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As the world gets deeper in dramatic structural changes, the one universal tool – the internet – has become a new kind of trench warfare · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/matthieu-buge/ By Matthieu Buge, who has worked on Russia for the magazine l’Histoire, the Russian film magazine Séance, and as a columnist for Le Courrier de Russie. He is the author of the book Le Cauchemar russe (‘The Russian…

Bratislava has said it took the reciprocal measure against Kiev over the disruption of Russian oil supplies · FILE PHOTO. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. ©  Getty Images / Anadolu / Robert Nemeti · [RT] Bratislava has stopped providing emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine until Kiev restores the flow of Russian oil to Slovakia through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said, warning of “further…

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has called the operation a major victory for the whole world · Mexican National Guard members in Mexico City, February 22, 2026. ©  NurPhoto / Getty Images · [RT] US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has praised Mexico’s security forces for eliminating one of the country’s most wanted drug lords, calling it a major victory for the region and the world. · Nemesio Oseguera…

Budapest has also blocked the EU’s 20th package of sanctions on Russia amid an oil supply row with Kiev · BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - FEBRUARY 23: Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto speaks to media in Brussels, Belgium on February 23, 2026. ©  Getty Images / Thierry Monasse · [RT] Hungary has blocked the EU’s proposed €90 billion ($106 billion) emergency loan for Ukraine, as well as the latest package of sanctions on Russia,…

Dr. John Campbell · Breaking Research Decodes the Mystery of “The Rubbery White Clots” · https://nzdsos.com/2026/02/04/breakin... · First time, comprehensively characterised the anomalous intravascular casts (AICs), · commonly reported by embalmers worldwide as strange, rubbery white clots. · Research, significantly funded by New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS), · provides definitive analysis that these structures are a…

This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. · Andrew Korybko · Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their grand strategy against China. Every one of their moves abroad should be seen as a means to this end. They…

Have the high priests of molecular biology unleashed the "Emperor of All Maladies" on the world's young people? · John Leake · At the recent Healing Beyond Covid Conference in Guernsey (Channel Islands) I was mesmerized by the presentation of Angus Dalgleish - Professor of Oncology, St. George’s University, London. I was especially transfixed by the following slide, representing all the ways in which the mRNA COVID-19 shots may cause…

Frank Bergman · A grieving family is sounding the alarm over Canada’s controversial “assisted suicide” system after their 26-year-old son, who struggled with seasonal depression, was euthanized under the country’s expanding death-on-demand laws. · Kiano Vafaeian, a blind man living with Type 1 diabetes, was killed by lethal injection in December through the Canadian government’s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. ·…

Vladimir Alekseyev was targeted by Ukrainian intelligence, but the plot was supported by the West, Aleksandr Bortnikov has said · FSB Director Aleksandr Bortnikov. ©  Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov · [RT] Britain’s secret services were involved in the attempted assassination of Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, Aleksandr Bortnikov, the Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has stated. · Alekseyev, first…

Mountbatten-Windsor lost his royal titles over ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but remains eighth in line to the British throne · FILE PHOTO: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor attends a the funeral of Katharine, Duchess of Kent, at Westminster Cathedral on September 16, 2025. © Getty Images / Karwai Tang/WireImage · [RT]The UK is weighing a law to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession over the scandal…