Signs of the Times - Puppet Masters

China hopes to divide the West, and it knows where the weakest link lies Bejing knows the EU's leading states don't want to break off relations, and it's placing its bets on them holding firm "Ev...

https://www.sott.net/article/491489-China-hopes-to-divide-the-West-and-it-knows-where-the-weakest-link-lies

The participation of foreign officials in an anti-government rally is unacceptable, the parliament speaker said The participation of politicians from NATO countries in anti-government rallies in ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491488-Georgia-accuses-NATO-countries-of-trying-to-orchestrate-coup

Investments promised by the US and its allies are nothing but bait, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin has warned The US and its allies promise Central Asian governments benefits to ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491487-West-wants-color-revolutions-in-Central-Asia-Moscow

Israeli officials hyped their country's 5th place Eurovision finish as proof of quiet global grassroots support for their assault on Gaza. Now, they admit they manipulated the results through an ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491484-Hasbara-fail-Israeli-govt-admits-it-astroturfed-Eurovision-vote-but-lost-anyway

Terror group claims to target missile-detecting balloon in deepest strike in Israel amid war; in response, air force attacks weapon manufacturing plant in northeastern Lebanon Hezbollah managed t...

https://www.sott.net/article/491483-Damage-being-assessed-as-IDF-confirms-Hezbollah-drone-hit-sensitive-military-site

The young American generation of today says: We will not identify with suspect genocidal tendencies against an indigenous people. The core issues at the heart of release of hostages held in Gaza ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491482-Who-tried-to-pull-the-rug-on-Netanyahu-and-why

"Nowhere is safe" in Gaza, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees has warned. Some 450,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah since Israel ordered more of the city evacuated on Saturday, the UN's age...

https://www.sott.net/article/491481-450000-Palestinians-flee-Rafah-as-Israeli-tanks-move-in

Igor Krasnov blasted Ottawa's refusal to prosecute SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka, honored last year by Parliament. Ottawa's failure to prosecute a former Nazi soldier amounts to its government "white...

https://www.sott.net/article/491480-Canada-whitewashing-Nazi-crimes-Russian-prosecutor-general

China has vowed to resolutely defend its interests in the face of huge new US tariffs and warned that the trade barriers would affect the wider relationship between the two economic superpowers. ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491478-China-vows-to-take-all-necessary-actions-in-response-to-Bidens-tariffs

Former Iranian President Hassan Rohani has issued a stern rebuke of the country's Guardians Council following his disqualification from elections to the Assembly of Experts earlier this year, acc...

https://www.sott.net/article/491477-Ex-president-issues-sharp-rebuke-of-Irans-leadership-after-election-disqualification

The "lone gunman," that cartoonish figure that for the last several decades - at least since November 1963 - has regularly framed most high-profile assassinations, has struck again, this time in ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491474-The-lone-gunman-strikes-again

Moscow is ready to settle on the battlefield what could be resolved through diplomacy, Russia's acting foreign minister has said The Ukrainian conflict will be decided on the battlefield if that ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491472-West-chooses-to-prolong-fighting-in-Ukraine-Lavrov

How Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who survived an assassination attempt, sees the world and what he says An assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico took place on Wednesday...

https://www.sott.net/article/491459-No-country-should-be-punished-for-its-sovereignty-Fico-in-quotes

The White House brought up the threat of sanctions while commenting on New Delhi's latest port agreement with Tehran Hours after New Delhi and Tehran announced a ten-year deal for operating and m...

https://www.sott.net/article/491458-US-warns-India-over-Iran-deal

Any discussions on the conflict must address global stability and focus on multilateral security guarantees, the Russian president says Russia has never ruled out talks for a peaceful settlement ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491457-Putin-explains-why-peace-talks-with-Ukraine-collapsed

MOSCOW, May 15 (Xinhua) -- On the eve of his two-day state visit to China, which starts on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in a written interview with Xinhua that Russia and Chi...

https://www.sott.net/article/491456-Interview-Join-hands-for-future-success-of-Russia-China-partnership-says-Putin

Back in mid-February, the mainstream propaganda machine bombarded us with a slew of reports about "big bad Russian space nukes", claiming that Moscow is using its technological prowess to build s...

https://www.sott.net/article/491453-New-report-to-Congress-shows-US-determined-to-militarize-space

