Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has advised the United States to avoid “destructive” Israeli influence as Washington engages in indirect nuclear negotiations with Tehran, citing the drawn-out history of Tel Aviv-manufactured regional crises.
Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks during a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, identifying the US as Iran’s sole negotiating counterpart that had to decide whether it was willing to act independently of Israel’s “destructive” pressures that harmed regional stability and even contradicted Washington’s own interests.
Baghaei said one of the main challenges in US foreign policy in the West Asia region was its alignment and compliance with the demands of the Tel Aviv regime, which he said has been the primary source of insecurity in the region over the past eight decades. … continue
Ending the existing arrangement could result in even more extensive forms of involvement
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | The American Conservative | February 9, 2026
There is a lot of talk about getting rid of the massive agreement that guarantees Israel billions of dollars in military aid each year. And it’s not just critics of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Senator Lindsey Graham have even said they want to “taper off” the money because Israel is ready to stand on its own two feet.
But while a debate over the annual package would be a most welcome one given the enormous sums of American taxpayer money that has flowed to Israel’s wars in recent years, it is important to keep an eye on what might be a bait and switch: trading one guarantee for a set of others that might be less transparent and more expensive than what’s on the books today. … continue
Russia and France have resumed diplomatic contacts at a technical level, the Kremlin confirmed on 10 February, marking a cautious reopening of dialogue after years of strained relations.
The development was reported by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, following remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron published the same day in the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Peskov said Moscow and Paris have restored technical-level communications, while adding that no talks between presidents are currently planned.
He added that renewed contacts “would allow swift organization of top-level dialogue, should it be required and necessary,” but noted that Russia has received “no indication it is required.”
Macron’s comments signaled a clear shift from earlier western efforts to isolate Moscow. … Full article
By Gerry Nolan | Ron Paul Institute | February 10, 2026
Sergey Lavrov didn’t hedge. He didn’t soften. He lit the match and let it burn.
“In Anchorage, we accepted the United States’ proposal.”
And now, he says, Washington is no longer prepared to implement what it itself put on the table — not on Ukraine, not on expanded cooperation, not even on the implied promise that a different phase of US–Russia relations was possible.
That line matters because it shatters the performance. The offer was real enough for headlines — but not real enough to survive contact with the sanctions machine.
And then he let the contradiction sit there in plain sight — because while Washington was talking about cooperation, its navy and enforcement arms were busy doing something else entirely: tracking, boarding, and seizing oil tankers across oceans. … continue
Japan has allegedly pledged significant financial support for Ukraine, and committed to providing specialized equipment, with reports indicating long-term assistance.
Doubling down on its US-pushed militarization drive, Japan is moving closer to NATO by signing on to the alliance’s Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) program, which facilitates the flow of military equipment to Ukraine, according to NHK.
Sources cited by the outlet claim Japan will soon officially announce its participation in the initiative, announced during the NATO Summit in July 2024 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The equipment that Japan is expected to procure for Ukraine reportedly includes body armor, vehicles, and, potentially, radar systems.
The NSATU mechanism coordinates the donation of military equipment from Allied and partner nations to Ukraine’s armed forces, aligning their capabilities with NATO standards.
Russia has repeatedly argued that Western weapons shipments to Ukraine undermine any prospects for a negotiated settlement and amount to NATO’s direct involvement in the conflict. Russia has also warned that convoys delivering arms to Ukraine would be treated as legitimate military targets.
By Alexandr Svaranc – New Eastern Outlook – February 9, 2026
Currently, Turkish interests and NATO logic are diverging increasingly. Turkish society and expert circles are actively discussing both the prospects of maintaining NATO membership and the possibility of leaving the bloc. … continue
Justice is allegedly catching up with Hasam Thaci – that is until it reaches the edge of Western involvement
RT | February 10, 2026
Prosecutors at The Hague are seeking 45 years in prison for Hashim Thaci, accusing the former president of command responsibility for war crimes the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) committed during and immediately after the 1998-99 conflict that tore up Yugoslavia.
To an observer attuned to the history of the Balkans, this belated, carefully managed reckoning protects the core Western triumphalist narrative of Kosovo’s “independence” while limiting how far responsibility can travel back to Washington, Brussels, and NATO. … continue
The House Judiciary Committee published the 160-page report, which French newspaper Le Monde described as “scathing.”
The report accused the EU of “trying to make an end-run around the First Amendment and censor US speech that does not align with its preferred narratives.”
