GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene inadvertently took a stand against a Spanish soup dish when criticizing the Capitol police Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of directing her “gazpacho police” to spy on conservative lawmakers, botching a comparison to the Nazi regime’s Gestapo. Speaking to the One America News […]
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Iconic TV host blasts council’s vegan ‘madness’
The TV host-turned-farmer said he wished he’d known earlier about a protest against local authorities’ vegan food push Legendary television presenter turned farmer Jeremy Clarkson has spoken out for his fellow farmers of Oxfordshire, England, who held a protest on Tuesday after local officials decided that only vegan products would be served at council events. […]
Jordan Peterson drops tenured professorship, blasts ‘stunningly corrupt enterprise’
“Diversity, inclusion and equity” are destroying academia, the conservative author has warned Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson has announced he is resigning as a tenured professor at the University of Toronto, citing concerns with academia’s shift towards “Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity mandates,” which he appreciates as “DIE.” The abbreviated term is one of reasons […]
Greta Thunberg blasts portrayal of Joe Biden as ‘climate leader’
The teen activist has criticized the ‘strange’ portrayal of the US administration as leading on climate change Speaking to the Washington Post, Greta Thunberg has condemned President Biden for overseeing fossil fuel infrastructure expansion across the US despite having set ambitious climate goals that would see it hit net zero by 2050. The wide-ranging interview […]
Most powerful telescope ever built blasts off into space (VIDEO)
The James Webb Space Telescope, a $9 billion infrared instrument that would allow humanity to look further into the cosmos than ever before, was successfully launched into space on Saturday. An Ariane 5 heavy rocket with NASA’s 7-ton observatory in the cargo bay blasted off from the European Space Agency’s launch base in French Guiana […]
Iran explains blasts near nuclear plant
Iran has said that explosions above the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the early hours of Monday morning were related to an air defense drill, as the military launches war games across the country. Speaking to Iranian state media on Monday, the deputy governor of Bushehr province, Mohammadtaqi Irani, said the power plant had hosted […]
Turkey blasts EU over stalled accession talks
Turkey has accused the EU of “strategic blindness,” criticizing the bloc’s decision this week to keep membership talks with Ankara in stalemate as being “detached from reality” and based on “ideological motives.” The Turkish foreign ministry stated on Friday that the move – taken at the EU’s General Affairs Council meeting on Tuesday – proved […]
Top Aussie official blasts hypocrisy of Assange’s possible extradition to US
If Australia is fine with the extradition of its citizen Julian Assange from Britain to the US, it would be equally OK for some nation to hand over an Australian Koran insulter to Saudi Arabia, a senior government official wrote. The rebuke of the US claim on Assange, authored by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, […]
South Africa blasts UK for hasty Covid travel ban
South Africa has hit out at the UK after the British government rushed to impose a travel ban on multiple African nations over concerns about a mutated strain of the Covid virus, which has been detected in a small number of cases. On Thursday evening, the UK moved several African countries to its ‘red list,’ […]
Iran blasts UK over Palestinian move despite Instagram block
The Iranian foreign ministry has doubled down on its criticism of the UK for designating Hamas a terrorist organization, claiming the British move is just a tool to criminalize support for the Palestinian cause. According to Iranian media, an Instagram post shared on Saturday by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has been removed by the […]
Beijing blasts Pentagon’s ‘deliberately concocted’ Chinese threat report
The Chinese Defense Ministry has lodged official protests with the US over the Pentagon’s latest wartime potential assessment of China’s military. It is not Beijing but Washington that poses a threat to the world, China said. China’s military strategy and policy is purely defensive, the ministry said in a damning statement on Friday, adding that […]
‘Rogue’ US must give objective guarantees on nuclear deal, says Iranian FM spokesperson, as Ted Cruz blasts Biden’s pledge
The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman has called on US President Joe Biden to convince the world that his signature actually means something, in response to a tweet by Senator Ted Cruz about his Iran nuclear deal pledge. On Monday evening, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh claimed that “regimes in Washington are rogue,” following a […]
China blasts Royal Navy’s ‘malicious’ sail in Taiwan Strait as ‘undermining peace and stability’
The Chinese military has condemned the UK Navy after it engaged in what Beijing officials described as a “malicious” sail through the Taiwan Strait that “undermined” its “peace and stability.” The HMS ‘Richmond’, a frigate deployed as part of the UK Carrier Strike Group, containing aircraft carrier HMS ‘Queen Elizabeth’, tweeted on Monday that it […]
Serbia’s president blasts world’s ‘thunderous silence’ over ‘occupation’ of northern Kosovo as tensions in breakaway region soar
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says foreign partners are turning a blind eye to a security crackdown in Serb-majority areas of Kosovo, where the breakaway region’s forces have brought essential cross-border traffic to a halt. “The complete occupation of northern Kosovo and Metohija with armored vehicles by Pristina has been going on for the past seven […]
Taiwan blasts ‘arch criminal’ Beijing over its opposition to island’s parallel bid to join Asia-Pacific trade pact
Taiwan has hit back after mainland officials said the island should not join a major 11-nation trade pact in the Asia-Pacific, arguing that Beijing has no say in it. China has already applied for membership of the bloc. The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the Chinese officials in a tersely worded statement on […]