A societal transformation in Russia that started before fighting broke out in Ukraine in early 2022 now seems irreversible Two and a half years into its war against the West in Ukraine, Russia ce...

https://www.sott.net/article/491452-Dmitry-Trenin-A-massive-transformation-is-taking-place-in-Russia-and-the-West-is-blind-to-it

With millions of dollars reportedly embezzled, Russian armor was free to roll across the border into Kharkov. Military and civilian authorities in Ukraine's Kharkov Region paid millions of dollar...

https://www.sott.net/article/491451-Ukrainian-military-stole-money-intended-for-fortifications-local-media

The European Union's defense industry has partially switched to a war economy, European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton has said. Kiev could face a "dangerous period" this year as...

https://www.sott.net/article/491450-EU-shifts-toward-war-economy

The suggested way of doing this would be a new, very fatal pandemic, so reports One America News (OAN) Volcanologist and ultra-hysterical climate scientist Prof. Bill McGuire posted a comment on ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491447-U-N-contributing-scientist-Culling-human-population-could-avert-climate-catastrophe

A retired general has reportedly warned that Washington is being outclassed in jamming technology The US military has been surpassed by Russia and other potential adversaries in the field of elec...

https://www.sott.net/article/491446-Ex-Pentagon-official-says-US-lags-behind-Russia-in-electronic-warfare

Russian forces have launched a large-scale offensive towards Kharkov, revealing apparent gaps in Ukraine's previously proclaimed fortified defenses along the northern border. According to militar...

https://www.sott.net/article/491445-The-Russians-are-advancing-and-Ukrainians-cant-stop-them

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an "epochal change" in war preparations by achieving arsenal production targets during his inspection of a tactical missile system, state media reported...

https://www.sott.net/article/491442-N-Korea-calls-for-epochal-change-in-war-preparations

Amid allegations of a new coup attempt against the government and president, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya issued a lengthy statement on Wednesday. Yerlikaya said they would destroy "the conspi...

https://www.sott.net/article/491441-Turkey-thwarts-ANOTHER-coup-attempt-Interior-Minister-vows-justice-after-plot-against-president-Erdogan

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting, according to his official Facebook page. "He was shot multiple times and is currently i...

https://www.sott.net/article/491440-Slovakias-PM-Robert-Fico-in-life-threatening-condition-after-assassination-attempt

Military agreements with the US and former colonial powers fail to deliver what they are supposed to The threat of terrorism continues to weigh heavily on many African countries including the Dem...

https://www.sott.net/article/491434-Seeds-of-chaos-Heres-why-Africa-cant-trust-Western-security-guarantees

The trip will focus on fostering strategic partnership, with a number of agreements expected to be signed Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China later this week to meet his Chinese...

https://www.sott.net/article/491431-Putin-to-visit-China-this-week-Kremlin

The Russian president has previewed his China trip by championing "mutual respect" among nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin has set the stage for his state visit to China by praising effor...

https://www.sott.net/article/491430-Western-elites-want-to-prosper-at-the-expense-of-others-Putin

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has accused Russia of attempting a "nuclear escalation" and cutting off gas supplies to the West British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is brazenly deceiving the public by ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491428-Moscow-slams-UKs-desperate-lies

Russia has threatened retaliation for any attacks with UK-supplied arms against its territory Ukraine can use any weapons supplied by the UK to launch strikes on Russia's Crimean Peninsula, Briti...

https://www.sott.net/article/491425-Ukraine-can-use-British-weapons-to-strike-Crimea-defense-secretary

Destroying Hamas was never in the plans of the Zionist state, which is aware of its military weakness, with the sole objective of provoking the massacre of innocents in Palestine. Israel is enter...

https://www.sott.net/article/491424-Israels-war-has-always-been-against-Palestinian-civilians

Iran might already possess a nuclear weapon, an insider politician in Tehran said on Friday, after remarks by a senior foreign policy figure the day before about a possible change in nuclear poli...

https://www.sott.net/article/491420-Iranian-Politician-Says-Tehran-Might-Already-Have-Nukes

The media's role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting - complicity in genocide - and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed As mass student protests q...

https://www.sott.net/article/491419-Bidens-war-on-Gaza-is-now-a-war-on-truth-and-the-right-to-protest

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration's strongest public criticism yet of Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant "...

https://www.sott.net/article/491418-Blinken-delivers-some-of-the-strongest-US-public-criticism-of-Israels-conduct-of-the-war-in-Gaza

