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As the world wrestled with Covid-19 in 2020, another sinister crisis, years in the making, was erupting beneath the radar. That crisis is eco-terrorism. Having been around for decades, ever since ex-Greenpeace activists began attacking commercial shipping vessels in the 1970s, eco-terrorism, in the FBI’s definition, is “the use or …

Last week, photojournalist Dean O’Brien participated in a United Nations meeting to give his perspective on the war in Donbass, Ukraine’s breakaway region in the east. Shortly after the discussion, O’Brien came under fire from the Ukrainian embassy in the UK. However, smears from Ukrainian officials are nothing compared to …

Robert Jackson, who worked as an associate director for the ACLU, alleges that he was demoted and eventually sacked for highlighting the lack of minorities in the organization’s senior ranks and proposing ways to increase diversity.   In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York District Court, Jackson said that the …

Asked about the two Iranian ships, which US officials allege are headed for Venezuela to fulfill a weapons sale inked last year, Austin told lawmakers that he shares their concerns, suggesting they pose a proliferation threat in the Western Hemisphere.  “I am absolutely concerned about the proliferation of weapons, any …

In a statement issued Tuesday, Moscow’s diplomatic mission to the US branded the exercises “provocative,” and said that they would have a profound impact on “confidence-building in Europe.” At the same time, the envoys argued that the actions flew in the face of international commitments to “ensuring the sustainable and …

That’s according to Moscow daily RBK, which got hold of the complaint sent to Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin. News of the letter comes just days after Milonov told radio station Govorit Moskva that debt collectors are “bastards” and “should be deprived of their pensions.” He also said they should …

It used to be that going to the football was a simple affair. Meet up at a pub near the home or away ground for a few pints before kickoff. Enjoy the game. Pie at half time. Enjoy the game some more. Go home. Now, attending a match in the …

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which distributes the Sputnik V vaccine, filed for the jab’s accelerated registration at the World Health Organization (WHO) in late October 2020. Over seven months and several other greenlighted vaccines later, it has yet to receive the verdict from the international health body. The …

Thousands of pages of emails were made public on Tuesday by BuzzFeed, having been obtained through a FOIA request. It took until Thursday for White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to call on a reporter willing to ask about them. Responding to a Fox News reporter, Psaki defended Fauci as …

The messages, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by BuzzFeed, show that in the early days of the Covid-19 crisis, Fauci was eager to learn about laboratory experiments involving SARS-CoV, a strain of coronavirus.  In an email dated February 1, 2020, Fauci wrote to the National Institutes for …