By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

On Tuesday, the US announced that it disbursed a $20 billion loan for Ukraine that will be paid back using interest earned on frozen Russian Central Bank assets, a step that marks an escalation of the Western economic war against Russia. Continue reading “US Disburses $20 Billion Loan for Ukraine That Will Be Repaid Using Russian Assets”

By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net

Matt Wiebe in a suit speaking at a podium, with paintings of animals and landscapes on the wall behind him.

Canada’s Manitoba province government is looking into changing its election law to include combating various forms of “disinformation,” Canadian media is reporting. Continue reading “Manitoba Could Rewrite Election Rules in the Name of Fighting “Disinformation””

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

Israel First Rep. Brian Mast (R) of Florida, who wears his Israel Defense Forces uniform to Congress, is set to become the next chair of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee thanks to a “push” from President-elect Donald Trump. Continue reading “Rep. Brian Mast, Who Wears His IDF Uniform to Congress, to be Next House Foreign Affairs Chair”

By TYLER DURDEN – Zerohedge

Extremist armed factions across Syria are carrying out executions of civilians and soldiers amid the chaos following the fall of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government.

Al-Mayadeen reports on Tuesday that a video circulating on social media shows armed militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Al-Qaeda offshoot that took control of Damascus on Saturday, carrying out field executions of unarmed men in the village of al-Rabia in the countryside of Latakia.

Continue reading “Extremist Groups Carry Out Revenge, Sectarian Killings In HTS-Controlled Syria”

By David Krayden – The Post Millennial

Supreme Court declines to intervene in case that upholds Hawaii’s ‘spirit of Aloha’ over 2A rights

The Supreme Court missed an opportunity Monday to reiterate the ascendancy of the Second Amendment over local culture and quash Hawaii’s “spirit of Aloha” ruling that rejected the essential right to bear arms when they declined intervene in a case that challenged the state’s ban on carrying firearms in public without a permit. Continue reading “Supreme Court declines to intervene in case that upholds Hawaii’s ‘spirit of Aloha’ over 2A rights”

By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net

Bill Gates with short gray hair and glasses smiling, wearing a gray sweater over a light blue shirt against a dark background.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is an advocate of a range of controversial policies he these days promotes through his foundation – from much-scrutinized agriculture practices, aggressive vaccination, and digital ID crusades, to now endorsing online age verification. Continue reading “Bill Gates Pushes for Age Verification Digital ID”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who worked as a software engineer, was arrested Monday morning on gun charges and named as a “strong person of interest” in connection to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Continue reading “Luigi Mangione, Ex-Ivy League Student, Arrested in Connection to Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO”

By TYLER DURDEN – Zerohedge

Yet another gruesome gang horror has played out in Haiti, as at least 184 people — most of them elderly — were variously slashed, hacked or shot to death on the orders of a warlord who’d been advised that aging slum residents had used sorcery to give his son a severe illness. Interim Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé called it “a barbaric act of unbearable cruelty.” Continue reading “180 Dead: Haitian Warlord Orders Massacre Of Elderly For Using ‘Sorcery’ To Sicken Son”