by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog The French don’t want to think of themselves as miniature capitalists: they want to think of themselves as artists. Or at least artisans. And many of them are, but the calculating technocratic mindset cannot ...
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Turkey invades Afrin: the Kurds lose again
By Aram Mirzaei for The Saker Blog After weeks of belligerent rhetoric and preparations, Turkey finally invaded Afrin last week. It came as no surprise that Turkey would go for this vulnerable Kurdish-held region in north-western Syria first. So how does ...
Read More »Listening to Mattis
by Auslander for The Saker Blog I watched US Secretary of Defense ‘General’ Mattis live on 19 January and I’m reasonably sure a lot of us either watched him or know what he said. Pretty good performance from someone who should ...
Read More »SitRep Sevastopol, Crimea
by Auslander Well, we’ve got four years of fun under out belts now and to say it’s been interesting is like calling a 200 kilo rabbit mildly horizontally challenged. The biggest news is by the end of this year the ...
Read More »Crypto Industry: Bitcoins & Altcoins Down Across The Market after a Short Stint Of Green
Following a volatile beginning of the new year, the crypto markets are again falling throughout the board. The vast majority of the very best twenty coins on CoinMarketCap have been in the red on Monday, Jan. 22, with the largest loss around ...
Read More »How To Stay Healthy When You Sit All The Time
Each one of us is forever on a journey to be healthier and happier, but it can be hard to do so when you’re stuck behind a desk eight or more hours a day. There are all sorts of ways ...
Read More »5 Smartphone Tricks To Make You More Productive
Many people have smartphones but they only use them to surf social media-Facebook, Instagram. What they do not realise is that their smartphone can do much more than surfing the internet. You can use to become more productive. As such, ...
Read More »Six Helpful Hacks To Quit Junk Food
With almost everyone on the go and not enough time in our hands, we are vulnerable to eating junk food. Eating junk food is certainly a bad habit because it causes weight gain and serious health problems. Despite this, we ...
Read More »Signs of a Bad Phone Battery
Smartphones are very useful and we can barely do without it. They perform many functions and make our lives simpler. However, these devices or gadgets can cause a lot of pain and frustration when their batteries begin to decline. It ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – January 22, 2018: Abu al-Duhur Liberation, Operation Olive Branch
On January 20, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) officially launched a military operation in the area of Afrin and started conducting massive artillery and airstrikes on positions of Kurdish militias there. “‘Operation Olive Branch’ has been started on Jan. 20, ...
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