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House elects Mike Johnson as Speaker

12:20 26.10.2023

House elects Mike Johnson as Speaker

The House elected Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to be the 56th Speaker on Wednesday, capping off a chaotic three weeks that paralyzed the lower chamber in stunning fashion, writes ‘The Hill’. In finally coalescing around a new leader, House Republicans hope that Johnson can steer them around a series of …

Douglas MacGregor: US special forces went into Gaza and “were shot to pieces, took heavy losses”

11:14 26.10.2023

Douglas MacGregor: US special forces went into Gaza and “were shot to pieces, took heavy losses”

On Monday night Tucker Carlson dropped episode 33 of his show with guest Col. Douglas MacGregor. During their conversation Col. MacGregor dropped a bomb on the X audience. According to the Colonel, US special forces suffered considerable losses recently during an excursion into Gaza. Col. Douglas MacGregor: We don’t have …

Orbán blasts the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet uprising

11:13 26.10.2023

Orbán blasts the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet uprising

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation of his country during a speech on Monday commemorating the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Speaking to a select group of guests in the city of Veszprem, Orbán accused the …

View from India: Ukraine war is no longer about the Westphalian principle. It is actually about American hegemony

11:12 26.10.2023

View from India: Ukraine war is no longer about the Westphalian principle. It is actually about American hegemony

The prognosis of “war fatigue” on the part of the United States and its allies in the proxy war in Ukraine was greatly exaggerated. On the contrary, the war is acquiring a new swagger, stresses M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. The Biden Administration is riding a tiger …

Dark days for the Kyiv regime – the US Congress is nearly against further funding

11:10 26.10.2023

Dark days for the Kyiv regime – the US Congress is nearly against further funding

Senate Republicans want changes to the Biden administration’s request for $106 billion in emergency funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and to manage the flow of migrants at the U.S. border. There is broad bipartisan support in Congress for aid to Israel, following the deadly attack by Hamas earlier this …

Ukraine vs neighbors: who owes “lands” and who to?

11:51 25.10.2023 Vladislav Gulevich

Ukraine vs neighbors: who owes “lands” and who to?

Ukraine borders on four EU countries – Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Slovakia. Of these four countries, only Slovakia has no territorial claims on Ukraine. The other three has territorial claims to Ukraine at historical identity level and at domestic policy level. At times, these claims make themselves felt in the …

Zero sanctions: Germany still trades Russian gas

11:50 25.10.2023

Zero sanctions: Germany still trades Russian gas

Germany is still trading Russian liquefied natural gas, as canceling the contract of a nationalized firm could cost billions of euros — creating a dilemma for Berlin and potentially benefiting Moscow, Bloomberg writes. SEFE GmbH — a former unit of Gazprom PJSC — is shipping Russian LNG under the terms …

The “gas Bucha”: London vs. USA and Israel

11:48 25.10.2023

The “gas Bucha”: London vs. USA and Israel

Transnational corporations and trillion-dollar deals are behind the provocations and deaths in Gaza and Israel, writes Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian expert portal discussing international politics. A few hours after the ships of the British Navy moved to the Eastern Mediterranean under the pretext of supporting Israel, there was a …

Jeffrey Sachs: “Biden’s speech was a disaster, a call for more war, not for diplomacy”

11:47 25.10.2023

Jeffrey Sachs: “Biden’s speech was a disaster, a call for more war, not for diplomacy”

A wider conflict in the Middle East stemming from the Palestine-Israel conflict would likely disrupt oil markets and destabilize the global economy, Jeffrey Sachs (photo), a world-renowned economist and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, told Sputnik. "If there is a wider war in the Middle East, the …

Obama criticizes Israel over Gaza

11:45 25.10.2023

Obama criticizes Israel over Gaza

Former President Barack Obama (photo) originally said Israel should “dismantle” Hamas, but has now criticized Israel for the way it is “dismantling” the Palestinian terror organization. In a statement Monday, Obama wrote: “As I stated in an earlier post, Israel has a right to defend its citizens against such wanton …

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