The damning auditor’s report into the European Union’s overreaching border force, Frontex, has urged the brakes be applied to its astronomical growth, fuelled by a budget of nearly €1 billion and staff target of 10,000 in just over five years’ time, because the agency is just not up to the …
Read More »US regime-change agency NED admits its role in the strife in Belarus, but leaked documents also implicate the UK Foreign Office
As RT reported earlier this week, a pair of Russian pranksters posing as Belarusian opposition figures have duped high-ranking representatives of US regime-change arm the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) into exposing the extent of Washington’s clandestine involvement in the unrest that erupted across the country throughout 2020. Among other bombshell disclosures, …
Read More »Spacecraft for sale: Russia’s Roscosmos agency advertises vehicle used to bring International Space Station crew back to Earth
The module is being sold by Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of Roscosmos created in 1985. According to its website, the purchase would be ideal for any aerospace exposition. It is the first time the state has sold such an artefact, and no price has been publicly listed. “If this object attracts …
Read More »Former AP editor suggests Hamas DID have offices in agency’s Gaza building destroyed by Israeli military
On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted al-Jalaa Tower in Gaza City, a high-rise that housed AP, Al Jazeera and several other media outlets. Israel defended the airstrike, insisting that the tower was used by Hamas and was therefore a legitimate military target. The claim has come under considerable …
Read More »Service with Pride or more Woke-Washing? CIA recruitment ad featuring gay agency librarian prompts backlash
The ad, released on the agency’s official YouTube account in April as part of its ongoing ‘Humans of CIA’ series, features an unnamed employee who describes himself as an “agency librarian” during a voiceover monologue accompanying a sequence of videos showing him at work. A previous point-of-view video in the …
Read More »‘Humanitarian’ agency USAID was ‘key tool’ for Washington undermining the Venezuelan government, official review reveals
On April 16, the oversight division of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) quietly published a review of the organization’s activities in Venezuela from January-April 2019. Its seismic findings were almost universally ignored by the mainstream media, although the Grayzone certainly took notice. During that chaotic period, Juan Guaido …
Read More »Watch out, New York? Russian space agency posts map of where Chinese rocket booster might crash
Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin tweeted out a map of the possible area of impact, anywhere up to 41 degrees north and south of the equator. The errant booster will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere on May 8 at the earliest, Roscosmos said, citing current tracking information and preliminary calculations. The Long …
Read More »Federal judge throws out CDC nationwide eviction moratorium, says agency has ‘no legal authority’ for it
“The Court recognizes that the [Covid-19] pandemic is a serious public health crisis that has presented unprecedented challenges for public health officials and the nation as a whole,” Judge Dabney L. Friedrich wrote in her opinion on Wednesday. However, the moratorium is “unambiguously foreclosed by the plain language of the …
Read More »CIA recruitment video makes viewers wonder if the agency has become a woke joke. Well, unlikely, given its appalling track record
Forget about selling the virtues of illegal rendition, waterboarding, spying on civilians in their homes via their smart TVs, or colluding with narco-terrorists to overthrow foreign dictators, the CIA has weaponised the world of woke in its latest recruitment video. Having swallowed the entire progressive’s handbook in one go, the …
Read More »US agency in charge of nukes approves multibillion-dollar project as Washington urges Iran to curtail its own nuclear program
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the federal agency responsible for nuclear research and weapons manufacturing in the US, has approved the first design phase for the new project. At least 30 plutonium pits per year will be built to “meet national security needs,” the NNSA said in a statement …
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