German Chancellor Angela Merkel made neither public nor personal statements about the terror alert in Munich or the violent attacks on women in Cologne. Both events occurred five or six days ago and left the German population in the state of shock. [...]

Ottawa will keep its $15bn arms deal with Riyadh despite concerns over Saudi involvement in the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the diplomatic row over human rights, Prime Minister Trudeau said. [...]

Though Social Security is in no danger of insolvency, the prospect of a big benefit cut is very much on the table. Ensuring the long-term financial health of Social Security is of the utmost importance for current and future generations of retirees. Unfortunately, the latest Social Security Trustees Report confirms what's been predicted for decades. Namely, the financial foundation of America's le [...]

A video of a well-built male doctor knocking out a patient in a hospital in the Russian town of Belgorod has emerged online. The man died, while his companion, who tried to stand up for him, was also brutally beaten by the doctor. The incident happened on December 29 last year in municipal hospital of Belgorod in southwestern Russia. The violent attack was captured by the hospital security came [...]

VIENNA (Sputnik) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Thursday, commenting on Italy's 2019 draft budget, that Vienna had no intention to be accountable for someone else's debts and called on Rome to respect the euro convergence criteria, or the Maastricht criteria. [...]

Geopolitical analyst and journalist Ben Norton discusses reports on Israeli strikes on Syria hitting a joint Russian depot, fueling speculation that Russia will be forced to confront Israel and therefore the US in a WWIII scenario. We break down how Russia-Iran ties have changed everything for the Middle East and how Israel threatens to bring the region to a breaking point with this move. On a [...]

On New Year's Eve the German city of Cologne witnessed mass organized sexual assaults on hundreds of German women. For five days following the assaults the German media failed to report them. When under public pressure they eventually did, it turned out that a string of similar assaults had also happened simultaneously in various other German cities. [...]

She promised to “Make Canada Safe Again!” and stop Toronto turning into “a sharia safe space,” and in return Faith Goldy has been censured by rivals, blacklisted by major media outlets and dismissed in court. Is she a big deal? [...]

The level to which academic institutions are in bed with the MIC and the pro-war media is truly shocking. The same careerism paired with an ideological western world view that already completely destroyed mainstream media is rampaging through our institutions of higher learning in the US and Europe. It takes real guts to stand up to the pressures these people and institutions excerpt. My guest t [...]

Early U.S. presidents warned that foreign entanglements could endanger the Republic, but it turns out that modern U.S. interventions are hazardous to the rest of the world as well, achieving neither democracy nor human rights, while spreading chaos and death, a tragic turn addressed by ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. [...]

China’s LNG demand grew by a record 8 mt in 2017 and is set to expand by another record 12 mt this year, making up 50 percent of all global LNG demand growth, energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a new report last week. The country’s spike in LNG usage comes as Beijing pushes forward with its plan to offset coal usage of both industrial and residential end users in an effort to curb rampa [...]

Protests broke out in central Athens as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited Greece for the first time in his role. Demonstrators called for Greece to stay out of the Ukraine conflict and demanded the removal of NATO and foreign military bases from the country. Protesters criticized NATO, the EU, and the U.S. for their involvement in the war and labeled them as "warmongers." Douglas Mac [...]

The Post, Owned by Man Worth $53.2 Billion, Really Doesn't Like Bernie Sanders. The Washington Post has been on something of an anti-Sanders kick lately. Its latest editorial, Bernie Sanders’s fiction-filled campaign, is somehow worse than its last one, [...]

The UK's Middle East minister seems unfazed by civilian suffering in Yemen, saying that ending Britain's arms sales to Saudi Arabia won't help, but that the probe into the Khashoggi death may influence Britain's support of Riyadh. When Alistair Burt responded to calls from the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, and the Oxford Research Group for the UK to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the minister [...]

Hundreds gathered in Amsterdam to protest against Dutch military support for Ukraine, calling for peace and dialogue with Russia instead of escalating tensions. Organized by activist groups and the right-wing Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, the rally featured speeches criticizing elites for pushing war agendas. Scott Ritter: Putin Taught NATO PAINFUL Lessons As Russian Army's Power Makes The W [...]

Not only is there evidence of Turkey financing and arming ISIS and other terrorist groups, but we now see the Turkish government cracking down on its own citizens, says Middle East analyst Sharmine Narwani. Since the end of the WWII and the beginning of the Cold War Britain and the US have had a very close strategic working relationship with the Turkish government. [...]

New sanctions placed on Iran by US President Donald Trump are likely to have the reverse effect the White House is hoping for, according to new reports, as Tehran’s petroleum exports are set to increase just as Washington’s restrictions commence. [...]

Imagine a world where connectivity transcends every limit we’ve ever known. Picture downloading your entire movie collection in less than a second or living in a reality where holographic communication and real-time machine collaboration are the norm. This isn’t the realm of science fiction anymore—this is the promise of 6G technology.Read moreClose This New AI Chip Just Crushed NVIDIA � [...]

Do you help to solve the migrant rape crisis in Europe by eating pork, growing beards, and parading round the streets in miniskirts when you’re a man? Does it make sense to give “flirtation lessons” to the same migrants who are sexually assaulting European women in ever increasing numbers? Is it wise to help hostile migrants to “integrate” by giving them target-practice training, turning [...]

Earlier this week, the French president called for the creation of a "real European army" to defend Europe against "China, Russia, and even the United States." French historian Dr. Edouard Husson has taken issue with Emmanuel Macron's interpretation of history in his remarks in Verdun on Tuesday, including Macron's call to protect Europe from Russia, which the president said was "on our bor [...]

The United States’ decades-long pursuit of biological weapons has remained shrouded in secrecy, deception, and scientific recklessness. While publicly condemning biowarfare as a threat to global security, the government has simultaneously engineered microbes to be deadlier, more infectious, and capable of insidious long-term damage. This hidden legacy stretches from the covert biological experim [...]

Moscow provided the Netherlands with radar and other data on the MH17 crash but it has all been ignored, a Russian aviation official said, responding to the relatives of Dutch victims who recently wrote to President Vladimir Putin. Oleg Storchevoy, the deputy head of Rosaviatsia, the agency representing Russia in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash investigation, has personally addressed th [...]