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. [...]

Despite Libya’s bloodshed and chaos, ex-Secretary of State Clinton still defends her key role in the 2011 “regime change,” but her reasons don’t withstand scrutiny, as Jonathan Marshall explains. Years after the end of the Vietnam War, as memories of its horrors and folly dimmed, conservative “revisionists” emerged to peddle the myth that U.S. commitment there was both justified and [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification. Newly discovered documents from Western archives [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

With the battle for the hearts and minds of the Democratic Party entering the eleventh hour, the biggest question for non-Americans observing the election cycle is: 'What will candidate x do when it comes to policy toward my country?' In Hillary Clinton's case, the answer, for anyone outside [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The US has long relied on financial sanctions as a preferred weapon against its adversaries. However, in Russia's case, it turned out to be an “outright failure” and the West should admit this. Let’s have a look why. Washington’s favorite economic power tool has been so overused, it’s becoming ineffective and, in some cases, even counterproductive [...]

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 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 [...]

The West’s propaganda war against Russia filters events there through a prism of cynicism and contempt, but that misses the human component of a country still remembering the deep personal scars of World War II, as Gilbert Doctorow reflects. I will open with full disclosure: I am generally not enthusiastic about crowds or going with the flow. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

A Russian diplomatic call to outlaw the US-sponsored policy of “regime change” is timelier than ever following recent events in Latin America. The developments there are now routinely described as ‘institutional’ coups d’état, with popular presidents removed from power and replaced by neoliberal functionaries, enjoying almost unhidden support of the US government and American financi [...]

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 � [...]

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 [...]

Within the theories of self-determination that lie at the heart of democracy and capitalism the idea of a political ‘center’ is paradoxical. Individually determined views and wants would bear no necessary relation to one another to be aggregated toward a common set of views without some unifying device. And any such device would render the idea of individual determination improbable. [...]

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 [...]

If Germany and France get their wish of developing a European army, Austria wants no part of it. The defense minister's office said it would opt out, as it would conflict with Vienna's constitution and neutrality. [...]