Month: March 2024
Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Voice
Truth Social launched in early 2022, a year after Twitter, now known as X, and Facebook had locked Trump out of his accounts over his incitement of the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack. Both platforms have since reinstated Trump’s account, though he posts almost exclusively to Truth Social.For Trump, whose animated and antagonistic Twitter
Moscow concert hall attackers detained
The attack, the deadliest in Russia in years, is a major embarrassment to the Russian leader and happened just days after he cemented his grip on the country for another six years in a vote that followed the harshest crackdown on dissent since the Soviet times.Russian authorities arrested the four men suspected of carrying out
Massive fortifications in Kharkiv
Ongoing efforts to build fortifications at hundreds of sites all across Kharkiv Oblast were recently inspected by the Head of Kharkiv’s Regional Civil-Military Administration. In November 2023, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the military to construct more fortifications in key sectors of eastern Ukraine following a tour of northeastern Ukraine’s military positions,Zelensky’s appeal to build more
Making Israel Safer after Hamas
Hamas’s leader in Gaza and the mastermind of the attacks of October 7th, Yahya Sinwar, remains at large. The devastation Israel has unleashed around 20,000 civilians have perished, food and medicine are in desperately short supply and more than half the territory’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged—will make it almost impossible to institute a
The massacre in Moscow
The first news of a developing incident came at around 8.30pm local time on Friday night, when police and emergency services responded to a red alert at the venue. Over the next hour two separate explosions were heard, enveloping the complex in smoke and fire, and reportedly trapping hundreds of people inside.Apopular moscow concert hall turned
The opposition coalition in India is in Shambles
On March 21st the Enforcement Directorate (ed), a federal agency tasked with investigating large-scale economic offences, arrested Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, a leading figure in the main opposition alliance and a thorn in the side of the prime minister. With less than a month to go before India’s general election, when Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party
Attack on Ukraine Power plant and defense ministry
Last winter, Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, resulting in frequent blackouts across the country. Many had warned that Russia might repeat this strategy this winter. But instead, Russia has launched massive missile and drone attacks primarily directed at Ukraine’s defense industry. Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric
Russia and China veto U.S. resolution for Gaza Cease-fire
The Security Council had already adopted two resolutions on the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, but none calling for a cease-fire. Russia and China on Friday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored U.N. resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to
Massive attacks on Ukrainian positions
The number of bombs dropped since the start of the year represents a staggering 16% increase over the previous year during the same period according to Havryliuk, who also noted Russia aviation dominates Ukraine’s skies. Russia has increased its bombing campaign against Ukraine, Moscow has allegedly dropped thousands of bombs on Ukrainian positions since the
Polarisation of American democracy
It is America’s political culture and the functioning of its government that pose the biggest problems. Within the culture category, America scores poorly on political polarisation and general support for democracy. Polarisation and mistrust are connected: America’s increasingly divided electorate votes for increasingly extreme candidates. It is difficult for a democracy to spread its values abroad