According to the report, EU officials have held over 100 closed-door meetings with representatives of social media platforms since 2020. They pressured tech firms to apply EU speech laws, including the Digital Services Act (DSA), to U.S. content.
The report described these actions as an effort to “censor the global internet.”
“Though often framed as combating so-called ‘hate speech’ or ‘disinformation,’ the European Commission worked to censor true information and political speech about some of the most important policy debates in recent history — including the COVID-19 pandemic,” the report states.
The report noted that the EU targeted political satire, “populist rhetoric,” “anti-government/anti-EU” postings and “meme subculture.” … continue
Palestinian journalist and Press TV contributor, Latifa Abouchakra, was arrested by British police as she made her way to an anti-Zionist political meeting but was released from detention after almost 24 hours in custody.
Abouchakra, herself a displaced Palestinian living in the UK, was due to appear as a panelist at the launch of a coalition of activists seeking to challenge the Zionist stranglehold over the British state.
West Midlands Police stopped Abouchakra as she drove to the venue in the city of Birmingham on Sunday; a statement later released by that police force said that she had been arrested for alleged incitement to racial hatred.
In the same statement, the police made an astonishing confession that they were engaging in political censorship and interference by targeting the meeting of the anti-Zionist movement, and that they were working on the direct orders of the local Zionist Jewish community in Birmingham. … Full article
Two leading human rights organizations have called on the United Nations to intervene in the case of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj, whose prolonged detention without trial they say violates international law.
Mehraj, who was scheduled to appear in court the same day, remains jailed nearly three years after his arrest.
Mehraj, an independent journalist and human rights defender from Kashmir, was arrested on March 20, 2023, by India’s National Investigation Agency, a counter-terrorism body.
He has since remained in prolonged pre-trial detention in a maximum-security prison in New Delhi, more than 500 miles from his home city of Srinagar, Kashmir.
Despite multiple court hearings, his trial has not begun, and his bail application remains undecided. Indian courts have repeatedly extended his detention without conviction.
“Trial by jail”: legal process as punishment
“Mehraj’s case exemplifies India’s practice of ‘trial by jail,’” said Human Rights Foundation Legal and Research Officer Hannah Van Dijcke. “Dissidents are subjected to indefinite pre-trial detention, whereby the legal process itself becomes the punishment.”
HRF and FORUM-ASIA argue that Mehraj’s arrest is part of a broader trend where Kashmiri journalists and human rights defenders face criminalization and persecution for their legitimate work. […]
By Maryam Qarehgozlou | Press TV | February 9, 2026
US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Friday that Zubayr al-Bakoush, a suspect in the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya, has been arrested and transferred to the United States.
Bondi claimed that al-Bakoush played a central role in the attack that killed four Americans and will face charges including murder, arson, and terrorism-related offenses. He is the third individual to be criminally charged in connection with the Benghazi attack. Two others – Ahmed Abu Khatallah and Mustafa al-Imam – are currently serving lengthy prison sentences, while another suspect, Ali Awni al-Harzi, was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq in 2015.
Al-Bakoush faces an eight-count indictment, including murder, attempted murder, arson, and conspiracy to support terrorism, according to Jeanine Pirro, the top US prosecutor in the District of Columbia.
Following al-Bakoush’s arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said that killing an American citizen is an act of terrorism, and perpetrators will be prosecuted in the United States.
“I’m extremely thankful to the CIA and director [John] Ratcliffe and our other law enforcement partners for making sure that the world knows that if you kill an American citizen in an act of terrorism, we will hunt you down, we will bring you to justice, and you will face justice here in America, not in another court, and not in any other proceeding around the world, but here,” he said.
After Patel shared a video of his remarks on X, formerly Twitter, users quickly pointed out a glaring exception: the Israeli regime.
From Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003, to Khamis Ayyad, who died from smoke inhalation during a settler arson attack in 2025, at least thirteen American citizens have been killed by Israeli regime forces over the past two decades. These victims included journalists reporting from the field, aid workers delivering food, peace activists protesting home demolitions, teenagers shot at checkpoints, and a 78-year-old grandfather detained and left to die.
Yet in cases involving Israeli forces, the US government has consistently deferred to Israeli military investigations – probes that human rights organizations have long condemned as whitewashes.
Rights groups have repeatedly documented that Israeli occupation forces are almost never held accountable within the regime’s legal system when they kill or seriously harm Palestinians.
