Juan Oshcu traveled more than six hours from his rural farm, walking and hitching rides, to reach the Ecuadoran capital. For three nights, he’s slept on wooden benches in one of the city’s cultural centers, a temporary base for the thousands of indigenous protesters who have arrived here this week. “We have risen to say, […]
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Turkey Has Legitimate Grievances Against the U.S…
President Trump’s critics see his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria as the product of a dangerous impulsiveness that ignores strategic realities. They argue that it betrays the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the Kurdish force that helped the U.S. defeat Islamic State, while rewarding a dangerous autocrat, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. […]
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The Dark Side of the Caribbean Part 1/6…
The old ex-cop interrupts the conversation. After speaking for 15 minutes with the compulsion of a prisoner during a family visit, he suddenly stops short and says to me and my two photographers: “Can you show me your ID?” We put them on the table of this palm-roofed bar in the municipality of San Benito. […]
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Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since…
In early August I traveled to Russia for the first time, partly out of interest in seeing some of the vast country with a tourist’s eyes, partly to do some journalism in the region. It also transpired that while in Moscow I was able to interview Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry. High on […]
Syria – Turkey Again Invades…
So it begins: “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that a Turkish military operation into Syria has started. Erdogan said on his official Twitter account Wednesday that the operation, named “Peace Spring,” has begun. He said the operation aims to eradicate “the threat of terror” against Turkey. Earlier, Turkish television reports said Turkish jets […]
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Chaos in Ecuador as President Imposes Curfew…
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno announced a curfew Tuesday and moved the seat of government outside the capital, Quito, as hundreds of thousands of protesters paralyzed the country with road closures and calls for a general strike. The unrest comes as the government refuses to negotiate over its cancellation of fuel subsidies, which doubled the cost […]
German Intelligence Reports on Iran’s Illicit Nuclear Activities Met with Silence from European Powers…
Serious questions have emerged about the International Atomic Energy Agency’s and the European powers’ silence regarding a series of German intelligence reports documenting the Iranian regime’s illegal attempts to obtain nuclear weapons technology as late as 2018. Emily B. Landau, director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Project at the Institute for National Security […]
Princess Madeleine, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden’s Children Lose Their Royal Titles…
The Swedish royal family is following in the footsteps of Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle. The children of Princess Madeleine and Chris O’Neill, as well as Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia, have lost their official titles of His and Her Royal Highness, the Swedish royal palace announced on Monday. The five […]
Vatican Police Raid Top Offices in Financial Investigation…
Vatican police raided the offices of the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and its Financial Information Authority, or AIF, on Tuesday and took away documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation of suspected financial irregularities, a Vatican statement said. It was believed to be the first time the two departments were searched for […]
Stopping Brexit Is About Saving the European Union…
Brexit and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another setback after the Supreme Court ruled his proroguing of Parliament illegal. I’m no British legal scholar, and I certainly don’t want to be, but from what I understand the arguments used seem incredibly dangerous. In effect, the plaintiffs argued that if the Prime Minister can […]
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The Magnitskiy Myth Exploded by Craig Murray…
The conscientious judges of the European Court of Human Rights published a judgement a fortnight ago which utterly exploded the version of events promulgated by Western governments and media in the case of the late Mr Magnitskiy. Yet I can find no truthful report of the judgement in the mainstream media at all. The myth […]
FEEL FAMILIAR?: “We’re A Group Of 12-Year-Olds Trying To Make A Difference” – 1992 UN Climate Crisis Redux…
Nearly 30 years before angry 16-year-old girl Greta Thunberg “shamed” world leaders in a tearful tirade at The UN, a 12-year-old girl “silenced the world for five minutes”. In 1992, Severn Cullis-Suzuki – then 12-year-old daughter of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, addressed the plenary session of the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. In […]
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What Is Going on in Iraq?…
Protests in Iraq, which began after a month of coordination on social media, entered the fourth day on Friday. Although some are trying to frame them as spontaneous, evidence has left a trail of foreign involvement in the spiraling violence and unrest. Iraq is going through a different time just days before Arbaeen pilgrimage of […]
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Russia’s Sergey Lavrov: ‘World at a crossroads and a system of international relations for the future’…
These days, the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens up. So does a new international “political season”. “World at a crossroads and a system of international relations for the future” has been written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for “Russia in Global Affairs” magazine, September 20, 2019. The session begins at […]
Venezuelan Border Town Swells with Internal Migrants…
Midday is approaching and the bus terminal in this border town is in a frenzy. Merchants heading for the center of Venezuela hop on buses and load them with sacks of rice, boxes of medicine, cartons of toothpaste and even car tires that they bought in neighboring Colombia. On the arrivals side, exhausted travelers descend […]
Lawyers Appeal Acquittal of Energy Bosses over Fukushima Disaster…
Japanese lawyers Monday appealed a ruling clearing three energy firm bosses of professional negligence in the only criminal trial stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, a court official said. The three men were senior officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and had faced up to five […]
German Police Raid Former NATO Bunker Data Center Used for Illegal Activities…
German investigators shut down a “criminally operated data center” in a former NATO bunker that they claim was used to host sites selling drugs, child pornography and illegal botnets. More than 600 police officers stormed the ‘CyberBunker’ data center in Traben-Trarbach, western Germany, where they seized roughly 200 servers. Seven people were arrested. Prosecutor Juergen […]
From the Balkans to Syria: Inside the “Humanitarian” Regime-Change Network Exploiting Jo Cox’s Death…
The Jo Cox Fund, set up in memory of the slain MP soon after her death in 2016, was established by a cadre of pro-interventionist “humanitarians” with a history of involvement in past regime-change operations and whose connections to some of the world’s most ardent imperialists, as well as the Not for Profit Industrial Complex […]
Gantz’s Blue and White Party Shelves Unity Government Talks with Netanyahu…
The Blue and White Party, headed by former Israeli army chief Benny Gantz, called off negotiations on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party to discuss the prospect of a unity government, according to reports. Gantz’s party, also known as Kahol Lavan, said that prior conditions had not been met for the negotiations. […]
Venezuela Has Bitcoin Stash and Doesn’t Know What to Do With It…
Venezuela’s central bank is running internal tests to determine whether it can hold cryptocurrencies in its coffers, according to four people with direct knowledge of the matter. The efforts come at the behest of state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA, which is seeking to send Bitcoin and Ethereum to the central bank and have the monetary […]