Russia has started supplying the southern Ukrainian city of Henichesk with natural gas at the request of local authorities amid severe frosts in the region, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said Monday. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Henichesk Mayor Alexander Tulupov, in view of cold weather conditions in the region, has addressed the Russian side with a request to supp [...]

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body was cut into pieces after his death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, a Turkish source has told CNN and Al Jazeera. The source told Al Jazeera that the murder took about seven minutes and said that Saudi forensics expert Saleh al-Tubaiqi dismembered Khashoggi’s body and asked his colleagues to listen to music while he did it. [...]

Do you remember how the collective West turned against Chinese tech giant Huawei over claims China would use the technology for nefarious purposes? Well, as I always say on this show: every accusation from the West is an admission of guilt. And that was proven just last week when dozens and dozens of people were killed and many more injured as pagers and walkie-talkies began to simultaneously ex [...]

Lawyers and lobbyists for giant multinational corporations have been working up the TPP and promoting it for nearly a decade. The measure would join the United States along with 11 other nations along the Pacific Rim (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam) in a “free-trade zone” [...]

Not satisfied with the Saudi story on how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in Turkey, EU leaders are demanding an in-depth probe, with Germany's foreign minister saying that Berlin shouldn’t sell arms to Riyadh until it’s finished. [...]

The BRICS 2024 Summit has begun, and it’s poised to reshape the global monetary system. With expanded membership, a potential oil pricing shift, and the introduction of a BRICS Pay platform, this summit could accelerate the decline of the U.S. dollar’s dominance. Discover how these developments could affect your savings and financial security. BRICS' NEW WORLD: Western-Led Order Put on Noti [...]

The grip that neocons and liberal interventionists have on Official Washington’s opinion circles is now so strong that “realists” who once provided an important counterbalance have been almost banished from foreign policy debates, a dangerous dilemma that James W Carden explores. In a widely remarked upon article for the online version of Foreign Policy last week, Harvard’s Stephen Walt [...]

The majority of US citizens believe the two-party system is inherently flawed, and there is need for an actual third party to reflect the will of the people, a new poll has found. The trend has been stable for past five years. The new Gallup poll, released on Friday, shows that almost every third US national is dissatisfied with the alternating reign of the Republican and Democratic parties in the [...]

Thousands of Israelis erupted in rage against Israel's government led by PM Benjamin Netanyahu as they demanded a hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza for the freedom of the captives. The Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv accused Netanyahu of obstructing hostage deal. Netanyahu Needs To Go: Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets After IDF 'Kills' Another Hostage Scott Ritter: Hezbollah WIPES OUT [...]

While the dangers of a power system based on the burning of fossil fuels are increasingly apparent, a new report on Monday argues that a rapid, affordable energy transformation is, in fact, within our grasp. Within 15 years, the United States could slash greenhouse gas emissions from power production by nearly 80 percent below 1990 levels without increasing cost and, at the same time, meeting i [...]

Good financial results shown by Russian companies may facilitate the return of foreign investment to the country, Moody's senior vice president Kristin Lindow told Sputnik news agency. “…Recent strong corporate profits quite naturally can result in repatriation of profits by foreign investors. Also, the cleanup that the CBR (Central Bank of Russia) has done in the banking system has significan [...]

When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. Israelism sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October [...]

I never thought I’d see the day, I don’t think anybody imagined it would happen, but, by late December, Bernie Sanders’ campaign had caught on to such an extent that corporate media and National Public Radio, corporate media’s fellow traveler, could no longer pretend that it wasn’t happening. [...]

The latest data from the World Gold Council (WGC) shows that central banks in Eastern Europe and Asia significantly boosted their gold holdings. The regulators purchased 148 metric tons of gold in the third quarter of 2018. [...]

Are we on the verge of peace in Ukraine? We'll get to that part in a second but ... overnight we learned from Ukrainian dictator Zelensky that he doesn't know where most of the $200 billion dollars in US tax dollars went? FIRE SALE: Zelensky Offers $15 Trillion in Resources to the US to Continue the Proxy War [...]

Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli ‒ the “most hated man in America,” who raised the price of an HIV treatment 5,500 percent ‒ remained silent during a congressional hearing on prescription drug prices. He later tweeted that politicians were “imbeciles.” Summoned before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to give testimony on his former company’s recent increases in [...]

Three Femen activists were detained on Saturday morning after trying to organise a nude protest at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris – World War I commemoration site, BFM reported. Holding banners, which read ‘Welcome war criminals,’ three activists from the infamous Femen movement briefly exposed their breasts, with the words ‘Fake Peacemakers/Real Dictators’ written on their chests, on 10 N [...]

South China Sea: A Potential Breakthrough China Accepts Philippines Offer Podcast What if the unthinkable just happened in one of the world's most explosive regions? The South China Sea, long a flashpoint of geopolitical tension, has just witnessed an unprecedented shift—China has accepted an offer from the Philippines. Could this be a game-changer in regional diplomacy, or is it just another s [...]

Most people believe that we are living in a more enlightened age of increasing press freedom, but the latest censorship reports tell a different story. Censorship is still a big issue around the world. Censorship remains at high levels in many countries, despite the fact that we tend to think we live in a world without that much of it (at least in the so-called “enlightened and developed West [...]

The $5 billion+ deal between Moscow and New Delhi for five regiments of Russia's cutting-edge air defense system got an added bonus this week after it was revealed that the contract will be paid for in rubles. Taking a look at the deal's details, Sputnik discovered that it's really a double blow to the US military-industrial complex. [...]

Trump’s tariff war as good as overnight handed China the keys to the global aviation kingdom and left Boeing bleeding on the tarmac. Boeing’s collapse in China is not a story of bad luck or a random market shift. It’s the direct, predictable, and utterly reckless result of the trade war unleashed by Donald Trump. The world’s largest aerospace company, once a symbol of US ingenuity and glob [...]

Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving a 20-year sentence in the US for alleged drug trafficking, has told reporters about numerous violations of his rights and “deliberate attempts to kill him” through cruel conditions and poor medical treatment. [...]