Russia-Ukraine fallout won’t threaten security of EU gas supply
Even if Russia and Ukraine were to fail to reach an agreement on the natural gas transit through Ukraine onto Europe, the security of gas supply in the European Union (EU) will not be materially threatened. The current ten-year gas transit agreement between Russia and...
Newsweek reporter resigns after accusing outlet of SUPPRESSING story about OPCW leak that undermines Syria ‘gas attack’ narrative
A reporter for Newsweek says he has quit his job after his editor allegedly refused to publish an article about an internal email that raises serious questions about the OPCW’s findings on an alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. “Yesterday I resigned from Newsweek...
Netanyahu demands US backing of Jordan Valley ‘annexation plan’ after Washington denies he ever spoke of it with Pompeo
The embattled Prime Minister wants Washington to approve of Israel's further expansion into the Jordan Valley, just days after he urged Donald Trump not to miss a rare chance to back Tel Aviv's territorial appetites. Benjamin Netanyahu, who fiercely fights for...
‘I plan to seek justice’: Max Blumenthal vows legal action after US govt drops ‘bogus’ assault charges against him
The US government has dropped all charges against Max Blumenthal, after arresting the journalist over a dubious 5-month-old warrant. But the Grayzone editor says the case is far from closed. Blumenthal was detained for nearly two days after police raided his...
Group of Muslims beat & rob Christian street preacher in Norway, threaten to kill him if he does not convert to Islam
A Christian man preaching in the streets of a Norwegian city was beaten and robbed after being asked for spiritual healing by a group of Muslim men. He was also threatened with death if he did not convert to Islam. Roar Flottum was preaching and praying for the sick...
‘Came out of retirement for this?’ Giant UFC heavyweight Stefan Struve’s comeback marred by TWO low blows, loses by TKO
'The Skyscraper' Stefan Struve's decision to make a UFC comeback didn't quite go as planned as he was caught with TWO low blows by rival fighter Ben Rothwell in Washington DC on Saturday night before losing the fight via TKO. As anyone who has ever felt this very...
Andy Ruiz Jr vs Anthony Joshua 2 in pictures: 16 great shots from the ‘Clash on the Dunes’ as Joshua reclaims his titles (PHOTOS)
Anthony Joshua produced a superb display to outpoint Andy Ruiz with ease in their heavyweight title rematch in Saudi Arabia. Check out 16 great shots of the event, courtesy of Global Look Press snapper Oliver Weiken. Joshua delivered a dominant display in the desert...
Sports lawyer hopes WADA makes fair decision in ‘political fight’ over doping in Russian sports
The World Anti-Doping Agency should listen to both sides before punishing Russian athletes for something they have no control over, a prominent Swiss sports lawyer told RT, adding that the scandal seems politically motivated. WADA has accused the Russian anti-doping...
Mars will wait! Neil deGrasse Tyson trolls Musk, advising him to drop Tesla & focus on developing WARP DRIVE
Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has jokingly called on Elon Musk to pour all his resources into creating ‘warp drive’ technology. His suggestion resulted in dozens of memes being launched into internet orbit. In a tweet that received more than 120,000...
Iran unveils budget plan to fend off US sanctions by cutting dependence on oil
Tehran will gradually reduce reliance on its oil reserves, ranked the third largest in the world, as it is set to resist the sweeping US sanctions that seek to curb Iranian crude exports to zero. President Hassan Rouhani has pitched a budget bill to parliament,...
Multiple Cops Arrested in Kentucky For Running a Steroid Ring
A cop in Kentucky, who worked as school resource officer, was arrested and charged with conspiracy for running a steroid ring with a fellow...
School Cop Gets 10 Years in Prison for Violently Raping 12yo Girl, Filming It
A Texas school police officer, who was tasked with protecting students, has been sentenced to prison for 10 years for unspeakable crimes against a 12-year-old...
Isolated Incident? 4 Cops in 1 Dept Arrested in 6 Months for Beating Women, Even Pregnant Ones
Illustrating just how prevalent domestic violence is among police officers, four cops in a single department have been arrested for it in just six...
WATCH: Innocent People Killed as Cops Use Civilians as Literal Human Shields in Shoot Out
A tragedy unfolded in Florida as armed robbers entered into a shoot out with police who used innocent bystanders as human...
