Matthew Ehret via TheCradle.co. Turkey may be where east meets west, but it can no longer afford to straddle two opposing geoeconomic agendas vying to define West and Central Asia’s development. Ankara must choose, and soon… Two destinies are pulling on West…

Russia should expand its list of extremist ideologies to include movements such as radical feminism and LGBT in order to protect children from damaging material, a senior official at the country’s media regulator has suggested. Speaking at a meeting of the Parents’…

Algeria recalled its ambassador to France and accused its former colonizer of “interference,” after French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the country’s government. Meanwhile, a visa row has erupted between the two nations. The ambassador was recalled on Saturday after French President Emmanuel…

Jack Phillips and Ken Silva via The Epoch Times. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a report (pdf) on Sept. 30 on the FBI’s applications to surveil U.S. citizens, finding “widespread” failure that “raises serious questions” and criticizing agents for not fixing flaws spotted…

David William Pear says the era in which the British Empire set out to destroy Germany in 1902 — leading the way to World War I — is frighteningly similar to that of today’s U.S. hostility to the rising of China and…

It’s not only France that is stunned by the Anglo-American skullduggery. The other European NATO allies were also left in the dark, Finian Cunningham writes. The Gallic gall erupting between France and the United States, Britain and Australia has overshadowed the new…

During an Australian TV primetime segment this week, the well-known China-based expert Victor Gao, who is vice president of the Center for China and Globalization and once served as communist leader Deng Xiaoping’s translator, issued a chilling scenario and shock to his…

Renewables Not So Reliable As US Hydropower Plunges 14% The transition away from hydrocarbons is not a seamless as many hope. The latest data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows a significant decline this year in hydropower generation amid historic droughts. The magical…

Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. First year students at the University of Bath have been given armbands by authorities to signal whether they’ve been double-vaccinated, with unvaxxed students having to wear a different colour. “Freshers have been given wristbands to signal…

During their respective addresses to the UN General Assembly meeting this week, Biden and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi both expressed a desire to continue talks focused on the restoration of the JCPOA nuclear agreement in Vienna. This even as Raisi blasted the…

UK Health Minister Sajid Javid announced on Sunday that the government would not be introducing Covid-19 passports after a review on the matter and that it was not anticipating any more lockdowns. During an appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Javid…

In his first ever address to the United Nations General Assembly since taking office on Tuesday, Biden pledged that “We are not seeking the new Cold War, or the world divided into rigid blocks,” in what observers took to be a clear…

As relations between major geopolitical players steadily deteriorate the Balkans are acquiring increasing importance for NATO powers for exactly the same reasons that they were essential to Nazi Germany in the early forties As elections approach, the political atmosphere in the Republika…

How obvious does it have to be before even insouciant Americans realize that there is something seriously wrong about the Covid vaccination program?   One would think we are already past that point even for the mentally-challenged. Consider the many things we now…

By TheLocal Italy. Household electricity bills will rise by 29.8% for the typical family and gas bills will go up by 14.4%, Italy’s energy regulatory authority Arera confirmed in a press release last week. The new national tariffs came into effect on…

Dozens of protesters against vaccine passports have swarmed a food court in New York City. Although the court has a vaccinated-only policy, the protesters were not asked to provide any proof of vaccination. A crowd of some 60 people took over the…

All record a surge of direct Russophobia in the CIS countries. The question is: why now? In fact, the area of ​​interethnic relations is a very delicate topic. Everything is here in any society. Sometimes this takes on catastrophic proportions, up to…

Brian Jones via TheAmericanConservative.com. Early treatment of symptoms is the last remaining enemy of the global Covid consensus…   In his March 17, 2020, article in Stat, Stanford epidemiologist Dr. John Ioannidis argued for a vast reconsideration of the societal response to the emerging SARS-COV-2…

With Iran’s full accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) complete, Tehran now needs to wrangle big trade deals with its new regional friends to offset US sanctions against its beleaguered economy. By Maysam BIZAER “Today, we will launch procedures to admit…

The Macedonian Alexander ‘The Great’ Volkanovski reasserted his dominance in the featherweight division with a thrilling win against Brian Ortega at UFC 266 in a fight which prompted a wave of fanfare from some of the UFC’s biggest names. Volkanovski has been…

