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Film director Oliver Stone—who has made no secret of his liberal political views—called President Barack Obama a “snake” for his role in National Security Agency spying programs that have become, he said, more about silencing protestors than finding terrorists.“Obama is a snake,” Stone told an audience in Tokyo on Monday. “He’s a snake. And we have to turn on him.” “The Boston Marathon, they were so busy tracking down potential protestors…that they missed the bombers,” Stone told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. “It’s never about terrorists, it always becomes about the way J. Edgar Hoover did it; he brought...

Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law. ­Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a lot because of the “nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him.” “He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them,” Stone told RT. “It is an Orwellian state. It might not be oppressive on the...

....The original 1890 version of a John Philip Souza march done by the United States Marine Band in Washington DC, "The President's Own". We are coming into the 243rd anniversary of Independence Day in the USA with some lamenting of the loss of values and some anger and outrage at the rage on our streets... Someone stood outside a child sex abuse trial in Leeds, England last year and did a live stream leading to his arrest. Tommy Robinson playing the role of journalist shedding some light on the situation shouting questions to the defendants convicted and being sentenced that...

A death sentence from France's Court of Cassation for quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert late Friday afternoon..... An attempt by the federal government to compromise with environmentalists failed Friday morning as three groups that want an injunction to stop Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond from using federal land for grazing rejected it..... They are arguably the most demonized leaders in the world and on Friday US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were together with President Trump in a jovial mood..... President Trump tweeting about his next stop following the G 20, South Korea.... At Gallargues-le-Monteux in southern...

More protests in Hong Kong Wednesday as the bill to allow extradition from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland was scheduled to be debated later in the day..... US Attorney General William Barr announcing Tuesday the arrest of nearly 1700 suspects in cases involving child pornography and the sexual abuse of 357 child victims.... Facing prison again in the UK on July 4th for live streaming outside a child sex abuse trial in Leeds, England is activist Tommy Robinson..... Syria reporting an Israeli attack overnight.... Russia's mission in Syria reporting eight jihadist-nationalist shelling attacks..... The political manuevering is on in...

A 3,300-year-old treasure trove of gold found in northern Germany has stumped German archeologists. One theory suggests that traders transported it thousands of miles from a mine in Central Asia, but other experts are skeptical. Archeologists in Germany have an unlikely new hero: former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. They have nothing but praise for the cigar-smoking veteran Social Democratic politician. Why? Because it was Schröder who, together with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, pushed through a plan to pump Russian natural gas to Western Europe. For that purpose, an embankment 440 kilometers (275 miles) long and up to 30 meters (100 feet)...

The newly revealed exploits of spies who operated in underground tunnels The CIA dug a tunnel under the Kremlin and installed a hi-tech bugging system to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union's most senior figures, according to the former US intelligence officer who executed the plan. The device was put in by a US agent who had to wear a protective suit and was guided by satellite and sonar images of Moscow's underground. The bugging formed part of audacious operations to rescue a key defector, a KGB officer with responsibility for eavesdropping, and to alert Boris Yeltsin to the attempted coup...

The revelations of the so-called Panama Papers that are roiling the world’s political and financial elites this week include important facts about Team Clinton. This unprecedented trove of documents purloined from a shady Panama law firm that arranged tax havens, and perhaps money laundering, for the globe’s super-rich includes juicy insights into how Russia’s elite hides its ill-gotten wealth. Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Though hardly a household name, this firm is well known inside the Beltway, not least because its CEO...

An attack on a church in the African nation of Burkina Faso Sunday. Six dead including the priest with the church burned down.... "It was the army that came to the rescue" the words of France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen in relation to the rescue of four hostages from Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso Thursday night..... A Christian town in northern Syria rocketed by jihadists Sunday. Six were killed..... Almost a year after he was arrested live streaming outside a child sex abuse trial involving Muslim defendants summarily tried and sent off to prison British activist Tommy Robinson...

The United States is moving a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East due to an Iranian threat..... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visiting Russia Monday and Tuesday..... In what she says is an act inconsistent with the tradition of free nations like Canada, Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak has been suspended..... A French military operation in the African nation of Burkina Faso has freed four hostages including an American citizen, a South Korean and two Frenchmen. The operation staged overnight Thursday with two French soldiers killed.... In northern Syria Friday a counterattack by jihadist forces beaten back by the Syrian...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have agreed to meet again next week.... Pompeo met with top Iraqi officials amidst a US warning based on Israeli intelligence reports, citing an Iranian threat to US interests..... Iran made official Wednesday what it was already reported to doing in recent days. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani informed Russia, China and other nations still involved in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement (France, Germany United Kingdom) that Iran is pulling out... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacting Wednesday saying: "Israel won't let Iran get nuclear weapons".... The Syrian Army...

