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Prior to going viral after footage emerged showing ex-State Department official Stuart Seldowitz spewing Islamophobic slurs at a Halal food cart operator, he spent his spare time harassing female Russian diplomats and an ambassador’s pet dog, the Grayzone has learned. The viral footage of Stuart Seldowitz berating a Halal food cart operator with Islamophobic diatribes and calls for the death of more Palestinian children has laid bare the link between extremism and American foreign policy.  Seldowitz, a former national security […]

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NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to US global hegemony. On October 31st, Montenegrin lawmakers formally approved a coalition government comprised of pro-European, pro-Russian and pro-Serbian parties. Immediately, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic declared his intention to ramp up Podgorica’s effort to join the European Union. The coalition hinges on support from a party alliance called For A Better Montenegro. The bloc’s leader, Andrija Mandic, agreed to support Spajic’s government in return […]

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Joe Biden’s response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle. Immediately after he returned from his visit to Tel Aviv, where he had both literally and figuratively embraced Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden addressed the US public from the Oval Office. “You know,” he […]

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Despite their leader's support for Russia, most Belarusians oppose the war with Ukraine, argues Mark Temnycky

A Russian soldier said that he was told that it's better to use a grenade to kill himself and any enemies approaching rather than surrender and face “torture"

With its history of treaty violation and oppression of occupied Ukrainians, Zelensky would be foolish to trust the Kremlin. And is winning a strategic war over Crimea

As the West Asian powderkeg inches closer to disaster over Israel's ongoing slaughter in Gaza, Craig Murray dissects the various factors at play that could push the region over the precipice.

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Russia’s relationship with Hamas is well-known and well-documented

By aligning itself with the Kremlin, the Georgian Dream party is at odds with the country's population who want to move closer to NATO and the EU

The Uhuru 3 are accused by the US DOJ of “sowing discord” on behalf of Russia. Their attorneys warn the case threatens to “blow a hole in the First Amendment.” TAMPA, FLORIDA – Defense attorneys representing three US citizens accused of operating a Russia-directed “malign influence campaign” to “sow discord” in the United States urged Federal Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli to dismiss the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case against their clients this September 28, arguing their continued prosecution threatens […]

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