In line with the recommendations made by the scientist-based CDC advisory panel (ACIP) earlier on Thursday, the CDC endorsed COVID vaccine booster shots for Americans 65 and older, residents of nursing homes, and adults aged 18 to 64 with underlying health conditions. But that didn’t…

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is such a pariah in US media circles that pundits rejoiced that the unvaccinated president had to eat pizza on the sidewalk in New York City. Never mind that he has natural immunity, as a Covid-19 survivor. MSNBC host…

By M.Roberts via AmericanThinker.com As a member of the U.S. government’s security apparatus, I have witnessed a level of groupthink that would shock even the most accredited academics associated with the leading internationalist think tanks.  As the professional class of international relations…

The “Sustaining Deterrence in Europe” amendment inserted with bipartisan support into the Defense Authorization Act 2022, represents the very worst of congressional intervention in foreign and security policy. The key passage of the amendment, which was introduced by Rep Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), ranking member…

Authored by Matt Welch via Reason.com, What if every one of your non-cash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS? Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to…

“Life Has Not Improved By As Much As We Hoped” – Singapore Outbreak Worsens With 80% Vaccinated Singapore has just reached a level of vaccination penetration that many other developed economies would envy: 80% of its adult population has been vaccinated. And…

Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com. Let’s discuss Germany, NATO, defense spending, the EU, and a return to historical allies highlighted by Aukus. America’s New Strategy Excellent video podcast by George Friedman on Aukus, NATO, the EU, and America’s New Strategy. For background on…

Willem Buiter via Project Syndicate. Across the advanced economies, central banks have rightly prioritized maintaining financial stability and supporting the real economy over fighting inflation with interest-rate hikes. But with financial fragility rife and public and private leverage at all-time highs, their…

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, A phrase which has been coming up more often lately on the podcast circuit is the ‘Network State’ and the idea that our current default governance structure, the nation state, is in the process of being obsoleted by them. In…

The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 26,041 fatalities, and 2,448,362 injuries, following COVID-19 injections. A Health Impact News subscriber from Europe reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who…

An elite team of scientists advising the State Department concluded in 2018 that the ‘Havana Syndrome’ afflicting spies and diplomats could not have been due to a microwave weapon, but their report has just now been declassified. The report compiled by the…

“No Change” Joe: “That Patience Has Been Rewarded for More Than 240 Years”. Who can ever forget the brilliant oratory of Joe “Nothing Would Fundamentally Change” Biden two nights after Election Day last November? “Democracy is sometimes messy,” Joe “No Empathy, Give Me a…

Week three of the college football season in the United States saw the continuation of what now seems a game-going tradition. Once more, some fans in attendance at stadiums chanted “f*ck Joe Biden” at the president. The refrain first was reported at…

Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com. Following America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, her focus has switched to the Pacific with the establishment of a joint Australian and UK naval partnership. The founder of modern geopolitical theory, Halford Mackinder, had something to say about this in his…

Kosovo police have reportedly used tear gas against Serbs protesting the enforcement of new license plate rules at two checkpoints leading to inner Serbia. US and EU calls for all sides to reduce tensions had no effect. Hundreds of local Serbs have…

Oil prices are expected to hit $100 a barrel as early as this winter due to soaring prices for natural gas, along with an approaching cold-weather season that could even trigger the next economic crisis, Bank of America says. The possibility of…

Authored by Matt Stoller via ‘BIG by Matt Stoller’ substack.    How Uber Caused a Shortage I’ve lived in Washington, D.C. for fifteen years, and one of the many unacknowledged changes has been the disappearance of taxis. While the city has good…

The two defining moments of the historic 20th anniversary Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan had to come from the keynote speeches of – who else – the leaders of the Russia-China strategic partnership. Xi Jinping: “Today we will launch…

Here’s a study that wasn’t covered at all by the media, despite it’s chilling findings, which cut against claims by American health experts that COVID lockdowns haven’t led to an increase in suicides. A recent UK study showed 5x as many children…

Russia already has deployed in low-earth orbit a “nesting doll” satellite armed with a weapon that can destroy US satellites vital for communications, command and control and precision targeting, Space Force Commander General John Raymond said on Tuesday. “Russia has a nesting…

On 8 September, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of America’s leading security and foreign policy think tanks, published a study on NATO enlargement. Its main emphasis was on the requirements of NATO’s armed forces and the costs involved. The very…

