Rants or Insights

In a rare moment of honesty, Mike Pompeo admitted to an audience that the CIA trains employees to “lie, cheat and steal.� While he seemed to find the whole thing funny, not everyone is amused, as RT found out. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Press TV – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly to commemorate International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. The following is a rush transcription of his Wednesday speech at the UN meeting. “Mr. President, Iran has long advocated multilateralism and ... read more

Al-Monitor – “Iran and Pakistan will form a rapid reaction force to fight terrorism on their shared border,” President Hassan Rouhani announced at a presser in Tehran following closed-door talks with visiting Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan April 22. “We are glad the Pakistani side has branded as terrorists the ... read more

A new HBO series explores the remarkable life of Anne Lister, based on her voluminous and intimate diaries ... read more

An architect of a still-secret U.S. plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took to Twitter again on Wednesday to disclose another element that it would not contain - a confederation with neighboring Jordan. ... read more

Following the recent report that Tesla and its key battery supplier, Panasonic, had hit a rough patch, now even more ugly details are coming out about Tesla's working operation with Panasonic, including a "chaotic environment" inside of Panasonic’s battery making operation inside at Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory, according to Business Insider. ... read more

Environmental campaigners Extinction Rebellion will close their two remaining central London protest sites on Thursday, the group said after 10 days of disruption in the British capital to highlight the risks of climate change. ... read more

Analysis shows a brewery at a Wari outpost in the mountains of southern Peru strengthened bonds with friends and neighbors ... read more

Rwanda's supreme court on Wednesday repealed a law that banned the publication of political cartoons, while upholding another that punishes insulting or defaming the president with at least five years in prison. ... read more

MNA – “Russia is interested in having Iran and the Persian Gulf Arab countries start negotiations, the issue that will help bring peace and stability into the region,� Iran’s Ambassador to Russia quoted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov as saying in ... read more

Liverpool's Dutch defensive colossus Virgil van Dijk will be unveiled as the 2018-19 PFA Player of the Year, according to reports in the English press. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian president-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy tricked French President Emmanuel Macron into a hoax phone call after Sunday's Ukrainian presidential vote. ... read more

Hundreds of drones will begin delivering life-saving vaccines, blood and medicines to patients in Ghana this week in the largest scheme of its kind, the global vaccine alliance GAVI said on Wednesday. ... read more

One day after the 2Y auction priced "on the screws", or right on top of the When Issued, today's $41 billion sale of 5Y notes was a mirror image in that regard, and while some strategists had expected today's sale of 5Y paper would price on the weak side thanks ... read more

Libyan officials have opened the doors of a detention center for illegal migrants in Tripoli, but frightened Somalis and other sub-Saharan Africans told Reuters they had decided to stay for fear of getting caught up in fighting engulfing the capital. ... read more

One fought a seemingly swashbuckling, shirtless war in Vietnam. Another was a child soldier bombed by the Japanese in the jungles of New Guinea. A third returned from East Timor, injured — he believes — by something designed to keep him safe. But a digger is a digger. ... read more

Any investor who has been following DoJ's criminal investigation of the Vampire Squid over Goldman's alleged facilitation of the massive $4.5 billion fraud at Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB could probably have guessed that, whatever the outcome of the probe, it wasn't going to end well for the bank. Those ... read more

A blockchain investment studio in Oregon is being launched by R/GA Ventures, the investment arm of international marketing company R/GA ... read more

After breaking a new high of above $5,600, Bitcoin dipped below $5,500 today, while almost all the top 100 coins by market cap have seen major losses ... read more

A Sudanese woman who has come to symbolize for many the protests that have forced out former president Omar al-Bashir said her country's revolution was far from over and sought to remove what she called a regime of "murder and tyranny" in its entirety. ... read more

The court made a similar decision against Facebook on April 12 ... read more

The chief of Russia’s National Defense Command Center pointed out that the United States was acting exclusively in its own interests and exerting pressure on the distribution of funds being provided ... read more

President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has backtracked in a recent recorded phone call, claiming he's not actually guilty for crimes he pleaded guilty to.  In a conversation with Trump-hating provocateur Tom Arnold, Cohen said ... read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed an order simplifying the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, prompting calls for more international sanctions from Kiev. ... read more

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on several individuals and entities under a program targeting the Iran-backed armed Shi'ite group Hezbollah. ... read more