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Biden’s Humiliation: Pentagon Confirms Iran-Backed Houthi’s Shot Down US Reaper Drone Near Yemen – Kristinn Taylor

Iran-backed Houthi’s in Yemen shot down a U.S. Reaper drone near Yemen on Wednesday. A statement by the Houthis was released Wednesday morning D.C. time with alleged video of the shootdown posted in the afternoon D.C. time. Soon after the video was posted a Pentagon spokesman confirmed to reporters that a drone had been shot […]

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NATO’s Proxy War On Russia Through Ukraine Appears To Be Winding Down – Andrew Korybko

Considering all the disadvantageous dynamics that are rapidly converging nowadays, there’s little doubt that NATO’s proxy war on Russia is winding down, though that doesn’t automatically mean that the conflict will soon freeze. The failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Russia’s victory over NATO in the “race of logistics”, the West’s prioritization of aid to Israel amidst […]

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Rape, ISIS, Mein Kampf And other Lies: How Israel Lost All Credibility – Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo

On Saturday, November 11, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed in a press conference that Israel had killed a “terrorist” who had prevented 1,000 civilians from escaping the Shifa Hospital. The allegations made little sense. Even by the standards of Israeli propaganda, falsifying such a piece of information while providing no context and no evidence, further contributes […]

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Israel Wants Either An Apartheid State Or An Ethnic Cleansing Process, Both Crimes Under International Law – Vijay Prashad

On October 30, 2023, Israeli authorities said that they had killed “dozens” of Hamas fighters in the first days of their ground invasion. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Ministry of Health has struggled to keep its website online given the lack of electricity, internet, and attacks. Nonetheless, at noon on October 29, the Ministry of Health said that the death toll in Gaza is […]

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Blame Game For Defeat Begins: Netanyahu Blames Israeli Reservist Uprising For Successful Hamas Attack

Hundreds of army reservists threatened mutiny as part of the protests against Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul legislation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested a possible link between the 7 October Hamas attack and the pro-democracy movement that had protested against his judicial overhaul legislation for months before, Haaretz reported on 5 November. The protest movement included reservists in […]

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Arab-Islamic Summit Highlights Complicity With Israel

Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries called on Saturday 11 October for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, declaring at a joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh that Israel bears responsibility for “crimes” against Palestinians. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) gathered Arab and Muslim leaders for the summit in hopes of pressing the US and […]

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How The United States And Its NATO Allies Sabotaged Peace Between Russia And Ukraine – Larry Johnson

We now know that the United States played the primary role in sabotaging the March 29, 2022 tentative peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine thanks to the recently published article by Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat, HOW THE CHANCE WAS LOST FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT OF THE UKRAINE WAR — AND THE WEST WANTED TO CONTINUE […]

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Stop Drinking The “Political Kool-Aid”, America: Voting Will Not Save Us – John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead

“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.” — A Face in the Crowd (1957) We are one year out from the 2024 presidential election and as usual, the […]

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The Unspoken Elephant In The Room Of Netanyahu’s Intent In Gaza – Alastair Crooke

Is this punishment on Gaza’s civilian population, prompted by desire for vengeance? Or is it an outpouring of eschatological rage and determination? The point about the Gaza crisis is that should everyone agree to stick their head in the sand and ignore the ‘elephant in the room’, it’s easy enough so to do. The meaning to a […]

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The Heart Of Moscow, Russian Nature And Kalashnikov In Your Hands: How To Experience All Facets Of Russia In One Week – Bradley Blankenship 

A few days ago, I returned home from Moscow, where I was a part of the ‘New Generation,’ a program designed for young people aged 25-35 to see Russia firsthand and develop an objective view of the country. For me, that meant an all-expenses-paid trip to a country, the language of which I had been […]

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20,000 Babies A Year Will Be Killed In Ohio Now, We Have To Keep Fighting Abortion – Janet Morana

Ohioans may feel as if they woke up in Kansas this morning. It’s been a little over a year since out-of-state abortion lovers – including filmmaker Steven Spielberg – pumped millions of dollars into a successful effort to preserve legal child killing in the Kansas state constitution. Pro-lifers predicted that laws passed over the years […]

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Does A Now Not So Secret US Military Base In Israel Portend A Wider US War In The Middle East? – Jeremy Kuzmarov

