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  • The fall of Enron

    RT - May 20th 2023 2:03am EDT

    Enron was one of the biggest energy, commodities, and services companies in the world. Wall Street loved the company right up until it fell apart. John Kiriakou speaks with the former Vice President of Corporate Development at Enron, Sherron Watkins. On this episode of the Whistleblowers, Watkins explains how when Enron’s financial numbers just didn’t add […]

  • US two-party system

    RT - May 20th 2023 2:02am EDT

    On this episode of Direct Impact, host Rick Sanchez discusses the US two-party system and its political monopoly over the country’s institutions. Rick sits down with radio host and Republican strategist Melik Abdul to discuss the two-party system’s chokehold on US politics.

  • UK identifies new inflation source

    RT - May 20th 2023 1:30am EDT

    Rising food prices will be a bigger shock than energy costs, the Resolution Foundation said Rising food prices will soon overtake energy costs as the main force fueling inflation in the UK, an independent think tank warned in a report on Friday. Food makes up a far larger share of the typical household’s consumption than […]

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  • Billionaires battle for Russian tech giant – Bloomberg

    RT - May 20th 2023 1:23am EDT

    Vladimir Potanin and Vagit Alekperov have reportedly submitted bids for Yandex Businessmen Vladimir Potanin and Vagit Alekperov have offered bids for a controlling stake in Russia’s leading internet company, Yandex, Bloomberg reported on Friday citing sources. The bids reportedly value Yandex’s assets at nearly $7 billion and will be discussed as soon as next week, […]

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  • Saudi Arabia reveals stance on Ukraine conflict

    RT - May 20th 2023 12:33am EDT

    The kingdom said that it maintains “positive neutrality” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has said that Riyadh and other Arab states are taking an impartial stance in the Ukraine-Russia conflict and want to maintain ties with both parties. He made his statement after the conclusion of the Arab League summit in Jeddah on […]

  • China will boycott G20 event in Kashmir

    RT - May 19th 2023 11:44pm EDT

    Beijing said its officials will not travel to the disputed territory China will skip the upcoming G20 event in the Indian-controlled part of disputed Kashmir, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Friday.  “China firmly opposes holding any form of G20 meetings on disputed territory. We will not attend such meetings,” Wang said while […]

  • US to allow allied transfers of F-16s to Ukraine – media

    RT - May 19th 2023 10:27pm EDT

    The Pentagon is currently training Ukrainian pilots to operate the American-made warplane The US government will not block allied countries from sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine if they decide to do so, multiple news outlets reported on Friday, citing American officials. Sources cited by the Washington Post, CNN, NBC and other media said the […]

  • Is China the only issue holding the US together?

    RT - May 19th 2023 9:25pm EDT

    Washington’s political gridlock on the national debt ceiling benefits Beijing, fearmongers warn If some headlines are to be believed, the United States is on the verge of default. Well, technically. With US national debt ever rising, the congressional debt ceiling is set to be breached by the end of this month. Although normally Congress simply […]

  • Erdogan evades answering if Biden wants to topple him

    RT - May 19th 2023 6:24pm EDT

    The Turkish president had accused the US leader of ordering his ousting last week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dodged giving a direct response when pressed by CNN on Friday on whether he genuinely believed Washington was trying to unseat him. Instead, he criticized US President Joe Biden for viewing him as a “dictator.” Erdogan, […]

  • Poland ‘concerned’ about closeness of Сhina and Russia

    RT - May 19th 2023 5:57pm EDT

    Warsaw has demanded that Beijing side with Kiev and condemn Moscow Poland’s deputy foreign minister told China’s special envoy, Li Hui, on Friday that Warsaw disapproved of the growing relationship between Beijing and Moscow.  “Poland notes with concern Beijing’s declarations concerning its persistent will to strengthen its bilateral relations with Russia, the aggressor state,” the […]

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  • Serbia warned of ‘color revolution’ – Vucic

    RT - May 19th 2023 5:31pm EDT

    President Aleksandar Vucic said his intelligence links tipped him off to foreign-funded revolutionaries lurking among protesters Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that his intelligence contacts tipped him off about the presence of foreign-sponsored revolutionaries at so-called anti-violence rallies in Belgrade. The West, he declared, has been “causing problems” for Serbia ever since Belgrade […]

  • SpaceX rival gets NASA Moon contract

    RT - May 19th 2023 1:59pm EDT

    Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin scored a $3.4 billion deal for the US space agency’s Artemis V lunar lander The US space agency is pitting two spacefaring billionaires against each other as part of the Artemis Moon program. On Friday, NASA announced that Blue Origin – founded by Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos – will build the […]

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  • New York is sinking – study

