In a recent press conference held on the occasion of a visit to Moscow by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about continued NATO expansion, and the potential consequences if Ukraine was to join the trans-Atlantic alliance. “Their [NATO’s] main task is to contain the development of …
Read More »Astronomers discover mysterious space object ‘unlike anything’ seen before
Scientists using a powerful telescope in Western Australia have discovered a “mysterious” object in our galaxy, which lets off gigantic blasts of energy three times an hour. The researchers reckon it could be “an ultra-long-period magnetar,” which has never been observed before. The object was discovered by Tyrone O’Doherty, a …
Read More »The Australian Open will be anything but ‘great’ now that it’s shorn of its biggest star
Despite declarations to the contrary from the likes of Rafael Nadal and Aussie PM Scott Morrison, an asterisk will be permanently affixed to an Australian Open scrambling for legitimacy after the blacklisting of Novak Djokovic. If ever there was a pyrrhic victory, this was it. After nearly two weeks of drama …
Read More »Airline CEO says masks ‘do little if anything’ to stop Covid-19 on flights
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly made the claim during a Senate hearing, Wednesday, on the financial support US airlines received during the Covid-19 pandemic. After Delta Air Lines executive vice president John Laughter and United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby testified that the air on aircraft with HEPA filtration systems is …
Read More »Has the situation at the US border improved under Biden? If anything, it’s worse
President Biden has been repeatedly slammed from the left over his ‘Trumpian’ approach to securing the US border. To learn more about the migrants attempting to enter the country, RT spoke to Benjamin Wein, a Mexico-based journalist who has been travelling with one of the numerous migrant caravans currently heading …
Read More »‘Unlike anything I’ve ever heard’: Pence joins chorus of voices outraged by Biden vaccine mandate, calls it ‘not the American way’
Pence took particular issue with Biden’s tone in his Thursday speech, in which the Democrat told Americans still not inoculated against Covid-19 that his administration’s patience with them was “wearing thin.” “To have the president of the United States say that he’s been patient, but his patience is wearing thin, …
Read More »France won’t accept ‘financial blackmail’ & anything that breaks the law, minister says amid migrant row with the UK
The French minister said on Thursday that “the friendship between our two countries deserves better than postures which undermine cooperation between our services.” France will not accept any practice contrary to the law of the sea, nor any financial blackmail. The statement was in response to what Priti Patel called “constructive talks” …
Read More »The ‘say anything, do nothing’ nature of online activism is abjectly failing to improve the world
If you’re an activist of any variety, you’re living in a golden era. While there have been more troubled periods of human history, there has never been more discussion of sociopolitical problems than in this first half of the 21st century. Fueled by a heady cocktail of 24/7/365 news services …
Read More »Covid jab figures prove the EU is anything but united, with poorer countries left lagging dangerously behind
Lord knows the European Union could do with a win, so it’s no surprise that the video of a beaming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is all over the place as she celebrates the news that 70% of the bloc’s adults have now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. …
Read More »Slavoj Zizek: Can the Taliban have anything in common with ‘political correctness’? Surprisingly, there is one thing…
The Taliban has suddenly changed its stance toward women in public and working places. Their spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, said at a news conference on Tuesday that working women should stay at home for their own safety, undermining the Taliban’s efforts to convince international observers that the group would be more …
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