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Beijing Academy of Military Sciences researcher Zhao Xun published an article in Chinese Communist Party media on Monday warning that China’s current model of technology and weapons development is “unsustainable” due to Western sanctions, so China must become more self-reliant by funding more research and reducing bureaucratic red tape.

Published simultaneously in Propaganda in Focus, UK Column and OffGuardian On 7 April 2018 reports emerged from a suburb of Damascus, Douma, claiming that a chemical weapons attack had occurred. Images of dead women and children inside an apartment building were circulated over the internet along with hospital scenes showing

Australia is the 117th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, an intergovernmental political commitment to reduce the likelihood that students, teachers, and schools are targeted for attack during armed conflict. Schools should be places of study and safety for children. If armed forces use schools as military bases, firing

Canada and Germany have now been described as legitimate targets for military attacks.

The Biden administration released its nearly $7 trillion 2024 budget request to Congress on Thursday, which included $886 billion for defense — a 3.2 percent boost from the prior year’s defense budget. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) acknowledged that the request is “among the largest in

The latest Eastern Approaches Podcast between Alex Thomson and Gevorg Virats turns to Ukraine.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine starting on February 24, 2022, has left a terrible path of destruction in its wake.

My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him.  It’s an old truth that has not changed a bit over the centuries. I think, however, it would be more linguistically accurate to say that most people

Since reports about CIA-funded LSD studies came out in the 1970s, psychedelic drugs have invoked images of unethical experimentation and “mad scientists” in the public imagination.