Prior to the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan last month, Ankara had sought to promote dialogue and cooperation with the insurgent group, in particular, to ensure Turkey maintains a role in the operation of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Turkish…

While speaking to the press this weekend, Joe Biden complained about vulgar signs insulting politicians, and critics have responded by amplifying the trend. In a rambling interview in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Biden at one point made his way from speaking about the 20th…

By Michael Every of Rabobank Salo News Day Regular readers will know I am a cynic. Try writing a Daily for over two decades and not be – and events over the last 24 hours underline that fact. Indeed, you could call…

While the world is still very much in the transition phase with 5G, research is already well underway for the next iteration of the technology standard for mobile broadband networks – 6G. Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes that, according to a whitepaper by Samsung…

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry has given seven United Nations (UN) representatives in the country just 72 hours to leave, declaring them “persona non grata” and accusing them of “meddling” in Addis Ababa’s internal affairs. In a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday,…

Years of economic sanctions and political efforts from Washington have come to nothing, and work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is now nearing the final stages of completion, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a meeting in…

Abu Hani and his family live only two kilometers from the Israeli settlement outpost of Avigayil in the occupied South Hebron Hills. But unlike Avigayil’s residents, who are connected to Israel’s national water grid, Abu Hani and his children are barred from…

President Biden addressed the UN General on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a “point of no return,” and a promise that the United States would rally the world to action. “We will lead not just with the…

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill that would legally protect a woman’s right to have an abortion. However, the vote was a tight one, and Republicans were outraged at its passage. The Women’s Health Protection Act passed the House…

A man who spent several months behind bars for slapping French President Emmanuel Macron this summer has said he has received many letters in support of his “political” action.  Damien Tarel told BFM TV he feels “no regret” over attacking the head…

Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog. “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a…

Texas Governor Gregg Abbott signed a sweeping election integrity bill on Tuesday, after state Democrats delayed the legislation for months when they fled the Capitol in May (and spread Covid-19 throughout Washington DC). The legislature finally approved the bill last week, which…

Year after year, France suffers defeat in African regions. While still considering itself the rightful master of the continent, Paris cannot accept the fact of loosing control in various African countries. The methods have changed, but the main objectives – the exploitation…

France will rethink its concept of alliances and partnerships after the US negotiated a nuclear submarine deal with the UK and Australia without so much as telling Paris, said the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. “At issue here isn’t so much…

Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics.com, The Democratic Party and its apparatchiks in the media keep asking the American people variations on a single question: What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? From the Trump/Russia collusion fantasy…

The Taliban is condemning the United States for violating Afghanistan’s airspace with drones, calling the flights a severe violation of prior US-Taliban peace agreements reached in Doha, warning of “consequences” should they continue. The statements come a week after the Pentagon said it…

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, For U.S. imperial strategists, the notorious Afghan graveyard of empires is not an entirely deadbeat loss. As President Biden noted gleefully and cryptically this week, “China has real problems… it will be interesting…

Via PentoPort.com, It is not very surprising to me that nearly every talking head on Wall Street is convinced inflation has now become entrenched as a permanent feature in the U.S. economy. This is because most mainstream economists have no clue what…

Authored by Joe Lauria via Consortium News. When Western media discusses terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe…

The upcoming British and French defense ministers’ meeting has reportedly been called off, as Paris continues to fume over Washington’s nuclear-submarine deal with Australia, while belittling London as the “third wheel.”  The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, and his French counterpart, Florence…

Construction works on the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline project are expected to start in the near future after several rounds of consultations, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafqat Ali Khan said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “After many years of negotiations, [Moscow…

The new book “Peril” written by well-known Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa has for the first time revealed details of a confrontational follow-up exchange between Presidents Biden and Putin over Biden’s prior “killer” remarks. The controversy stemmed from a Biden interview…

For the past twenty years every 9/11 anniversary, American media goes into a frenzy with news and media outlets expressing America’s pain and suffering caused by “Islamist radicals” to a bubble which is ‘US exceptionalism’. It is also an important date for…

America’s biggest media outlets refused to cover the news this week that the US funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology years before the Covid-19 pandemic – a fact Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied. More than 900 documents were…

