While the closure of Russian diplomatic facilities in the US will likely ramp up tensions with Moscow, the decision might be prompted by the outstanding issues within the US and its administration, says Afshin Rattansi, host of RT UK’s Going Underground. On Thursday, the US State Department demanded closure of the Russian consulate in San Francisco, as well as two annex buildings in Washington and... 

A call on the Donald Trump administration to officially classify the Antifa movement as a terrorist organization has reached the 100,000-signature threshold for a mandatory response from the White House. The petition was launched on Thursday, August 17, and in just three days, by Sunday evening, topped the minimum of 100,000 signatures required to prompt a formal response from the White House. The... 

Steve Bannon left the Trump White House today after offering his resignation on August 7th. Bannon is now already spilling the beans! Good! We love you Bannon, you are a great principled man. So Bannon told The Weekly Standard that, “The Trump presidency that we fought for is over.” Finally! Someone other than us here at the EU Times has started to warn that Trump is no longer on our side, he... 

Just as we predicted a few days ago, Trump has finally surrendered to his globalist friends whom he appointed in his administration and he finally fired chief strategist Steve Bannon. Leftists are in a frenzy celebrating on Twitter. While technically it wasn’t a firing and Bannon just resigned on his own, well it was no one other but Trump who made the call for Bannon to go, so if Bannon wouldn’t... 

Not even slave liberator Abraham Lincoln can escape the wrath of Antifa now. These communists have gotten a lot of power lately. Soon they’re gonna be unbeatable and then America is gonna turn communist just like the Soviet Union. These people have a lot in common with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East who also love to smash statues and other cultural and historical stuff. ABC News reports: The... 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened military intervention in Venezuela, a surprise escalation of Washington’s response to Venezuela’s political crisis that Caracas disparaged as “craziness.” Venezuela has appeared to slide toward a more volatile stage of unrest in recent days, with anti-government forces looting weapons from a military base after a new legislative body usurped... 

A state-run newspaper has argued in an editorial that China should remain neutral if North Korea attacks the U.S., but intervene forcefully if the U.S. strikes first. The widely read state-run Global Times, published by the ruling Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, wrote in an editorial that Beijing is not able to persuade either Washington or Pyongyang to back down. “It needs to make... 

The new US sanctions on Russia have angered the Kremlin, especially after Donald Trump promised to repair relations. With the American president increasingly looking a busted flush, Moscow is likely to deliver a forceful response. In the end, it didn’t take long. Just over six months after President Trump assumed office, the Washington establishment has, in the short to medium term at least, ended... 

US film director Oliver Stone has written a scathing Facebook post over Washington’s passage of the Russia sanctions bill. He suggested that US intelligence agencies aren’t doing their job and are misleading the public in the “false-flag war” against Moscow. The post, which Stone titled ‘Mid-Summer Anger,’ begins by slamming Congress for passing the bill. “I... 

Moscow warned that it may take retaliatory measures and expel US Embassy staff unless Washington does something to break the stalemate in the closure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the US. Russian Foreign Ministry stated that it is hard to cooperate with the US in the light of diplomats’ repatriation and confiscated Russian property, which was under diplomatic immunity during its illegal... 

US President Donald Trump has tweeted that “it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia,” citing a ceasefire negotiated for southwest Syria as proof that this is possible. Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than two hours in Hamburg on Friday, the first day of the G20 summit. “We negotiated a ceasefire in parts of Syria which will save lives.... 

Iran has accused the United States of interfering in its domestic affairs after calls by the US Secretary of State to support “elements” that would ensure a “peaceful transition” in the Islamic Republic. Tehran also officially delivered a note of protest to the UN. Speaking last Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rex Tillerson said Washington will support efforts of a regime... 

Havana has blasted US President Donald Trump’s decision Friday to roll back much of Barack Obama’s policy of rapprochement and imposing new restrictions on Cuba using the pretext of human rights concerns, calling it a case of double standards. “The United States is not in a position to give us lessons. We have serious concerns about the respect and guarantees of human rights in that country,... 

Thousands have turned out to mourn the victims of the Tehran attacks, shouting “Death to Saudi Arabia” and “Death to America.” It comes after Iranian leaders accused Washington and Riyadh of supporting the attacks which killed 17 people earlier this week. Crowds gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to shout slogans against the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel on Friday,... 

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has stated that Donald Trump’s efforts to “untie” America from “international connections” make it hard for Europe to stay on good terms with Washington, pushing the EU “closer” to China. “Now that there are signs that the US wants to untie itself from international connections, the relationship with China is becoming more and more important,”...