TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday that Venezuela will be looking to “free” itself from the U.S. dollar next week, Reuters reports. According to the outlet, Maduro will look to use the weakest of two official foreign exchange regimes (essentially the way Venezuela will manage its currency in relation to other currencies and the foreign exchange market), along Read More…
Amid a host of fresh criminal accusations against the Assad government in Syria, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is making significant gains against ISIS’ last major stronghold in the country, paving the way for the group’s inevitable fall. As the Guardian reported, Syrian state media is applauding the military’s recent advance, which broke a years-long ISIS siege on the Read More…
As the mass media and the establishment figures who keep mainstream outlets afloat continue to beat the drums of war against North Korea, little attention is being paid to one crucial detail regarding the current crisis engulfing the Korean peninsula. You wouldn’t know it if you were to turn on your television every day or simply skim the Read More…
Saudi Arabia began its relentless bombardment of Yemen in March of 2015 at the request of Yemen’s ousted president Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who had gone into hiding. The Saudi-led coalition, supported heavily by the U.S. and the U.K., has reportedly killed thousands of civilians and displaced over one million more. The target of Saudi Arabia’s brutal aerial campaign Read More…
One of the reasons Donald Trump appealed to many American voters during the 2016 election is that much of what he promised on the campaign trail directly contradicted Hillary Clinton’s record, particularly in terms of foreign policy. For example, before the election, he explicitly stated that he believed the world would have been better off had the U.S. not toppled Saddam Read More…
A new survey published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests Americans are willing to make a first nuclear strike against Iran and kill millions of civilians in the process. According to the report, entitled “Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran,” although the majority of Americans initially approved of President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop the Read More…