To Account for the Wall: Why States Are Suing Trump
WASHINGTON - February 21, 2019 A coalition of sixteen US states has filed a lawsuit against Trump's administration over his declaration of a national emergency to unlock funds for the US-Mexico border wall. The Congress refused to finance the Trump project, so he resorted to a state of emergency. Congress later granted him $1.375 billion for the barrier construction--less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion he requested. Trump's declaration, under the National Emergencies Act, aims to allow him to take some $6.1 billion from Title 10 funding for the armed forces. This wo...
China vs. America Are Confucian China and the Christian West Destined to Clash?
WASHINGTON, DC – February 20, 2019 Today, the US and China are vying for global leadership. The US sees booming China as the main problem of its own security. China considers many US actions to be aggressive. However, these two largest world economies continue their mutual cooperation as usual. Why can't they just “divorce” - break ties with each other or destroy one another? Do these two giants share enough core values to manage a peaceful balancing of power, and can they avert the dreaded Thucydides Trap? The ongoing trade war is just one front of an expanding all-ou...
Failure of French Special Services’ provocation against Russia
Central African Republic – February 20, 2019 As the Federal News Agency (FAN) recently found out, a special media operation to slander Russia, which began on February 12, was based on a fake interview with a former member of one of the Central African Republic gangs associated with the French Special Services since the beginning of the civil war in that country. The data gathered by FAN correspondents proves that Mahamat Nur Mamadou lost a finger not as a result of torture, but as the special services were preparing an operation to evacuate him to France. In mid-February...
The US’s condition for ending trade war with China
BEIJING –February 20, 2019 During the talks between China and the US, the next round of which is to start this week, both countries agreed that the issue of the yuan exchange rate will become an important part of the deal. Washington expects Beijing to abandon the artificial devaluation of its currency in response to the introduction of US tariffs, SCMP reported, citing Bloomberg. According to the agency, this issue has been under discussion for several months, but the negotiators have not yet managed to reach a consensus, although Chinese representatives told US Treasu...
America Spends Millions of Taxpayers’ Money in “Battle for the Arctic”
USA – February 15, 2019 After the formal end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history, Congress seems to be so weak that they almost capitulated to President Trump over his proposed bills. The White House announced on Thursday that Trump will sign a compromise bill to fund border security, but he will declare a national emergency to build the wall. Both the House and the Senate passed the bill Thursday evening. This looks more like a Trump victory even though it was very expensive. American taxpayers will pay for it, in any case. What was also important is that after seve...
Is the Female Factor a Real Threat to Trump in 2020?
USA – February 16, 2019 We're still about 21 months out from the 2020 election, but the field of presidential contenders is already very crowded and we are seeing a record number of female candidates running for the U.S. president. The 2018 midterm elections, branded the Year of the Woman, were a watershed for women in politics, as more women were elected to Congress than ever before. The current Congress is also the most diverse ever, a sign of a changing electorate that could boost the candidacies of women of color. Voters who want to see a woman in the White House wi...
Why the US Imposed New Sanctions Against Iranian Groups
WASHINGTON - February 15, 2019 The Department of Justice and law enforcement announced the indictment of a former counterintelligence agent on charges of helping Iran conduct cyber attacks on her former colleagues. The indictment also referred to the four citizens of Iran who supposedly committed illegal computer crimes: Mojtaba Masoumpour, Behzad Mesri, Hossein Parvar and Mohamad Paryar. According to prosecutors’ data, they've been charged with conspiracy, attempted computer intrusion, and aggravated identity theft for cyber attacks against Witt's former colleagues and...
How China Buries Liberalism
AUSTIN, TEXAS – February 15, 2019 At the economic forum in Davos in January 2019, with the theme “Globalization 4.0: the formation of a global architecture in the era of the fourth industrial revolution,” financier and philanthropist George Soros stiffly turned against China and Xi Jinping personally. With his idea of an “open society” as a democratic standard for the development of mankind, he aimed to replace closed traditional societies, calling China the most dangerous opponent of liberalism. Since "the instruments of control developed by artificial intelligence, g...
Migrant Families Demand $18 Million From Trump Administration
USA – February 14, 2019 On Monday, six illegal immigrant families filed multi-million dollar claims against both the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services over last year’s family separations, saying they need the money to pay for counseling and other medical care to heal from the “torture” they say they suffered. The claims were filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The families are being represented by Arnold & Porter, the American Immigration Council, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, Feinberg & Lin....