Checkpoint

news analysis But that oversimplifies a complex global situation, others say, with a weakened Russia and with China facing serious problems of its own. President Biden arrives for a news conference Thursday in Helsinki where he spoke about “this critical moment in history, this inflection point, the world watching to…

The latest NATO summit showed that the Western alliance was returning to "Cold War schemes," the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, adding that the Kremlin was ready to respond to threats by using "all means." The NATO summit in Lithuania ended with the United States and its allies giving…

Some intriguing self-doubt has been revealed on TV shows I’ve seen; it represents a late stage in imperialism, a malaise that wasn’t there at the start. U.S. Army tanks face off against Soviet tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, October 1961. Credit: USAMHI / U.S. Army photo / Wikimedia Commons I…

June 28, 2023 3:39 PM Image Credit: PlayStation Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. PlayStation announced which games are coming to PS Plus in July. The new summer batch of titles includes a cross-gen bundle of…

Sony’s PlayStation Plus upcoming lineup sure is bleak Sony has just revealed its PlayStation Plus lineup for July 2023. It will feature Alan Wake Remastered, Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and Endlig – Extinction is Forever. All three titles will be available both on the PS4 and PS5 and for…

Sony announced the PlayStation Plus games lineup for July today. They include Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Alan Wake Remastered and Endling – Extinction is Forever. All three titles will be available on PS5 and PS4 for subscribers on the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers. Call of Duty:…

It’s a rainy day in 1986 in East Germany. A young woman spies a man on a bus. They strike up a conversation. “That was all. Everything was underway, there was no other possibility.” This encounter gives Jenny Erpenbeck the title for her fifth novel: Kairos, the god of fortunate…

It is common to hear of the world order as evolving from the relatively stable equilibrium of the Cold War, through a brief ‘unipolar’ moment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to one moving towards a new bipolar world with the US and China as the two poles, or…

China's not-so-subtle warning on Sunday to the US and Canada for 'deliberately provoking risk' in the Indo-Pacific for holding joint navy exercises through the Taiwan Strait should be treated as more than tough talk. Coming as this does with Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu talking about a resurgent 'Cold War…

… Gbajabiamila retorts this is the first time in history a DS is challenging a speaker The cold war between the outgoing speaker Femi Gbajabiamila and his deputy, Idris Wase was openly displayed during legislative session on Wednesday. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls that Gbajabiamila had endorsed Hon Tajudeen Abass to replace…