The US military buildup off Venezuela’s coast could help bring about regime change, opposition figure Maria Corina Machado has said. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate this year signaled she would welcome US strikes on the country if they help remove President Nicolas Maduro. Washington has accused Maduro of having ties to …
Read More »Ukraine conflict will likely have no military winner – top US general
The Ukraine conflict can only end through a negotiated peace deal because neither side is likely to achieve its goals on the battlefield, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday. “It will be almost impossible for the …
Read More »There can be no winner in nuclear war – Russian FM
There can be no winner in a nuclear conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday in an interview with RT and Sputnik. When asked about the possibility of the conflict in Ukraine provoking a nuclear war between Russia and the West due to the ongoing attempts by the …
Read More »Oscar-winner to appear in court on sex charges
Actor Kevin Spacey is expected to appear before a British court later this week to face charges of sexual assault and non-consensual activity, the Metropolitan Police announced on Monday. The Crown Prosecution Service revealed the charges against the former Hollywood star last month. Spacey said he would travel to the …
Read More »Crypto ‘cloud wars’ have a winner, and it’s not Bitcoin
The 2021 performance of all three major cryptocurrency media darlings – Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu – was overshadowed by Ether, which surged over 400% this year. While the others were grabbing headlines, Ether was securing market attention, it seems. As of Friday, December 31, it was up 410%, according …
Read More »‘Tone-deaf on the role of journalism’ – Pulitzer Prize-winner on EU regulator’s attack on RT
“Of course” the actions by German regulators to go after the Berlin-based production company look political, Hedges told RT on Friday, comparing it to the US interference with RT America and its removal from cable channels after the 2017 report by US spies. The infamous intelligence community assessment “attacked RT …
Read More »Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner fined for breaking law
The penalty comes just a month after Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Sweden for “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” Moscow’s Basmanny District Court penalized Muratov and the newspaper a total of three times, with the editor-in-chief being fined 12,000 rubles ($164) and the outlet 120,000 rubles …
Read More »Ronaldo in tears, Djokovic goes wild as Serbia score 90th-minute winner to reach World Cup (VIDEO)
Captain Ronaldo was reduced to tears as he sat on the turf at the end of arguably the greatest shock of the qualifying campaign. By contrast, Serbia celebrated wildly just yards away on the Estadio da Luz pitch, where the Manchester United striker and a packed crowd made up almost entirely of home fans could …
Read More »‘Take a bow’: World Cup winner Griezmann runs from halfway line to smash sensational goal… then suffers heartbreak in thriller
The 30-year-old put loan club Atletico 2-1 up at Valencia on Sunday with a wonderstrike worthy of former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi. Fellow former Barca outcast Luis Suarez had opened the scoring for the defending champions ten minutes before the break. But after the resumption of play, defender Stefan Savic …
Read More »‘Racism has always been a scam’: World Cup winner calls for ‘race suicide’, transcendence from black, white & gender ‘categories’
Lilian Thuram, who played a key role in France’s famously multicultural squad winning the World Cup in 1998, has combined his political activism with authoring a new book, ‘White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity’. The 49-year-old critic of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy believes it is “hypocritical” that players who …
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