(2019-11-24). Nicola Sturgeon sets out exactly why nuclear weapons have no place in Scotland. thecanary.co On 24 November, leader of the SNP and first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon appeared on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday. And she explained exactly why there's no place for nuclear weapons in Scotland. | "Weapons of mass destruction": | Sturgeon said a Jeremy Corbyn-led minority UK government scrapping its nuclear weapons would be a "red line" for SNP support. | Scrapping Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent is a "red line" for the SNP supporting a minority Labour gov…
(2019-11-24). Anti-Russian sanctions based on fraudster's tales? Spiegel finds Magnitsky narrative fed to West by Browder is riddled with lies. rt.com 
British investor Bill Browder has made a name for himself in the West through blaming Moscow for the death of his auditor, Sergey Magnitsky. Der Spiegel has picked apart his story and uncovers it has major credibility problems. | For years Browder — Russian President Vladimir Putin's self-proclaimed "enemy number one" and head of the Hermitage Capital Management fund — has been waging what can only be described as his personal anti-Russian campaign. | The passionate Kremlin critic relentlessly lobbied for sanctions against Russian officials everywhere from the US to Europe — all under the premis…
(2019-11-24). WATCH and enjoy: Russian TANK pulls passenger bus from ditch on icy country road. rt.com 
A commuter bus looked helpless while stuck in a snowy ditch in the middle of a country road in Russia — until an army tank came to the rescue. | The bus effectively blocked access to a small village in the Amur Region of Russia's Far East, and regular tow trucks were no good on the slippery road. | The local military academy came to help. They supplied a heavy army tow truck. It wasn't enough either, so a T-80BV main battle tank rolled up as well, finally pulling the bus out. | Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
(2019-11-24). 'Window is closing': US Senate makes last-ditch effort to ax Nord Stream 2 pipeline. rt.com 
After failing to persuade allies in Europe to scrap the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is set to transport natural gas from Europe to Russia, US lawmakers are planning to roll a new batch of sanctions into a defense spending bill.
(2019-11-24). WATCH and enjoy: Russian TANK pulls passenger bus from ditch on icy country road. rt.com A commuter bus looked helpless while stuck in a snowy ditch in the middle of a country road in Russia — until an army tank came to the rescue. | The bus effectively blocked access to a small village in the Amur Region of Russia's Far East, and regular tow trucks were no good on the slippery road. | The local military academy came to help. They supplied a heavy army tow truck. It wasn't enough either, so a T-72 main battle tank rolled up as well, finally pulling the bus out. | Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
(2019-11-24). 'Better Red Than Dead', literally: Lavrov remembers the Soviet diplomat who turned Cold-War slogan into UN meme. rt.com 
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Oleg Troyanovsky, a sharp-witted diplomat who famously was painted red by Chinese protesters, only to snidely remark in response that it was better to be 'red than dead.' | Troyanovsky, the son of the Soviet Union's first ambassador to the US, picked his father's profession and represented his home country in several senior diplomatic positions. He served as the Soviet ambassador to Japan and China, as well as the envoy to the UN, a role that he held for a decade, starting in 1976. | The current Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took the same role eight y…
(2019-11-24). 'Any doctors here?' Crew calls for help as co-pilot falls ill MID-FLIGHT in Russia and DIES just after emergency landing. rt.com 
The crew of a Russian passenger plane desperately appealed for medical help after a pilot suffered from an acute health problem mid-flight. He died shortly after the jet made an emergency landing. | An Aeroflot Airbus 320 took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday morning, bound for Anapa, a Black Sea resort. The aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Rostov-on-Don, however, after its first officer was suddenly struck by a health issue. | The cause of death is unclear but it is believed to have been a heart attack or blood clot. A source told RIA Novosti that the co-pilot had earlier complaine…
(2019-11-23). The Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963: 56 Years Later. globalresearch.ca This article was first published on November 21, 2013. | Today November 22, 2019 is the 56th anniversary of the assassination of JFK | Why was he assassinated? | He favored peace over war. | The normalization of relations with the Soviet Union. | ***…
(2019-11-23). Rising seas threaten US Pacific nuclear dump. wsws.org A concrete dome, a relic of the US nuclear testing program, is breaking up and beginning to spill deadly nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean.