Today is Constitution Day. We’re supposed to be celebrating the day the Constitution was signed and presented to the states for ratification. But, as Jonathan Turley details below, it’s pretty hard to celebrate when the Constitution is under such unprecedented attack… Not…

Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have adopted a roadmap for boosting mutual trade and investment cooperation for the next five years, Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development announced. “The pandemic has demonstrated that we can overcome the crisis only…

By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenn_diesen The centre of the world is moving. While once it sat somewhere within the Atlantic, balanced between Europe and…

Former President George W. Bush has used his speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to call out “violent extremists at home.” While visiting Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Bush, who was president at the time of the deadly terrorist…

The US and its allies have withdrawn from Afghanistan but now the whole international community has to deal with the possible consequences from the ensuing fallout, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday afternoon. Speaking to a video conference of the BRICS…

By Pat Buchanan. The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer polls, the party had been staring starkly at the prospect of losing the nation’s largest state and seeing its governor replaced…

The already-wealthy and their minions are unprepared for the Smart Crowd opting out. Clueless economists are wringing their hands about the labor shortage without looking at the underlying causes, one of which is painfully obvious: the American economy now only works for…

Special counsel John Durham has charged a partner at Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, for allegedly lying to the FBI in the Trump-Russia probe. Michael Sussmann was charged with making a false statement to…

Authored by Pat Buchanan. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the country was united behind him. The America First Committee, the largest anti-war movement in our history, which…

If you’re from El Salvador living and working elsewhere in the world, Bitcoin wallet adoption in the country fixes an age-old problem that clunky money-transfer companies like Western Union used to have to solve: getting money back home. According to CNBC, about…

A shadowy plan to capture more than two dozen Russian citizens and extradite them to face trial for alleged war crimes was hatched jointly by Ukrainian and American special services, Moscow’s top security agency has concluded. In a report published on Tuesday,…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband must not be having the success with his daytrades that he once was. Otherwise, we can’t think of any other reason for Pelosi to come out last Friday and state in London that capitalism “has not served”…

Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, tried to downplay the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from invoking the Insurrection Act, arguing that they were mainly…

Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, When construction began on the second Nord Stream pipeline that was going to double the volume of natural gas ships to Europe – most of it to Germany – the European Union wasted no time in…

Authored by Per Bylund via The Mises Institute, The new kid on the economics block is something called modern monetary theory. The name is new, but the “theory” is not. Proponents adamantly claim that it is both new and a theory of economics. To make it appear…

Serbia has been moving tanks and other military hardware towards the Kosovo border, videos circulating online suggest. Tensions between the country and the breakaway region soared after Kosovo banned Serbian license plates. A large number of Serbian main battle tanks were spotted…

Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The Taliban conquest of Afghanistan is poised to trigger an unprecedented wave of Afghan migration to Europe, which is bracing for the arrival of potentially hundreds of thousands — possibly even millions — of…

Nord Stream 2 has gone from pipe dream to pipeline. Despite controversy and opposition, the 1,224 kilometer, $11-billion underwater gas link has been completed, doubling Russia’s gas export capacity through the Baltic Sea. Now, the team behind the construction, having welded the…

By Josiah Lippincott via AmericanMind.org. America’s woke generals and the Military-Industrial Complex must be purged to save the nation… Revelations from a new book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Rob Costa, reveal just how deep the spiritual rot in the military goes. In the…

The Great Reset has been called a conspiracy theory by many, despite specific plans published on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website and partnerships between the WEF and global organizations like the United Nations and World Health Organization An investigative report asserts…

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows…

Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com. Despite promises of improved infrastructure and better disaster preparedness, governments and energy giants are failing to provide backup energy provisions to areas hit hard by extreme weather conditions again and again. As these events are becoming more frequent and…

By Pat Buchanan. In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President George W. Bush’s theme was national unity — and how it has been lost over these past 20 years. “In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks,” said Bush, “I was…

Right now, we are experiencing a new development within philosophy. It is the era of object oriented ontology. This essay will explore the nature of said development, and investigate and predict possible practical outcomes. The main feature of object oriented ontology is…

By Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com. International Man: Every year, the international ruling class—the most influential world leaders, CEOs of big corporations, top academics, and even celebrities—come together at Davos. They discuss topics that interest them and prescribe their preferred policies. What’s your…

The Russian government has signed an agreement of cooperation with several companies in the Far East to construct a new multipurpose cargo port in Vladivostok, state development firm VEB.RF has announced. The deal was struck on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic…

