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EU to escalate conflict by training Ukrainian soldiers

By Lucas Leiroz | October 18, 2022 Despite the fact that involvement in the conflict is not strategically interesting for Europe, EU leaders seem convinced that they must continue to support Kiev. In a new package of coercive measures against Moscow, the bloc’s ministers approved the creation of a military program to train Ukrainian soldiers. […]

ExxonMobil exits Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project

Samizdat – October 18, 2022 US energy giant ExxonMobil announced on Monday that it has left Russia completely, discontinuing operations in the Sakhalin-1 project in the country’s Far East, after it was transferred to a local entity. “With two decrees, the Russian government has unilaterally terminated our interests in Sakhalin-1 and the project has been […]

US scientists create new lethal Covid variant

Samizdat | October 17, 2022 Scientists at Boston University claim to have created a new variant of Covid-19 with an 80% mortality rate, by combining the highly-transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus with the original Wuhan strain. The research, which echoes experiments thought to have created the virus in the first place, has caused outrage. […]

How Can Severe Mental Illness be the Deadliest Covid Comorbidity?

BY AARON HERTZBERG | BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE | OCTOBER 17, 2022 Is this the smoking gun that proves hospital neglect and malfeasance, in the midst of a drummed up crisis environment, killed covid patients? Daniel Horowitz recently interviewed Scott Schara, whose 19-year-old Down syndrome daughter Grace died of “covid” in Ascension’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. In this stunning interview, […]

Arab oil giants endorse OPEC+ production cut, shoot down US claims of ‘Saudi pressure’

The Cradle | October 17, 2022 Members of the OPEC+ group of countries issued a slew of statements on 16 October to endorse a major oil production cut that was announced earlier this month. These statements were released in response to the accusations of irate US officials, who said Saudi Arabia “coerced” their OPEC partners into supporting […]

Two New Books Explore Pernicious Impact of U.S. Intelligence Agencies

Show how ideologies of American exceptionalism and innocence have inoculated public from human suffering meted out in their name Credibility is low these days for the U.S. government, politicians and the mainstream media. Sorting through news reports for reliable fact and analysis would make George Orwell weep. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the UN Sustainable Development […]

Court: Facebook “fact-check’ label does not mean that the assessment is “objective fact”

By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | October 15, 2022 US TV host and journalist John Stossel sued Facebook (Meta) and its third-party “fact-checkers” – specifically, Science Feedback, as several of these groups’ parent companies, and its site Climate Feedback – for defamation. But the US District Court, Northern District of California has granted both Meta’s motion to dismiss […]

Americans should know if US pressured Middle East ally – congressman

Samizdat – October 16, 2022 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should look into whether the White House pressured Saudi Arabia to delay OPEC+’s promised oil production cut, Republican Tom Tiffany demanded in a letter to the congresswoman on Thursday. The Saudi government had claimed earlier that day that the US government had requested a one-month delay […]