To date, no one has been charged or held accountable for the killing of any American citizen by Israeli forces, and the successive US administrations have chosen not to take up the issue.
US citizenship, according to activists, offers no protection from violence at the hands of the Israeli regime – and no guarantee of justice when that violence proves fatal.
Nor are Palestinian Americans the only ones at risk. Several US citizens who are not Palestinian have also been subjected to lethal force by Israeli forces and illegal settlers on Palestinian land.
For decades, Washington has shielded Israel from international scrutiny. It has never seriously engaged with mounting evidence of Israel’s systematic violations of international law, including the killing of American citizens.
What follows are the names, stories, and circumstances of American citizens killed by Israeli forces – and the complete absence of accountability that followed. … continue
Thousands of anti-genocide demonstrators rallied across Australia on 9 February to protest a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, with large gatherings in central Sydney and further actions planned nationwide.
Police clashes were reported as protests spread beyond Sydney, with thousands rallying in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, and other cities, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Officers were seen restraining demonstrators in Sydney as crowds chanted slogans opposing Herzog’s visit.
In Sydney, police used pepper spray and clashed with protesters as authorities warned that participants would risk arrest if they joined a march from Sydney Town Hall to the New South Wales Parliament, an area designated as a protected zone during the Israeli president’s visit. … Full article
Several Palestinian residents were injured, and another was abducted, on Sunday after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers launched an attack on the village of Khirbet Imneizil in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
Osama Makhamra, a media activist in Masafer Yatta, said that groups of colonizers assaulted residents while they were present on their land, beating them and attempting to seize a livestock herd belonging to the Rashid family.
Makhamra added that the assault resulted in multiple injuries among the residents before Palestinian medics treated them.
He also stated that Israeli forces arrived shortly after the attack and invaded the homes of the Rashid family, detaining several women, children, and young men.
The soldiers then abducted Akef Rashid after assaulting him, while Mahmoud Ali Rashid sustained injuries and was transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital for treatment.
These attacks come amid an ongoing escalation of colonizer violence targeting residents and their property across Masafer Yatta, as part of a sustained pattern of intimidation and pressure aimed at forcing Palestinian communities from their land. … Full article
Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a young Palestinian man and severely assaulted another on Monday in the towns of Ethna and Beit Ulla in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot a young man in his twenties in the leg with live ammunition while he was near the illegal Annexation Wall in the Wadi Al‑Kheil area of Ethna, west of Hebron. Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medics transported him to hospital, where his condition was described as moderate.
In Beit Ulla, northwest of Hebron, Israeli forces invaded the town, closed several roads with earth mounds, searched multiple homes, and assaulted Sakhr Al‑Ajouri, causing bruises and contusions. PRCS medics transferred him to hospital for treatment.
The army also blocked the rugged access routes connecting Ethna to Route 35 with earth barriers, further restricting Palestinian movement in the area.
In the village of Susiya, in the Yatta area south of Hebron, Israeli forces detained teacher Khader Al‑Nawaj’a for an hour while he was on his way to Palestine Mixed Elementary School in Khirbet Ashkara in Masafer Yatta.
At dawn on Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded several areas across the West Bank, abducting at least 64 Palestinians, demolishing a residential room, confiscating vehicles, and imposing widespread movement restrictions through military roadblocks and road closures.
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in fresh attacks in various parts of the Gaza Strip on Monday, amid daily violations of a ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 10, medical sources said, Anadolu reports.
In the latest developments, a medical source told Anadolu that the death toll from an Israeli strike targeting a residential apartment on Al-Nasr Street, west of Gaza City, has risen to three.
Al-Nasr Street lies outside areas of Israeli military deployment under the ceasefire agreement.
Earlier, a Palestinian fisherman was injured by Israeli fire off the coast of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The sources told Anadolu that a 54-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the vicinity of Abu Tammam School in the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, outside the army’s deployment areas.
A farmer was also killed by the army in east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, the sources added.
Four more Palestinians were earlier killed by Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip.
An Israeli military statement claimed that its forces had identified four gunmen allegedly emerging from an opening along an underground route in eastern Rafah. … Full article
A drone strike in southern Lebanon killed three civilians on Monday, including a three-year-old child, as the enemy continued its daily violations of the ceasefire—once again placing children and non-combatants within its target bank.
Al-Manar’s correspondent reported an Israeli drone strike targeting a car in the southern town of Yanouh, in the district of Tyre, leaving casualties.
Ambulances rushed to the scene of the attack as pillars of smoke rose in the area, according to our correspondent.
