The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a controversial trade agreement that the Obama administration spent years negotiating in secret, is “worse than we expected,” public interest lawyer and activist Kevin Zeese told Sputnik Radio. The TPP is a wide-ranging economic agreement between 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the Pacific coasts of the Americas primarily aimed at deregulating trade.... 

A grim Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials were “stunned” last week after a Turkish Air Force fighter jet operating within its own airspace fired upon and downed two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters being flown by the US Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) over Kurdish held territory in the eastern Syrian... 

Former Alaska Governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday before the latter’s rally in Iowa, at her own rally in Ames, two weeks before the Iowa caucus. “I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Palin said in a statement released by the Trump campaign. In a press release on Trump’s website, the campaign rubbed the endorsement in the... 

US presidential candidate, Republican Senator Rand Paul, put forward an initiative to tighten the rules for issuing visas to Russian citizens. The politician also suggested including Russia on the list of so-called “highly dangerous countries,” from where terrorists may enter the territory of the United States. The project that the senator develops is called the “Security Act.”... 

A nuclear watchdog group warns that, despite efforts to secure nuclear material, nations are still vulnerable to theft, as well as acts of sabotage or cyberattacks, which could enable terrorists to obtain nuclear materials or trigger a dangerous meltdown. Twenty-four states “still have one kilogram (2.2 pounds) or more of weapons-usable nuclear materials…[and] nearly 2,000 metric tons (4.4 million... 

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today presented to the Security Council (SC) by the Internal Security Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that “great fear and tension” has arisen in the country due to prophecies of an impending European apocalypse related to the United States Army contracting with 17 companies last week, including major corporations, for $900 million... 

At least 1 in 10 Americans who plan to cast a vote this election will do so for the first time in years! Ted Wade hasn’t cared about politics enough to cast a vote in a U.S. presidential election for almost a quarter of a century, back when he supported Ross Perot’s independent candidacy in 1992. But Republican Donald Trump’s 2016 White House bid has motivated Wade to get involved and he plans... 

The EU President’s confrontational approach to EU countries’ policies outside of bureaucratic protocol has alienated both leaders an the public, as Euroskeptic parties gain in the polls. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker claimed that the European Union’s currency, the euro, would make no sense without open borders provided for by the Schengen agreement. The statement... 

A Christian monastery in Jerusalem has been vandalized after extremist graffiti was daubed on its walls. Messages such as “Christians Go to Hell” were written, while Israel says it has ordered an immediate police investigation into the crimes committed. The messages written in Hebrew on the walls and doors of the monastery included “erase the name and the memory of the bastard,” and... 

Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump says rival Ted Cruz’s image as a champion of the everyday American doesn’t square with the two $500,000 loans he failed to disclose from big banks to fund his 2012 Senate campaign. “He’s being a great hypocrite, wouldn’t you think?” Trump said Saturday at a Portsmouth, N.H., rally. “You know, he talks about he’s going to be Robin Hood, he’s... 

The US Department of the Treasury on Sunday imposed new sanctions on Iran. The US Department of the Treasury says it has imposed new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program. The Treasury Department made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, only a day after sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program were lifted. The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy has brought into question the German leader’s political future. What if Angela Merkel steps down? Experts weigh the pros and cons of the potential move. Angela Merkel’s “open-door” refugee policy has already prompted fierce debate among the Chancellor’s political opponents and ordinary Germans; the violent massive sex... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Obama regimes “master plan” for dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran has been “completely destroyed” after special naval forces belonging to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepāh) during the past fortnight captured two “highly armed and sophisticated” United States Navy Riverine Command Boats (RCB) under... 

Bavaria’s migration-skeptic Prime Minister Horst Seehofer said Saturday that he would file a lawsuit in Germany’s Constitutional Court if Chancellor Angela Merkel fails to restore contol over Germany’s borders. Authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria threatened in October to take the federal government to court if it did not manage to curb the record inflow of refugees into the... 

US presidential candidate Ted Cruz failed to disclose that he had borrowed as much as $1 million from Goldman Sachs to finance his 2012 Senate run, while he was publicly denouncing the giant bank as an agent for “crony capitalism,” according to a new report. Cruz and his wife Heidi, who worked at Goldman, took out a large low-interest loan from the investment bank and another from Citibank, without...