The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the U.S. just don’t want democracy in the Arab world, writes As`ad AbuKhalil. By As`ad ABUKHALIL The monarchical-sounding declaration by Kaïs Saïed eight days ago was stunning: the president who was freely elected in 2019 (for only the second time…

The corporate media have been bashing the Cuban government in response to the recent protests in Cuba, while President Joe Biden claims, “We stand with the Cuban people.” But they ignore or minimize the leading cause of economic suffering in Cuba: the U.S.’s illegal and punishing…

Iran has opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman and referenced the “failure” of US sanctions to deter its progress. It will allow oil exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, which has recently seen multiple incidents. The new…

A popular Ukrainian writer, translator and cultural studies academic has claimed she was dismissed from her job at one of the country’s top universities because of her “political dissent” and collaboration with Russian colleagues. Evgeniya Bilchenko, who taught at the National Drahomaniv…

Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data, reports AndreDias.net. According to the ruling, the number of verified COVID-19 deaths from January 2020 to April 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries. All the…

China is urgently warning Britain against “flexing muscles” in and around its claimed territorial waters after the UK confirmed it is sending two warships to be permanently stationed off Japan to patrol Asian waters. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in…

Today it is common wisdom to claim that Russia is returning to the Middle East. Some regard it with hate, the others with suspicion, the third with hope. But before any evaluation according to interests and positions of different players and observers,…

After pushback from the EU, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has vowed to hold a referendum on a law that bans showing children under the age of 18 material related to homosexuality or transgenderism in education, on television, movies or in advertisements. The…

Top military brass demand more and more funding without any real improvements in our armed forces’ fighting power. By Douglas MACGREGOR If Americans pause to listen to the nation’s four star generals and admirals testify on the Hill or speak in public,…

The Shadow State: Embracing Corporations As Surrogates For Government Action Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column on the expanding role of corporations as surrogates for the federal government. The White House is openly calling for greater corporate action to address…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Jewish state’s new government of surrendering its independence to the US with its “no surprises” policy, which he said could tie Tel Aviv’s hands. The government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has…

Several of the men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer say they were entrapped by the FBI, with government documents suggesting that at least 12 undercover informants played major roles in the scheme. A lengthy investigation by BuzzFeed News…

Iraq’s PM To Tell Biden In White House Visit: ‘US Combat Troops Have Got To Go’ Next week on July 26 President Joe Biden is expected to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi at the White House in order to “highlight the…

Victoria’s Secret Capitulates, Will Bring Back Its Fashion Show In A Way That’s “Culturally Relevant” Two years after Victoria’s Secret caved to social justice warriors by eliminating its fashion shows, the company has said it is ready to hold them again. Apparently,…

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AmGreatness.com, The Biden Administration should look in the mirror before casting stones at others… It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast…

Saudi Arabia remained China’s single largest crude oil supplier in June, ahead of Russia, although Saudi shipments to the world’s top oil importer fell by 19% last month amid lower overall imports. In June 2021, China imported 1.75 million barrels per day…

The Chinese foreign ministry has backed calls for an investigation into the Fort Detrick biolab as an origin of the Covid-19 pandemic after 4.7 million Chinese petitioned the WHO to send experts to the Maryland facility. Speaking on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokesman…

Police have confirmed that the head of the Afghan government’s media information center, Dawa Khan Menapal, had been assassinated in Kabul, the country’s capital. The attack has been claimed by the Taliban. “Unfortunately, the savage terrorists have committed a cowardly act once…

First Somalia Airstrikes Of Biden Presidency As Congress Still Questioning Syria Strikes The Pentagon has confirmed that President Joe Biden has carried out his first military strikes on the African continent, on Tuesday launching strikes on Somalia targeting al-Qaeda linked al Shabaab…

Today Hungary, Tomorrow Poland — Will German Pressure Cave Eastern Europe? Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Since it became clear that Joe Biden was going to be certified as the President-elect it’s been clear that Poland would…

Scientists who are skeptical of chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci’s proclamations about the coronavirus pandemic don’t want to go public with their concerns for fear it will affect their funding, Sen. Rand Paul claimed Tuesday. “He’s been there for 40…