Lebanese Health Ministry then said the strike in Yanouh killed three citizens including a 3-year-old child. … continue
As argued in last week’s article, economic coercion is never an end in itself, it is the prelude. When sanctions fail, when financial pressure cannot bend reality to the satisfaction of Washington’s Israel-first demands, the next instrument is always the same: war. The US has fallen into this trap repeatedly, ignoring the lesson every time, especially when Israel’s interest sits at the core.
Promoted as counterterrorism and the export of democracy, US interventions in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen, and beyond were nothing but proxy wars waged to secure Israel’s regional military supremacy, cement its occupation of Palestine, and preserve and expand a system of Jewish apartheid. The result was predictable and perverse: mushrooming terrorism, new dictators, pulverized states, endless wars, and a region locked into engineered chaos and permanent instability.
These were not failures of execution but successes of design. It was the precise prescription of the Israel-first ideologues in Washington. Wars that were marketed by an Israeli-managed media and paid for in American life and money. Israel-first Zionists, in coordination with Israeli operatives, manufactured the “Weapons of Mass Deception,” transforming the US military into Israel’s hired muscle, leaving US soldiers marooned in Israel-made-swamps for more than twenty years, and still counting. … continue
TEHRAN – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will inspect a number of Iranian nuclear facilities in the coming days, Iranian Vice President and head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said on Monday.
“After the war [between Iran and Israel in June 2025, IAEA inspectors] conducted an inspection of facilities that were not attacked, and in the coming days they will inspect a number of other facilities,” Eslami said, as quoted by the Tasnim news agency.
The country had earlier urged the UN nuclear watchdog to clearly define and codify what measures should apply “if a country’s nuclear industry, which is under the agency’s supervision, comes under a military attack.”
Israel launched surprise attacks on Iran’s nuclear and military sites in June, sparking a 12-day war that saw the US bomb Iran’s civilian nuclear program facilities.
Decades of broken promises, military aggression, and Israeli pressure have left Tehran with no reason to trust Washington, says a US-based analyst. … continue
By Kyle Anzalone | The Libertarian Institute | February 9, 2026
A top Iranian official said that Tehran would be willing to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium if Washington agrees to remove sanctions completely.
Iran’s atomic energy chief, Mohammad Eslami, proposed that Tehran would dilute its 60% enriched uranium to a lower level if “all sanctions would be lifted in return.” Iran is estimated to have 400-600 kg of highly enriched uranium. Eslami explained that Tehran was unwilling to sell or transfer the nuclear material to a third country.
American and Iranian officials met for talks in Oman last week. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran is “very serious in negotiations” and is eager to “achieve results”. However, he said, “There is a wall of mistrust towards the United States, which stems from America’s own behaviour.”
Tehran says it is willing to agree to a deal with Washington that imposes restrictions and inspections on its civilian nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and the US abandoning its aggressive policy towards Iran. … continue
Nearly 5,000 Iraqis have volunteered to help defend Iran and Iraq in the event of a US-Israeli attack on the countries, amid ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran to avert war.
“We announce our readiness to volunteer to support our security forces, the Popular Mobilization Forces [PMU], and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we categorically reject American intervention in the Islamic Republic,” a statement from the volunteers read.
Ammar al-Tamimi, a leader in the Badr Organization, said the volunteers were not associated with any specific armed faction.
“Rather, we are volunteers ready to serve as a reserve force for the security forces,” Tamimi stated.
“We came forward to defend our families and our people after sensing danger. We volunteered for the sake of God Almighty. We do not need money,” one volunteer stated. … continue
Beijing is regrouping to adapt to the new hemispheric world order, but not retreating from Latin America
By Ladislav Zemánek | RT | February 9, 2026
The US military intervention in Venezuela in January 2026 – known as Operation Absolute Resolve – sent shockwaves far beyond Caracas. By striking targets in the Venezuelan capital and capturing President Nicolás Maduro, Washington signaled a decisive return to hard power in the Western hemisphere. The operation was not merely a tactical move against a hostile regime; it was a strategic message about influence, hierarchy, and control in the Americas. For China, which had invested heavily in Venezuela’s political and economic survival, the intervention raised immediate questions about the limits of its global reach and the evolving rules of great-power competition in an increasingly multipolar world.
