On May 3, The Times published a bombshell front-page report alleging that Tehran was “almost certainly” attempting to interfere in the impending Scottish parliament elections, “encouraging Scottish separatism,” in order to “attack the constitutional integrity” of the UK. The source of this shocking claim was a preview of a report …
Read More »US registers WORST birth-rate drop in decades, low fertility rate shows current generation below ‘self-replacement’ level
Fewer and fewer children have been born in all of the country’s states for several consecutive years, but in 2020 that number hit a four-decade record low. The number of births was down 4% from 2019, with a total of 3,605,201 births, according to figures published by the Centers for Disease …
Read More »Snowden says Assange prosecution shows Biden’s lip service to ‘brave journalists’ on World Press Freedom Day rings hollow
The famed national security whistleblower took the administration to task on Monday, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken boasted of the US devotion to “press freedom” and “the safety of journalists worldwide.” Assange’s ongoing prosecution is impossible to square with those vows, Snowden said. “This would be more persuasive if …
Read More »This killing of a white cop shows that thanks to US media promoting the ‘racist cop’ narrative, officers are now being targeted
America has entered a remarkable period in its history when politicians and lawyers arguably rank higher in likeability than members of law enforcement. That is quite a reversal considering that police officers once upon a time enjoyed a high degree of street cred. The image of a cheerful ‘beat cop’ …
Read More »Half of Americans see Kamala Harris as unqualified for presidency, poll shows
A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Monday showed that 41% of likely US voters see Harris as “not at all qualified” to take over the responsibilities of the presidency, and 9% believe she is “not very qualified.” The research firm based its findings on a survey of 1,000 likely voters. …
Read More »New malaria vaccine shows 77% efficacy in trial, becoming first to surpass WHO target
The results of second-phase trials of the vaccine, known as R21 / Matrix-M and developed by the University of Oxford in cooperation with pharmaceutical giant Novax, were published in Preprints with The Lancet earlier this week. The researchers claim that the immunization has proven effective in a trial that involved …
Read More »New footage shows Ma’Khia Bryant say she’s ‘going to stab f**k out of you, b*tch’ before lunging at woman with knife (VIDEO)
The 26-second video captured by a garage camera across the street from the scene of the shooting shows Bryant walking down a driveway toward other people as a police car pulls up and the officer exits the vehicle. Bryant eventually charges at another woman and screams, “I’m going to stab …
Read More »LeBron James’ threat to a police officer shows he sees only black and white, not right and wrong
Imagine being a police officer forced to pull your gun and take someone’s life to save the life of another. Most cops never have to do this in their career, so the mental weight of the situation wouldn’t be something that many could identify with. I imagine that there has …
Read More »Europe’s support for Nord Stream 2 shows that US pressure isn’t working anymore – Professor Wolff to RT’s Boom Bust
RT’s Boom Bust spoke to author and host of the Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff, to discuss the situation. He says Nord Stream 2 was spared from the latest round of sanctions on Russia because the US was afraid to offend the Europeans, who already refused to cave in to …
Read More »New York Times ‘bounties’ non-story shows US/UK media has got so used to blaming Russia, it’s basically now doing it out of habit
“A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories.” So ran a headline in the New York Times in August 2016. If it were only a Russian phenomenon, the world would be a much better place. Alas, the Times is far from immune from spreading “false stories” itself. From Walter …
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