Part One: The Road To War. For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. [….] Let’s try to examine the roots of the [Ukrainian] conflict. It starts with those who for the last eight years have been talking about “separatists” or “independentists” from D [...]

DAVOS (Sputnik) - Reports on disagreements between Russia and India in the area of defense industry cooperation are based on speculation and the two states maintain strong ties in defense cooperation and are developing a partnership on transfers of technology, Mobashar Jawed Akbar, Indian minister of state for external affairs, told Sputnik. [...]

The longer the war with Russia lasts the more likely it becomes that the damage to Ukraine will be irreparable. In an open letter entitled “U.S. must arm Ukraine now, before it’s too late” 20 notable American advocates for the war against Russia in Ukraine argue that the conflict has reached a decisive moment. [...]

The US must withdraw its troops from Syria’s northern Manbij region and put an end to its support for Kurdish militia in the area, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu demanded Saturday. Cavusoglu told reporters on Saturday that the US needs to immediately withdraw from the region near the city [...]

The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system that serves the interests of corporate agribusiness traders and suppliers of inputs at the expense of people’s needs and genuine food security. [...]

So far, the story of the US F-35 fighter aircraft in Norway has been a drama of epic proportions. Soon after the first jets landed on Norwegian soil, it was discovered that the expensive warplanes designed to be the backbone of Norway's defense lack adequate protection and will have to be stored in tents for lack of hangars. [...]

On October 10, MARC L. BUSCH, a professor at Georgetown University, and DANIEL TREFLER, a professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, published a joint op-ed in The Hill on October 10, arguing that the tariffs on China have failed economically, politically, and legally. PLEASE NOTE: All videos have been removed from YouTube!  Hmm...🤔 In the U.S., the country that has always bee [...]

The director of national intelligence warned Congress that climate change could cause "upheaval" this year. The top US intelligence official warned Congress this week about the threat of “abrupt” climate change, contradicting the Trump administration’s efforts to drive climate out of national security discussions. [...]

Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter explains why a Russian victory is inevitable, and what it costs the West to refuse to accept this. William Scott Ritter Jr. is an author and pundit, and a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector. Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist from Montreal, Quebec. In 2020, Dimitri r [...]

The appearance of two Su-57 fighters at Syria's Hmeymim Airbase, yet to be confirmed by the Russian MoD, has nevertheless got defense observers and armchair analysts alike talking. But what might the planes be doing there? Is their deployment strictly testing-related, or is it also meant to send a political message? Sputnik investigates. [...]

The last couple of decades have seen more and more American, UK, and Canadian citizens becoming wary of their nationality, and certain recent developments have only increased their frustration. Take the recent developments, for example – it seems like every day there is something new going on that makes an average American and Canadian think, "is it the time to finally get out of my country"?  [...]

In one short, simple sentence written some years ago, US scholar and Russia expert Stephen F Cohen got to the heart of the matter: “The Cold War ended in Moscow, but not in Washington.” This indispensable context is how the section of Russian President Vladimir Putin's March 1, 2018, address to the Russian Federal Assembly, dealing with foreign policy and security, has to be understood. [...]

Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis. On one front are sanctions against Russia responding to the invasion of Ukraine. In February, the EU canceled long-term, favorable contracts which sent the West into an unprecedented energy crisis. Gave puts the hastiness of these decisions down to the pressures of social media activism, or what he c [...]

One week ahead of the Russian presidential election, President Vladimir Putin appeared in a feature-length promotional film, where he shared some of his core beliefs. In the movie, released today, Vladimir Putin answered how he manages self-control in different situations, saying “When somebody loses his temper, he shows weakness. [...]

This is the speech Scott Ritter would have delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on February 19, 2023. Subscribe to our Substack: https://ScottRitterExtra.com Join us live at 1 PM EST when we discuss Scott's speech with journalist Deborah L Armstrong on this YouTube channel. You can also find us at evolver. Scott Ritter: Unstoppable Rage Against War Machine! NATO A Broken Alliance, Russia's Diplom [...]

'Research published in 2001 showed that fluoride (F) deposits in the pineal gland with age and is associated with enhanced gland calcification. Eleven aged cadavares were dissected and their pineal glands assayed: “There was a positive correlation between pineal F[luoride] and pineal Ca[lcium] (r = 0.73, p<0.02) but no correlation between pineal F and bone F. By old age, the pineal gland has [...]

"The US and NATO are convincing the EU that China is a threat to its security - a China that hasn't dropped a bomb on anyone in 40 years. The US is trying to drive a wedge between China and Europe, and if we go down that road, God help Europe. God! Please save us all."   [...]

The 2003 US invasion of Iraq had devastating consequences not only Iraq itself, but for the region as a whole. Speaking to Sputnik, Iranian political scientist and diplomat Seyed Hadi Afghani recalled how the US invasion undermined the security of Iraq's eastern neighbor, and set the stage for the rise of Daesh.* [...]

There never was an effective “Secret Operation” to ensure that an act of sabotage of Nord Stream would be “untraceable to the United States”. The project had been discussed behind closed doors in 2021 as outlined by Seymour Hersh, but the actual planning of this so-called “secret operation” started in December 2021 extending to its execution in June 2022 and the actual sabotage on Sep [...]

Higinio Polo has for a long time predicted the current tension in international relations. He spoke about this, in particular, in his book “USA: The State-Offender” ('USA: el Estado delincuente'), which was published in 2004. Higinio Polo wrote in his book that Washington "is developing a dangerous and aggressive foreign policy," whose goal is "to strengthen the new world dominance" that "je [...]

The mainstream media is now dominated by liberal, leftist American-hating Democrats who no longer honestly report the news. Instead, they are trying to shape it to fit their globalist New World Order (one world government) ideology. Based on what I’m seeing today in the Unites States and the world, any doubt I’ve had that the world has lost its collective mind have now been dispelled. I neve [...]

The Russian Embassy has warned of the growing anti-Russian sentiments in Britain in the wake of the increasing tensions surrounding the Skripal case. The Russian Embassy has called on its citizens to reconsider their plans of traveling to the UK as well as sending their children to study English in the UK. [...]