China’s response to Operation Absolute Resolve was swift in tone but cautious in substance. Official statements from Beijing condemned the US action as a violation of international law and national sovereignty, framing it as destabilizing and emblematic of unilateral hegemony. Chinese foreign ministry officials repeatedly urged Washington to respect the UN Charter and cease interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs, positioning China as a defender of state sovereignty and multilateral norms.
Yet the rhetoric was not matched by escalation. … continue
By Kyle Anzalone | The Libertarian Institute | February 9, 2026
US forces boarded and quarantined an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean.
“Overnight, U.S. military forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Aquila II without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility,” the Department of War posted on X. “The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed.”
President Donald Trump ordered a total blockade of Venezuelan oil last year. Even after US forces captured President Nicolas Maduro, American soldiers have continued to seize tankers carrying Venezuelan oil.
Aquila II departed Venezuela a month ago, and was tracked by the Pentagon. The Department of War tracked and hunted this vessel from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean,” the statement explained.
“No other nation on planet Earth has the capability to enforce its will through any domain. By land, air, or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice.” It continued, “You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us.”
The US has seized several tankers in the Caribbean and a Russian-flagged vessel in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Ukraine’s forced mobilization has become an “open manhunt,” with civilians being detained and forced into military service against their will, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
Commenting on the detention in Ukraine of a Hungarian citizen who allegedly attempted to help a group of Ukrainians cross the border, Szijjarto said people were “fed up with the fighting.”
“The Ukrainian people do not want to die, yet every day there are images of violence playing out like a series – open manhunts unfolding on the streets of Ukrainian cities,” he wrote on Facebook on Sunday. … Full article
Tensions between Hungary and Ukraine continue to escalate. The constant pressure against Hungarian-Russian energy cooperation and the policies of ethnic cleansing through military recruitment in Ukraine have caused fury in Hungary. Furthermore, the pragmatic and pro-peace stance of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is absolutely antagonistic to the neo-Nazi and warmongering ideology of the Ukrainian regime, making both countries irreconcilable rivals.
In a recent statement, Orbán said that Ukraine is Hungary’s “enemy.” The Hungarian leader’s words were extremely strong and signaled a radical shift in Hungary’s stance, moving from moderate opposition to Ukraine to open enmity – a logical and inevitable consequence of Ukraine’s constant provocations against the Hungarian people.
The trigger for the diplomatic crisis that prompted Orbán’s statement was Ukraine’s insistence on demanding that Hungary end its energy cooperation with Russia. The Kiev regime continues to provoke Hungary through its European partners, encouraging them to pressure Budapest to stop buying Russian oil and gas. For Orbán, these provocations are a red line, which is why Ukraine has ceased to be seen as a simple adversary in the international arena and has become a true enemy of Hungary. … continue
There are no grounds for talking about launching new negotiations with the United States on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday.
“There is currently no basis for discussing the launch of such a negotiation process. We have repeatedly spoken about the need to see deeper, far-reaching changes for the better in the US approach to the issues we are discussing,” Ryabkov said on the sidelines of the BRICS Sherpa meeting in New Delhi, adding that when US policy towards Russia changes for the better, then the preconditions for launching a corresponding dialogue will arise.
Russia regrets that the US administration perceives the New START Treaty as something that requires replacement with something else, the deputy foreign minister added.
“In any such hypothetical process, nothing would come of it without the involvement of the United Kingdom and the French Republic, as the United States’ closest allies, both possessing nuclear weapons and, in the current, highly tense international situation, pursuing a highly aggressive course toward our country. Therefore, ignoring their nuclear arsenals would be irresponsible. They must be at the negotiating table, I repeat, if and when something like this becomes relevant,” Ryabkov also said.
Britain is planning to launch a seaborne drone fleet to seize oil tankers it claims are linked to what it calls a Russian “shadow fleet,” the Sunday Times has reported. … continue
The US is “strangling” Cuba, Russia warned on 9 February, stressing that the Kremlin is looking for ways to assist the island nation to withstand Washington’s intensified blockade.
“The situation in Cuba is indeed critical … We are aware of this, and we maintain close contact with our Cuban friends through diplomatic and other channels,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
He added that “the stranglehold imposed by the United States is already causing a lot of difficulties for Cuba,” noting that Moscow and Havana are discussing “possible ways to resolve these problems or at least provide all possible assistance.” … continue
A quiet but profound shift is reshaping the geopolitical map of South America, as revealed by an exclusive Reuters report, “Brazil signals new openness to Mercosur-China talks as Beijing seeks deeper ties”: For the first time, senior Brazilian officials are considering a push for a “partial” trade agreement between the Mercosur bloc and China.
