The New York Post dropped a bomb on Hunter Biden’s business deals and the alleged role of his father Joe Biden, following the GOP’s September report calling out the potentially criminal financial transactions of the ex-vice president son. US journalist Max Parry has discussed the disclosure and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s apparent inaction. The Post’s first bombshell report – published on 14 October and almost immediately censored by Twitter – unveiled “smoking gun emails” alleging that then-Vice President Joe Biden met with an executive from the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma less than a year before Ukraine’s then-General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin was […]
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After President Trump stated during Tuesday night’s debate that the right-wing political activist group Proud Boys must “stand back and stand by”, the public, including a number of Trump’s Republican allies, have urged the president to clarify his stance and unequivocally denounce white supremacy. Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts has taken aim at some of his Twitter followers for “hammering” him over asking White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany for a “definitive and declarative statement” that POTUS condemns white supremacy and groups who espouse this ideology. “Why didn’t he say, ‘I don’t know who they are. Can you give me more […]
The US considers China a “revisionist power” seeking to upend the post-Cold War world order, but what Americans misunderstand about China is that competition doesn’t necessarily mean a fight to the death for supremacy, a journalist told Sputnik. In fact, Washington’s reaction might just provoke China into chasing that goal. Peter Lavelle, host of RT’s “CrossTalk,” told Radio Sputnik’s Fault Lines on Monday that what Westerners misunderstand the most about China is that they feel that having established itself as top dog around the world, the US then kicked the ladder out from under it, making it “against the rules” for […]
In his forthcoming book “Rage,” journalist Bob Woodward revealed that US President Donald Trump knowingly downplayed the danger posed by COVID-19 in the early days of the outbreak. However, to those paying attention to how the administration has handled the pandemic, the idea that they withheld information is not new, a journalist told Sputnik. “There are so many people that are trying to cash on the Trump phenomenon. You know, obviously, he’s a very interesting character and obviously very over the top and ridiculous, but what really made me scratch my head – I saw some of the headlines – about […]
While US officials claim that their recent sanctioning of former Lebanese government ministers was designed to expose the corruption of the country’s politicians, one expert tells Sputnik that Washington’s recent action is nothing more than a continuation of a longstanding, but unsuccessful, Western campaign to control Lebanon. US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenke declared on Tuesday that political allies of Hezbollah will have to “choose between bullets and ballots,” as they stand to be held “accountable for any enabling of [Hezbollah’s] terrorist and illicit activities,” Arab News reported. This came amid the two-day Lebanon leg of […]
US President Donald Trump is “all over the place” when it comes to the military, pushing back on reports he had called fallen troops “suckers” and “losers,” and continuing military operations even as he says the country’s long wars should end, Ted Rall, a columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits. In an article published in The Atlantic on September 3, the outlet’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, quotes various anonymous sources claiming that the US president had repeatedly disparaged service members. For example, Goldberg claims that Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 […]
A memorandum issued on Wednesday by the White House directed a review of federal funding allocated to certain cities that “allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones” and “permit anarchy, violence, and destruction.” In addition to the legal questions raised by the order, one expert claims it’s also filled with disinformation. Cities explicitly deemed “anarchist jurisdictions” by the White House included: New York City, New York; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and the US capital of Washington, DC. Eugene Puryear, host at BreakThrough News and author of “Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America,” joined Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Thursday […]
A new narrative being spun in Western media claims Russian President Vladimir Putin is the mastermind who poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group, reviving an old trope used to stoke Russophobia. However, one journalist advises not jumping to conclusions before all the facts are known. Kevin Zeese, editor of Popular Resistance, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits hosts Bob Schlehuber and Michelle Witte that Russia, China and other “targets of Western foreign policy” have to defend themselves from the US on a number of fronts – including the media. “German government spokesman Steffen […]
The US intelligence community chief has decided to stop briefing US lawmakers as some of them have a tendency to spill the beans over and over again. US observers have explained what’s behind the move and why House Democrats continue to use the Russian bugaboo to divert attention from their own political failures. Congressional Democrats have subjected the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to criticism over the latter’s decision to suspend its in-person election security briefings for US lawmakers over leaks from Congress. “This is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed, and […]
On Thursday night, US President Donald Trump delivered a fiery acceptance speech after being nominated by the Republican Party to run for a second term in November. A journalist told Sputnik that Trump is given space to spin lies about an imaginary adversary by a mainstream media that long ago gave up its duty to be critical of politicians. In a speech at the White House on Thursday that lasted more than an hour, Trump presented himself as a defender of the United States against forces threatening to destroy it – forces that would be mobilized if Democratic nominees Joe Biden […]
