In the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump credited the “forgotten man and woman” for his astounding upset victory, which flew in the face of all the pollsters and predictions.
“They are forgotten no more,” he has said.
Now, France is heading to the polls on Sunday, in an election crucial to the future of not only France, but Europe itself.
A 18 year old gunman with purported links to outlawed far-right groups, has opened fire at an office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East. The shooter was killed by an FSB officer.
Unlike federal security services in many countries, Russia’s FSB has offices in almost every city and town, including comparatively remote locations.
Fyodor Konyukhov is a beloved Russian survivalist, an ‘extreme traveller’ if you will. His global adventures and excursions around Russia have seen him sojourn throughout perilous locations and break world records for extreme travelling.
He holds the world record for being the first solo traveller to circumvent Antarctica in a sail boat.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has just arrested the elder brother of a man arrested for his role in organising the deadly terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg Metro earlier this month.
Abror Azimov was arrested two days ago. He was in possession of a gun at the time of the arrest. He has since denied realising he was involved in organising a terrorist attack.
Today, his brother Akram Azimov was apprehended at a bus stop by FSB officers. He was in possession of a RGD-5 field grenade at the time of his arrest.
According to a statement from the FSB,
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has made a statement about the implications of America’s recent missile attack on Syria. He called the attack ‘military aggression’ according to the standards of international law.
Medvedev has said,
An injured boy cries in pain inside a field hospital after being hit by US shelling in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria July 21, 2016.
How would you prefer to die? Suffocation by sarin or suffocation by sandstone? Do you favor starvation over succumbing to shrapnel wounds? Or perhaps your extermination of choice is a more straightforward summary execution at the hands of an irregular militia, extreme jihadist group or simply the nearest intelligence agent?
For many years, ISIS and al-Qaeda have had the same goals, used the same barbaric methods of conquest and have had many of the same Gulfi benefactors; Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular.
Now, both Salifist organisations may formally unite their operations in Iraq and possibly beyond.
On the 17th of April, 1946, Syria gained independence from its French colonial overlords who had ruled the Arab state since the end of the First World War as part of the provisions of the secret Anglo-French Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916. The secret agreement to carve up the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire among the two leading western European powers was first exposed to the world by Russian Bolsheviks in November of 1917.
These days it’s difficult to remember what values the American people share. That’s because the U.S. government does so many things that seem to contradict basic human values. Wars of aggression, torture, kidnapping and indefinite detention, warrantless wiretapping, and other oppressions have become standard operational procedure for the U.S. government. Those who recognize and seek to correct this system of abuse soon realize that the key to doing so is to reveal the truth behind the primary driver for all of them—the crimes of 9/11.
The British Parliament has yet to condemn yesterday’s terrorist attack in Syria which has left at least 70 dead and over 100 badly injured. More than half of the dead are reportedly children.
Instead, a member of the UK Parliament wants to strip Syria’s first lady Asma al-Assad of the UK citizenship that some speculate she still holds. Asma al-Assad was born Asma Akhras to Syrian parents in London.
