Qatar hasn’t been playing ball with the US-approved, Saudi-led ‘isolate Iran’ program. Partly because Doha has made independence from Riyadh a hallmark of its foreign policy, but mostly because Qatar and Iran share the world’s largest natural gas field. US President Donald Trump’s speech to the assembled Gulf leaders in …

Everyone Knew Iraq Had No WMD … and Was Not Behind Anthrax Attacks or 9/11 Everyone knew that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs: I wonder …

After all the hollow and uninspired elections that this country has suffered through over the past several decades, one might think that at some point long ago the American public would have finally struck a plateau of disenfranchisement; that we could sink no further into despondency, that there is a …

Members are checked if they are ‘Clear’ – which costs £82,000 to achieve Cameras and audio monitor Clearwater site to keep a check on followers Newcomers must undergo ‘purification of toxins’ which involves sweating out in a sauna   I’d been pinched – hard – in some kind of strange …

Breaking news: According to two Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010 — a complaint which has just now been unsealed — vaccine manufacturer Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test data, spiked blood samples with animal antibodies, sold a vaccine that actually promoted mumps and measles outbreaks, …

Well we first saw this get public attention when they teamed up in Libya, which they left the country in an absolute mess. Now they are repeating their strategic alliance in Syria. A photo published by French news agency AFP shows a Syrian rebel wearing the Al-Qaeda flag on his …

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and confidant of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, is a director and board member at the Kushner Foundation which has given money to illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank as well as extremist Jewish groups connected to violent attacks against Palestinians, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Monday. …

Undeterred by the disastrous commando raid on Yemen in the first days of his Administration, where plenty of civilians were killed but the target got away, President Donald Trump has escalated US military involvement in the tragic Yemen conflict to an unprecedented level. In fact as Foreign Policy reports, the US …

WikiLeaks released Vault 7 today, which is a huge trove of information about the CIA’s global hacking program. A big element that emerged from the release is the hacking of Samsung Smart TVs (and likely other smart TVs too.) However, this really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. At one …

“The Empire is befuddled,” at Brexit, exclaims Nigel Farage, telling Alex Jones that globalist establishment is clueless on how to regain control. In a wonderfully frank interview, Farage explained that the establishment’s “problem is that it’s fighting this argument on several fronts at once.” “We’ve got the American elections going on, we’ve got a big referendum …

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday ordered Citibank to pay $425 million to settle charges including attempted manipulation and false reporting of several key currency-valuation benchmarks. The regulators said $250 million in the settlement relate to the U.S. Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix between January 2007 and January 2012. The USD …

NATO’s promise of security and attempts to drag Serbia into the alliance are humiliating for the Balkan country at a time when two of its diplomats held hostage in Libya were killed in a pin-point US airstrike, Russia’s FM spokeswoman said. On Friday, US airstrikes against positions of an Islamic …

Australian leaders say the nation shouldn’t wait for the end of Queen Elizabeth II‘s reign to become a republic. Seven of Australia’s eight state and territory leaders have signed a declaration urging for a homegrown head of state to replace the monarch. The only state leader not to sign the …

One of the world’s biggest credit rating agencies has agreed to pay United States prosecutors nearly $1.4 billion to settle claims it defrauded investors ahead of the 2008 financial crisis. Under the terms of the settlement acknowledged on Tuesday this week, Wall Street giant Standard & Poor’s will pay a …

As the Pentagon reports spending of over $1 billion on bombing ISIS in Iraq and Syria, ex-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the fight against the Islamist movement may take as long as 30 years. Since mid-June, when militants from the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) launched their …

Federal regulators in the United States are reportedly investigation no fewer than two major American banks with regards to their relationships with clients believed to be tied to Mexican drug cartels. Reuters reported exclusively on Wednesday this week that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is probing both Charles Schwab …

Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities. Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an increase in public transportation costs, which brought out students and …

Much of the evidence compiled by a BBC inquiry into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal could be kept secret from licence-fee payers even though they have already paid several hundred thousand pounds for it. Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, faced questions from MPs on the Savile scandal yesterday. …

The families of Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated by foreign-backed terrorists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, for their involvement in the murders. Rahim Ahmadi Roshan, father of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was killed in a terrorist attack in January, told a …

A company charged with decontaminating the devastated Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant encouraged its workers to falsely lower their radiation dosimeter readings by covering the devices with lead, according to a leaked tape of an internal meeting. Nuclear plant workers are not allowed to be exposed to more than 50 millisieverts …