“One Step Closer To Dictatorship”: Joe Rogan Slams Vaccine Passports, Warns Vax May Cause ‘Virulent Mutations’ Joe Rogan raised eyebrows during a Friday episode of his podcast, where he railed against vaccine passports and suggested that the vaccine may in fact lead…

US pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson and the nation’s three biggest drug distributors have agreed to pay a combined $26 billion to end the legal liability for their alleged roles in spurring the nation’s opioids crisis. Attorneys general from seven states announced…

Virtue Signaling: What Is It And Why Is It So Dangerous? Authored by Olivia Eriksen via RealClearEnergy.com, If you say the phrase ‘virtue signaling’ nowadays, the chances are you’ll be met with people becoming increasingly defensive, claiming that everything has to be…

Urgent Open Letter For The Information Of: All Citizens Of The European Union (EU), The European Economic Area (EEA) And Switzerland All Citizens Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland (UK) All Citizens Of The United States Of America…

Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect…

Leonid Savin. Ordo Pluriversalis: The End of Pax Americana and the Rise of Multipolarity. Translatedby Jafe Arnold. London: Black House Publishing, Ltd., 2020. ISBN: 978-1-912759-36-1. 470 pages. $28.00. Alexander Dugin, a thinker and leader of the international Eurasian movement, is confident that…

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet. “Bill Kristol…

Despite trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, major American corporations and Hollywood continue to shift to the growing Chinese market. Max Keiser talks with Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com about what this trend means, and whether it’s another sign of China overtaking the United States…

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is calling for children over 2-years-old to wear face coverings at school, even if they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19, exceeding US CDC guidelines as some states ban mask mandates. “Combining layers of protection that include vaccinations,…

Brief information about the true heroes of the victory over Takfirism. The “official” version of the victory over ISIS in Iraq says that the fatwa of Ayatollah Sistani, calling on the Iraqis to mobilize all over the takfiris, was the main motive…

Evergrande’s Liquidity Crisis Becomes Ever Grander Evergrande’s existential challenges are becoming ever grander by the day. While we have long profiled the growing troubles facing China’s largest and the world’s most indebted property developer, which at the end of 2020 boasted more…

Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written…

The Russian Embassy in the United States has warned Washington against plans of deploying US hypersonic missiles in Europe, the Russian diplomatic mission announced on its Twitter account on Tuesday, Eurasia Diary reports citing Tass News. “We would like to remind Pentagon…

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Google-owned YouTube is once again flexing more power than world leaders by deleting 15 videos from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s channel over claims of ‘COVID misinformation’. Videos that were removed included one that discussed…

Emergency workers responding to vast forest fires in a remote region of Russia have revealed they’ve been using climate engineering technology to trigger rainclouds and help fight the inferno spreading over thousands of hectares. The regional emergency services headquarters in Yakutia, a…

Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen explains a little known effort to train Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in propaganda, and how that effort created a blueprint for the White Helmets in Syria. But after that effort flopped, the now-defunct U.S. propaganda arm known as…

Inflation Is Starting To Weigh On Consumer Confidence And Spending Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, Last week US CPI inflation for June rose at a stunning 0.9% MoM, or 11% annualized, placing it among the highest sequential inflation…

UK To Permanently Deploy 2 Warships To Asian Waters In Counter-China Mission London has of late joined Washington in deepening its security ties with Japan, now on Tuesday announcing it plans to permanently deploy a pair of warships in southeast Asian waters off…

By Amy Korte of Illinois Policy Patricia Hill grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood dreaming of one day owning a home. She and her husband accomplished that dream in 2003 when they moved to the suburb of Matteson to raise their…

US Senate Democrats are reportedly preparing to overhaul the nation’s military Selective Service System to require that all Americans, including women, be required to register for the draft. Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has authored legislation…

Russia Announces Bilateral Nuclear Arms Control Talks With Biden Administration Coming off the “positive” June Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, Russian media is now reporting the resumption of direct nuclear talks between Moscow in Washington set for end of this month. “Russia and the…

UK Nightclub Owners Say They’ll Refuse To Enforce Vaccine Passports As A Condition Of Entry Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A UK government minister has again refused to rule out vaccine passports for pubs, while nightclub owners say a…

Walt Garlington An Orthodox priest murdered by the Soviets, Father Pavel Florensky, wrote a few words that are very relevant for the West today: ‘In its extreme, the state of Pharisaism is a spiritual delusion, where a certain state becomes an idol.  At…

