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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Trump extended serious support for a so-called “hard Brexit” after claiming that May’s accord precludes the UK from reaching a free trade agreement with the US, which might doom her “soft Brexit” deal in parliament and inevitably pave the way for its “hard” variant to enter into force instead.

The Beijing municipal government’s recently unveiled plan to implement China’s controversial “social credit” system is causing quite a stir in the West after being compared to an “Orwellian” plot.

The US’ granting of temporary anti-Iranian sanctions waivers to several countries and the breakaway Chinese province of Taiwan is a strategic move that shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign of weakness.

Trump ordered up to 15,000 US troops to the Mexican border in response to the approaching caravan, with some fearing that he intends to take kinetic action against it.

The accusations that the buddies of Brazilian frontrunner Bolsonaro are illegally funding an election meddling campaign on social media have shook the country’s democracy to the core but are unlikely to have any real impact on the second round this weekend.