Donald Trump has released a statement blasting the Biden administration, this time over the crisis in Texas where thousands of migrants are being held under the Del Rio International Bridge. In a Sunday statement, the former president blasted the “mainstream media” for…

The complex is expected to be finished by May 2023, on the eve of the general election, and will host members of the Turkish Ministry of National Defence. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the construction of the “Crescent Star” –…

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Beneath the illusory stability of rising GDP, the extremes of debt, leverage, stimulus and speculative frenzy required to keep the ‘phantom wealth bubble’ from imploding are all rising parabolically.   Imagine being at a…

Julie Kelly via American Greatness. The incurable incompetence, corruption, and moral rot of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was on full display last week. Within a 24-hour period, some of America’s toughest female athletes recounted to a Senate committee their painful tales…

Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom, is starting to settle payments for the jet fuel it supplies in China in yuan, instead of in U.S. dollars, the company’s Alexander Dyukov has said. Russian oil firms have sought for…

Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog. “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please…

The airport is 7 kilometers away. It was definitely a blast, though not necessarily at the airport — Murad Gazdiev (@MuradGazdiev) August 26, 2021 DETAILS TO FOLLOW Read Full Article at RT.com Read More

Australia struggles to keep its current six diesel-powered submarines operational; it now wants to build eight nuclear-powered submarines, despite having neither the trained manpower nor the nuclear infrastructure necessary. This is a story of geopolitically driven military procurement gone mad. Australia is…

Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com. From stimulus boom to income thud, the coming “reversion to the mean” of economic growth is happening faster than economists expected. We previously noted that while many mainstream economists believed the current economic “boom” would persist, several factors suggested it wouldn’t. The…

Gazprom Neft will switch from US dollars to yuan and rubles to pay for refueling aircraft flying to or from China, the company’s CEO Alexander Dyukov told reporters on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum. “We are starting in September, and…

The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 should be called what it was – an imperialist war launched under the guise of a fight against terrorism, award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has told RT. Pilger joined RT’s Going Underground program to…

Former US President Donald Trump dismissed as “fake news” a new book saying General Mark Milley secretly warned China of a possible attack, but he said such a betrayal would have merited a treason charge against the officer. “If the story of…

Just two days ago, when Ethereum suddenly broke away from the gravitational pull of its bitcoin correlation, we wrote that “Ethereum Blasts Higher, Decoupling From Bitcoin, As Attention Turns To Unprecedented NFT Frenzy“, and pointing to the accelerating institutional adoption and surging…

Paris has recalled its ambassadors from Washington and Canberra for consultations, citing the “unacceptable behavior” of the US, UK and Australia in striking a nuclear submarine deal that scuttled a French shipbuilding contract. “At the request of the President of the Republic…

The board of governors of the New Development Bank (NDB) has approved the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uruguay and Bangladesh as new members after a round of successful negotiations launched in late 2020. “We are delighted to welcome the UAE, Uruguay and…

Five rockets have reportedly been launched towards the Kabul airport, serving as the focal point of the US evacuation from Afghanistan. The missiles were shot down by an air defense system, media report, citing US officials. Several rockets rained down on the…

Jason Miller, spokesman for US ex-President Donald Trump before launching social media platform Gettr, was detained for several hours in Brazil in what appears to be a struggle between President Jair Bolsonaro and his critics. Miller and several other Americans were in…

A new report by the US Treasury Department showed that the top 1% of American earners dodge about $163 billion in taxes every year, which makes them the biggest evaders by far. Max and Stacy discuss why the rich are getting richer…

Clashes erupted with police in Melbourne, Australia after a crowd of anti-lockdown protesters gathered to demand an end to weeks of draconian restrictions, despite an all-out effort by authorities to prevent demonstrations. The protesters, who reportedly numbered in the hundreds, showed up…

Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds. No nation can produce less of lesser quality, and squander more on infinitely greedy and corrupt elites, all funded by issuing trillions of new units of currency, and imagine that this asymmetry will never have consequences….

