Pro-Trump demonstrators who gathered outside Washington State Capitol faced off with counter-protesters who attended an event labeled“Squash fascists”. Violence followed, with videos on social media showing supporters of the president beating Antifa with American flags. WARNING: VIDEOS MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE Other footage appeared to depict masked protesters using tear gas against …
Read More »Bolivia rejoins Latin American regional blocs opposing US sway under new socialist president
A successor and ally to ousted leader Evo Morales, Arce’s administration said it would renew “full participation as a member country” in the three groups – the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (known by its Spanish acronym CELAC), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Bolivarian …
Read More »As an American who recently received Russian citizenship, the decision has made me cherish conservative values more than ever
In 1995, having just left a cushy cubicle job in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, out of mind-numbing boredom, I received an invitation to visit Russia. It was the dead of winter, so how could I refuse? When the wheels of that Air France flight touched down at Sheremetyevo Airport in the middle …
Read More »American Medical Association declares racism a ‘public health threat,’ prompting both applause & mockery
The new policy rules, adopted on Monday, are aimed at combating racist policies and practices across all US healthcare, according to a press release on the AMA website. “The AMA recognizes that racism negatively impacts and exacerbates health inequities among historically marginalized communities,”said Board Member Dr Willarda V. Edwards during …
Read More »2020 was ‘most secure election in American history’ says DHS advisory council, claims NO EVIDENCE of lost or deleted votes
“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history,” said the statement released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday evening. While the Trump campaign has presented lists of people who allegedly voted while dead in several states, mainstream media outlets have insisted there was …
Read More »Trump was a symptom of American decline that Biden is unlikely to reverse
With former Vice President Joe Biden now having been confirmed as the winner of the 2020 election, many are wondering what comes next. Not much is likely to happen for probably the next four years in terms of major legislation. But there are some changes that could happen, especially in …
Read More »Russiagate crumbles, its key source is named, but American left-liberal media isn’t willing to eat crow or halt new Cold War
Perhaps I brought it upon myself by moving to the US while being Russian, but it’s cold in the rebooted Cold War. Not a day goes by that I’m not asked continuously to lace all my opinions with a stance on Putin, or even erstwhile Soviet politics. I usually make …
Read More »The end of American power: Don’t blame Trump, and don’t expect Biden to save it either
The error in such thinking, however, is to blame it all on President Donald Trump for being some kind of rogue leader, with the implication that if Democrat contender Joe Biden were to win the White House next week, then, happily, the historic decline in US global power might be …
Read More »China’s new sanctions against American defence companies have the potential to cause major damage to the US military
On Monday afternoon, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Beijing would be placing sanctions on a number of US firms and linked individuals over arms sales to Taiwan, with Washington having approved a record sale worth around $5 billion to the island the previous week. The listed companies included …
Read More »Putin says American presence in Afghanistan is beneficial to Moscow’s interests, rubbishes claims of ‘Russian bounties to Taliban’
“I’ll say it once again: we have no need to fight the American presence [in Afghanistan],” Putin said in an interview aired on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. The president was responding to a reporter’s question about assertions in US media, using anonymous sources, insisting Russia had paid bounties to Taliban …
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