Politics

Macron's recent unilateral actions, far from ending any supposed isolation of Russia, are clearly designed to end what has sometimes appeared to be France's isolation in Europe. In his annual...

Modern-day activists show again that they do not care one jot if they decimate beneficial endeavors and strip well-meaning people of jobs for the sake of a cause. Today, it...

Boris Johnson has embarked on a course that will either cement his legacy as a champion of democracy or as a prime minister who sought to subvert it. In making...

‘The End Times of Western Hegemony', I wish this were written by Macron although it might as well have been. He said exactly this after the G7 gathering which could...

International political opponents of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and their media allies are cynically exploiting and exaggerating the impact of the fires in the Amazon to demonize the ‘Trump of...

Violent demonstrations in Hong Kong have entered their 12th week, but for any would-be protesters who have not yet taken to the streets, CNN recently published a handy how-to guide....

Emmanuel Macron made an honest effort at mediating on the more pressing issues facing the planet. But in the end he must contend with the fact that the US top-heavy...

After the recent Israeli attacks against Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, the Middle East has found itself in the midst of undeclared war. Almost everyone in Lebanon appears to agree. “This...

The progressive left needs to sort out its priorities. Is “non-gendered” language, for instance, more important than economic fairness? It's time to decide, because failure to properly prioritize could hinder...

Pop star Taylor Swift has bravely spoken up about her political views, saying US President Donald Trump “thinks this is an autocracy,” and thus choosing the safest political opinion she...

France's president warned Boris Johnson that Britain risks becoming a vassal state of Washington after Brexit. It was a low blow, and hardly news to anyone in London, the capital...

A supposed survey of war-torn Syria by America's so-called “newspaper of record” was not merely shoddy journalism; it was a cynical attempt to rewrite the history of the eight-year war....

The US and the Taliban, we are led to believe, are close to agreeing a deal that would see the withdrawal of all US and NATO forces from Afghanistan. The...

As Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell appears to have fallen off the face of the Earth, it's little remembered in the media how I fought a long war against her...

A recent missile test confirmed by the Pentagon is stoking fears of a newly established arms race which would include, among others, Russia and China. On August 18, North Korea...

With the "Russian meddling" theory of Trump's victory on life support heading into 2020, US academic researchers have heeded the patriotic call and put forth a new definition of "disinformation"...

Conservatives called the New York Times' project “divisive,” progressives hailed it as the "real" history of America – all before publication. We gave it a read, and found the US'...

Describing an effort to buy the world's largest island as “just another real estate deal,” the US leader shocked the world with a brazenness that underscores everything that is wrong...

The news that Twitter is to ban ‘state-controlled news media entities' from advertising on its platforms raises several worrying concerns which urgently need to be addressed. Repeat after me (with...

Five years is a long time in politics. In 2014, relations between Russia and the West went into a nosedive over Ukraine and Syria. The “annexation” of Crimea, the shooting...

This is how you impose an unpopular and ineffective environmentalist policy that will hit the poorest citizens hardest, is bound to create a host of unintended consequences, and is founded...

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar calling on Americans to “take back our democracy” by emulating Hong Kong protests is just the latest episode in Democrats' slide towards “color revolution” tactics to get...

An old white male socialist and a young black female rapper walk into a nail bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but what ensues is a...

In the age of Trump, American diplomacy seems to have died. After two years in the White House, the US president has alienated countless world leaders, including close allies. Trump's...

Americans are blessed to have a plethora of benevolent celebrities who are willing to share their infinite knowledge and wisdom with them. After a thorough examination by a team of...

Patting itself on the back for getting the Trump-Russia conspiracy story right (they didn't), the New York Times decided to pivot to calling the US president a racist, in a...

Even if US workers were blessed with abundant vacation time, which they certainly aren't, many would be forced to stay home due to lack of funds. Is this corporate America's...

Though distance-wise Hong Kong and Kashmir may be about 4,000km (2,485 miles) apart, they have in common a history of being scarred by the crimes of British colonialism. Read Full...

The latest leaks about Google's clandestine political censorship are fascinating — but they're not going to knock anyone's socks off for shock factor. Who, at this stage, does not know...

Recently, the Syrian Arab Army swept to victory against terrorists in a number of northern Hama villages. Christian towns bordering areas of Hama and Idlib formerly controlled by Al Qaeda...

It's more than coincidence that on the first day of US National Security Advisor John Bolton's visit to London this week, Britain announced the dispatch of another warship to the...

Where to start? For nearly 40 weeks hundreds of thousands of French people have been on the streets in anti-government demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron's rule. Read Full Article at...

The one thing upon which the world's major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed is the perils and evil of human greed. Read Full Article at RT.com

America, resembling a mental patient inside some government-run psychiatric ward, truly believes the Russian bogeyman is out to get it. What will it take to shake the superpower from its...

The death of disgraced financier, pedophile and alleged blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein came just a day after more court documents were unsealed, leading to speculation he may have been “suicide” to...

Almost three-quarters of a century ago on August 9, 1945, the United States dropped a 22-kiloton plutonium bomb called the “Fat Man” on Nagasaki. Read Full Article at RT.com

Hong Kong is fast becoming another frontline in the struggle between East and West, between the forces of unipolarity and multipolarity. Read Full Article at RT.com

Western ultra-liberals and conservatives seem to forget the real European values, where tolerance is based on respect for a person's private life and professional qualities are put above belonging to...

In the autumn of 1944, 75 years ago, the Red Army reached the borders of the German Reich; cities such as Minsk, Vilnius, and Brest having been liberated in July...

The fatal shootings in El Paso and Dayton seem to have been weaponized, with activists claiming to oppose violence and hate now calling for violence against political rivals they hate....