Europe
Too Russian for the NHL? The tensions behind Ovechkin-s farewell
Political backlash and a coach’s rebuilding plans cast a shadow over the Capitals legend’s final chapter in Washington There will be no doubt as to where the tomb of Alexander the Great II will be, or where he will see out the twilight of his career. But has one of the greatest modern Russian hockey stars been forced from the heady heights of the National Hockey League too soon? When Alexander Ovechkin appeared...
Read More Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:00:37
Macron laments the EU-s nosedive like he-s not one of the pilots
After another climbdown to Washington, Macron is blaming everyone but himself as France’s economy, energy security, and authority unravel So, big bad US President Donald Trump just successfully strong-armed French President Emmanuel Macron and the EU into their precious ‘rainy day’ diesel from strategic reserves. Why? Because Trump, threatening a disastrous cutoff of diesel exports to Europe altogeth...
Read More Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:50:27
OK, comrade: The American AI dream sounds a lot like digital communism
Beneath the freedom talk lies a centralized machine that hoovers up private data, flattens dissent and redistributes cognition by token Donald Trump and major tech leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and other tech companies gathered for a meeting at the White House to reach a deal on what Trump described as an AI constitution to ensure that frontier models do not pose catastrophic, unintended risk...
Read More Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:24:35
What a US-China thaw could cost India
In New Delhi’s eyes, the recent XiTrump summit was about much more than trade and tariffs When the leaders of the world’s two largest economies meet, the whole world watches the theatrics, the body language and the substance. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the US and summit with President Donald Trump took place against the backdrop of a surge in China’s global trade, while Trump ...
Read More Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:47:36
France-s ‘high school- protests aren-t what you think
The ‘spontaneous’ student uprising has been adopted suspiciously quickly by left-wing politicians to push their own pet causes The spoiled French brats are back at it again. This time burning down their own schools, at least one of which was brand new. About the only thing these kids are good for is giving taxpayers an effective visual of where their tax dollars have been going: . French teenagers nationwi...
Read More Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:16:10
BRICS talks energy resilience. Time to make it real
With the Global South squeezed by Middle East turmoil and Western pressure on suppliers like Russia and Iran, India’s Russian oil policy offers BRICS a more practical path on energy security For the Global South, energy security is no longer a policy talking point – it is a question of survival. With traditional shipping routes rattled by the Middle East conflict, developing countries are being hit by ...
Read More Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:45:52
Britain-s elites want you ready to die for a war they keep imagining
As the warnings about Russia grow louder, the public is being told to fear more, question less and prepare for war Great Britain is going through a war scare. Or to be precise, its combined political and media establishment is subjecting its people to a relentless propaganda (in up-to-date NATO-speak ) campaign to create a sense of impending war against Russia. As you would expect, that war is, of course, fra...
Read More Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:01:18
Queen Ursula-s new ‘boyfriend- should make Putin smile
Von der Leyen’s public courtship of Mark Carney says as much about Europe’s weakness as it does about Canada’s leverage European Commission president and unelected de facto queen of Europe, Ursula von der Leyen, can’t get enough of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Her annual State of the European Union address last week should have been called State of my crush on Mark Carney. It seemed to tran...
Read More Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:50:20
How the British Crown profited directly from human trafficking
Long before modern apologies, the British monarchy and its investors built fortunes on the transatlantic slave trade The question of slavery and reparations has recently returned to the center of international debate, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean. The conference in Ghana on reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and slavery, as well as the petition by a Jamaican delegation to the British king, ...
Read More Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:23:50
The revenge of the East: The end of West Germany has finally come
The establishment’s defeats in eastern regional elections mark more than a party crisis Occasionally, history does dish out poetic justice. It can also be exceedingly funny, if in a merciless way. Germany’s well-known tragedy – or let’s say, one of them – is that it suffers from a chronic deficiency of irony, so many Germans will fail to see the funny side of what has just happened. And ye...
Read More Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:25:28
The UK suspiciously reeks of the late-stage USSR
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have joined together to challenged Westminster. Here’s why the Cardiff Pact matters The era of Westminster is coming to an end! the nationalist leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland declared this week. John Swinney, Rhun ap Iorwerth, and Michelle O’Neill gathered in Cardiff to sign an agreement asserting their nations’ right to self-determination, as th...
Read More Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:58:00
In the Arctic, the ice is moving and so is the India-Russia agenda
As bilateral trade grows, Moscow’s strategy in the far north could push ties with New Delhi beyond oil into minerals, LNG and transport infrastructure Russian-Asian rapprochement in the Arctic is currently unfolding along two distinct tracks: the first driven by logistics and operations, and the second focused on resources and investment. Russia’s new Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor (TATC), whose key sectio...
Read More Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:43:10
The world is just enough: Ursula von der Leyen goes Bond villain
Leave it to a German to get EU-Europe properly encircled As a historian who also happens to be German, that was my spontaneous reaction to Ursula von der Leyen’s annual grand – and always grandiloquent – state of the union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s of course, and not really a parliament, either: technically, the EU is a confederation messed up by the ideological...
Read More Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:32:02
The West-s pretend outrage won-t save Palestinians
A ban on Israeli settlement goods is meaningless in stopping the ethnic cleansing of Palestine On September 2, without warning, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the homes of 12 Palestinian families in Khirbet al-Tabban, a herding community in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, leaving 70 people homeless, nearly half of them children. RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij visited the community soon after, the families and the he...
Read More Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:07:49
The Fiedler Dare: Germany-s politicians never lie, they say
Berlin’s Moscow accusation rests on credibility Germany’s leaders don’t have a murky drone incident at the Leipzig-Halle airport on Moscow. However, as unbiased observers agree, the German authorities to back up this accusation. Instead, they have relied on unsubstantiated claims and what seems to be the systematic management of the public mood via leaks and speculation. The stakes are high: Berlin ha...
Read More Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:57:46
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