United States

Florida city reverses COVID vaccine mandate, Gov. DeSantis claims victory

By Raymond Wolfe | LifeSite News | October 4, 2021 GAINESVILLE, Florida – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Friday that the city of Gainesville has withdrawn a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers after pressure from his administration and a court ruling against the policy last month. “We are not going to allow our first responders […]

Covid-19: Spreading vaccine “misinformation” puts licence at risk, US boards tell physicians

By Peter Doshi | The BMJ | October 1, 2021 Three US medical certifying boards have warned doctors that they risk losing their certification and licence if they spread covid vaccine misinformation. Internists, family doctors, and paediatricians received an email on 9 September that quoted a warning from the Federation of State Medical Boards in […]

Ex-CIA Officer Who Led Raid that Captured Leading Al Qaeda Suspect Is Now Denouncing CIA for Torturing Zubaydah for 20 Years In Guantanamo

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments from attorneys for Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner once thought to be the third-ranking leader in al-Qaeda, about whether their client would be allowed to depose two CIA contract psychologists who devised and carried out the Agency’s torture program and who personally participated in Zubaydah’s torture.

Sen. Marco Rubio equates boycott of Israel with “un-American activity”

By Kathryn Shihadah | If Americans Knew | October 6, 2021 US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced a bill, the Mind Your Own Business Act (S.2829), that would hold corporate officers personally liable when actions they take on behalf of the corporation are considered political, “un-American,” or in some other way not in the best interests […]

US is only country still hanging on to chemical weapons, Russia says, after Washington unveils ‘Novichok’ questions

An open storage for the collection of burnt ammunition containing toxicant agents. © Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev RT | October 6, 2021 Russian diplomats have hit out at the US after American officials signed a letter demanding information on the circumstances of the purported poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, accusing Washington of double standards. […]

Every US state-funded exposé on the lavish lives of elites is about Russia & Putin, even when he’s not mentioned

By Paul Robinson | RT | October 5, 2021 The powerful are wealthy, and the wealthy are powerful. They’ll also often go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes. Those are the conclusions from some 12 million financial files leaked to reporters last week and covered widely. Known as the Pandora Papers, the revelations were […]

The real story behind Facebook’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Kit Knightly Facebook suffered a massive outage on Monday. At the same time a high profile “whistleblower” has come forward to dish the FB dirt. These two things have combined to create a perfect storm of narrative portraying Mark Zuckerberg’s company as a monster in desperate need of slaying by some deft government intervention. But …

Lift Iran sanctions if you seek end to global energy crisis: Minister

Press TV – October 4, 2021 Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji says removing sanctions from Iran’s hydrocarbon sector would be key to resolving a global energy crisis that has affected supplies in many Western countries. Owji said on Monday that people in the United States and some European countries have been paying the price for […]