A Glance at the Cuban Missile Crisis
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As the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) plans for expansion plays out on Russia’s borders, the question of sovereignty and defense could be recalled through the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962.

Cuba’s request for USSR protection from U.S. imperialist interventions was not unfounded. Only the year before, in April 1961, the U.S. had suffered a spectacular defeat at the Bay of Pigs, when the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-funded paramilitary operation to overthrow Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution was thwarted in less than 72 hours and 1,200 mercenaries were taken prisoner by the Cubans.

The plan was carried out by the Kennedy adm...

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Whistleblower exposes Microsoft’s massive foreign bribery network
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Employee claims half the tech giant’s salespeople & managers were involved in $200mn annual kickback scheme

Tech behemoth Microsoft is bribing clients in the Middle East and Africa on a massive scale, according to whistleblower Yasser Elabd, a 20-year employee of the firm who published his testimony on Friday on the website Lioness.

Elabd claims the company spends more than $200 million annually on bribes and kickback sche...

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The new arms race on the Ko­re­an Penin­su­la
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De­spite ex­ag­ger­a­tions and in­evitable set­backs, North Ko­rea’s mis­sile test pro­gramme is in­creas­ing­ly im­pres­sive.
Published On 25 Mar 2022

US Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas re­leased from hos­pi­tal
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Thomas, 73, was treat­ed for an in­fec­tion with in­tra­venous an­tibi­otics, the court said, and did not have COVID-19.
Published On 25 Mar 2022

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Biden com­pares Rus­sia’s in­va­sion of Ukraine to Tianan­men Square
US pres­i­dent meets Pol­ish coun­ter­part af­ter vis­it­ing US troops sta­tioned near Ukraine bor­der.
Published On 25 Mar 2022

Watch: UK PM Boris Johnson ‘snubbed’ ahead of NATO group photo
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Was British Prime Minister Boris Johnson snubbed by the world leaders ahead of the NATO group photo? The UK media thinks so.

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Biden appears to suggest US troops going to Ukraine
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“You’re going to see when you’re there,” the president told members of the 82nd Airborne Division in Poland

US President Joe Biden told American soldiers on Friday that “you’re going to see” Ukrainian civilians fighting Russian soldiers “when you’re there.” Despite signaling a potential US deployment to Ukraine, the White House says there’s been no change to Biden’s position of not sending troops into the country....

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Saudi oil depot attacked ahead of F1 race (VIDEOS)
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Houthi rebels bomb Saudi Aramco fuel storage site and other facilities

The Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched another attack on Saudi oil production in Jeddah, hitting a Saudi Aramco fuel depot on Friday as the city welcomes visitors for its first Formula 1 racing event. The offensive is aimed at forcing the Saudis to end their blockade of Yemen.


READ MORE: Saudi energy facilities, refinery hit by Yemeni rebels


A spokesman for the rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack, following an apparent explosion at a refinery near the r...

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China negotiates secret deal in South Pacific – media
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Beijing would gain a strategic beachhead under a draft security agreement with the Solomon Islands, the New York Times reports

China has reportedly negotiated a secret security pact with the Solomon Islands, setting off alarm bells in the US and Australia because of the potential for Beijing gaining a South Pacific beachhead from which it could block shipping traffic.

Chinese and Solomon Island officials are close to signing the agreement, the New York Times reported on Frida...

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US can­cels talks with Tal­iban over girls school clo­sure
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The move comes af­ter the Tal­iban back­tracked on its pre­vi­ous com­mit­ment to open sec­ondary schools to girls.
Published On 25 Mar 2022

Syr­ia con­sti­tu­tion­al talks fail again in Gene­va
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Com­mit­tee has been try­ing, and fail­ing, to draft a new con­sti­tu­tion since 2019, as the war in Syr­ia con­tin­ues.
Published On 25 Mar 2022

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US small-busi­ness own­ers face tax headaches on top of COVID woes
Small-busi­ness own­ers, con­trac­tors and en­tre­pre­neurs are fac­ing a raft of ever-chang­ing rules and reg­u­la­tions.
Published On 25 Mar 2022

A historic victory for Howard University’s non-tenure-track faculty
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Hundreds of non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct faculty at Howard University, one of the most storied higher education institutions in the US, have been fighting for nearly four years to negotiate their first union contract with the university administration. On Wednesday, March 23, just hours before they were set to go on strike, the union bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with the administration, which members will be reviewing and voting on in the coming weeks. Reporting from Howard’s campus in Washington DC, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Corey Lamont, a lecturer in Howard’s English Department and member of the...

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Biden Visit Marks Abject Subjugation of European Leaders To U.S. Empire
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It is a pathetic spectacle. European governments are prostrated before the American empire.

U.S. President Joe Biden flew to Europe this week with the presidential nuclear codes on display by his entourage. Among the fleet of presidential aircraft was the “doomsday plane” – a specially fitted-out Boeing 747 capable of withstanding nuclear radiation and serving, if-needs-be, as a “Pentagon in the sky”.

Biden attended three back-to-back emergency summits of the G7, NATO and the European Union leaders in Brussels. It was reportedly the first time an American p...

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New York office workers consider fleeing amid surging crime
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Poll shows that 40% of employees in Manhattan and 48% in other boroughs are thinking about moving away

Violent crime and lawlessness in New York City have escalated to the point that almost half of local workers are considering moving away because they feel unsafe, a new poll has revealed.

A Morning Consult survey of more than 9,000 New York office workers found that 40% of those living in Manhattan and 48% in other boroughs are thinking about fleeing the city. Just 27% of overall...

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EU to Rus­sia: ‘War crimes must stop im­me­di­ate­ly’ in Ukraine
Eu­ro­pean Union says in­va­sion of Ukraine ‘gross­ly vi­o­lates in­ter­na­tion­al law’, calls on Rus­sia to end at­tacks.
Published On 25 Mar 2022