Bad Apple? Entire Officer Training Class Gladly Takes Photo Giving Nazi Salute
The entire graduating class from the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation were all pictured raising their hands giving the Nazi...
WATCH: Cop Gives No Warning Before Shooting 15yo Boy in the Back, Killing Him
Harrowing footage shows a California cop — without warning — open fire on a fleeing 15-year-old boy, killing him as he ran...
WATCH: Cop Responds to Unarmed Mentally Ill Man’s Crisis by Shooting His Innocent Mother
A dramatic video shows an untrained deputy escalate an otherwise calm situation involving a mentally ill man to the point of shooting his...
Gov’t Refusing Louisiana Baby Medicine that Could Cure His Deadly Disease
A 16-month-old baby boy is being denied a drug treatment by government insurance which has been shown to cure the deadly disease he suffers...
WATCH: Cop Smashes Handcuffed Woman into Concrete, Shattering Her Teeth Over Parking Ticket
The taxpayers of North Carolina will be shelling out $400,000 after video showed a cop savagely attack a handcuffed woman over a parking ticket...
Fmr Israeli Intel Official Claims Epstein, Maxwell Worked for Israel, Used Pedophilia to Blackmail Politicians
A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in...
Who Is Making US Foreign Policy?
President Trump campaigned and was elected on an anti-neocon platform: he promised to reduce direct US involvement in areas where, he believed, America had no vital strategic interest, including in Ukraine. He also promised a new détente (“cooperation”) with Moscow....
Frenchmen. To Arms!
Citizens of France. To arms! Man the ramparts. The American barbarians are coming. They shall not pass! Le Trump’s threat to France’s splendid wines and Roquefort cheese are the gravest menace France has faced since the Germans invaded this fair land in 1914. ...
The Campaign To Lie America Into World War II
Seventy-eight years ago, on December 6, 1941, the United States was at peace with world. The next morning, local time, the Empire of Japan bombed the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four days later, Nazi Germany issued a declaration of war against the United...
The Saudi-US Partnership: Evil Begets Evil
Those who knowingly conspire with evil are evil themselves, and because this truth is irrefutable, hiding behind the false mask of exceptionalism only deepens that evil. Conspiracy to commit evil abounds, but some partnerships seem to have sprung out of the bowels of...
How To Avoid Civil War: With Decentralization, Nullification, and Secession
It’s becoming more and more apparent that the United States will not be going back to “business as usual” after Donald Trump leaves office, and it is easy to imagine that the anti-Trump parties will use their return to power as an opportunity to settle scores against...
Truth Be Told
How do Americans discern truth from fiction in this era of fake news? By now, any American who doesn’t have their head in the sand should have lost any faith they ever had in the news media as the 4th estate of government, the de facto examiner and investigator of...
The Crisis ‘Medicare for All’ Will Cause
International Man: Medical-care spending in the United States is more than double that of any other developed country. The extra spending doesn’t amount to better quality care or a healthier American population. What’s your take on the US system as a whole? Doug...
We Are All George Zimmerman Now
Most people know my name, George Zimmerman, largely due to negative stereotypes propagated by the media as a result of the 2012 incident in Sanford, Florida, in which Trayvon Martin died. Unfortunately, most people don’t recall the fact that I was exonerated of any...
Kamala Harris and the Democrats’ Identity Crack-Up
In theory, Kamala Harris was the perfect presidential candidate for today’s Democratic Party. She is black, female and popular in California, the deepest blue of the Democratic blue states. She would be ideally positioned, some said, to reunite the ‘Obama coalition’,...
Obama on Mount Rushmore:
I am on the emailing lists of both the Republican and Democratic Parties because I like to know what the enemies of the American people are up to. Recently there has been a lot of squeaking from the GOP in an attempt to put lipstick on the Trump pig, but the truly...
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Today in Supreme Court History: December 8, 1902
12/8/1902: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes takes the oath. Justice Oliver Wendell...
Hongkongers Are Fighting To Keep What They Have
The protests in Hong Kong, which started in early June, were sparked by a bill that would have allowed China and Taiwan to extradite suspected criminals residing in Hong Kong. But the protests are about much more than that. The extradition bill was inspired by Chan...
The Scripted Impeachment Proceedings
Mark Leibovich and Nicholas Fando wrote a behind-the-scenes profile in the Times about the impeachment process. We learn a few useful nuggets. First, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have the final say on the precise wording of two to four articles of impeachment: She is the...