Republicans clapped back over the Biden administration’s unprecedented ‘jab or your job’ Executive Order for federal workers and contractors, and a ‘jab or test’ mandate for corporations with over 100 employees. 600,000 postal workers are oddly exempt. The sweeping new vaccine requirements,…

German police bought and used controversial Pegasus spyware sold by the Israeli NSO group in 2019, it has been revealed. The program has allegedly been used for high-profile spying by multiple governments. The explosive revelation was made by Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper…

It’s a peculiarity of the human psyche that it’s remarkably easy to be swept up in bubble mania and remarkably difficult to be swept up in the same way by the bubble’s inevitable collapse. Allow me to summarize the dominant zeitgeist in…

By Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com. From the start of the pandemic, political elites have been repeatedly caught exempting themselves from the restrictive rules they impose on the lives of those over whom they rule. Governors, mayors, ministers and Speakers of the House…

With NATO withdrawal imminent, Pakistan and Afghanistan are caught up in a 22-catch situation. The forever war, famously known as, ‘the war of Terror’ is finally ceasing after 2 decades. Keeping in view the prevailing conditions and historical encounters, the probability of…

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, finally nearing completion, is crucial not only for the big players involved, but also for the small town of Lubmin where the pipe emerges from the Baltic Sea in Germany, its mayor told RT. Lubmin…

Authored by Daniel Teng via The Epoch Times, August saw the highest number of Australians apply to leave the country over the past year. According to figures from the Australian Border Force (ABF), 37,979 applications were received from individuals hoping to leave…

All remaining anti-coronavirus rules, including an obligatory Covid pass, were officially cancelled in Denmark on Friday, making it the first state in the EU to wholly get back to pre-pandemic daily life. Starting from midnight on September 10, the deadly virus is…

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Perhaps more than anything else, the rationale given for the necessity of the state – and the necessity of supporting the regime at any given time – is that it “keeps us safe.” This permeates…

New documents show that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) still owes $137 million dollars to Genel Energy PLC, an Anglo-Turkish company that began exploiting Kurdistan’s oil fields just prior to the commencement of the US occupation of Iraq. The KRG owes the company this…

Here’s How Afghanistan’s Economy Changed During 20 Years Of War Amateur and professional bean counters are starting to take stock of what, exactly has changed during 20 years of war between the US and the Taliban. And while as China and Russia…

Donald Trump didn’t hold back in Monday comments reacting to former President George W. Bush’s speech marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bush lamented the “malign force” of a nation divided and seemed to put events of the tail-end…

Late this week the US and Greece signed a defense pact aimed squarely at repelling Turkish expansion in the Mediterranean, after a year of soaring tensions over Turkey’s oil and gas exploration inside Greek and Cypriot waters. The deal was signed in…

Authored by Jonathan Turley, While Johnny Mandel sang “suicide is painless,” it is apparently also ethical. Duquesne University Psychology professor Derek Hook is under fire this week after arguing in class that white people may find that the ethical option for the dismantling of…

Japan’s popular vaccine minister, Taro Kono, has announced his bid to replace Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the ruling party’s upcoming leadership election, making him the third candidate to enter the race. On Friday, Kono held a press conference and officially announced…

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog. You can’t have a civilization without civility.  We may possess technology that is more advanced than any previous generation of Americans has had, but when it comes to how we treat one another…

The EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has said there are many lessons to be learned over Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover, adding that, as the militant group has won the war, the bloc will have to engage with it. Any cooperation…

Americans finally recognize the military lies that pervaded the success claims of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.  But democracy promotion was an even bigger sham. Afghanistan was Exhibit A for the triumphal crusade to spread freedom and democracy. After the U.S. invasion…

Moscow and Beijing will work together to secure the region around Afghanistan, after Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese premier Xi Jinping reiterated their commitment to Central Asia in a telephone call on Wednesday. In a statement published by the Kremlin shortly…

By Jordan SCHACHTEL New Zealand, the last of the dedicated “COVID Zero” nations on earth, has completed its transformation into a full-blown tyrannical regime, and shockingly, it has come with the consent of the vast majority of Kiwis. Trötter @Trtter6 @janhoglund Meanwhile,…

If TikTok wasn’t explicitly designed to corrupt America’s youth by flooding their developing brains with videos about sex and drugs, then we could certainly be forgiven for suspecting that it was. According to an in-depth analysis of TikTok’s personalized “for you page”…

New Delhi is planning to assist in developing Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) and turning it into an international trade artery, according to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “India will help Russia in the development of the Northern Sea Route and opening…

Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly…

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, was vehemently opposed by architects of the War on Terror strategy, who had used it as a ploy to occupy and destroy in their long- term objective for hegemonic domination of Eurasia and to ‘contain’ China. However,…

The Taliban has staged a military parade in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, celebrating its victory over the US and showing off numerous American-made vehicles seized during the rapid takeover of the country. A massive column of assorted military vehicles, carrying…

A US Marine who was relieved of duty over a viral video blasting the poorly managed exit from Afghanistan has quit the service, saying he’s lost all trust in American leaders while demanding accountability for their failures. The controversial soldier, Lieutenant Colonel…

With former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading President Jair Bolsonaro in the polls for the next Brazilian election (set for next October), the embattled populist leader has called for his supporters to hold rallies similar to the Trump rallies that…

As resistance to President Biden’s booster-shot push grows, it appears the administration is – just as we expected – upping the pressure on federal workers who haven’t yet been vaccinated – while asking private businesses to do the same. According to CNN,…

Taliban “Carrying Out Door-To-Door Manhunt”: Intel Group By Li Hai of Epoch Times The Taliban terrorist group is carrying out a highly organized door-to-door manhunt for people on their wanted list, according to the head of a nonprofit providing intelligence to the…

Many care workers in the UK who were told to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or lose their jobs have left the industry en masse for better paid positions at companies such as Amazon, creating massive staffing shortages. According to the Guardian, which…

The United States has shown since its beginning that it is not a credible country. For the United States, every group, organization, country, and even political figure is supported only as long as it benefits the USA, and when it loses its…

After several Gold Star parents of servicemembers slain in last month’s Kabul airport bombing claimed that President Biden checked his watch several times during a ceremony to honor them, USA Today ‘fact checker’ Daniel Funke wasted no time refuting their eyewitness accounts…

“We Are F**king Abandoning American Citizens” Says Livid Army Colonel In Leaked Afghanistan Texts Encrypted text messages between an Army colonel and a former Special Forces soldier working on a private effort to extricate stranded Americans from Afghanistan reveal that the US…

Japan’s original doom loop – rotating prime ministers who stay on the job for about a year only to resign and leave the country in even worse shape – is back. Less than a year after he was appointed to replace Shinzo…

Media outlets are being shut down. Political opponents are being locked up. A semi-frozen war continues to simmer in the East. And yet, foreign talking heads are still applauding Ukraine’s turn to the West as a great achievement. In a recent article,…

The vast Nord Stream 2 pipeline will soon be pumping supplies from the gas fields of Siberia to consumers in Western Europe now that construction has been complete, despite American efforts to block the project, Moscow has said. In a statement posted…

Journalist Glenn Greenwald teared into several prominent Democrats after they praised ex-President George W. Bush’s speech about the “dangers to our country” rising “at home” – 20 years after the beginning of his ‘War on Terror’. In his speech on the 20th…

The Czech Republic’s interior minister has confirmed that the country will not halt deportations of asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, unlike several other European nations, amid the Taliban’s rapid gains in the war-torn country. Speaking to local media on Friday, Interior Minister…

It’s official: while Q2 was the best quarter for the economy in decades, in Q3 it is now widely accepted that as we wrote a month ago, the wheels came off as a result of a “sudden negative change.” One doesn’t have…

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to deepen cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative promoted by Beijing. “We need to redouble our efforts to advance mutually-beneficial cooperation, including collaboration between the Belt and Road Initiative…

Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, In The Covidian Cult (Part I) and (Part II), I characterized the so-called “New Normal” as a “global totalitarian ideological movement.” Since I published those essays, more and more people have come to see it for what…

Tennis veteran Venus Williams has joked that she is looking for men who don’t “talk too much” after withdrawing from the US Open, while sister Serena’s coach has admitted that her future is in the balance after she pulled out. In a…

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a forum of leaders in Slovenia that “migration must be stopped” in order to preserve Europe’s cultural heritage. Speaking during a roundtable discussion at the International Strategy Forum…

By Michael Every of Rabobank. In a week in which it became clear (to some) in markets that China is serious about the Marxism that decries capitalism as limitless but feckless, reckless, and all-hands-on-deck-less, the US appears determined to show Marxists their…

