Russian-American relations have gone through some interesting curves on the road recently, leaving many commentators at a loss. Stern warnings, a military showdown, reported plans to deploy the US Navy to the Black Sea (subsequently apparently cancelled), President Joe Biden calling his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and proposing a face-to-face …
Read More »UK has ‘no plans’ to change rapid testing programme, after report of widespread false positives
There are “no plans to halt the universal programme,” the department stated on Thursday. “With around one in three people not showing symptoms of Covid-19, regular, rapid testing is an essential tool to control the spread of the virus…by picking up cases that would not otherwise have been detected.” The …
Read More »BBC, Times smear UK professor skeptical of Syria regime change drive as would-be traitor after his rival’s sting op
The BBC wrote a lengthy piece blasting Edinburgh University Professor Paul McKeigue, a member of a group of academics called the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM). The group seeks to expose Western efforts to shield from public scrutiny a long-term campaign to destabilize and topple the Syrian …
Read More »Biden wasn’t kidding when he said ‘nothing would fundamentally change’ under his presidency. Only the media spin is new
As Biden’s crew sauntered into the White House in January, one could almost hear an audible sigh of relief as the White House press corps, tasked with maintaining laser-like focus on every faux pas, fart, and flip-flop of the Oval Office’s previous inhabitant, understood they could finally relax. Biden was …
Read More »Russian Olympic Committee chief ‘in cell with no change of clothes’ as he ‘warns arrest could damage Tokyo Olympics performances’
The 56-year-old, who heads Russia’s water polo, diving, and synchronized swimming federations, has been charged with large-scale fraud and could face 10 years in prison. The former adviser to the president of the Russian Olympic Committee is set to be detained until May 16 and is currently in a four-bed …
Read More »Ten years on, the US still promotes failed regime-change policy in Syria
Back in 2001, former General Wesley Clark described a memorandum issued by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld which outlined a plan, as General Clark described it, on “how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing …
Read More »‘Ministry of Social Cohesion’? German MPs want to CHANGE CONSTITUTION to grant special protections to minorities
“All forms of group-related enmity should be outlawed,” a manifesto, supported among others by the German Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth and other prominent Green MPs and MEPs, reads as its authors called for the state to be given a special mandate to “protect” the rights of minorities. The existing …
Read More »Racial unrest is distraction from class divide, real change is improving life of AVERAGE black person – ex-footballer John Barnes
The UK and US alike dupe minority populations into believing they benefit when elite representatives of their ethnic groups gain fame and power, even though those elites almost always embrace their powerful new milieux while discarding their downtrodden former peers, Barnes, a major figure in football, told RT’s Ben Swann …
Read More »Senator Ted Cruz ripped for change of flight (& story) after he’s caught heading to Cancun amid massive snowstorm in home state
Cruz allegedly called United Airlines at 6 a.m. on Thursday to change his flight the morning after his disastrous recognition at the Houston airport with his family en route to Cancun. After the senator was lambasted for taking a beach vacation as millions of Texans sat freezing without electricity or …
Read More »Iran warns its ‘peaceful’ nuclear program could change if it’s ‘backed into a corner’
“The leadership [of Iran] has explicitly stated that the production of nuclear weapons is against Sharia law, and the Islamic Republic forbids it, but if a cat gets backed [into a] corner, it may act as it wouldn’t have acted while free,” Alavi said, as cited by Iranian media. If …
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