Press TV

Presidential elections have been rigged for at least around the last 200 years in the United States, “going back to about the 1820s,” according to Stephen Lendman, an author and political commentator in Chicago.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the Democratic presidential primaries were “rigged” against leading Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.  Continue reading “US elections have been rigged for last 200 years”

Press TV

A group of snipers with the Israeli military who took part in the suppression of peaceful protests by the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have opened up to a local media, recounting the harrowing tale of how they intentionally incapacitated protesters over a time span of two years.

A report carried by the Israeli daily Haaretz revealed the content of interviews with the six snipers, out of dozens of such servicemen approached, who agreed to relate what it really looked like through their gun sights when they targeted Palestinians. Continue reading “Israeli snipers say how they incapacitated Palestinians in peaceful protests”

Anchorage Daily News

SEWARD — Bill Lapinskas started working at Alaska’s only maximum-security prison when he was a young man, just a few years out of high school. Over the next two decades he rose through the ranks, spending his days alongside guys doing life for murder.

Continue reading “‘What we do doesn’t work’: As warden, he tried to radically change the culture of Alaska’s maximum-security prison. It led to his exit.”

Business Insider

The US Navy warned China on social media after one of the Asian nation’s warships fired a military-grade laser at a US aircraft, telling them: “You don’t want to play laser tag with us.” Continue reading “US Navy warns China ‘you don’t want to play laser tag with us’ after a Chinese destroyer fired a military-grade laser at a US aircraft”

Washington Examiner – by Andrew Mark Miller

Federal agents swarmed three dozen homes in southern California in an operation cracking down on the “birth tourism” industry.

Birth tourism involves operators charging pregnant women from foreign countries tens of thousands of dollars to stay in “maternity hotels” in the United States until their children are born as American citizens. They also oftentimes receive meals and transportation to and from the doctor and hospital visits. Continue reading “Federal agents raid dozens of homes in crackdown on ‘birth tourism’”

Press TV – by Stephen Lendman

The US came to Afghanistan to stay; the same is true for all its war theaters by occupation and/or installed puppet regimes serving its interests. More on this below.

Afghanistan’s troubled history goes back centuries. John Pilger explained that “no country has been abused and suffered more, and none has been helped less than Afghanistan.”  Continue reading “All US wars are based on Big Lies and deception”

Kitco News

The turning away from ‘bricks and mortar’ to online cut De Beers revenue by 45% to $558 million.

Anglo American (JSE:ZAR), which is the parent of De Beers, published its year-end results Friday.

The South African diversified miner blamed shifting consumer preferences for the drop.  Continue reading “Online shopping cuts De Beers revenue nearly in half”

Press TV

The US military, in the presence of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, has reportedly conducted a “mini exercise” in which Washington launched a simulated nuclear strike against Russia.

Speaking on condition of anonymity during a briefing on Friday, a senior Pentagon official said the exercise took place earlier this week at the US Strategic Command headquarters in Nebraska and that Esper had participated in the simulated showdown in Europe between Russia and NATO.  Continue reading “US conducts ‘mini exercise’ to brace for nuclear exchange with Russia”

Press TV

A senior Houthi official says Yemen will reveal “in due course” information about the fate of two Saudi pilots whose Britain-made Tornado was shot down in Sa’ada province earlier this month.

A statement carried by the Saudi state news agency SPA after the downing said that the kingdom had conducted a special operation to evacuate the pilots who allegedly survived the incident, but no more information has emerged since then. Continue reading “Yemen says Saudi Arabia tried to eliminate pilots of downed jet”

Rolling Stone – by Matt Taibbi

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.  Continue reading “The Great American Bubble Machine”

RT

A media arm of the Libyan National Army (LNA) has said their forces targeted a cargo vessel that ferried ammunition and weapons from Turkey to the embattled port of Tripoli, where the UN-backed government is headquartered.

“The Turkish ship loaded with weapons and ammunition that docked this morning at the port of Tripoli was destroyed,” reads a short statement published by an LNA Facebook account. It didn’t elaborate on the attack, which appears to have taken place on Tuesday afternoon.  Continue reading “Libyan General Haftar’s forces claim they’ve bombed Turkish ship ‘loaded with weapons & ammo’ at Tripoli port”

Press TV

Iran has unveiled its first oil rig manufactured by domestic companies, fulfilling a dream which the country’s petroleum industry cherished for long.

“A rig is a mobile plant that can be moved from one place to another. The cost of building many factories is less than the cost of building a rig, and building an oil rig is very important,” Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said.  Continue reading “Iran fulfills dream as it unveils first homemade oil rig”