Speaking to journalists at a press briefing on Wednesday, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby was asked about the exercises, which saw elite Russian troops training with their counterparts in the Balkan nation. The wargames coincided with colossal US Army-led drills, dubbed Defender-Europe 2021, held across the continent. One reporter …
Read More »Washington rebuffs French UN resolution urging for Gaza ceasefire as Netanyahu says Israel ‘determined’ to continue fighting
Proposed by Paris on Wednesday, the draft resolution voices “grave concern at the escalation of violence” in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the fighting while condemning all attacks on civilians, including “indiscriminate firing of rockets against civilian areas”, though stopped short of citing any party by name. …
Read More »‘Babuk’ hackers dox Washington, DC police officers in effort to extort ransom for stolen data
“The negotiations reached a dead end, the amount we were offered does not suit us, we are posting 20 more personal files on officers, you can download this archive, the password will be released tomorrow,” the Babuk hacker group wrote on Tuesday, according to Vice’s Motherboard. “If during tomorrow they …
Read More »Iran’s Revolutionary Guard blames Washington for Gulf incident that saw US ship firing warning shots at its gunboats
The IRGC broke its silence on the incident on Tuesday, providing its account of the altercation between the corp’s navy (IRGCN) gunboats and the US Coast Guard ship Maui, which occurred early on Monday. The US warship group has been engaged in “unprofessional behavior such as flying helicopters, firing flares …
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 »New ‘dangerous chemical’ leak detected at NUCLEAR WASTE site in Washington state
The leaking tank, located at the Hanford site in southeast Washington, just 8 miles west of the Columbia River, was announced on Thursday by the Energy Department. A breach in the 75-year-old storage reservoir was suspected more than a year ago but only confirmed recently, one of several decrepit tanks …
Read More »White House reviewing allegation of ‘energy attack’ in Washington, DC reportedly similar to past ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases
Multiple sources familiar with the investigation have told CNN that no conclusions have been reached about what exactly happened, but officials briefed members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees earlier this month about the incident. One National Security Council official reportedly became ill in November of last year, …
Read More »Washington rejected Moscow’s offer of complete reset in Russia-US relations shortly after inauguration of Biden, FM Lavrov reveals
Speaking to journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained that Russia wants to get back on a sound footing in its relationship with the US. “If it only depended on us, we would return to normal relations,” Lavrov explained, noting that the first step would be to cancel the …
Read More »Biden endorses Democrat proposal to make Washington, DC the 51st US state
In a “statement of policy” released on Tuesday, the White House endorsed House Resolution 51, also known as the Washington, DC Admission Act. “For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, DC have been deprived of full representation in the US Congress. This taxation without representation and …
Read More »China denounces US-Japan statement in which Washington vows to defend its Asian partner with NUCLEAR ‘capabilities’
The statement by US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the first foreign leader to officially visit Biden at the White House, was released on Friday. It criticized China, suggesting its actions “are inconsistent with the international rules-based order” and impact “peace and prosperity” in the region. …
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