Russia has no intention of canceling its embargo on food products from countries that imposed sanctions on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich says. “We are not planning to cancel the food embargo so far,” said Dvorkovich at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum on Saturday. The deputy premier added that Russian authorities are instead discussing the reduction of... 

Net neutrality is a classic Trojan horse. Obama thanked internet users for supporting the FCC’s decision to micromanage the internet: As Ron Paul notes today the FCC is a non-elected federal government agency that has arbitrarily decided, without a vote from Congress or permission from the American people, to regulate the internet. Paul characterizes this as “the largest regulatory power grab... 

North Korean leader has called on his country’s army to strengthen its preparedness for a possible military confrontation with the US and its allies amid what is called security threats ahead of the annual joint US-South Korea war games described by Pyongyang as provocative. Kim Jong-un made the remarks while opening a new hall at the country’s Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in... 

Members of the French Communist Party stage a mock protest outside the headquarters of Swiss bank HSBC on the Champs-Elysees avenue, on February 26, 2015 in Paris. Communist protesters held a mock arrest of HSBC’s CEO as anger towards high finance continues to mount in austerity-wracked France. The Swiss arm of HSBC is being investigated in France over leaked files which allege the bank masterminded... 

Iranian navy blowing up a ‘mock’ US aircraft carrier. Iran has staged naval war games in an important sea channel, including an attack on a mock US warship. Missiles were also fired from the coast around the Strait of Hormuz, which sees a quarter of all sea-transported oil pass through it. The drills were conducted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which were named Prophet 9. The exercises... 

An extraordinary report prepared by the Military Scientific Committee of the Armed Forces (MSC) on the just completed trials of the Almaz-Antey high energy laser directed energy weapon system project by the 27th Central Research Institute (27-CRI) states that their “immediate dispersement” to Federation allies India, China and Brazil is needed to defend our planet against “inter-dimensional... 

American think-tank Stratfor has issued a new ‘Decade Forecast,’ which says the EU will decay, China will end up in “a communist dictatorship,” and Russia will disintegrate…though it hasn’t done so yet, despite such predictions taking place in the past. “It is unlikely that the Russian Federation will survive in its current form,” the forecast’s chapter dedicated... 

New Zealand is set to dispatch non-combat forces to Iraq to train Iraqi military units to better fight the Takfiri ISIL terrorists operating in the war-torn country, New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key says. Some 140 troops will initiate a “behind the wire” mission in May to train Iraqi security forces, Key told parliament on Tuesday, stressing that the soldiers will not be involved in combat... 

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2012 statement at the UN, in which he warned the world of Iran being too close to making a nuclear bomb, allegedly contradicted his country’s intelligence assessments, according to leaked spy documents. Netanyahu famously declared to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2012 that Iran was 70 percent of the way to completing its “plans to... 

The ISIL terrorist group has kidnapped at least 90 Christians in northeast Syria. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that the abductions were carried out in Assyrian Christian villages near the town of Tel Tamer in the province of Hasakah. It said the Takfiri militants attacked the villages after dawn. Tel Tamer, home to the ancient Christian minority, is located in... 

Twenty percent of Germans believe that their current living conditions won’t be improved by reforms and only a revolution can reshape society. That’s according to a major study released by the Free University of Berlin. The study, titled “Against the state and capital – to revolution” focused on opposition to capitalism, fascism and racism, and concluded that Germans... 

Yohei Matsumoto (C), parliamentary vice minister in Japan’s Cabinet Office, arrives at a ceremony to mark “Takeshima Day” in Matsue, Shimane prefecture, February 22, 2015. Tokyo has called for Seoul to return a group of disputed islands in the Sea of Japan that have been controlled by South Korea, amid a territorial row between the two countries. Japan’s Shimane prefectural government designated... 

In 2011, Danios wrote: Below, I have reproduced a year-by-year timeline of America’s wars, which reveals something quite interesting: since the United States was founded in 1776, she has been at war during 214 out of her 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars. To put this in perspective: * Pick any year since 1776... 

At least three people have been killed in an explosion in the center of Kharkov, Ukraine, during a peace march, local media report. Around 500 people had gathered in the center of the Kiev-controlled city for a rally. Those marching in the front were hurt, with Tass reporting from the scene that at least 10 people sustained injuries and three others were killed. Other outlets speak of four and eight... 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un The North Korean leader attended battlefield gunnery training near the South Korean border on Friday. The drills took place ahead of the announced US-South Korea joint war games set for March close to North Korea’s border. The exercise simulated the assault and capture of an enemy island, reported the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The drills...