So who was the big winner in Wednesday's televised street fight at the Senate Judiciary Committee? Was it the veteran D.C. lawyer, the brilliant and unflappable Attorney General William Barr? Was it the rude, permanently Trump-deranged, visibly stupid Democratic senators who treated Barr like a war criminal? Or was it the committee's star chairman, the eloquent, F-bomb-dropping Sen. Lindsay Graham? Or was it none of the above? The Democratic senators fought dirty, but there were no knock outs. Barr took all the slander, name calling and calls for him to resign from nasty Kamala Harris and Hawaii's official state embarrassment...

President Trump spoke with Russia's president Vladimir Putin for 90 minutes on Friday. He tweeted in part that it was a: "long and very good conversation"..... The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports more than 120 airstrikes by Russian and Syrian aircraft Friday.... More protests in Venezuela set for Saturday with those killed and wounded being remembered on Sunday. Protesters will begin to concentrate at various points in the capital city of Caracas at 10 am local time Saturday, also 10 am Eastern time in the US.... North Korea testing short range missiles off its eastern coast Saturday morning..... US...

North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un says the US acted in "bad faith" during his February summit meeting with President Trump in Hanoi...... The Muslim cleric wanted in connection with last Sunday's terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka is dead..... Former Vice-President Joe Biden in the race for president in 2020 attacking President Trump...... The FBI raided the home of Baltimore's mayor Catherine Pugh Thursday morning..... A federal appeals court panel has ruled that 34 congressional and state legislative districts in Michigan are gerrymandered in favor of Republicans..... In Massachusetts, a state judge and a retired court official entered not guilty pleas...

359 now dead in Sunday's suicide bombing terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka.... In Syria, another shelling attack in the north.... In Libya, the eastern forces of the Libyan National Army vow to step up their efforts to take the capital city of Tripoli..... President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is talking about the "Deal of the Century" peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians set to be unveiled in June.... Voters in Egypt approving constitutional amendments that could allow President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi to remain in power until 2030..... Election Day Tuesday in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island.... The talks moving...

Buried in special counsel Robert Mueller's 400-plus page report is the question of whether then-president-elect Donald Trump attended a 2016 championship chess tournament — an event that came under scrutiny as Mueller probed possible collusion between Trump's orbit and the Russian government. Although Trump said he did not attend the event, he told Mueller in written answers that he became "aware of documents indicating" that then-president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov — a sanctioned Russian power player — invited the Trump Organization in March 2016 to host the tournament at Trump Tower. "I do not remember having...

When the voting in Israel's General Election was over with the polls closed at 10pm local time, 3pm Eastern US time, exit polls came out showing different notions of who finished first.... The votes of soldiers remain to be counted and while Benjamin Netanyhu proclaims victory, Benny Gantz is saying the vote is not final yet..... British Prime Minister Theresa May meeting Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday trying to delay the Brexit deadline now set for Friday.... President Trump has until Friday to decide on an appeal of a federal judge's ruling Monday that asylum...

United States military forces stationed in Libya have been pulled out of the country. The United Nations also moving personnel out of the country as the Libyan National Army forces press their attack on the US-UN backed government that controls a small part of the country mostly around the capital city of Tripoli.... US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling for an end to the fighting and for negotiations between the warring factions..... As early as Monday, the United States is expected to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran as a "terrorist organization"..... Seven were killed in a...

The Battle of Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa May has maintained that her deal achieved with the European Union is Brexit.... Late News: Prime Minister Theresa May now seeking to extend the deadline again with permission from the European Union and seek cooperation with the opposition Labor Party...... "an attack on free speech" That message from Australian Independent Senator Fraser Anning as he was censured by the Australian Senate for his views expressed following the terror attacks on two mosques in New Zealand last month..... Strict new Islamic laws coming into force in Brunei Wednesday, a nation on an island off...

The war we all knew would happen has begun between an increasingly combative Trump administration and House Democrats fixated on investigating the president in every way, shape, and form possible, just because they can. On Thursday, White House counsel Pat Cipollone rejected Democrats’ demands for documents related to one-on-one meetings between POTUS Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin (yes, the “Russian collusion” hoax again). Specifically, Democrats on the House Intelligence, Government Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees want details of the president’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Finland in July 2018. The thinking among Democrats — if we can call...