The new government—led by teacher, unionist and peasant farmer Castillo—is expected to make many social and economic reforms in keeping with their promises of putting the people before profiteering, and domination by the United States. Socialists Pedro Castillo, 51, and Dina Boluarte,…

The US has rejected Ankara’s demands for a separate Turkish state on the island of Cyprus, after Turkish Cypriot authorities announced plans to defy Greece and the UN by reopening the northern border town of Varosha. Sitting on the border between Greek…

By Victor Davis Hanson via AmGreatness.com. History is replete with examples of nations, successful and not-so-successful alike, that abruptly committed suicide.  The ancient polis of Corcyra devoured itself in a bloody conflict as a collective madness took hold of the island city-state…

The rising technocratic dystopia may appear to carry forward the legacy of social-democracy, though perversely, and therefore the utilization of Green parties and social-democratic parties in Europe to implement these is both predicted and rational. There are two men named Klaus Schwab,…

As if millions of woke effeminate Hollywood voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. As part of Beijing’s sudden “neo-cultural revolution“, the Chinese government has issued new orders to its broadcasters in its continuing crackdown on culture, business and social…

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has berated the Washington Post for not taking a more forceful stance on the Pegasus spyware scandal, and said it was untrue to claim the now-infamous malware can’t infect US phones. The former US intelligence contractor expressed dismay…

Authored by Thorstein Polleit via The Mises Institute, Now and then, it pays to take a step back to get a broader perspective on things, to look beyond the daily financial news, to see through the short-term ups and downs in the…

Facebook has come under fire on social media for being “creepy” after admitting that its controversial new prayer feature uses data collected from the ‘thoughts and prayers’ of its more religious users to create personalized ads. The prayer feature, which was quietly…

If you believe his critics, President Vladimir Putin has been destroying Russia’s democracy, virtually from the day he took office. In fact, he’s been accused of this so frequently it’s amazing there’s anything left to destroy. Recent reports that he has embarked…

A British MP has said the government needs to send a clear message to those seeking refuge in the UK, encouraging them to apply for asylum in the European Union, rather than travelling through safe countries to reach Britain. Speaking to Sky…

Several explosions were heard in central Kabul on live TV while President Ashraf Ghani and other top officials were offering prayers, marking the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. A live television broadcast on Tuesday morning showed a number of…

One of Russia’s oldest airline companies, Rossiya Airlines, has signed an agreement to purchase 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger planes on the sidelines of the country’s annual MAKS-2021 air show. The airline will receive the planes, developed by United Aircraft Corporation (UAC),…

Did Japan Just Warn The US Of An Impending Joint Attack From China And Russia? Authored by Aden Tate via The Organic Prepper blog, Four days before Americans celebrated Independence Day, the number two defense official in Japan offered some strange advice…

Russiagate: Luke Harding’s Hard Sell Authored by Joe Lauria via ConsortiumNews.com, The only interests this leak serves – if it was a leak – are those of Harding and U.S. intelligence, who were hung out to dry by the collapse of the…

The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, running from Russia to Europe across the Baltic Sea, has been finished as scheduled within three years, despite political resistance from the US and a number of European countries. This can be seen as…

After the chaotic exit from Afghanistan, many experts predict the withdrawal of US troops will next be from Iraq and Syria. US President Joe Biden has said the US is no longer in the ‘nation-building’ business abroad.  George W. Bush sold the US Congress and the UK on forcing…

Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport signed 13 contracts totaling $1.2 billion on the sidelines of the MAKS 2021 international air show, the company’s CEO Alexander Mikheyev told reporters. “Rosoboronexport used the MAKS 2021 potential to its maximum,” Mikheyev said. The list of…

  Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Philosophers and analysts use a principle called Occam’s Razor (sometimes Ockham’s Razor) to solve difficult problems. It says that when you are confronted with two possible solutions to a problem, one complicated and one simple,…

Members of the G7 regularly try to impose their rules and standards on other countries, rules and standards that limit sovereignty and infringe on national interests. Transnational corporations are also involved in this geopolitical game. Billionaires from Bill Gates to George Soros…

The First Nations of Manitoba chose the right target when they toppled the statue of Queen Victoria in front of the Manitoba Legislature following discovery of the graves of more than 1000 indigenous children around three residential schools. Their action rang bells…