Seven US Capitol Police officers have filed a lawsuit against former president Donald Trump and multiple right-wing groups over their alleged responsibility for the treatment they received during the January 6 Capitol riot. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims Trump, conservative strategist Roger…

Haiti’s top prosecutor was fired and replaced soon after urging charges for the country’s prime minister for the murder of President Jovenel Moise, though a dismissal letter claimed the move was over an “administrative error.” Chief public prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude was terminated…

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man. (Studio/Canal). Describing the atmosphere in 10 Downing Street last summer, Sir Jeremy Farrar, the infectious disease expert who heads the Wellcome Trust, speaks of a government “vulnerable to what looked like racketeering”. When he…

The CIA is considering establishing a new China-focused mission center, Bloomberg is reporting, at a moment tensions have steadily escalated over months of continued Biden-ordered sail throughs of the Taiwan Strait and other provocative ‘freedom of navigation’ warship maneuvers in the South…

Mounted police officers are commonly used at rallies around the globe, but mounted protesters seem to be an Australian innovation as a man was filmed encouraging people to break Covid-19 rules from the back of a white horse. The epic scene was…

By Vanand Meliksetian via OilPrice.com. The history of oil and natural gas is marred by instability and conflict. The rise of the Eastern Mediterranean as a prolific energy region has increased existing tensions between certain littoral states while strengthening cooperation between others….

Beijing has delivered a “blow to the US’ mentality of strategic superiority,” according to a Global Times editorial, which neither confirmed nor denied claims that China tested a hypersonic missile, catching US spies by surprise. The news of a hypersonic missile test…

Global totalitarian dictatorship! They deliberately do it publicly to send a message, if we can screw these stars on the pitch at front of tens of thousands fans, there is nowhere to hide for you, you simple dumb goyim eaters. Get shot…

The chaos in Afghanistan created by the appalling organisation of withdrawing from the country by the Biden administration has already prompted globalists to begin fresh calls for a new US military occupation of the country, with Obama’s former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta…

Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto has called for limiting Brussels’ dominance over nations on the continent. Speaking to Swiss media, he accused the EU of “extortion” and questioned its authority. “The EU is strong when its member states…

American drone pilots have leaked video of “punitive” and “nihilistic” strikes in Afghanistan in 2019 that led to the killing of civilians, including at least one child, as the US looked for an exit strategy in the two-decade war. The footage, published…

A U.S. drone strike purportedly targeting a suspected ISIS-K vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least 10 members of a single family—including six children—as they were getting out of their car on Sunday. Relatives of the victims told the Washington Post that the strike—which…

Turkey will continue to receive deliveries of the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, and there is nothing the US can do about it, despite Washington constantly threatening sanctions and other possible consequences. That’s according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who told…

By Philip Cunliffe, senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. His most recent books include Cosmopolitan Dystopia: International Intervention and the Failure of the West, as published originally in Spiked. The fall of Kabul to Taliban forces…

One phrase describes the Fed’s pillaging of the nation to benefit the few at the expense of the many: abuse of power. To confess that the fate of the entire global economy now rests on the mumblings of a fossilized Politburo fanatically…

The ideological situation in Russia on the eve of the elections is becoming tenser and tenser. The election result does not matter. But the system itself begins to tremble not from impending risks but entering into resonance from the contradictions accumulated in itself. They are…

By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live commentator Investors want to move past the turmoil caused by China’s crackdowns. But doing so risks overlooking the profound shift as Xi Jinping’s government makes a decisive turn away from free markets, radically altering the dynamics…

Francis Fukuyama recently wrote a fairly objective and balanced article about the end of American hegemony. Fukuyama in the early 90s was clearly in a hurry to declare the worldwide victory of liberalism and the end of history. He later corrected his…

Authored by Joanna Miller via The Organic Prepper blog, Daisy wrote an article recently on the “othering” of the unvaccinated. She went into detail regarding how individuals are blaming the unvaccinated for absolutely everything going wrong these days. I share her concern. There…

The CCP’s push to reshape China’s economy and society has moved from a crackdown on its biggest technology companies, to imposing the most restrictive rules in the world surrounding minors access to video games, while reshaping industries from the private education space…

As the United States continues its descent into tyranny – due in large part to widespread complacency, sad to say – the time has never been more urgent for patriotic Americans to take a formidable stand against it. Sharing articles and videos…