Month: May 2019

The new Gillette ad featuring a trans man learning to shave is not for me – and not because I am a ‘cisgender man’. But because I still resent corporations who lecture me, while exploiting causes for their commercial benefit. There is actually little wrong with the minute-long spot itself, starring Canadian Samson Bonkeabantu Brown…

Israel’s energy minister said on Monday that his country had agreed to enter US-mediated talks with Lebanon on maritime borders. The talks will have an impact on offshore oil and gas exploration. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said after meeting US State Department official David Satterfield that Israel agreed to move forward with the talks. Lebanese…

Washington isn’t seeking regime change in Iran, President Donald Trump has said, as the US continues to beef up its military might in the Middle East amid ongoing tensions with Tehran. “We’re not looking for regime change… We’re looking for no nuclear weapons,” Trump claimed at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo…

The World Health Organization has prioritized norm-setting over curbing actual disease, adding burnout and gaming addiction to its International Classification of Diseases and removing transgenderism in a politically correct move. Defining “burnout” as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” the WHO’s definition stresses that burnout is…

Afghan politicians are set to attend a two-day meeting with the Taliban in Moscow this week, AFP reported officials as saying on Monday. The meeting is scheduled to run on May 27-28 to mark the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said the insurgents were planning to send…

Someone is going to have a very difficult time explaining to the insurance company how a 2,385 ton 3-masted sailboat managed to crash into a minibus, parked on land, in Germany. Thankfully, the whole thing was caught on camera. A maritime festival of sea vessels in the German town Bremerhaven took a costly, and unexpected…

In a report that views Russia through the same cracked lens as Washington’s old ideological foe, the Soviet Union, the RAND Corporation reveals that its worst enemy for gaining global dominance is not Russia but the US. Featured in the 1964 dark comedy ‘Dr. Strangelove’, where it starred as the “BLAND Corporation” – the think…

The wife of Russian NHL star Alexander Ovechkin has told fans “to accept defeat with honor” in an apparent riposte to criticism of the team following their world championship semifinal exit at the hands of Finland. A star-studded Russian outfit containing the likes of Washington Capitals star Ovechkin and fellow NHL players Ilya Kovalchuk and…

The EU Parliament’s three-day elections have concluded across Europe. The polls attracted a record number of voters, not seen in over two decades, while exit polls signal the expected rise of right-wing parties is accurate. The turnout for the union-wide elections has become the largest in two decades, with an estimated 51 percent of voters…

Iran has proposed signing a non-aggression pact to its neighbors, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. At the same time, the country is ready to defend itself from any attack, be it “an economic war or a military one.” “Tehran has offered to sign a non-aggression pact with its neighbors in the Gulf,” Zarif said…