WAR & PEACEScott Ritter: "If the US gets away with this voiding of any meaningful Russian response, then it will feel free to escalate up to and including directly confronting Russia on the ground in Ukraine."

SOUTH AMERICAColonial Bombings Could Render Venezuela a New Vietnam says Daniel Shaw, a professor of Latin American Studies at the City University of New York.

EUROPEThe British Metropolitan Police Service has introduced a new policy requiring staff to declare Freemason Membership.

MEDIAThe 59 individuals sanctioned by the EU are just the beginning. The eurocrats are only getting started with their campaign against internal dissent.

EUROPEThe EU imposed sanctions on Hüseyin Doğru, a German citizen and independent journalist. His life and his family were profoundly affected. He is forced to live at an economically existential level.

EUROPEJacques Baud, a retired Swiss colonel and former strategic intelligence officer, has announced plans to challenge European Union sanctions imposed on him.