Over 100,000 protesters take to Democratic National Convention in Chicago

The protests in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention have begun as 100,000 protesters are expected to show up. Democrats have installed walls around the convention despite previously telling Americans that “walls don’t work.” “We’ve watched all morning as they have started to bring in more metal fencing, more barricades, and these snowploughs have been…

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Here’s why US is playing dumb about Ukraine’s plans to invade Kursk

This dishonesty advances the US’ escalation control and soft power interests. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the US didn’t know about Ukraine’s plans to invade Russia’s Kursk Region, but that’s unbelievable since there’s no way that its intelligence services didn’t even catch a hint of it, not to mention likely participate in…

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Why US forced Ukraine to call off its reportedly planned assassination of Putin

By Andrew Korybko The US’ internal policymaking dynamics have shifted since the start of Russia’s special operation. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Rossiya 1 TV channel that the US heeded his country’s demand last month to force Ukraine to call off a major provocation that his country believed had American backing and…

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