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Belt and Road

Michael Klare: US Plans to Muscle Up for “Great Power” Conflict With China

Yves here. The US military, having gotten mired in a series of neverending but costly misadventures in the Middle East, is now proposing to double down on failure, or at best mediocrity. Even though though US forces are badly overextended, the National Defens…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Water Scarcity

News24.com | Land reform and agriculture: What to expect in the next 5 years

Various role players in the agriculture and land reform sectors have come out in full support of newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza. With the tough task of implementing government's land reform resting o…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Singapore

Leading Taiwanese bubble tea brand Milksha is coming to Singapore

The leading bubble tea brand in Taiwan is opening its first Southeast Asia branch in Singapore at the end of June. Milksha, which goes by the name Milkshop in Taiwan, will open its first flagship shop at Suntec City Mall at the end of the month, followed soo…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

New Film: Watch Jesus at Work in Athens

In 2011 I went to Athens, Greece, with the intention of teaching migrant church leaders the Bible. I had no idea what God was about to do in my heart. We’re living in an age of migration. Never before have so many people been on the move. In 2015, more…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Hiroshima

2017 North Korean nuclear test 10 times larger than previous tests, new study finds

WASHINGTON-- North Korea detonated a nuclear device in 2017 equivalent to about 250 kilotons of TNT, a new study estimates, creating an explosion 16 times the size of the bomb the United States detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. The new assessment of t…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Water Scarcity

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

IMAGE: During a prolonged drought, annual crop fields can be left fallow without causing lasting economic damage, but almond groves, such as these in California's Central Valley, require consistent irrigation to... view more Credit: Steven Davis / UCI Ir…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Astroturfing

RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer) development is shutting down

Hi, I'm the author and sole maintainer of RTV (https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv). This is an official announcement that I will no longer be maintaining this project. Why? Lately, RTV has stopped being fun for me to work on. I suspect this is the typica…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Brexit

Trump brings Brexit advice on state visit to troubled UK

London (AFP) - Britain will roll out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump on Monday as he arrives in Britain for a state visit already overshadowed by his outspoken remarks on Brexit. Queen Elizabeth II will welcome Trump and his wife Melania to Buck…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Trump tells Syria, Russia to stop bombing rebel-held Idlib

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has told the Syrian government and its Russian ally to stop bombing Syria's last rebel-held province, just as Israel launched a second round of air raids against Syria in 24 hours, according to state media. "…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Prosperity, repression mark China 30 years after Tiananmen

BEIJING Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, Chinas economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student activists fa…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Michael Klare: US Plans to Muscle Up for “Great Power” Conflict With China

News24.com | Land reform and agriculture: What to expect in the next 5 years

Leading Taiwanese bubble tea brand Milksha is coming to Singapore

New Film: Watch Jesus at Work in Athens

2017 North Korean nuclear test 10 times larger than previous tests, new study finds

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer) development is shutting down

Trump brings Brexit advice on state visit to troubled UK

Trump tells Syria, Russia to stop bombing rebel-held Idlib

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