By Philip Giraldi | American Herald Tribune | January 28, 2019 There’s a new thought policeman in town. He calls himself NewsGuard and he promises to restore “Trust and Accountability” to what one reads online. His website elaborates that “NewsGuard uses journalism to fight false news, misinformation, and disinformation. Our trained analysts, who are experienced journalists, […]
By Finian CUNNINGHAM | Strategic Culture Foundation | 27.01.2019 It’s hilarious to see the double standards of Western media applied in the case of alleged American spy Paul Whelan who is being detained in Russia and facing trial. Whelan, a former US marine, was denied bail this week in a Moscow court after it emerged […]
Sputnik – 26.01.2019 Russian Ambassador in Caracas Vladimir Zaemsky slammed on Friday in a conversation with Sputnik media reports about alleged presence of “private military contractors” from Russia in Venezuela as “another hoax. “I don’t know about the presence of any Russian private military companies in Venezuela. This is another hoax,” Zaemskiy said. Earlier in […]
RT | January 23, 2019 A recent Estonian op-ed calling for capability to shell St.Petersburg and sink Russian ships in case of conflict may be hypothetical, but the pressure on Tallinn to buy missiles from NATO is real, a British journalist told RT. “Just several limited strikes” on St. Petersburg could be enough to change […]
By Neil Clark | RT | January 23, 2019 Russian athletes, falsely accused of doping, won an important legal victory at the weekend. But unfortunately, the mud has stuck which is what Russia’s geopolitical enemies always wanted. As the old saying goes “a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth has got […]
RT | January 22, 2019 The British state-funded Integrity Initiative, exposed last year for conducting Europe-wide political influence campaigns in leaked files, has removed all of its website content “pending an investigation” into the data “theft.” A group claiming association with the loose hacktivist collective Anonymous has been dumping private Integrity Initiative documents online in […]
By Kit Klarenberg | Sputnik | January 21, 2019 In a bombshell report, on 17 January BuzzFeed claimed Donald Trump had told his lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the specifics of the ‘Trump Tower Moscow’ project — a felony, and indeed an impeachable one. Other news outlets the world over eagerly regurgitated the story, and Democratic lawmakers on […]
RT | January 21, 2019 Sergei and Yulia Skripal were given first aid by the British Army’s most senior nurse, who just happened to be nearby, according to a new report – adding further intrigue to the highly controversial case. The latest development in the Salisbury poisoning affair will fuel the claims of skeptics, who […]
RT | January 21, 2019 BuzzFeed’s ‘bombshell’ claim last week that Donald Trump told ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to congress is just the latest in a long line of ‘Russiagate’ stories that have later turned out to be false. But BuzzFeed’s rubbished article is part of a phenomenon of what could be termed ‘acceptable […]
Sputnik – January 20, 2019 Sputnik Italia contributor Alessio Trovato investigates the purpose of George Soros’ recent closed-door meeting with European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, and broader campaign to convince Brussels to put Italy under the supervision of the ‘troika’ (the European Central Bank, the EC and the International Monetary Fund). George Soros, a sworn […]