    RT - May 19th 2023 1:11pm EDT

    The weight of the Big Apple’s skyscrapers is slowly pushing the city into the sea, American researchers have found New York City is subsiding by up to 2mm every year under the weight of its own buildings, a recently published study has claimed. The authors warned that this slow descent will be exacerbated by rising […]

  • US involved in assassination of Russian public figures – security chief

    RT - May 19th 2023 1:09pm EDT

    Number of domestic terrorist incidents increased greatly since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, Nikolay Patrushev says The most high-profile Ukrainian “terrorist acts” in Russia were carried out with the assistance of Washington, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has claimed.    Speaking at a government meeting on Friday, Patrushev said that […]

  • Ukraine lays down demands for allowing Russian ammonia transit – Reuters

    RT - May 19th 2023 1:05pm EDT

    Kiev wants the grain deal to be expanded to include more ports and commodities Ukraine will let Russian ammonia pass through its territory only if the renewed Black Sea grain deal allows the country to ship other commodities from more ports, Reuters reported on Friday, citing government sources. This is the first response by Kiev […]

  • Erdogan hails ‘special relationship’ with Putin

    RT - May 19th 2023 12:18pm EDT

    The Turkish leader stressed the importance of a balanced approach in working with Russia The extension of the Black Sea grain deal would have been impossible without Türkiye’s “special relationship” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed in an interview with CNN on Friday. Brokered with UN and Turkish mediation last July, the […]

  • Volkswagen completes Russia exit

    RT - May 19th 2023 10:25am EDT

    The German carmaker has sold its business to a local dealer, the company has announced The world’s second largest car manufacturer, the Volkswagen Group, has completed the sale of its business in Russia to local auto dealer group Avilon, as part of its exit from the country, VW said in a statement on Friday. The […]

  • ‘Normalization of Assad’ is objectively a positive thing for the world

    RT - May 19th 2023 10:06am EDT

    Syria is welcomed back into the international community while Westerners are crying about human rights Last week, Saudi Arabia invited Syria, long excluded from multilateral formats in West Asia, to the next rendition of the Arab League. This was followed on Monday with the United Arab Emirates inviting Syria to the COP28 climate summit at […]

  • Cops under fire for tasering 95-year-old

    RT - May 19th 2023 9:39am EDT

    The Australian dementia patient was “armed with a knife,” a senior official explained Australian police are facing public outrage after an officer tasered a 95-year-old woman in a treatment room at a nursing home, as she was “slowly” walking towards him using a walking frame with a serrated steak knife in her hand. She hit […]

  • US to bolster weapons sales

    RT - May 19th 2023 9:22am EDT

    The State Department wants to speed up military shipments by embracing a more flexible approach encompassing entire sales regions The US State Department is seeking to expedite arms sales to its foreign allies and partners amid a new “age of heightened strategic competition” and soaring global tensions, according to a new ten-point plan released on […]

  • UK in ‘geriatric decline’ – legendary financier

    RT - May 19th 2023 9:06am EDT

    Brexit has thrown Britain back 50 years, Guy Hands told Bloomberg Brexit has weakened the UK economy and driven the nation into a “sort of geriatric decline,” British financier and chairman of the private equity firm Terra Firma told Bloomberg on Friday. Since the UK left the European Union, it has been competing on the […]

  • Biden’s non-binary former energy official arrested again

    RT - May 19th 2023 9:05am EDT

    Sam Brinton has once again been detained by police for allegedly stealing luggage at a US airport Police have once again arrested former Biden administration nuclear energy official Sam Brinton for stealing women’s clothes at an airport. The incident is the third time the non-binary drag-queen scientist has been caught swiping other people’s luggage. According […]

  • Russia standardizes ‘halal’ products

    RT - May 19th 2023 8:07am EDT

    A new regulator will certify food products and services that meet the criteria Russian food quality regulator Roskachestvo has accredited an agency to carry out domestic certification of halal products, the head of the watchdog, Maxim Protasov, announced on Thursday. The new organization, called Roskachestvo-Halal, will begin certification of the market in May and it’s […]

  • UK’s business with sanctioned country booming

    RT - May 19th 2023 7:31am EDT

    British trade with Iran has tripled since Brexit, official data shows Trade between Britain and Iran has reached the highest level in a decade, according to official data, apparently having been boosted by Brexit. Figures released by the British Department for Business and Trade on Thursday suggest that in 2022 total trade in goods and […]

  • ‘Conflict is coming,’ UK secretary of defense warns

    RT - May 19th 2023 6:18am EDT

    Wallace is urging increased military spending and suggests Britain could be at war with Russia and China by the end of the decade Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned that the UK could be in a direct conflict with Russia and China in the next seven years and has called for an increase in military […]