By Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim – Drop Site News

Today, shipping companies are paying cryptocurrency tolls to Tehran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, as the Iranian government seeks to shield payments from seizure by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Roughly $8 billion flowed through Iran’s cryptocurrency exchanges last year, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) moves billions more through foreign exchanges like Binance, where Chinese firms can secretly pay for Iranian oil without fear of U.S. retaliation. Continue reading “Epstein Advised U.S. Treasury on Crypto During Obama’s Iran Sanctions Push”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to secure US aid for Israel indefinitely by retooling our “special relationship” from one of “aid” to a supposed “partnership.” Continue reading “Netanyahu Working to Cement U.S. Aid to Israel Through ‘Partnership’”

By Kit Klarenberg – The Grayzone

A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.

Continue reading “Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The US bombed Iranian ports on Thursday, an attack that will likely plunge the region back into full-scale war.

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin first reported that the US was behind strikes on a port in Iran’s Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, and a naval target in Minab, where the US bombed an elementary school on February 28, an attack that killed 120 children. Continue reading “US Bombs Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas”

By Aaron Maté – The Grayzone

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The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.

Continue reading “‘Highly Protected’: OPCW confirms it buried critical evidence in Syria chemical weapons probe”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

The DOJ has indicted a Jewish group accused of organizing a “large-scale, decade-long insider trading scheme that netted tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits.” Continue reading “DOJ Indicts Jewish Group for ‘Large-Scale, Decade-Long Insider Trading Scheme’”