The parliamentary Russia report has stated that Britain’s government failed to determine whether or not Moscow interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote. The long overdue report went on to claim that Russia interfered in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and the 2019 general election, but did not provide any evidence to support the accusations. Investigative journalist Dave Lindorff has shared his views on the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 Brexit referendum as well as the current problems of the British government over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Sputnik: Are you surprised by the allegations being made by the […]
On Thursday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp sued Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for ordering people in the city to wear masks in public spaces, a move that will likely not end in his favor, Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter whose writings can be found at ThisCantBeHappening.net, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Friday. The lawsuit argues that Kemp alone “leads the State of Georgia in its fight against the worldwide novel coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic” and has the authority to “suspend municipal orders that are contradictory to any state law or to his executive orders.” “As the Mayor of the City of Atlanta, […]
American opinion writer Bari Weiss, who sees herself as a centrist and a conservative, joined The New York Times in 2017 after working for The Wall Street Journal. The Jerusalem Post named her among the world’s 50 most influential Jews in 2019. Bari Weiss, who worked for The New York Times as an opinion editor for three years, announced her resignation from the paper in a letter, claiming that she has been subject to “bullying” for her views and had experienced “unlawful discrimination” in a “hostile work environment”. According to her letter, The NYT failed to learn “lessons about the importance of […]
In a recent report, a United Nations expert found the January killing of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani by a US drone strike was against international law. One journalist told Sputnik the killing fit a long pattern of the US destroying places it cannot control, which is linked to the proliferation of poverty in the US. Kei Pritsker, a journalist with BreakThrough News, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits Tuesday that “for most of US history, we’ve just attacked countries purely out of our interest to extend our sphere of influence for power and take out governments we don’t like, and it’s […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107978/08/1079780868_374:-1:1915:867_1200x675_80_0_0_47e76126dcfa55d8fe5ddc8103ee67d7.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202007021079780898-video-cnn-journo-threatened-with-knife-mugged-during-live-report-in-brazil/ The incident took place during a CNN live report covering heavy rainfall that resulted in a rapid rise of the water level of the Teté River in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The journalist, Bruna Macedo, was reportedly uninjured. A CNN reporter in Brazil, Bruna Macedo, was mugged at knifepoint while reporting live in Sao Paulo. The attacker was reported to be homeless, and approached Macedo from a bridge behind where she was standing, attacking her as she spoke to anchor Rafael Colombo. Cited by News.com.au, Colombo later revealed that Macedo “had a terrible scare, but […]
US President Donald Trump declared during a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this week that he “made Juneteenth very famous.” Eugene Puryear, an author, activist and host of the new program BreakThrough News, detailed to Sputnik just how out of touch the US president is from American history. “I did something good. I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it,” Trump said, talking to the WSJ about moving his upcoming campaign rally from June 19 to June 20 – after being asked to do so by leaders in the […]
Democrats have been reacting angrily to accounts in former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book as they attempt to score “cheap, short-term political points” against US President Donald Trump, Ben Norton, a journalist with The Grayzone, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Thursday. The upcoming memoir, due out next week, is titled “The Room Where It Happened” and is described by its publisher Simon & Schuster as “the book Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read.” One particular passage occupying news headlines this week alleges that Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping during a June 2019 summit dinner that his […]
Brazil’s COVID-19 outbreak is threatening to get out of control, while President Jair Bolsonaro is urging state governors to lift coronavirus restrictions, says Brazilian journalist Alan Dantas. According to the journalist, the walls are closing in on the president as his former allies are turning their backs on him. Brazil is now ranking third in terms of the number of infected, with a fatality rate floating at around 6.4%. Earlier, Bruno Covas, the mayor of Sao Paulo, warned that Brazil’s biggest city’s public hospitals are “near collapse”, as over 90% of their beds are occupied by patients and urged President Jair […]
Opinion 00:55 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) recently stepped down as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee after he was accused of selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock before the US COVID-19 outbreak, a symptom of inherent corruption in the US political system, Jim Kavanagh, the editor of ThePolemicist.net, told Sputnik Friday. “The problem for Burr is that he made these stock trades himself. [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein (D-CA), [Sen. Kelly] Loeffler (R-GA), a couple of other people who were involved in this, all have the excuse or rationale or reason that their stock trades were made […]