were classed as a “terrorist”. The mainstream press sounded the war drums on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, in the build up to the 2003 invasion, some undesirable facts were avoided. Two decades before (in 1982), […]
Donald Trump Uses Childish Bullying Instead of Diplomacy – China and the US Economy Will Soon Teach Him A Lesson
During a lengthy press conference alongside Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticised the Trump White House for taking a “revisionist” and undiplomatic approach to geopolitics. Lavrov stated that this “kind of revisionism demonstrates that they are increasingly willing to be more and […]
Deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont Temporarily Freed by German Court
Deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has been freed on bail by a German court where judges have ruled out considering Spain’s extradition request over “sedition” and “rebellion” as German judges have found Puigdemont to have never engaged in nor promoted violence during his time in office where he declared Catalonia a sovereign […]
Everyone Involved in Youtube HQ Shooting is a Victim – Time for an Intellectual Property Civil Rights Act
Long before the United States and its constitution existed, philosophical arguments have existed concerning the ethics of free speech. The First Amendment of the US Constitution attempted to solve these issues by being a catch-all for the legalisation of free speech that could only be restricted in the most extreme […]
Is Brazil On The Cusp Of A Military Coup?
There are worrying signs that the military is planning to return to power in Brazil, even if it does so indirectly through a presidential proxy. Brazil stands at an historic crossroads today when the Supreme Court rules whether former leftist-populist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, popularly known just as […]
Trump Barks, So The Caravan Shall Not Pass
The popular saying that “the dogs bark but the caravan passes” doesn’t apply to Trump’s criticism of the Central American migrant caravan crossing Mexico en route to the US right now, since there’s no way that the President will allow it to pass into his country if he values his […]
Black April: US Stocks Dive to Great Depression Levels as Trade War Claims First Victims
As the second quarter of the economic year begins, US stocks opened at their lowest level since the crash of 1929 which triggered the Great Depression. According to RT, “the S&P 500 index fell 2.2 percent after the first trading session in the second quarter. This was only ever worse […]
Donald Trump’s USA is The World’s Wealthiest Developing Nation Complete With a Dysfunctional Democracy
Donald Trump is scandalised by his domestic opponents as an ‘enemy of democracy’ and is inversely praised by his support base as a kind of messianic figure out to change the country, aka ‘make America great again’. While many in the US find this language of extreme political dichotomy to […]
