Oh boy, if you’ve been following the Justin Trudeau scandal surrounding the SNC-Lavalin bribery and corruption case, well, things just got more interesting. Former Justice Minister, Canadian Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, has stated, repeatedly, she felt pressured by Justin Trudeau to interfere in a criminal prosecution to help a business based on politics. Obviously Ms. […]
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Maduro Announces 30-Day Electricity Ration Plan…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in an address Sunday on state television, announced a 30-day plan to ration electricity. The rationing plan, Maduro said, will also help the government deal with the country’s water and communications infrastructure. On Sunday, residents fed up with the recurring electrical blackouts protested by banging on pots, burning garbage in the […]
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House of Commons Rejects All Brexit Options–Again…
Just when you thought the House of Commons couldn’t get more dysfunctional — it does. On the night MPs were thought to be close to coalescing, at a second time of asking, around a Brexit compromise, they defied expectations to yet again reject all options on the table. The result of the second round of […]
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Erdogan on Track to Lose Turkey’s Biggest Cities in Shock Poll Upset…
Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party was on track on Monday to lose control of Turkey’s two biggest cities, Istanbul and Ankara, in a stunning local election setback that could complicate the president’s plans to combat recession. While official vote tallies and Turkish broadcasters put the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidates ahead in both […]
Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy Wins First Round in Ukraine, Faces Poroshenko in Runoff…
Fox News noted there were 39 candidates in the race, perhaps half a dozen of them with significant constituencies, so it would have been extremely difficult for anyone to beat the 50 percent threshold required to win outright in the first round. Zelenskiy ended up with a little over 30 percent of the vote, according […]
Syria Says U.S. Should Give Israel ‘South Carolina’ Instead of Golan Heights, ‘It’s the land of Senator Lindsey Graham’…
Syria’s envoy to the United Nations suggested that the United States offer Israel land that Washington actually had jurisdiction over rather than the occupied Golan Heights. Bashar al-Jaafari, Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, made the remarks at a Security Council session organized Thursday at his country’s request in the wake of President Donald […]
Brexit: Mayday…
Like yesterday, the English language press is preoccupied with a drama that is not likely to drive the outcome of Brexit, and paying less attention to a bigger story. And in keeping, the UK is obsessed with its own politics, and again ignoring clear messages from the EU. The show today is the last-ditch vote […]
BBC Apologizes, Will Pay Damages to Ukrainian President Over Fake Michael Cohen Story…
The BBC apologized to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and will pay him damages over a false report that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to meet with President Donald Trump. The inaccurate article was published in May 2018 and claimed that Poroshenko paid $400,000 to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in order to extend […]
Britain to Hold Third Vote in Brexit Crisis…
Prime Minister Theresa May will put her twice-rejected Brexit divorce deal to a third parliamentary vote on Friday in a renewed bid to avoid a chaotic split from the European Union in two weeks. May’s throw of the dice comes a day after her dramatic pledge to resign in order to persuade her rivals to […]
Globalism’s Last Disgrace: The Army vs. the Yellow Vests…
There are few people in this world more odious than French President Emmanuel Macron after his behavior this week. I’m sure there are child molesters who are worse. But as a man who is pivotal in the future of hundreds of millions of people, his decision to order the French military to quell the Yellow […]
Tanker Hijacked by Migrant “Pirates” Seized by Special Forces in Mediterranean…
Maltese special forces have seized a Turkish oil tanker, El Hibu 1, which had been hijacked by the very migrants it stopped to rescue in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. Five of the migrants have been arrested, and are accused of overpowering the vessel’s 12-man crew – forcing the oil tanker’s captain […]
Algeria Army Chief Demands Two-Decade Ruling President Step Down…
Algeria is now a month in to mass “Arab Spring”-style protests, which have brought a record number of people into the streets demanding the removal of ailing 82-year old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and now it appears the military is prepared to act against the two-decade long ruler who has rarely been seen in public since […]
How a Megawealthy Family with Stake In Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread and Other Ventures Is ReactingtTo New Knowledge of Nazi Ties…
A megawealthy German family with stakes in recognizable businesses like Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Panera Bread announced they will donate roughly $11 million to charity in reaction to new knowledge about how their family business profited off of the Nazi regime during World War II. German newspaper Bild reported Sunday that the family’s ancestors Albert […]
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East German Stasi Spies Questioned for Evidence on Lockerbie Bombing…
Five former officers of East Germany’s State Security Service, known commonly as the Stasi, have been questioned in Berlin over the Lockerbie air disaster at the request of British prosecutors. A total of 270 people died on December 21, 1988, when Pan Am flight 103, flying from Frankfurt to Detroit, exploded in mid-air over the […]
Melting Greenland Glacier Appears to Be Growing Again…
A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds. The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two […]
Palestinians Rush to Stock Up on Food as Israeli Airstrikes Light Up Gaza…
Huge orange flashes were all that were lighting Gaza City Monday night as Israeli airstrikes pounded the coastal enclave, wounding eight Palestinians, including two children. It seemed Gaza’s residents were either trying to capture the bombardments with their cellphones, or trying to calm their scared children as apartments shook from nearby bombings on several empty […]
Cyber Guerrilla Releases New Tranche of Britain’s Taxpayer Funded Integrity Initiative Project…It’s a Doozie!
Having found that Sir Alan Duncan and Frau Deborah Haynes intend to keep on misleading the international community, lie to members of the UK Parliament and feed falsehood to the Media, we have again decided to break silence to protect the informational environment in civilised countries. Here is another project of the FCO’s Counter Disinformation […]
Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain by Yves Smith…
One has to admire the EU’s parry to Theresa May’s request for an extension to Brexit to June 30, which was to offer an extension to May 22 if she could get her Withdrawal Agreement approved by Parliament by March 29. If not, the UK would be out by April 12 unless it asks for […]
Former Canadian Minister Says More Revelations to Come in Scandal Surrounding Trudeau…
A Canadian cabinet minister, who had quit in protest over the government’s handling of a corruption scandal, said she and others had more to say about the matter, indicating more pain to come for embattled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau has been on the defensive since Feb. 7 over allegations that top officials working for […]
Brazil’s Ex-President Temer Jailed, Accused of Heading ‘Criminal Organization’…
Brazil’s former President Michel Temer was arrested on March 21 in “Operation Radioactivity,” a probe of alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant, threatening to delay debate over the government’s ambitious fiscal reforms. Temer was president from 2016 to 2018, taking office after the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, who he served under […]
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