International lawyer Barry Grossman says there are people in the United States who are seeking a military conflict with Russia for their own economic profits. “There are many people in the US establishment who would be ecstatic about a shooting war with Russia since that would send the US economy and their own profits in to overdrive,” he told Press TV on Thursday. He added that the latest comments... 

Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has come out against “fast-track” approval powers sought by the White House that would allow only the Executive Branch to negotiate trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Barack Obama, most congressional Republicans, and some Democrats are backing fast-track authority — officially called Trade Promotion Authority... 

Time exposure shot of testing of the LGM-118A Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll, all eight fired from one missile. The Peacekeeper is a US ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit one of a group of targets. Moscow says it is closely watching a possible deployment of the United States nuclear missiles in Europe. Kremlin press secretary... 

US President Barack Obama said that his administration has retrieved the reputation of the United States as “the most respected country on earth.” Obama made the statement while answering questions with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Monday. “People don’t remember, but when I came into office,... 

A neuroprosthetic device implanted in Erik Sorto’s brain allowed him to drink unaided for the first time in 13 years. Researchers in the United States have developed a new kind of brain implant that helps patients move robotic arms. Researchers said Thursday the brain implant offers new promise to disabled people with spinal injuries to seamlessly control robotic limbs or even entire body suits in... 

The number of prescriptions for the medication that treats diabetes has been growing along with the rate of the blood sugar disorder in the United States. Metformin is used as a one of the most common medication to cure Type II diabetes. Surprisingly, metformin can also be found in freshwater system. What is more, researchers said that the drug can change the sex of fish, Pravda.Ru reports. Rebecca... 

The Kremlin says it will tighten an existing ban on the import of fruits and vegetables from Europe through Bulgaria over concerns that Sofia may be attempting to send European products into Russia using false documents. On Monday, the deputy head of Russia’s agricultural regulator, Yulia Shvabauskene, said Moscow had stopped re-exports, or the export of goods which have been imported, through Bulgaria. Shvabauskene... 

Another grim Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today is warning that the Obama regime has vastly expanded its massive “animal kill” plans to include all domestic cats residing in the United States and Canada in yet another of its “steps” toward its preparations for total global war. As we had previously reported, the SVR and the Ministry of Healthcare (MoH)... 

US Air Force shows a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The United States has test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from a facility in California in a move to relay a message of nuclear capability to the world. The US Air Force fired the unarmed Minuteman III missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday, according to a statement by the Air Force. The test-launch... 

The number of drug deaths involving heroin has soared four times since 2000 throughout much of the United States, new statistics indicate. Most of the increase in heroin fatalities occurred after 2010, with the highest rate among adults aged 25–44. “From 2000 through 2013, the age-adjusted rate for drug poisoning deaths [in the US] involving heroin nearly quadrupled from 0.7 deaths per 100,000... 

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... 

Yemeni security forces stand guard outside the German embassy in Sana’a on February 13, 2015. Italy and Germany have temporarily closed their embassies in Yemen, following the United States, Britain and France, in reaction to alleged security concerns after the Ansarullah revolutionaries took control of the capital, Sana’a. On Friday, the Italian Foreign Ministry issued a statement, saying... 

“I don’t trust the policy of the United States… but this does not mean I reject a pacific solution to the conflicts,” iconic former Cuban leader Fidel Castro commented on the push for a restoration of Cuban-American ties. This is the first time the ex-revolutionary president has spoken publicly since the December 17 US push for a historic reconciliation between the two nations. The... 

A Volvo manufacturing plant in Chengdu, China. China is to start exporting domestically-manufactured Volvo sedans to the United States for the first time ever, the company has announced. Volvo Car Group’s president and chief executive officer, Hakan Samuelson, made the announcement at the Detroit auto show on Monday. Samuelson said the shipping of a new S60 model, manufactured in China, to the US... 

The United States could possibly wage a war at a global level in the new year, says political analyst Stephen Lendman. “America is the rogue state that literally risks the possibility of a global war that could even erupt this year,” Lendman, an author and a radio host, told Press TV on Thursday. He made the remarks when asked about new US threats against Russia and its plan to deploy more than...