(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US forces on Wednesday boarded and took by force a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that it initially tried to seize off the coast of Venezuela weeks ago, an action that drew condemnation from Moscow.
The tanker was named the Bella 1 when the...
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) Amid silver’s recent surge following a long period of stagnation, a wave of articles and commentaries has emerged calling its rise an unsustainable bubble that's about to burst and burn investors.
It’s worth noting that nearly all of those now calling silver a bubble...
(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) Denmark’s premier has warned that US military action against Greenland would unravel the NATO alliance and the entire international order, after President Donald Trump reiterated hopes to take over the country.
Speaking to Danish broadcasters on Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen condemned “unacceptable pressure” by the Trump administration...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said the US had no plans to hold elections in Venezuela. He said elections are currently impossible, and the country must first be helped by the US.
“We have to fix the country first. You can’t have an election. There’s no way the people could...
(Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency — with 2,000 federal agents and officers expected in the Minneapolis area for a crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving...
(Morgan Sweeney, The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is set to hold its first of two scheduled hearings Wednesday on the “fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota.”
Three Republican Minnesota state lawmakers who “sounded the alarm” in the past on some of...
(Headline USA) CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday.
Ames, a 31-year CIA...
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The Department of Justice has significantly revised its indictment against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro was kidnapped by US forces in Venezuela on Saturday, and pleaded not guilty to charges in a New York court on Monday.
The New York Times’ Charlie Savage reported that the Department of...
(Headline USA) The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for months and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Claudio...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Brian Cole Jr., who’s accused of planting two pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest, was federally indicted on Tuesday—putting an end to the controversy over whether he’d be released from jail.
Cole’s attorneys had...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central bank gold buying picked up in September and gained momentum in October. That momentum carried into November with gold reserves continuing to climb.
Officially, central banks globally added 45 tonnes of gold to their reserves in November. That was down slightly from 53...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Political pundit and Trump critic George Conway has joined a crowded field of Democrats seeking to replace outgoing Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District.
Conway, 62, a lawyer and former Republican consultant, announced his candidacy on Tuesday in a video that stressed...