(2019-11-23). Pope Denounces 'Evil' of Nuclear Weapons in Japan Trip. truthdig.com He goes further than any other pontiff, saying merely having atomic bombs is to be condemned, ahead of his visits to Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
(2019-11-23). Who decided the US should fight a "hot war" with Russia? wsws.org The impeachment inquiry has exposed a US conspiracy to spend billions of dollars to overthrow an elected government in Ukraine and foment a civil war that has killed thousands of people.
(2019-11-23). JFK Files: US Officials Plotted Destruction of Cuban Crops with Biological Agents. globalresearch.ca Today, November 22, 2019, we commemorate the passing of JFK. | Why was he killed? | He opposed the Deep State? | He was opposed to waging war on Cuba. | He favored dialogue rather than war with the Soviet Union. | *** | Several of …
(2019-11-23). 'NUCLEAR INCIDENT' in South China Sea that no one actually noticed hits the headlines (Fake news 101). rt.com 
Brewing a solid piece of fake news is tricky — it has to be hot enough to take off and believable enough to not get debunked at once. The scare around a "radiation incident" in the South China Sea appears to be almost perfect.
(2019-11-22). "Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II. globalresearch.ca According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.
(2019-11-22). Can the Religious Left Take Down Nuclear Weapons? counterpunch.org Pope Francis will travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki this weekend. On Sunday, he will give a public address at the ground-zero site of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki. He is expected to give the clearest articulation yet of the Vatican's position, since 2017, that condemns the "very possession" of nuclear weapons. This is something Plowshares More
(2019-11-22). What's Up With Trump and "The Deep State"? counterpunch.org Our Commander-in-Chief has attitudes that seldom rise to the level of ideas. For the most part, they are noxious and stupid, though the ones that descend from old fashioned "isolationism" are at least less lethal than the Cold War and empire-friendly attitudes that nearly all Democrats evince. Or rather they would be if anything ever More
(2019-11-22). U.S. Opens Up Another Front in Its Cold War Against China as Congress Passes the "Hong Kong Democracy Act" globalresearch.ca The Trump impeachment hearings give the illusion that voters in the United States have a choice between two different political parties: the Democrats and Republicans. The daily impeachment hearings dominate news headlines. Meanwhile, politicians of both parties have unanimously passed …
(2019-11-22). Moscow's Russia-Pakistan Banking Proposal Hints at Big Things to Come. globalresearch.ca Yuri M. Kozlov, the Russian Trade Representative in Pakistan, suggested that Russia and Pakistan establish a "reliable and mutually acceptable banking system", which strongly hints at Moscow's desire to improve its commercial trade ties with Islamabad in order to …
(2019-11-22). "Are You Sure They Did That?" Even Fox Questions Trump's Ukraine Conspiracy Theory. theintercept.com The hosts of "Fox and Friends" appear to be losing patience with Donald Trump's conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election.
(2019-11-22). Former Trump Aide Calls Ukraine Meddling Theory Fiction. telesurenglish.net At the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry session held on Thursday, President Donald Trump's former Russia Adviser Fiona Hill urged lawmakers not to promote the idea that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential elections. | RELATED: | US Secretary of State and VP at the Heart of Impeachment | "This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves," said Hill, who until July served as National Security Council's…
(2019-11-21). Capitalism's Suicidal Trajectory can't be ignored. dissidentvoice.org 
If we make it out of the climate emergency, we may come to view the few decades usually described simply as the Cold War that followed the Second World War as halcyon days — at least relative to what we are facing now. The Cold War was a power struggle between two economic empires for …
(2019-11-21). Alex Gibney's Cinematic Notes from Underground: Russia's Dissident Oligarch. progressive.org The title refers to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil oligarch who burst upon…
(2019-11-21). US, EU gave over $20 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since 2014. wsws.org Testimony at the final impeachment hearing confirmed the massive scale of imperialist operations in Ukraine, aimed at undermining and attacking Russia.
