The legislation, which was first introduced in 1989, finally cleared the committee hurdle in a 25-17 vote after hours of debate late on Wednesday night. Passage by the committee clears the way for the bill to go to the House floor, potentially for a full House vote, for the first …
Read More »US to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades of war leaving behind a tortured wasteland and having accomplished… NOTHING
President Joe Biden, in a departure from a policy embraced by four successive US presidential administrations which placed stringent conditions on determining the conditions under which the US might leave Afghanistan, has announced that he is ordering all US military forces out of Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 – the …
Read More »Illegal US border crossings surge to highest level in two DECADES
Worse, the real numbers are likely higher. Three CBP officials familiar with the data told the Washington Post that “nearly 1,000 people per day” are sneaking past border agents overwhelmed by the need to process arriving families and unaccompanied minors. By the end of March, more migrants crossed the US-Mexican …
Read More »Russia backs hunt for Nazi war criminals, dead or alive, as Canada delays decades-long court hearing for ‘Third Reich interpreter’
Helmut Oberlander, a 97-year-old former interpreter for a brutal German death squad that played a central role in the Holocaust, faces deportation to his homeland if a decades-long court battle comes to that conclusion. He has been accused of taking part in the wartime genocide of Russian Jews in Rostov-on-Don. …
Read More »‘Russiagate’ lives on: Donald Trump was a Soviet spy recruited decades ago by KGB, according to conspiracy-loving Western media
Yuri Shvets, a former major in the Soviet Union’s KGB spy service – which disbanded 30 years ago – has told Western journalists that spooks built a relationship with Trump for more than four decades, long before his first presidential run. Speaking to the UK’s Guardian newspaper last week, the …
Read More »Russia looking to bolster oil supplies to India for decades ahead
“This means more oil supplies there on a long-term basis, as well reaching contractual terms for the supply of Russia’s black gold to India for 20-25 years ahead,” he told reporters on Monday, adding that negotiations on the issue are currently underway. “We supply crude oil and liquefied natural gas …
Read More »Poverty is rising fast, but it’s part of a decades-long project which the lockdowns of 2020 will only accelerate
Don’t say you weren’t warned. While ‘centrist’ neo-liberals and faux-progressives lauded turbo-globalisation in the nineties, one ‘insider’ Sir James ‘Jimmy’ Goldsmith – a billionaire financier who never indulged in groupthink – told us that it wouldn’t end well. In his books The Trap and The Response, Goldsmith predicted that GATT and …
Read More »Immunity for YEARS or DECADES: Covid resistance may last much longer than previously thought, says new research
The new study, which is small and has not yet been peer reviewed or published by a journal, has been shared online, on the pre-print server bioRxiv. Despite its relative dearth of credentials at this early stage, it’s being heralded by the New York Times as “the most comprehensive and …
Read More »Anti-free speech, pro-propaganda: How Biden’s media czar endorsed decades-old tradition of indoctrinating Americans
On November 10, presumed president-elect Joe Biden named Richard Stengel as lead transition volunteer for the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) review team. Previously, he’d served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs during the Obama administration, staying in the post longer than any of his …
Read More »Nearly two decades after 9/11, the parallels between the post-terrorist attack ‘New Normal’ & that of Covid-19 can’t be ignored
While both the worst terror attack in US history and the deadliest pandemic in a generation were immediately hyped as the defining elements of the era, the uncomfortable reality is that neither terrorism nor the novel coronavirus pose any risk more severe than taking a bath. However, the media hype …
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