Senior Palestinian official, Ahmed al-Deek, said that agents of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service have questioned al-Maliki for around 30 minutes at the Allenby crossing from Jordan into the West Bank on Sunday. Members of the FM’s entourage were questioned for around an hour, he added. Al-Maliki’s special travel permit has …
Read More »No laughing matter: UK Foreign Office contractor sought to recruit comedians & YouTubers to take part in secret Baltic psyops camp
An earlier report revealed how UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) contractor Albany Associates proposed to infiltrate civil society at every level in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania for London’s benefit. The Baltic states, all members of NATO, are considered strategically vital by London and Washington. They are also home …
Read More »Hungarian foreign minister takes Russian Sputnik V jab on camera
The minister posted a picture of himself receiving the jab on his Facebook page on Friday, as he announced that he had finalized the details of another Sputnik V delivery with Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov. Hungary is now expected to receive 680,000 doses of Sputnik V over …
Read More »US foreign policy under Biden is a return to the ‘old normal’ – expect continuation of tradition of subverting democracy abroad
US President Joe Biden’s election heralds a return to business as usual, where Wall Street and large corporations dictate domestic policy whilst the State Department and Pentagon spearhead America’s imperialist ambitions abroad. The US establishment and its allies can cool their nerves. In contrast to Donald Trump, who was accused …
Read More »Permitting protests a ‘thorny issue’ during Covid, says UK foreign Sec, warning of ‘widespread disobedience’ if precedent is set
Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was an “inherently difficult challenge” in balancing people’s desire to protest and share their grievances with the need to control the pandemic. “The thorny issue is how we allow peaceful protest expressing our concern with something as terrible as the Sarah …
Read More »‘Huge middle finger’: YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged AMERICAN tax
The video platform, owned by Google, actually updated its terms of service to tax US creators shortly after the 2020 election, but the change went largely unnoticed in the uproar about censorship. On Tuesday, however, YouTube announced that the taxes will soon be taken out of earnings by creators outside …
Read More »EU has been breaking off relations with Moscow for years, says Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov amid growing tension with Brussels
Speaking at a press conference in St. Petersburg on Monday and citing what he called Brussels’ failed political intervention in Ukraine during the country’s 2014 Maidan protests, Lavrov said that “it was then that the real humiliation of the EU took place.” Since then, Lavrov said, its politicians have been …
Read More »UK foreign sec says Covid vaccine passports ‘under consideration’ just days after vaccine minister calls idea ‘discriminatory’
After being asked by LBC radio host Tom Swarbrick whether a “domestic vaccine passport, where you have to show a bit of paper to go into a supermarket” will be implemented by the government, Raab replied, “Well, it’s something that hasn’t been ruled out and it’s under consideration.” The minister …
Read More »German foreign minister warns scrapping Nord Stream 2 pipeline would cut Russia loose from obligations to Western Europe
Hitting out on Wednesday at critics of the joint project with Moscow, Heiko Maas warned the project’s detractors must consider the “geostrategic” consequences of failing to finish work on Nord Stream 2. The minister warned that those seeking to torpedo the project, such as the US, which has levied sanctions …
Read More »‘Stop calling them the opposition’: Russian Foreign Ministry says Navalny team are ‘agents of NATO,’ not legitimate politicians
“We should stop calling them the opposition. The opposition is something else,” Maria Zakharova said on Thursday to Russia’s Channel One. “They are agents of influence, and I will prove it to you now.” Zakharova recalled how key Navalny ally Leonid Volkov revealed last week that they would no longer …
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