Japan’s leading “flying car” (eVTOL) development company SkyDrive is highlighting its strategic move into India, which it has long viewed as market full of potential for its innovative aerial vehicle. #SkyDrive #Japan #India #Gujarat #eVTOL #Hyderabad akihabaranews.com/skydrive-enter…

Biden couldn’t resist the temptation to launch military strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen. In doing so, he brought renewed attention to the fact that the presidential exercise of war powers has become routinely unconstitutional. #Yemen #WarPowers shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/01/13/yem…

The notion that non-Western powers might band together to resist depredations of Europe and the United States has been around a long time, but only now has the power balance shifted so that the era of Western global dominance is actually coming to an end. shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/01/17/the…

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) declared success in its “main mission” of conducting a Moon landing near the targeted coordinates, but it was hardly an unqualified triumph. #Japan #MoonLanding akihabaranews.com/qualified-succ…

In a tacit admission US influence in the Islamic world is in freefall, the Biden administration is seeking the People’s Republic of China’s help in extricating itself from its self-inflicted fiascos in Gaza and Yemen. #China #Yemen #GenocideJoe #Gaza Link: shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/01/29/gen…

While it is on dubious legal and sometimes factual ground, Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” looks to be a political winner in 2024, causing headaches for US Democrats both at the national and local levels. #USA #Texas #OperationLoneStar shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/01/30/ope…

I live in Japan and generally post about issues here but I can’t ignore what is going on in Gaza. This is a fucking disgrace and we should all be ashamed of ourselves that we are letting it happen: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/30…

Polling reveals half of the US citizens who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people, but many don’t view the Biden’s backing of a genocide as a disqualification to vote for him again. #Democrats shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/02/05/man…

Three military dictatorships in West Africa announced a split with a major regional organization which they had helped cofound almost half a century ago, marking an increasingly bitter division in the region, with global implications. #WestAfrica Link: shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/02/06/pol…

Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin.

Tucker Carlson has been evolving into someone whose foreign policy views now run parallel with some tenets of the anti-imperialist left, even if his conclusions have sprung from a different intellectual and moral path. #Tucker #AmericaFirst #TuckerCarlson shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/02/10/the…

The United Nations continues to urgently proclaim to the world that the civilian population of the Gaza Strip is being “stalked by hunger, disease, and death.” But these desperate pleas fall on deaf ears in Washington. #Gaza #GazaGenocide2024 Link: shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/02/12/hun…

There are no words.

North Korea has been clearly signaling an interest in improving relations with Japan, although there remain far more questions than answers. #Japan #KimYoJong #Diplomacy #NorthKorea shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/02/22/nor…

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, joined by Western leaders, vowed victory on the second anniversary of Russia's invasion. He insisted that the war must end on Ukraine's terms. G7 nations pledged continued support. (MP) #Ukraine #Russia #Zelenskyy

French farmers protested at an agricultural show in Paris against European Union green policies, clashing with police. They called for French President Emmanuel Macron's resignation, leading to the cancellation of his planned debate with farmers and retailers. (MP) #France

ECOWAS is lifting most sanctions on Niger after last year's coup, including a no-fly zone and border closures, to ease humanitarian suffering. The bloc urges Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso to rescind their decision to quit the organization. (MP) #ECOWAS #Niger #Mali #BurkinaFaso

The US military warned of an environmental disaster after Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked a cargo ship, causing an oil leakage in the Red Sea. The ship is anchored but taking on water. (MP) #Yemen #CENTCOM #USMilitary

History has examples in which one side won a war and benefited, but it also includes examples in which all sides lost far more than they gained. Two years into the Russia-Ukraine War, it is apparent that this conflict will be counted among the latter. shingetsunewsagency.com/2024/02/28/no-…

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