Speaking on Wednesday, one day after the UK’s Covid-19 death toll topped 100,000, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told Sky News that the government had done its best and took the “right decisions at the right time.” “We took the decisions that we could at the time on the basis of …
Read More »German right-wing AfD party goes to court ahead of reported designation as ‘suspected’ extremist group
The party has filed two legal complaints and two emergency motions against the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – a domestic security agency known as BfV – the German dpa news agency reported. The move followed a series of media reports suggesting that BfV could formally declare …
Read More »Pompeo is right that Al-Qaeda is active in Iran. But he’s not looking for military action… he wants to cause problems for Biden
According to Mike Pompeo, it was a tale as old as time – the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism colluding with the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization against the interests of the United States and its allies. These allegations were made yesterday during an address at the National Press …
Read More »Merkel says Trump Twitter ban ‘problematic’ due to ‘fundamental right’ to freedom of opinion – spokesperson
Steffan Seibert said on Monday that it was right for social media companies not to “stand back” when content inciting violence was posted online, such as by ‘flagging’ it, as Twitter has previously done to several of the US president’s tweets. Merkel’s spokesman stressed, however, that the right to freedom …
Read More »After Capitol Hill riots, children rat out their right-wing parents to the media
Days after President Donald Trump’s supporters forced their way into the US Capitol and ran riot throughout the building, police and prosecutors are working to identify and track down members of the mob. DC police have already arrested at least 80 people, and Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine told …
Read More »‘Can we do anything right?’: Delays, wrong accounts, unexplained changes lead to mass frustration over 2nd US stimulus checks
Those who did not receive their $600 stimulus payment on Monday have been using the ‘Get My Payment’ tool on the IRS website to track where their money is, and the various explanations have led to a litany of confusion. Some have reportedly been told that their stimulus checks are …
Read More »Blocking Assange’s extradition to the US is the right decision… but it’s been made for the wrong reason
The battle is over, but the war is not. The decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser not to extradite WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange was highly unexpected. After all, investigative reporting has revealed she has a track record of having approved 96 percent of extradition requests. Very few of Assange’s backers and supporters …
Read More »The BBC’s ‘bias to the right’ is the latest revelation from that famed bastion of objectivity – The Guardian
To the casual observer, the BBC is a typically left-leaning news organization. After all, this is the taxpayer-funded broadcaster that temporarily scrapped ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ and ‘Rule, Britannia!’ from its annual BBC Proms, lets football pundit Gary Lineker spout anti-Brexit, pro-refugee sermons on Twitter, and tells white Britons …
Read More »Hungary and Poland are right to put traditional values before money and resist the EU’s dictatorial plan to push trans rights
The European Union wants to teach Hungary and Poland a lesson by forcing its newly proposed plan to ‘promote gender equality’ down these nations’ throats. What this means is that if a government upholds the view that there are only two sexes – man and woman – it will be …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Right calls Biden a puppet of Xi as he packs his cabinet with China hawks
Prior to the US election I wrote a couple of articles saying that, if Biden wins, he will be attacked by the right as a Xi Jinping puppet even as he escalates dangerous cold war aggressions with China, in exactly the same way Trump was attacked by Democrats as a …
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