Russia and Germany have agreed a new rail link to connect Germany’s capital Berlin with St. Petersburg, which is often branded Russia’s northern capital. The news, first published in the Russian media, was confirmed by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. [...]

Israel is on high alert for war. Videos on social media show Israeli military trucks transporting missiles to launch sites. President Biden promised Benjamin Netanyahu military support. Meanwhile, there are reports that Iran plans to attack Israel on the 9th of Av, the day tragedy has struck the Jewish people over thousands of years. Douglas Macgregor: Iran's Wrath Will FALL On Israel In Next 72 [...]

Bernie Sanders supporters are flocking to Jill Stein, the presumptive Green Party presidential candidate, with donations to her campaign exploding nearly 1000% after he endorsed Hillary Clinton. Stein salutes Sanders for the progressive populist movement he began and says it is up to her to carry the baton. Can she do it? Critics say her radical policies will not hold up to scrutiny. [...]

The first time an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter crashed was on September 28, 2018, and the US grounded its entire F-35 fleet to assess and remedy the problem. The failure highlights far greater problems in the procurement and production process responsible for both the high cost and low performance of the plane. [...]

Journalists Ben Norton and Lee Camp joined the program in July to react to Russia and China's historic moves in response to Gaza and how what they are doing to reshape the political calculus has Israel very, very angry. This video breaks it all down in an evergreen clip from this past July. INTERVIEW: A rogue reporter versus the US empire [...]

Russia's current actions in the Middle East show how Moscow can catch the West by surprise, according to Thomas Avenarius, a journalist writing for the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. It seems that the West has been caught by surprise by Russia's current actions in the Middle East, [...]

Although the Chinese government has not yet gone so far in the ever-escalating trade war as to sanction United States oil, imports are drying up anyway as Chinese buyers shy away from US crude. According to US Census Bureau data released last week, for the first time since 2016, China has halted purchases of US crude, importing zero barrels in August. [...]

In a shocking turn of events, Colonel Douglas Macgregor breaks down the latest developments in Ukraine as Russia unleashes a massive hypersonic Kinzhal missile strike on Ukrainian airbases. This precision assault reportedly obliterated four F16 fighter jets, fresh from Western deliveries, before they could even take flight. The destruction of these critical assets, alongside highly expensive Sto [...]

Behind the U.S. media-political clamor for a new Cold War with Russia is a massive investment by the Military-Industrial Complex in “think tanks” and other propaganda outlets, writes Jonathan Marshall. The U.S. military has won only a single major war since the end of World War II (the Gulf War of 1990-91). But U.S. military contractors continue to win major budget wars in Congress nearly e [...]

Earlier reports suggested that the deal between Moscow and Jakarta could fall under the US Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), despite attempts to secure a waiver for Indonesia. [...]

10 years ago... Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its intended destination in Beijing. But It never arrived, and neither did the 227 passengers and 12 crew members, whose family members have been in anguish ever since. What happened to their loved ones? Who's covering up the real story? 10 ye [...]

Russia has been forced to take care of ISIS due to Obama's negligence. Alex discusses how there is no threat from any Russian connection to Trump and instead sees this as a sad attempt to hide the real ties the Russians have to America, which is to clean up our messes. As we continue to fuel battles and wars in the Middle East and keep fueling militaristic regimes tied to ISIS all over the wor [...]

Washington’s vow to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty poses again the question: Who will save us from America? If complacency is the enemy of progress hubris is the harbinger of regress. [...]

The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, Israel is a terror state engaged in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Overwhelming evidence of deliberate mass starvation of Palestinians. Trump will weaponize the DOJ to criminalize criticism of Israel. Trump is falling right into the "Hitler" trap by supporting a holocaust in the Middle East. Nearly the entire GOP s [...]

Former CIA chief James Woolsey, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, and former MI5 officer Annie Machon spoke to RT about what the ODNI report on alleged Russian hacking reveals about the nature of their claims and the current state of the US intelligence. [...]

A key component of Russia’s future nuclear space propulsion system, which may revolutionize long-range exploration of the solar system, has been successfully tested, RIA Novosti reported. Since at least 2009, Russian space and atomic engineers have been developing a special space propulsion system, which uses a 1 megawatt nuclear fusion reactor as source of energy. [...]

Touted by the mainstream media and its organizers as a spontaneous, grassroots demonstration in support of female rights and other progressive causes, the Women's March on Washington drew over 500,000 to the streets of the US capital on January 21. [...]

Allegations that Russia is still “attacking” US elections, now again in November, could delegitimize our democratic institutions. Summarizing one of the themes in his new book, ‘War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate,’ Stephen F. Cohen argues that Russiagate allegations of Kremlin attempts to “undermine American democracy” may themselves erode confidence in tho [...]

Thom talks Trump, trade, and trickle-down economics with economist Richard Wolff. Later on in the program, Thom talks with Alex Lawson of Social Security Works and Jessica Jackson Sloan of #cut50 about Trump’s pick of Steve Bannon to serve as chief White House strategist, how Democrats can win over working-class voters, and whether Trump could actually stage a fascist takeover of our democracy. [...]

The recordings that could reveal the killing of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Turkey in shocking detail have been shared with France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and the US, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. [...]

The editor-in-chief of German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel has defended a highly controversial cover depicting US President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty. He also called on Germany “to build an alliance” against the US leader. [...]

The blacklisting of Iran from international financial messaging system SWIFT serves as a warning to Washington’s enemies, but will hasten the demise of the dollar, stockbroker-turned broadcaster Max Keiser told RT. SWIFT, a system that facilitates cross-border payments between 11,000 financial institutions in more than 200 countries worldwide cut several Iranian banks, including the country’s [...]