US President Joe Biden has announced a further $800 million in taxpayer-funded military aid to Ukraine, adding to the $200 million promised to the embattled nation on Saturday. Among the lethal items promised to the US ally on Wednesday are 9,000 anti-armor systems, 7,000 small arms, 800 anti-aircraft missiles, 20 …
Read More »EU working on fourth package of sanctions
The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Schallenberg announced on Wednesday that a new package of economic sanctions against Russia was in the pipeline in the European Union. “We have already introduced powerful sanctions. We are working on the fourth package,” he told journalists. According to Schallenberg, the new package …
Read More »Forbes names US official set to collect fattest retirement package in country’s history
President Biden’s chief medical aide, Anthony Fauci, the senior US Covid-19 adviser and national institute director, is slated to receive over $350,000 in annual retirement benefits – the largest in the US government’s history. An estimate by OpenTheBooks.com – a Chicago-based non-profit devoted to transparency in public spending – published …
Read More »US holds off on $200mn military aid package to Ukraine – media
The White House had prepared a package of $200 million worth of additional military assistance to Ukraine, but held off on delivering the aid, NBC News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, the US has other options for helping Ukraine, including a much larger aid …
Read More »NYPD set up police cordon, call in bomb squad after suspicious package found near UN building (VIDEO)
The alert was called in to police at around noon local time. Officers have since cleared a two-block area around the building, which is located on First Avenue in Manhattan. The object was later reported to be a box of flowers, according to preliminary information shared by police with reporters. Turk …
Read More »US touts patrol boats unwanted by its own Navy in $125 million package of ‘lethal aid’ to Ukraine
The Pentagon announced on Monday that the US will send $125 million worth of “lethal aid” to Kiev as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), including “training, equipment, and advisory efforts to help Ukraine’s forces preserve the country’s territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO.” …
Read More »Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package narrowly passes US House, $1,400 stimulus checks included
President Joe Biden’s relief package, known as the American Rescue Plan, was passed by the House early on Saturday in narrow 219-212 vote. No Republicans have voted for the legislation, while two Democrats broke ranks and voted against it. The legislation includes $1,400 checks for most Americans, as well as …
Read More »Pork-filled Covid-19 relief package asks Americans to fund their own oppression while stuffing the pockets of the powerful
At over 5,500 pages (around twice the length of the previous longest bill, passed in 1986), the bill has passed both House and Senate without being read by the vast majority of those voting in favor. Congressional leaders took the must-pass nature of the $900 billion package of long-overdue Covid-19 assistance as …
Read More »US Covid-19 relief package set to IMMUNIZE corporations from pandemic lawsuits, alarms worker advocates
The long-awaited second coronavirus relief package, revealed on Monday, is shot through with problematic aspects that favor large corporations, including liability protection if the employer was “trying to conform to public health standards and guidance.” Opponents have argued this means letting the rich get away with murder as long as …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell offers $28.5mn bail package after lawyers allege dire prison conditions
Maxwell’s attorneys filed a bail application with the US District Court in Manhattan on Monday, offering $28.5 million in exchange for her freedom, the majority of which would be secured by assets belonging to Maxwell and her husband. “Ms. Maxwell wants to stay in New York and have her day …
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