Footage from the center of the Russian capital, where the unauthorized rally was set to be held on Wednesday, showed riot police erecting barricades, while uniformed officers asked crowds – with many protesters shouting anti-Kremlin slogans – to disperse. Moscow authorities had rejected an application for a protest, and gatherings …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Meditations on US forces firing a howitzer into the empty desert ‘just to say we’re here’
“In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil facility that served as the operational headquarters for the final push to erase the caliphate, in 2019. These days, the only military action there is from US forces firing a 155-millimetre howitzer twice …
Read More »Russian gas exports to Europe surge 30% in 2021 as harsh winter forces foreign consumers to boost energy purchases
The impressive year-on-year surge, to nearly 53 billion cubic meters, is reportedly due to the cold (in European terms) winter season. In March, the shipments totaled 18.2 billion cubic meters, reaching an all-time high, the company said. Germany, the biggest importer of Russian gas, nearly tripled its purchases in the …
Read More »Video evidence of ‘massacre’ by UK special forces in Afghanistan mysteriously VANISHES – report
Saifullah Yar was just 19 when his family were shot dead in an SAS raid on their Afghan village in 2011. When British military investigators flew to Kabul in 2017 to investigate the raid, he told them he was handcuffed and led away from his father, brother and two male …
Read More »Scandal over face mask business deals forces German MP from Angela Merkel’s party to quit
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in Germany, a company owned by Löbel brokered deals between a Chinese face-mask manufacturer and healthcare companies in the cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. The contracts netted the 34-year-old MP a cool €250,000 ($298,000), Der Spiegel reported on Friday. Löbel, who initially defended his …
Read More »German Special Forces soldiers training in Arizona mistaken for TERRORISTS after ‘bizarre’ visit to local hospital
The pair of plainclothed Bundeswehr soldiers turned up at an Arizona medical clinic looking to find out whether Germans would be able to receive treatment there in case of injury or infection with Covid-19. But the mystery men’s visit set off alarms among the hospital staff, German outlet Der Spiegel …
Read More »‘If you want Visiting Forces Agreement, you have to pay!’: Philippines’ Duterte signals freebie for US is over
“I want to put notice, if there is an American agent here, if you want VFA [Visiting Forces Agreement], you have to pay. You have to pay because it is a shared responsibility,” President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday night. “Your share of responsibility does not come free because, after …
Read More »China announces disengagement with Indian forces along disputed border
An agreement was reached on Wednesday for the disengagement of Chinese and Indian troops at the mountainous border region between the two countries. “The frontline units of the Chinese and Indian armed forces began … to disengage on the southern and northern shores of Pangong Lake on February 10,” Defense Ministry …
Read More »Russian Air Force experts publish plan to neutralize NATO forces in all-out war with bombing strikes against key military targets
Writing in a new edition of the Air and Space Forces Journal, two associate professors at Russia’s pilot-training academy set out how any invasion launched against the country by NATO allies would depend on a massive aerial bombardment with warplanes and missiles. Vladilen Stuchinsky and Mikhail Korolkov say, however, that …
Read More »As lockdown kills the high street and forces everyone online, rebellious youth culture is dying a slow death
In Britain, the high streets have been on unstable ground for a long time, as local councils have seen city centres as cash cows, upping parking charges and using armies of attendants to pounce on unsuspecting out-of-towners who stayed ten minutes too long in a space. The decline in the …
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