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Gazprom To Halt Gas Flow To EU Via Nord Stream, EU NatGas Soars To Record High

Russian gas supplies to the EU via Nord Stream 1 will be stopped for three days due to scheduled turbine maintenance, Gazprom says. A three-day stoppage for repairs will begin on August 31, the Russian energy major says. Russian energy giant Gazprom announced on Friday that transit of natural gas to the European Union via […]

Meet A Forgotten CIA Critic Who Presciently Characterized The Agency As A Cancer In 1970 Book – Jeremy Kuzmarov

David W. Conde set the groundwork for Philip Agee’s 1975 whistleblowing account, Inside the Company. In 1970, David W. Conde, an American journalist working in Japan, who had served with the U.S. Army Psychological Warfare Branch in World War II, published a now-forgotten book in New Delhi, CIA—Core of the Cancer. Five years before publication of CIA […]

Impoverishing Ukraine: What The US And The EU Have Been Doing To The Country For The Past 30 Years – Andrea Peters

A the March 2022 gathering of US congressmen to hear the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the event by crying out, “Slava Ukraini”—“Glory to Ukraine”—no less than five times. This expression has become popular in Washington, London, and elsewhere as of late, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also bellowing out the cry in […]