In August, two months before the Tribe of Nova Music Festival massacre, the Pentagon awarded a $35.8 million contract to build U.S. troop facilities for a secret base it maintains deep within Israel’s Negev desert, just 20 miles from Gaza, code-named “Site 512.” Procurement records describe the secret base, located off Mt. Qeren, as a […]

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German Government Increases Arms Deliveries To Israel Tenfold – Johannes Stern

Germany’s complicity with Israel in the genocide against the Palestinians is not limited to expressions of solidarity with the right-wing Netanyahu government. The German government is playing a central role in arming and equipping the Israeli war machine, which has destroyed large parts of the Gaza Strip in the past four weeks and killed more […]

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Demonstrators Block US Vessel Thought To Carry Weapons To Israel

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied at the Port of Tacoma in Washington State on 7 October in an attempt to block a supply vessel suspected of transporting weapons and military equipment to Israel, Al-Jazeera reported. The demonstrators expressed their belief the weaponry on board would be used by Israel in its bombing campaign of Gaza, which has […]

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The Netherlands Votes Next Week With A Wrecked Economy And Deep Migration Worries, And Conservatives Are Polling Ahead – Paul Serran

The Netherlands sits primarily below the sea level, and now, voters fear its economy is also underwater. But the most divisive subject it’s certainly immigration. As most other EU states, Dutch society is paying a heavy price for the suicidal policies that saw an influx in their society of people seeking a better life in […]

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Expanded BRICS Unlikely To Challenge The Petrodollar Soon – Tsvetana Paraskova

The Chinese Yuan may benefit from increased BRICS+ trade. Saudi Arabia’s currency, the riyal, has been pegged to the greenback since the 1980s and the Saudis need dollars to back it. A de-dollarization in trade, including oil trade, would directly hurt oil-dependent economies. The de-dollarization is underway, some analysts said after the BRICS group of […]

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Israel’s Re-Occupation Of Gaza, For However Long It May Last, Is Likely A Fait Accompli

There’s been a deluge of fake news since the onset of the latest Israeli-Hamas war alleging that the Arabs, Hezbollah, Turkiye, and/or even Russia are/is prepared to wage a full-fledged war against Israel in defense of the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s declaration earlier this week that “Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security […]

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Deadly Alliance: Why Has The CIA Decided To Allow US Media To Confirm Its Involvement In Ukraine’s Brutal War Crimes Through Assassinating Civilians? – Chay Bowes

The scale of US intelligence support for Kiev’s murderous operations has been brought to light at a very interesting moment As Ukraine slips quietly from the top of the Western media’s news agenda, fascinating insights into the granular nature of the CIA’s involvement in Kiev’s assassination program are being revealed. By the very same outlets […]

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Lessons From Britain’s National Extinction, Its Deep State Is As Bad As Ours – John Derbyshire

I’m going to speak at length here about recent lessons from Britain, not because of lingering affection for the land of my birth, nor because I think it’s of world-shaking importance in itself, but because of the parallel tracks that recent British and American history seem to run on. We Americans can learn something from […]

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The Invisible Court’s Verdict: You Are Hereby Exiled To Digital Siberia – Charles Hugh Smith

As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a disconcertingly unjust ratio. The human mind is not particularly well-adapted to polycrisis: we struggle to adapt to the drought, then the earthquake knocks down the village walls, then the tsunami pounds what was left, followed by the epic flooding, then […]

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Doom And Gloom In Kiev: No EU Supplemental Military Aid And No Membership Talks For Now – Admiral Kirby Warns US Aid To Ukraine Is ‘At The End Of The Rope’ – Paul Serran

These last couple of weeks have not been good for the Ukrainian war effort, to say the least. Besides the recent advances of Russian Federation forces in various points of the frontline, Kiev’s battle for the public narrative is also in bad shape. In the aftermath of the failed offensive, and in the midst of […]

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Joe Biden’s Washington Post Written With Blood Op-Ed Shows The US Never Learns Its Lessons – Tarik Cyril Amar

The obvious policy proclamation masquerading as a personal take has all the hypocritical tropes of American neocon elites The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has recently published an op-ed. Appropriately released through the Washington Post, it is, of course, really the equivalent of a regime policy declaration – a laying down of the party line, if […]

