by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times by special agreement with the author) The five states surrounding the sea – Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan – have reached difficult compromises on sovereign and exclusive rights as well as freedom of navigation ...

(please click on ‘cc’ to see the English language subtitles) A big THANK YOU to Eugenia for translating and subtitling this excellent video!

by Gary Littlejohn It is said that when Groucho Marx was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “Slowly at first, and then much more quickly”. The Turkish Lira had started to slide slowly and then last week it went ...

Aretha Franklin, the American music legend, also known as, the Queen of Soul, has lost her fight against health problems and died at the age of 76, as reported by her representative Gwendolyn Quinn. Music icon Aretha Franklin, famous for ...

by Eric Zuesse  William Binney, the U.S. National Security Agency’s former technical director for global analysis, has, for the past year, been globe-trotting to investigate the actual evidence regarding the official Russiagate investigations, and he finds that the Special Counsel, ...

Italian press outlets have named a family of three as being among the 39 confirmed victims of the collapse, while rescuers are still searching for bodies and possible survivors. Roberto Robbiano, Ersilia Piccinino, and their eight-year-old son, Samuele were traveling ...

Super Eagles and Chelsea forward, Victor Moses, has retired from international football. The 27-year-old announced this on Wednesday via his twitter handle. “I would like to announce that after much thought, I have made the decision to retire from playing ...

There was pandemonium at the All Progressives Congress (APC), secretariat at Garrison in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state, after some thugs were involved in a clash. The political thugs gathered at the secretariat amid the brewing tension between the two factions of ...

The United States Embassy has revealed that it has shut its visa and consular services section at its embassy in Abuja indefinitely. The Embassy disclosed this in a press statement issued on Tuesday as it did not give reason for ...