(2019-11-21). Journalist cries troll after finding 'Russian quotation marks' in story about Biden's illegitimate child. rt.com 
A journalist called out an Arkansas paper for running a story about Hunter Biden's illegitimate child, pointing to a "Russian quotation mark" the account had used in its tweet promoting the article. Also known as an arrow. | Journalist Julia Ioffe, a Russiagate true-believer who covers foreign policy and national security topics for mainstream US publications like WaPo and The Atlantic, immediately smelled a rat when the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette tweeted an article claiming that "DNA testing has established that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby," with what she — a Russian speaker — call…
(2019-11-20). Unusual. Improper. Inappropriate. Wrong: Officials Decry Trump's Pressure on Ukraine to Probe Bidens. democracynow.org 
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing." Those were the words of Army Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman during Tuesday's House impeachment inquiry hearings, describing his reaction to a July phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma. Vindman, who is the director for European affairs at the National Security Council, testified along with Jennifer Williams, a Russia adviser for Vice President Pence, in the fi…
(2019-11-17). Jimmy Dore: until we fix Democratic Party elites' corruption, we won't defeat Trump's. thegrayzone.com Jimmy Dore pushes back on impeachment and Ukrainegate, Hillary Clinton's smear of Tulsi Gabbard as a Russian asset, the DNC's…
(2019-11-15). Sen. Cory Booker on Environmental Justice, Nuclear Power & "Savage Racial Disparities" in the U.S. democracynow.org 
The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice, co-moderated by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and former EPA official Mustafa Santiago Ali, was held last Friday at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey was one of six Democratic candidates to share his plans to confront environmental injustices and the climate crisis. Booker spoke about racial disparities in the U.S., the creation of renewable energy jobs and the water contamination crises in cities across the country, including his hometown of Newark. "My community is not alone," Booker said. "Lead service…
(2019-11-12). Pompeo's Iran Nuclear Lies Exposed Using Clear Evidence & The JCPOA Document Itself. thelastamericanvagabond.com Mike Pompeo continues to lead the propaganda push to get the public panicking about an Iran "nuclear breakout" even when all evidence shows that Iran is nowhere near capable of being a nuclear threat. Of course many other countries have far more robust nuclear programs, but because it's Iran we have to come together as …
(2019-11-09). Possible False Flag In Iraq, US Votes Against Anti-Nazi Res. & Pompeo's Iran Nuclear Lies Debunked. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/6/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
(2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …
(2019-10-26). Russia Has 'Proof' US Is Smuggling Oil In Syria & Did Israel/US Create A Civil War In Lebanon? thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/26/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
(2019-10-23). Trump Says US War With Iran May Be Soon, Putin/Erdogan Syria Deal & Iraq Says No US Troops Allowed. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/22/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
(2019-10-07). Venezuela Arrests Oil Exec for Corruption, Receives $4bn in Russian Investment. venezuelanalysis.com Moscow and Caracas are reportedly working on a long-term cooperation agreement set to last at least until 2030.
(2019-09-26). Venezuela: Trump Imposes Travel Ban, Putin Backs Dialogue. venezuelanalysis.com US officials and the Venezuelan opposition have also lobbied the EU to impose harsher sanctions against Caracas.
(2019-06-25). Peace Action Endorses Ilhan Omar for Congress. peaceaction.org Washington, DC — June 25, 2019 — Peace Action has announced its endorsement of Ilhan Omar for Congress in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. Peace Action is a national grassroots organization working to advance nuclear disarmament, promote government spending priorities that support human needs, encourage real security through international cooperation and human rights, and support nonmilitary …
(2019-06-24). Peace Action Endorses Kara Eastman for Congress. peaceaction.org Washington, DC — June 24, 2019 — Peace Action has announced its endorsement of Kara Eastman for Congress in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District. Peace Action is a national grassroots organization working to advance nuclear disarmament, promote government spending priorities that support human needs, encourage real security through international cooperation and human rights, and support nonmilitary …