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Independent Film, “The Zionist Story”: Ethnic Cleansing, Colonialism, Apartheid To Produce A Demographically Jewish State – Ronen Berelovich

The Zionist Story, an independent film by Ronen Berelovich, is the story of ethnic cleansing, colonialism and apartheid to produce a demographically Jewish State. Ronen successfully combines archival footage with commentary from himself and others such as Ilan Pappe, Terry Boullata, Alan Hart and Jeff Halper. “I have recently finished an independent documentary, The Zionist Story, […]

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These Are Western Countries Aiding Israel’s Genocide In Gaza – Jessica Buxbaum

Now into its second month, Israel’s war on Gaza has left the strip’s northern section in shambles and killed over 14,000 Palestinians, with the majority being women and children. While Israel is launching the attacks on Gaza, several Western powers are also involved in the assault behind the scenes. MintPress News takes a deep dive into […]

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Netanyahu Says Israel Will Maintain “Indefinite Security Control” Over Gaza: “Palestinians Will Forever Be Held As POWs In A Concentration Camp” – Ethan Huff

For the first time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that Israel’s true intentions are not simply to rid Gaza of Hamas, but rather to seize control over the entire territory forever. After the mission is complete, Israel will take the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period,” Netanyahu stated in an interview with ABC News this […]

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Is the Zionist Project Over? Applied Zionism Demonstrates Its Radical Extremism – Prof. Anthony J. Hall

What a bitter irony that the Israeli aggressor has so flagrantly leaped over the line to enter and defile its own “Never Again” precaution. Former UK MP, George Galloway, understands the exact implications of this defilement. On 12 November he described as a Holocaust the obscenity of the spectacle of mass murder underway in Gaza. For half a […]

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Donald Trump: “2024 Is Our Final Battle… We Will Finish The Job Once And For All” – Jim Hᴏft

On Saturday, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he addressed an enthusiastic crowd as part of his campaign for the upcoming Presidential election ahead of the Iowa Caucus. The Iowa Caucus is traditionally one of the first major electoral events in the nominating process for President of the United States […]

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How Washington Hawks Helped Create The New “Axis of Evil” – Connor O’Keeffe

In 2002, President George W. Bush cited the now famous “axis of evil”—Iraq, Iran, and North Korea—as he tried to get the American people to look beyond those responsible for the 9/11 attacks and greenlight a global military campaign to “rid the world of the evil-doers.” The result was the $8 trillion global war on terror that continues to […]

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Azerbaijan Once Again Warned About The Threat Of French Neo-Colonialism To The South Caucasus – Andrew Korybko

Just like France crawled back to the US after being backstabbed by it with AUKUS to do its geopolitical bidding against Russia in Ukraine, it’s now doing the same in Armenia after being backstabbed by the US in Niger just a few short months ago. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took the opportunity during his country’s […]

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What Are The Saudis Really Preparing For? – Tom Luongo

Call the roller of big cigarsand bid him whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds…… the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream— Wallace Stevens It was announced the other day that Saudi Arabia and China are opening a $7 billion local currency swap line.  It prompted the highest-trafficked tweet of mine ever.  ?token-time=1702080000&token-hash=NuulmI1kU9Jcc3I1CA2q4aU7msNCVf30CzHLxx4-VjY%3D” alt=””/> Mark […]

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The Globalist Vision: “15 Minute” Prison Cities And The End Of Private Property – Brandon Smith

As a general rule, I find that whenever the public scrutinizes any particular agenda being promoted by governments and globalists their first response is to act indignant, much like a narcissist would do when they are up to no good and they get caught. “How dare you” question their intentions and suggest they might be […]

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New talks On Creation Of Palestinian State Needed – Lavrov

The resolution of the Middle East conflict requires a solid internationally accepted plan, the Russian foreign minister has said A restart of the Israel-Palestine peace process is urgently needed to resolve the conflict amid the current escalation in Gaza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. This will require a collective diplomatic mechanism aimed […]

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Why Are Online Banking Services Suddenly Being Disrupted All Over The United States? – Michael Snyder

