Turkey has put its mind to improving the damaged relations with the European Union and introducing a positive agenda to the negotiations with the EU leaders: this is a deceptive impression that could have been produced on an outside observer by the recent steps of the...
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Biden Sees China As Primary Geopolitical Threat
President Biden vowed that he would not allow China to become the world’s “leading” country during his first press conference on Thursday. His comments come as U.S.-China tensions are soaring, and the two countries’ relationship is at its lowest point in decades. “I...
How Partisan Politics Rots Your Brain
Recent research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques is allowing us to peer into the connections, yet shrouded in mystery, between local brain activity, cognitive processes, and partisan attachment. This developing body of knowledge has...
3/5/21 Hans Kristensen on America’s Nuclear Saber-Rattling in Eastern Europe
Scott talks to Hans Kristensen about nuclear proliferation. Ever since the U.S. government backed the coup in Ukraine in 2014, he says, we've been flying bombers near Russia and the Baltic states in what are ostensibly "training exercises," but which in reality are...
3/5/21 Max Blumenthal: UK Foreign Office Colluded with International Media to ‘Weaken Russia’
Max Blumenthal begins by discussing the immense power imbalance between Israel and Palestine, which has led to enormously one-sided violence by the Israelis. The Palestinians, to be sure, have fought back, but Blumenthal says there's a crucial difference between...
COI #74 – Will Biden Break With Trump’s Aggression Against Iran?
On COI #74, Kyle and Will go over recent comments from the Biden administration signaling it's ready to sit down with Iran and European powers to discuss coming back into the 2015 nuclear deal. But with US officials hinting that other "regional issues" could be...
News Roundup 2/17/21
US News Hedge fund Alden Global Capital will buy Tribune Publishing - publisher of the Chicago Tribune and other papers - for $630 million. Alden Global Capital already owns Digital First Media. DFM includes papers like The Denver Post and Boston Herald. [Link] The...
Bitcoin is King
Bitcoin is winning. Period. In fact, it may have already won and the people arrayed against it, no matter how powerful, are finally beginning to realize this. This week saw a slew of major announcements which all point in this direction. Of course the big news...
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