RT | June 17, 2015 Nuclear whistleblower William McNeilly, who had been dishonorably discharged from the Royal Navy, says military “spin doctors” have tried to obscure the safety and security concerns he raised in an extensive dossier last month. McNeilly now claims to have been dishonorably discharged from the service, having not been heard from […]
RT | June 11, 2015 The US is obstructing international efforts to eradicate biological weapons, seeking to involve other nations covertly in research on weaponized diseases, Moscow charged. America’s record of handling bioweapons is poor. The accusations of mishandling biological weapons voiced by the Russian Foreign Ministry refer to a recent report that the US […]
RT | June 3, 2015 The British government has spent £16 million storing and maintaining its unused nuclear submarines over the past five years, figures suggest. The 19 laid-up submarines have been stored in Fife, Scotland, and Devonport, England since 1980 and 1994, respectively. Figures obtained by the BBC in a Freedom of Information request […]
RT | May 26, 2015 Nations openly chastised by the US for dismal human rights records donated billions to the Clinton Foundation, while gaining clearance for weapons deals approved by the Hillary Clinton-led US State Department, according to a new report. As the Obama administration increased military weapons exports, Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved transfer […]
RT | April 29, 2015 The US is boosting its military support for security forces fighting against Islamic State in Iraq. The Republicans have proposed a bill to directly fund militia groups operating in the country, such as the Kurdish Peshmerga and Sunni irregular forces. If the bill is passed, tribal groups could receive up […]
RT | April 24, 2015 Europe’s largest arms manufacture BAE Systems has become the main sponsor of an under-performing school in the North West of England. From September the arms marker, which operates a dockyard in Barrow-in-Furness, will run the Furness Academy, which was created under the coalition government’s academies scheme by joining together three […]
RT | April 14, 2015 Following Russia’s decision to lift a ban on supplying S-300 missile systems to Iran, the Israeli PM has called President Putin to express his “grave concerns” – and received a detailed explanation of defensive weapons and the logic behind Moscow’s move. According to a statement released by the Kremlin, Vladimir […]
Anti-nuclear demonstrators at Faslane naval base, April 13 2015. (Photo by Veronika Tudhope) RT | April 13, 2015 Some 36 anti-nuclear activists have been arrested at Faslane naval base in Scotland, according to organizers, as hundreds of protesters blockaded the home of Britain’s nuclear weapons system. Workers at the naval facility were sent home after […]
RT | April 5, 2015 Saudi Arabia has rejected Russia’s amendments to a Security Council draft resolution which would see an all-inclusive arms embargo on all parties in the Yemeni conflict, as it continues to spiral out of control with the civilian death toll climbing higher. “There is little point in putting an embargo on […]
RT | March 19, 2015 Groups like IS, which could be behind the Bardo Museum shootings, have a long history of collaborating with the West and may have attacked tourists just to maintain their anti-Western façade, says independent political analyst Dan Glazebrook. RT: Do you think that the Western tourists were targeted on purpose? Dan Glazebrook: […]