Should we be concerned about all of the problems that are suddenly erupting at our banks?  U.S. banks have been shutting down hundreds of branches, they have been laying off thousands of workers, and as I discussed yesterday vast numbers of customer accounts are being unceremoniously shut down without any warning whatsoever.  If all of that wasn’t bad […]

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Bishop Richard Williamson: “The Jews Have A Vision: World Domination” – Kevin Barrett

    Traditionalist Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson is known for forthrightly speaking the truth about sensitive subjects. I don’t agree with everything he says, which is natural and inevitable since I follow a different religion. But I respect his courage and agree with his interpretations of the JFK assassination, 9/11, and the 7/7 London bombings. […]

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Political Magic And The Image Of Victory – Alexander Dugin

‘Magical Reflections on Russia’s Defeat’, which the West has begun to talk about explicitly, advising them to stop, is another name for military-political propaganda with a neat and quite appropriate appeal to anthropology. Propaganda is the magic of war. The reality spell is quite effective: the magician recites a formula that makes the audience believe […]

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Is The Israel/Gaza War The End Of The Liberal-Zionist Alliance? – Robert Stark

  @Aristos_Revenge Twitter Many pro-Israel Jewish liberals are now finding themselves at odds with their previous allies on the left, due to tension over the Israeli Palestinian conflict. In an article in Tablet Mag, Hamas Killed My Wokeness, Alex Olshonsk said that “I was taught that we, as Jews, stand with the oppressed—because we were the oppressed.” Then […]

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JFK Assassination At 60: Oswald ‘Doubles’ Show CIA Hand In Plot – Kit Klarenberg

The paper trail documenting Oswald’s look-a-likes may provide the best proof CIA elements orchestrated the JFK assassination plot. Few things unite Americans like the certainty that John F. Kennedy was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy. This November 22, on the 60th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, polls show the overwhelming majority of US citizens do not believe accused […]

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Western Economies Headed For Collapse If US And Israel Push Escalation Of War In The Middle East – Belle Carter

Author and Russian military expert Andrei Martyanov and free-speech platform Brighteon founder Mike Adams agree that Western economies will be devastated if the United States and Israel continue pushing for the escalation of the conflict in Gaza, simply because their economies would not be able to handle it. According to Adams, the U.S. may have the biggest military budget […]

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My Vision For The New World Order, And Gaza War – Alexander Dugin

  Alexander Dugin New civilisations are on the rise, including Chinese, Islamic, Indian, African, and Latin American. Russia sees them as potential allies and partners in a genuine and equitable multipolar order, says Aleksandr Dugin. The current global order appears to be in a state of transition. What we are witnessing is a shift away […]

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The Globalist Vision: “15 Minute” Prison Cities And The End Of Private Property – Brandon Smith

As a general rule I find that whenever the public scrutinizes any particular agenda being promoted by governments and globalists their first response is to act indignant, much like a narcissist would do when they are up to no good and they get caught. “How dare you” question their intentions and suggest they might be […]

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Who Is Behind Hamas? (II) – Leonid Savin

Part I The fact that the Qatari government immediately held Israel “solely responsible” for the massacre and demanded that the international community “compel Israel to cease its flagrant violation of international law” is also of great significance. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said it holds Israel “solely responsible for the continued escalation due to the ongoing violations […]

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Anyone Who Believes In The Hollywood Image Of The CIA Should Come To Serbia—Where The Agency Has Long Aligned With One Of The Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs – Olga Peterson

Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, CAM readers know that its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination. Below is an interview by a local […]

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This Ain’t No ‘Stalemate’: Ukrainian Frontline Breakdown, Revisited – Pepe Escobar

Evidence keeps piling up, via leaked reports, of an across-the-board breakdown in the Ukrainian frontlines. Evidence keeps piling up, via leaked reports, of an across-the-board breakdown in the Ukrainian frontlines. Previously, we focused on the southern Zaporozhye front.  Now let’s focus on Kharkov, in the northeast. The attached document, fully verified for authenticity, is a […]

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Key Ideologues In Russian-Chinese Diplomacy – Olga Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Olga Bonch-Osmolovskaya Since the 18th CCP Congress (autumn 2012), the concept of modern Chinese diplomacy has undergone significant changes, shifting its course towards the construction of a new ‘diplomacy of the original Chinese great power’ (tese dago waijiao 特色大国外交). It should be said at once that diplomacy is the most conservative sphere of intellectual activity […]

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Europe Powerless Against “Kremlin Propaganda” (Read Truth) – EU Media

The EU’s sanctions are “powerless” against Russian news outlets like RT and Sputnik, Luxembourg’s Tageblatt claimed on Monday. EU-wide bans on RT and Sputnik have done little to stop the spread of “pro-Russian narratives”, Tageblatt has claimed. Despite the EU’s best efforts to sanction and ban Russian news outlets, Europeans can still read RT and […]

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US Using African People For Biological Research – Cassie B.