US President Joe Biden risks losing a potential election rematch with Donald Trump because his campaign is too focused on courting his left-leaning base, while neglecting swing voters whose suppo...

https://www.sott.net/article/491417-Biden-doing-it-all-wrong-ex-Clinton-adviser

Writing in The Atlantic ahead of the publication of her new book, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, Anne Applebaum argues that Russia, China, and 'MAGA Republicans' are ma...

https://www.sott.net/article/491416-Russia-China-and-MAGA-Republicans-Why-Western-pundits-fear-them

Many more were injured when an apartment building collapsed as a result of the strike in Belgorod, the local governor has reported At least 19 civilians died in a series of Ukrainian strikes targ...

https://www.sott.net/article/491414-At-least-19-killed-after-Ukraine-bombs-Belgorod

A new set of polls reveals that Donald Trump is leading President Biden in five out of six critical battleground states, as young and nonwhite voters grow increasingly dissatisfied with the curre...

https://www.sott.net/article/491413-MSM-freaking-out-as-Trump-dominates-battleground-states-An-absolute-disaster

Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit - a concept that has already been discussed by the financia...

https://www.sott.net/article/491412-De-dollarization-bombshell-The-coming-of-BRICS-decentralized-monetary-ecosystem

US dominance in the world has effectively ended. Americans stopped trying to control everything that happens on the planet and began to take responsibility for global processes more carefully. Th...

https://www.sott.net/article/491410-US-dominance-in-the-world-has-effectively-ended-Indias-Foreign-Minister

A senior US army officer has resigned, citing his country's support for Israel as a reason for the widespread loss of Palestinian civilian lives, adding to a string of resignations by high-rankin...

https://www.sott.net/article/491407-US-ex-military-intel-major-quits-citing-guilt-for-contributing-to-Gaza-mass-killings-starvation-of-children

The ruler of Kuwait has dissolved parliament for up to four years in a move that analysts fear could threaten the country's unique semi-democratic political system. On Friday, Kuwaiti Emir Mishal...

https://www.sott.net/article/491406-Kuwait-has-suspended-its-parliament-Is-it-moving-towards-autocracy

Comment: It looks like the corruption at the Russian MoD is being cleaned up... Russian President Vladimir Putin decided Sunday to dismiss Sergey Shoygu as defense minister in a rare Cabinet shak...

https://www.sott.net/article/491371-Putin-appoints-new-defense-minister-transfers-Shoigu-to-secretary-of-Security-Council-UPDATES

Ukrainian troops have been driven out of four villages over the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry has said. Moscow's forces have moved deeper across the Ukrainian defense lines in Kharkov Regio...

https://www.sott.net/article/491397-Here-come-the-Russians-for-real-this-time-Russian-military-takes-more-settlements-in-Kharkov-Region-Ru-MOD

AP removed the US Special Operations chief's mention of London's clandestine activity from the original article A senior US military official has apparently inadvertently acknowledged to the medi...

https://www.sott.net/article/491396-AP-reports-then-retracts-statement-by-US-general-about-British-commandos-operating-in-Ukraine

There is a very sound argument to be made that 'Putin's war in Ukraine' was started not by Russia at all but by the Ukrainians on 14 April 2014. Look up what happened on that day in Kiev. The new...

https://www.sott.net/article/491395-Ukraine-Whose-war-and-what-might-have-been

The West is unwilling to restrain its Ukrainian "puppets" from attacking civilians, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has said The lack of a US reaction to the latest deadly shelling of the Russian city...

https://www.sott.net/article/491394-Kremlin-US-covering-up-Ukrainian-terrorism

Former Brexit campaign chief says the West is 'getting f**ked' by supporting Ukraine. Boris Johnson's former top adviser Dominic Cummings launched a sweary attack on Western support for Ukraine T...

https://www.sott.net/article/491391-Ex-UK-govt-advisor-Dominic-Cummings-The-corrupt-Ukrainian-mafia-state-has-conned-us-all-and-we-re-going-to-get-f-ked

James O'Keefe last Friday warned he was about to release the most important story of his entire career. "I have evidence that exposes the CIA, and it's on camera. I am working on releasing a stor...

https://www.sott.net/article/491386-O-Keefe-Media-Groups-new-undercover-video-CIA-contractor-admits-CIA-director-withheld-info-from-Trump-spied-on-his-presidency