The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
TOKYO >> As the United States faces security threats across the globe, its close ally Japan has committed to stepping up as a trusted defense partner, but Tokyo’s cyber and information security vulnerabilities remain a concern, officials and experts say.
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) An excellent example of how the U.S. regime works was provided in a news-report by Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept on April 15th, titled “LEAKED NYT GAZA MEMO TELLS JOURNALISTS TO AVOID WORDS ‘GENOCIDE,’ ‘ETHNIC CLEANSING,’ AND ‘OCCUPIED TERRITORY’”. It displayed the fact that the management of […]
No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned.
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.
Fans of video-sharing app TikTok could be left looking for a new platform as Congress voted for a potential ban of the app in the U.S. on Saturday.Lawmakers in both state and federal governments are pushing to get rid of the platform for national security reasons, but what does the ban mean for users?Why Might TikTok Be Banned and When Could It Happen?TikTok is owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance that is considered a potential national security risk to the United States.ByteDance has...
PANMUNJOM, South Korea — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior and blocking U.N. scrutiny of the isolated country’s efforts to evade sanctions over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war. Her trip to South Korea came after Russia...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The way that the U.S. empire expands its control into targeted countries so as to perpetrate coups that formerly the CIA had been doing (such as, most famously, in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973 — all of which replaced a democratically elected progressive leader by a fascist dictator […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) We’ll start with the U.S. Government’s plan to normalize the militarization of police departments throughout the country. The U.S. Government’s Defense Logistics Agency issued on 1 September 2022 a “Frequently Asked Questions relating to the 1033 Program”, which reports that In the National Defense Authorization Act [NDAA] for fiscal years […]
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Congress has approved $113 billion to aid the response. U.S. security assistance to support Ukraine is reinvigorating the U.S. defense industrial base and creating American jobs.
Over 30 countries have imposed restrictions on the social media platform.