The Russian Defense Ministry has accused the U.S. of carrying out illegal biological research using African people as a “free clinical resource.” Russian Armed Forces Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Head Lieutenant Governor Igor Kirillov said that these “illegal” experiments are taking place in Nigeria and other African countries. Kirillov also accused the U.S. […]

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Genocide: Number Of Palestinians Killed By Israel In Gaza Surpasses 10,000, Mostly Women And Children

Israel has killed least 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children in air strikes on Gaza in just one month, the Gaza health ministry reported on 6 November. The health ministry also said more than 200 people had died in overnight strikes. “These are massacres! They destroyed three houses over the heads of their inhabitants — women and children,” […]

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The Eviction Notice Is Being Written, And Will Come In Four Languages – Pepe Escobar

The Eviction Notice is being written. And it will come in four languages. Russian. Farsi. Mandarin. And last but not least, English. A much-cherished pleasure of professional writing is to always be enriched by informed readers. This “eviction” insight – worth a thousand geopolitical treatises – was offered by one of my sharpest readers commenting on a […]

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Pax Americana Delusion Crumbles As American Empire Is Heading To A Hopeless End – Nebojsa Malic

As US President Joe Biden argued for spending another $100 billion on Ukraine, Israel and the island of Taiwan in a televised speech last week, he made a curious claim that American leadership is what holds the world together. This statement is obviously wrong. At best, American leadership is limited to what is known as […]

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Axis Of Resources: Gaza War Spells Disaster For Europe’s Energy Security – Mohamad Hasan Sweidan

Following the outbreak of conflict in Ukraine almost two years ago, Europeans imposed a limited embargo on Russia, which holds six percent of the world’s oil reserves and a significant 24 percent of global gas reserves.  This strategic decision forced Europe to hurriedly seek out alternative energy sources, including in West Asia and North Africa, […]

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Payback Time, Your Majesty: Will The British Army Be Brought To Justice For Its Actions In Africa?

While countries around the world are increasing their military cooperation with Kenya due to its strategic location, the UK’s position is becoming precarious due to the crimes of its soldiers In August, the Kenyan government launched an inquiry into allegations of misconduct by the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), whose soldiers have been accused […]

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Ukraine Proxy War & Gaza Genocide Fatally Expose Western Hypocrisy And Moral Bankruptcy

The old Western-dominated order has to go, despite the immense pain and suffering entailed. Western leaders and institutions have brought themselves into unprecedented disrepute over their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people. This is all the more amplified by the NATO proxy war in Ukraine. Not only is Western complicity in war crimes […]

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Life Expectancy Data Shows One Thing: The Experts Are Killing Us – Mac Slavo

According to life expectancy data, one thing is glaringly obvious: the experts are trying to kill us. At the commands of the ruling class, the experts are doling out advice that is harming the general population, and that’s become rather apparent in countries like the United States, where obesity and diabetes are now common diseases. […]

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The Receipts: How The WHO, Gates And Blackrock Want To Take Over The World – Richard Abelson

Op-Ed: Largely unnoticed by the public, the World Health Organization (WHO) is working to significantly expand its powers and usurp far-reaching control through the back door. Alternative for Germany Deputy Chair in the Bundestag Beatrix von Storch reveals the US billionaires behind it and who bought whom. The WHO is currently working on a comprehensive […]

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Does Suella Braverman’s Allegiance Lie With The UK Or Israel? – Vanessa Beeley

Patel caused a British media scandal in November 2017 when she used the cover of a “holiday” in Israel to attend a series of secret meetings with Israeli ministers organized by the Conservative Friends of Israel’s most influential lobbyist, Stuart Polak. In defiance of ministerial rules, Patel had not declared the meetings in advance, so that they could be […]