Death Treat
"Federal Jury Convicts Black Mountain, N.C. Man For Communicating A Death Treat On Twitter," reads the headline of a Justice Department press release. (Here's an archive copy in case the press release is corrected.) Typos happen—I've made plenty in my posts—and this...
Interesting Sealing Decision in Divorce-Related Case of a Powerful Washington Public Affairs Consultant
The opinion (extracted below) was handed down Thursday by Judge David A. Oblon of the Virginia Circuit Court; the defendant, Adam Falkoff, was described in Washington Magazine's 2018 Power 100 list (which you'll see is relevant to the opinion) thus: "In a tumultuous...
Did Burger King Tell a Whopper About Its Meatless Burger?
The fast-food chain Burger King was sued last month by a man who claims the company's plant-based burgers are "contaminated" with meat. Phillip Williams, a vegan who filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami, says he ate a plant-based Impossible Whopper earlier this...
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On Day 5 of Reason's annual webathon, in which we ask our most frequent consumers to throw some end-of-the-year tax-deductible scrip into our tip jar in exchange for some sweet swag, we are going to make an appeal based on our half-century of infuriating but impactful...
Today in Supreme Court History: December 7, 1941
12/7/1941: Pearl Harbor is attacked....
Socialism Killed My Father
I was working in Silicon Valley when my mother called me from back home in Caracas with some alarming news: My father had experienced sudden kidney failure. I immediately flew from San Francisco to Miami, where I had to wait two days until I could get one of the few...
Innocent People Killed When Cops Use Civilians as Shields During UPS Truck Chase
In what appears set to become a series of shots heard round the world, four people ended up dead at the hands of police after a hijacked UPS truck led law enforcement on an erratic chase in Miramar, Florida. The deceased include two suspects, a UPS driver who has been...
Epstein Was Running Elite Blackmail Operation, French Police Are Shooting People at Protests
New evidence emerges that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence operation to blackmail politicians. The post Epstein Was Running Elite Blackmail Operation, French Police Are Shooting People at Protests appeared first on We Are...
Major YouTube Changes Going To Hit Soon! These Alternatives Are Where You Need To Go!
This is obvious censorship! YouTube is planning to delete all accounts that aren’t “commercially viable” starting December 10th. The post Major YouTube Changes Going To Hit Soon! These Alternatives Are Where You Need To Go! appeared first on We Are...
Prince Andrew Must Testify in Epstein Court Cases, Says Accusers’ Lawyer
Five of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have said that the Duke of York was witness to the act of girls giving massages to adults at his various properties. And now, the accusers’ lawyer plans to serve subpoenas to Prince Andrew to testify as a witness in their cases....
France Paralyzed by Largest General Strike in Decades
In what appears to be the biggest disruption to French society since the gilets jaunes demonstrators nearly torched Paris last year, public workers across the country stayed home on Thursday, immobilizing public transit across the country as the first general strike...
Live Feed: Active Shooter at Pearl Harbor, Multiple Victims Reported
Live feed: Pearl Harbor #BREAKING: Multiple gunshot victims reported in active shooter situation at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. #HINews #HNN Posted by Hawaii News Now on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 * * * Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii is on lockdown...
The Algorithm Is Too Powerful: Social Media Has More Control Over Us Than We Know!
Don’t trust the algorithm! The post The Algorithm Is Too Powerful: Social Media Has More Control Over Us Than We Know! appeared first on We Are...
Mueller’s Pedophile Witness Charged With Illegally Funneling Millions to Hillary Clinton
A convicted pedophile who became a key witness in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has been indicted on charges of illegally funneling campaign funds to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign using straw donors, according to Politico. Lobbyist George Nader, who was...
Leaked Emails Reveal Prince Andrew Knew About Victim He Denied Meeting
Things continue to get worse for Prince Andrew, as five more women have come forward to accuse him of being present during the abuse that took place on Jeffrey Epstein’s properties. The prince has denied all of the allegations against him, especially in regard to his...
Epstein Cover-Up Continues: Trump Caught Lying About Prince Andrew
They’re hiding something REALLY bad… The post Epstein Cover-Up Continues: Trump Caught Lying About Prince Andrew appeared first on We Are...