The following is a translated piece from Komsomolskaya Pravda a Russian tabloid that used to be the union newspaper of the Communist Party. As “tabloids” are sometimes known for reporting things that are both sensational and largely untrue, one might do well to take this report with several grains of salt. However, KP was also the […]
For over a year, the West’s top anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International, has not said a word about the world’s most…
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US Ambassador Kelly Craft voting in the UN Security Council on a women, peace and security resolution, Oct. 29, 2019. She and her husband, the coal billionaire Joseph Craft, have donated money recently to a political action committee dedicated to re-electing Trump.
Kelly Craft has taken a big step toward helping to ensure her political future, lavishing a campaign contribution of $360,600 on the re-election of her boss, President Donald Trump.
The U.S. State Department quietly announced over the weekend the defunding of a social media trolling project that targeted outspoken critics of the Trump administration’s foreign policy on Iran.
The Twitter account, @IranDisinfo, is run by the Iran Disinformation Project under the auspices of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), and “exposes and counters the nefarious influence of one of the world’s few remaining totalitarian regimes.”
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the MI6 former spy, Christopher Steele’s stunning pre-FISA admission to the US State Department, that his dirty dossier needed to be made public before the 2016 US elections.
The reason for Steele’s rush to disseminate the dossier to the greater public was related to the fact that “his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline”, with the overall purpose of the dossier being to “frame” the future president with fictitious Russia collusion allegations.
Among the gang of US elites actively vilifying Julian Assange right now are actually the same elites that his publication, Wikileaks, exposed in some of its biggest document dumps to date. Do you see the connection?
Watch as host Jimmy Dore of “The Jimmy Dore Show” passionately lays out his case:
On Friday, reports suggested that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, would be expelled from London’s Ecuadorian embassy “within hours to days.” This led to an international media storm, as the world waited as the 7-year stand-off threatened to reach a climactic end.
However, those fears have since been downplayed by Ecuadorian officials who released the following statement just hours ago:
U.S. State Department envoy’s jab at Lebanon is ‘tone deaf’ and consistent with larger hegemonic strategy in the region.
Antiwar.com reports…
The US State Department has reiterated its demand that Russia unconditionally return three Ukrainian boats seized during a November maritime incident. They also announced an increase in direct US financing for the Ukrainian Navy in response to the “dangerous escalation.”
Russia called on Washington not to ignore the Poroshenko directives creating an active military buildup along the Ukrainian-Donbass frontier, this buildup consisting of Ukrainian forces and right-wing ultranationalists, lest it “trigger the implementation of a bloody scenario”, according to a Dec 11 report from TASS.
