Here’s what everyone needs to understand about Ukraine: The United States has already moved on to Plan B but Biden has not issued a statement. [...]

The Russian military have invited experts from 14 nations to work on the flight recorder of the Russian Su-24 bomber downed by Turkey, but only two of them accepted their invitations, the Defense Ministry reported, before unsealing the device. [...]

US President Donald Trump left the UN Security Council session he was chairing before it was over, leaving Nikki Haley in charge and sparking speculation about his whereabouts among the press. Around quarter after noon on Wednesday, after roughly two hours of speeches and declarations, Trump left the Security Council chambers with his security detail, letting his UN envoy Haley take over. [...]

Syria has endured another year of devastating civil war and strife. However, thousands of civilians in Damascus have been trying to live as normal a life as possible, celebrating Christmas and giving them some respite from the chaos. [...]

Switzerland will take part in any new payment system if it were created as an alternative to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), according to Swiss Ambassador to Moscow Yves Rossier. [...]

The Republican-run House Oversight Committee has issued a subpoena compelling Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify on Capitol Hill about her agency’s “total failure” to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The committee first called Cheatle to testify on the day of the attack, and requested specific information related to the incident on Monda [...]

Amid NATO’s non-stop campaign of overseas military misadventures, which are displacing millions of people and forcing them to EU shores, Europeans may be finally losing their patience with the military organization’s reckless ways. [...]

The months-long tit-for-tat between Beijing and Washington hasn’t yet shown any signs of stopping, but has, conversely, grown more intense in light of both trade issues with regard to tariffed imports, and an array of military-related moves, such as arms sales to Taiwan and China’s military deals with Russia. [...]

As Japan suffers a massive stock sell-off, the US economy is getting hit hard as the Yen carry trade begins to blow up. US stocks are on the verge of a nasty sell-off and the recession risks are now getting frighteningly real. Here's what you must know. ECONOMIC BLOODBATH: $1.4 TRILLION LOST in a Day as Global Markets Panic & Major Indices Collapse Global Market Meltdown: If There Is Con [...]

In Cologne, protests turned into a gruesome scene when a crowd of about 1000 young men attacked police with fireworks and committed robberies and sexual assaults. The men were of north African or Arabic appearance. This is the thanks immigrants give to those who welcome them with open arms. COLOGNE EYEWITNESS: POLICE DESCRIBED SITUATION AS “CIVIL WAR” POLICE: MOST OF COLOGNE SEX ATTACK [...]

Some 800 anti-establishment accounts and pages have been yanked from Facebook in a sweeping crackdown the social media giant framed as a fight against spammers. RT talked to those who were targeted in the cleansing. Among the hundreds of pages and accounts Facebook and Twitter took down were those both on the political left and right, ranging from conspiracy theorists and police brutality watchers [...]

The real meaning of Jake Sullivan's China trip has nothing to do with US-China relations and everything with the war in Ukraine, says Ray McGovern, a renowned US intelligence analyst. Sullivan went to China to sound out the possible Chinese reactions to a US escalation of Ukraine proxy-war with the use of the last weapons that the American's have not yet shipped to its Kiev war-implementation pa [...]

The Ukraine crisis represents just another failure of neocon-driven "regime change," strikingly similar to those orchestrated by Washington in the Middle East and North Africa, US investigative journalist Robert Parry notes, warning that Ukraine may soon become the next failed state. Two years after the US-fomented coup, Ukraine continues "to wallow in graft and cronyism" while the living stand [...]

"Flooding Europe with Democracy" | Public lecture at Vienna's University of Economics Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) is the largest business and ... in Europe, and it hosts 450 annual exchange students from 210 universities and 50 ... Students love to talk business at WU, but student activities, including sports ... With a public bus pass, you can not only get to class but [...]

BRICS Currency: 40% Could Be Tied to Gold, 60% in Local Currencies Will BRICS’ gold-backed currency dethrone the dollar and throw the West into financial chaos? This is what happens when 40% of a currency is backed by gold and 60% by local currencies come face to face with dollars backed by nothing. It can send the US dollar crashing overnight. So, is this the beginning of the end for the doll [...]

A German court has ruled Facebook’s ‘friend finder’ function, which allows the social network to market services to non-users, illegal. The court said the promotion is “intrusive” and that Facebook had not adequately informed its members about it. [...]

Despite progress in reducing extreme poverty, the number of poor worldwide is still “unacceptably high,” according to a World Bank report, which showed that billions of people still struggle to meet basic needs. The report found that nearly half the world’s population lives on less than $5.50 a day, with a rising share of the poor in wealthier economies. [...]

This week’s Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff dedicates the entire show to the economic developmental achievement of China, together with the historical background that motivated that achievement. We analyze the uniqueness of both the economic philosophy and the politics of China. 3 MINS AGO: China SHUTS DOWN $34.05 Billion U.S. Farming Industry... What's Next? China SHUTS DOWN All [...]

Vladimir Putin's first big interview of the year was with Germany's leading newspaper Bild. Nikolaus Blome, Bild's deputy editor-in-chief who spoke to the Russian president, told Deutsche Welle that he was "happy with the result" and shared what impressed him the most. "Although I was aware of that, I was still surprised by how well [Putin] speaks German and understands the subtleties of the la [...]

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PLUS, How The Globalists Are Using The Puppet Biden Admin To Sabotage A Peaceful Transfer Of Power Into Trump's Second Term & Declare Martial Law/National Security Emergency Order   BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: General Flynn Lays Out What Will Happen In The Next Couple Of Days As WWIII Continues To Escalate Towards A Nuclear Exchange   Alastair Crooke EXPOSES: U.S Nuclear Ambitions in Ukraine [...]

Police said 11,000 people have gathered in the Moldovan capital on Sunday for anti-government protests, disputing organizers' estimates of 100,000 demonstrators. CHISINAU (Sputnik) – Supporters of center-right and left-wing parties took to the streets to voice opposition to the appointment of a new prime minister and to call for snap elections. [...]