1 July 4, 1099 the army of the crusaders captured Jerusalem, snatching it from the hands of the Gentiles. We, of course, know that the Latin chivalry did not fulfill its promises to our Orthodox Emperor, and later even made the ugly…

An off-duty US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent who allegedly flashed his badge and gun while standing outside the Capitol during the January 6 riot has been arrested for entering a restricted area with a firearm. The agent, Mark Sami Ibrahim of…

Revolver.news South Africa is disintegrating. After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. The official death toll already runs into the dozens, but in a…

Donald Trump blasted Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) for refusing to kill the filibuster – now the roadblock to partisan Democrat bills – and complained that former allies allowed Joe Biden to steal the presidency from him. “He’s a stupid person,” the former…

Authored (satirically) by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don’t be surprised if bad things start happening. I received another “Our Terms Have Changed” email from a Big…

Haiti’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has agreed to resign. While both the US and UN backed his rule soon after President Jovenel Moise’s assassination, Western diplomats recently changed course and endorsed Joseph’s rival. The interim PM – who has also filled…

The people of Russia and Ukraine can never be divided, and they will never be set at odds, despite the efforts of the government in Kiev to keep the two nations’ populations, a prominent Ukrainian opposition figure has claimed. Viktor Medvedchuk’s comments…

As President Biden and his administration continue to burnish his “tough on China” credentials (which is shaping up to be a “theme” for the White House in July), the US has just announced that members of China’s intelligence agency of hiring cyber-criminals…

A Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences, according to reports in the UK. The player is said to have been suspended by his club. The unnamed 31-year-old was arrested on Friday by Greater Manchester Police and…

Russian investors should be allowed to privatize two to three percent of the country’s forested area to avoid deforestation and increase commercial timber production, head of Russia’s largest timber holding in the Far East claims. Konstantin Lashkevich, the CEO of Russia Forest…

England’s “Freedom Day” Dulled By Looming Food Shortages As “Ping-Demic” Worsens In keeping with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s promise, England lifted its last remaining COVID-linked restrictions on movement and business at midnight on Monday, finally allowing people to move about more or…

Mapping Tyranny: The Countries Where Vaccination Is Mandatory During a speech on July 12, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the introduction of compulsory vaccination for healthcare workers in hospitals and a number of other establishments. The new measures have proved controversial and…

The crimes committed in the name of 9/11 involving acts of war are far-reaching, resulting in the deaths of millions of people as well as the destruction of entire countries. The following text was first presented at  the International Conference on “9/11 Revisited…

Floods Close Rail Lines In Europe For Months Or Longer By Keith Fender of Trains.com, Portions of the rail network in Western Europe could be out of service for months or years after massive flooding that has left hundreds dead across a…

By Patrick COCKBURN The lifeblood of intelligence agencies is threat inflation: exaggerating the gravity of the dangers menacing the public, and calling for harsher laws to cope with them. MI5 director general Ken McCallum did his best to follow this tradition in his annual speech this week,…

Facebook rushed to apologize on Friday after it labeled black men as “primates”. A Facebook spokesperson told The New York Times, which first reported the story, that it was a “clearly unacceptable error” of its auto-generated recommendation system and said the software…

The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored military outfit and even former…

  As Ed Snowden warned in a tweet when the story broke this weekend, “this leak is going to be the story of the year.” Southfront reports that an Israeli company’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones…

More than 200 demonstrations against the so-called coronavirus health pass have been scheduled for Saturday across France. In Paris alone thousands of people joined rallies against what they call a violation of people’s rights. Massive crowds flooded the streets of the French…

Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, After only five months in office, President Joe Biden has already become notorious for his verbal gaffes and mis-spokes, so much so that an admittedly Republican-partisan physician has suggested that he be tested…

UK Defense Secretary Tells Afghans To Flee Across Borders Instead Of Going To Airport Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace issued surprising and controversial statements during a meeting with members of parliament Wednesday. He urged Afghans who previously had been admitted to the…

“They Can’t Arrest Us All” – Sen. Rand Paul Urges Americans To “Resist” Pelosi & The Petty Tyrants Authored by Rand Paul, op-ed via Fox News, Resist.  They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your kids home from school. They…