The Mainstream Media’s typical double standards were on blatant display after a recent massacre in Mali resulted in the slaughter of over 150 Muslims but failed to generate the international attention that the Christchurch terrorist attack did despite the latter having more than 3x less victims.

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Mali Massacre vs Christchurch Terror; US-Oman Base Deal; EU to Xinjiang?

The Australian terrorist who carried out the Christchurch mosque attacks deliberately tried to deceive the world into thinking that Balkan history partially inspired his gruesome killing spree.

Christchurch & Balkan History; Fake Fort Trump?; Erdogan & Crimea

The over half a billion dollars allocated in the US’ 2020 budget to countering “Russian malign influence” is part of America’s Hybrid War against its rival’s information, military, energy, and trade interests.

US’ Anti-Russian Budget; US to Be Top Oil Exporter; Cuba & Russia in Venezuela

The US’ plans to formalise an international coalition against Venezuela are being justified by the Monroe Doctrine and seek to institutionalise the strategic concept of “Fortress America”.

The US’ Anti-Venezuelan Coalition; Russia & the GCC; the Post-Hillary Democrats

The Western Mainstream Media manufactured a scandal about Russia’s hypersonic Zircon missiles after a popular TV host did a program about these munitions could potentially hit the US.

“Zircon Missile Scandal”; Turkey Talks About Xinjiang; UK to Ban Hezbollah

The famous homosexual African-American actor Jussie Smollett with charged with one felony count of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report alleging that he was the victim of a hate crime.

Smollett's Staged Hate Crime?; Polish-Israeli Holocaust Row; EU Terror Citizens

The Russian government will begin implementing President Putin’s “May Decrees” from last year as the state seeks to make progress on the national development program known as the “Great Society”.

Russia's 'Great Society'; Polish-Norwegian Diplomat Tiff; Haftar in S. Libya

Japan agreed to team up with Germany against Trump after Merkel’s visit to the East Asian nation, which advances the recent trend of Tokyo behaving more independently to Washington’s chagrin.

Japanese-German Alliance; Pope in UAE; Afghan Opposition Meeting in Moscow

The US’ sanctions against Venezuela’s PDVSA state oil firm are intended to reroute upwards of $7 billion to Juan Guaido’s “government-in-waiting” so as to allow it to more easily fund military defections and Color Revolutionary violence as it approaches the climax of its regime change campaign.

Anti-Venezuelan Sanctions; Iran vs Israel; RuPak Coop in Afghanistan

The scandal over the “MAGA hat kids” shows how desperate the Mainstream Media is to malign Caucasian Christian Trump supporters that they’d ignore an African-American cult’s racist hate rant in order to attack a teenager for smiling in front of a passive-aggressive Native American drum-beater.

"MAGA Hat Kids"; Venezuelan Crisis; Suicide Bombings in Syria

Canada’s welcoming of Rahaf al-Qunun as a “brave new (Saudi-)Canadian” controversially sets the precedent that renouncing Islam and claiming to be a victim of domestic violence can potentially get anyone refugee status.

“Brave New (Saudi-)Canadian”; Assassination in Poland; Is Pakistan a US Ally?

Bolton’s tour of the Mideast aims to influence the future of Syria by explaining the grand strategy that Trump has in mind after he surprisingly announced his plans to withdraw American forces from there.

Bolton’s Plan for Syria; Pope Francis vs Nationalism; Taliban Talks Cancelled

Here’s what might unfold all across Eurasia in 2019.

2019 Forecast for Eurasia

The growing outrage over Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s recent vacation to Myanmar is driven by the false equivalency between a private apolitical vacation among the civilian population and a supposed political endorsement of the country’s military leadership.

Dorsey’s Myanmar Scandal, UN Migration Pact, Russian Bombers to Venezuela

The head of the British Secret Intelligence Services (MI6) Alex Younger briefed the public about the challenges of so-called “fourth generation espionage”, which actually isn’t all that different in principle from what the world’s second-oldest profession has been confronting for millennia.

'Fourth Generation Espionage', Trump’s Letter to Khan, 'Crimean Corridor'

Political analyst and journalist Andrew Korybko hosts a hit parade of the week's most intriguing and ridiculous stories. A mix of commentary and comedy.

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