During congressional testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, both Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that they had recommended 2,500 troops remain in Afghanistan past the pullout date to prevent the destabilization of …
Read More »‘A declaration of media war against Russia by Germany,’ claims RT editor-in-chief after YouTube deletes popular RT DE channels
Both channels have been deleted permanently, without the right of restoration. YouTube said the RT DE channel was serving a “community guidelines” strike for alleged “medical misinformation,” and that the DFP alternative posting those videos amounted to “attempting to circumvent the restrictions,” triggering the ban. Those “clear” rules are not …
Read More »The Democrats’ deranged ‘defund the police’ movement helped fuel America’s biggest murder spike since the Kennedy era
The FBI’s newly released Uniform Crime Report (UCR) makes for some very sobering reading, and should serve as a wake-up call that something is seriously out of whack on the streets of America. In the same year (2020) that saw George Floyd killed during an arrest by white police officer …
Read More »Standoff over Kosovo ‘going from bad to worse,’ Russia warns, calling on NATO to step up & prevent military conflict with Serbia
In an official statement issued on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that growing tensions between the two sides are going “from bad to worse.” The top official also emphasized that NATO has taken it on itself to keep peace in the disputed region and cautioned that failure to …
Read More »YouTube deletes 2 channels of RT’s sister project RT DE with 600K subscribers over alleged community guidelines violation
The Google-owned video service “has deleted the RT DE channel, as well as our second channel DFP [Der Fehlende Part, “the missing piece”], without the right to restoration,” Dinara Toktosunova, head of RT in Germany, announced on her Telegram channel on Tuesday. The main RT DE channel was barred from …
Read More »NY governor to monitor whether to bring in National Guard medics to replace fired unvaccinated doctors as mandate deadline expires
“The only way we can move past this pandemic is to ensure that everyone eligible is vaccinated, and that includes those who are taking care of our vulnerable family members and loved ones,” Hochul said after declaring a statewide disaster emergency. On Monday, New York hospitals began firing or suspending …
Read More »I’ve lived and worked in the US for 20 years but can’t get citizenship… yet the doors are open for thousands of illegal migrants
I am a South African-born US patriot. My first apartment overlooked the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington DC. I didn’t understand the reverence with which the guards saluted the American flag. I was annoyed when people said, ‘Have a nice day!’ Americans, I decided, were overfed and under-read. Then my …
Read More »Most Americans don’t trust Biden and US government on Covid-19 information – poll
Biden has retained the trust of a minority, with 45% saying they either trust the Democrat a great deal or a fair amount. The survey was taken among more than 1,100 adults and has a margin of error of 3.2% points. The president has continued pushing vaccines onto the American …
Read More »Russian investigators open new criminal case against Navalny & top allies living abroad on charges of setting up ‘extremist’ group
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the country’s federal Investigative Committee confirmed that a case had been opened against Navalny, as well as key associates Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov, both of whom now live overseas. According to the authorities, “it has been established that no later than 2014, Navalny …
Read More »The myth of ‘trans-Atlantic’ unity is causing the EU to be America’s lapdog in its war on Chinese tech
Representatives from the United States and the European Union will meet on Wednesday for the inaugural US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting, a summit which is widely perceived to be aimed at China and was first conceived when Donald Trump was president. The meeting has a broad remit, and will …
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