This represents a major shift for Latin America’s largest economy. While Washington is busy raising tariffs and fortifying protectionist walls, countries in the Western hemisphere are recalculating their survival strategies. The result? A pragmatic reassessment of ties with Beijing.
We are already seeing the ripple effects of US pressure on neighbors like Mexico and Panama, but the shifting mood in the wider region is far more significant. The degree to which Latin American nations are pivoting is directly correlated to the economic squeeze they feel from the North. … continue
Passports and political correspondence place Ukraine at the heart of the Epstein network. From Kyiv-based agencies linked to abuser Jean-Luc Brunel to references involving Zelensky and Western financial elites, the files reveal a pattern that clashes with prevailing media narratives. The silence surrounding these connections is quite telling in today’s narrative war. … Read article
The decadent lifestyle of disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his entourage is a testament to the moral decay of Western elites, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Last month, the US Department of Justice released a large trove of emails, photos, and videos from the Epstein state, prompting renewed scrutiny of high-profile individuals who associated with Epstein despite his conviction for sex crimes.
The files “have revealed the face of the West and the deep state, or rather a deep union that rules the entire West and seeks to rule the whole world,” Lavrov said in an interview with NTV aired on Sunday. … continue
Influenza is only named pandemic virus—the same pathogen at the center of US gain-of-function experiments and vaccine development
By Jon Fleetwood | February 5, 2026
Congress has enacted legislation allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding to finance pandemic and outbreak preparedness in fiscal year 2026—despite no declared pandemic and no formal emergency authorization. … continue
More than 250 Swiss academics have sent an open letter to the government calling for the termination of a research agreement with Israel, citing concerns over the genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
In the letter to the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), the signatories denounced the partnership as “complicity with crimes committed in Gaza” and called for closer scrutiny of institutional ties.
The petitioners asked authorities to conduct an “assessment of ongoing projects” at Swiss universities to determine whether any have links to the Israeli army or the “genocidal policy” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime.
They also seek the termination of the agreement between the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Israel Science Foundation.
They argue that this partnership “gives Israel an even more privileged and therefore even more problematic status.”
The mobilization was organized by the Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (Clads), founded in 2024 by a number of academics. … Full article
A new report from the Los Angeles Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General reveals that the LAPD sent personnel to “Israel” for training at least nine times over the last decade, yet failed to document what officers learned, who they met, or how the department benefited, the Los Angeles Times reported. […]
The LAPD has sent personnel to train with Israeli forces since the 1980s, intensifying after the 9/11 attacks under the banner of security cooperation. Critics, however, argue that these partnerships risk importing tactics used against Palestinians into local policing practices in the United States. … Full article
Armed Israeli settlers have carried out a series of new attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring several Palestinians in different locations, local media reports say.
According to the Palestinian WAFA news agency, incidents near Nablus and Ramallah included physical assaults, road blockades, and property targeting.
In the first incident, settlers assaulted at least three Palestinians working on their land in the town of Beit Imrin, north of Nablus, leaving them with bruises and injuries.
One of the wounded was transferred to the hospital by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
In a separate incident east of Ramallah, two Palestinians were injured after settlers blocked a road between Ramoun village and Deir Dibwan town before assaulting them.
One sustained a head injury and required hospitalization. Additional assaults were reported in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus.
Local sources also reported attacks in the northern Jordan Valley and near al-Mughayyir village, where settlers targeted caves and agricultural areas.
Separately, the Israeli army said it shot a Palestinian detainee inside a military base in the Jordan Valley after alleging he attacked a soldier.
Israeli media reported the man, in his 50s, had been arrested at the Allenby Bridge crossing a day earlier and transferred to a military facility where he was shot in the knees, sustaining injuries. … Full article
A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has firmly rejected calls for the group to surrender its weapons or accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against demands from the United States and Israel tied to the ongoing ceasefire process.
Khaled Meshaal, a former Hamas chief who currently heads the group’s diaspora office, made these remarks during a conference in Doha on Sunday, emphasizing that efforts to criminalize armed resistance and disarm Palestinian factions are “unacceptable” under continued Israeli occupation.
“Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept,” Meshaal said.
“As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is a right of peoples under occupation … something nations take pride in,” he added.
Meshaal further warned that Hamas would unequivocally reject any form of foreign rule in Gaza.
“We adhere to our national principles and reject the logic of guardianship, external intervention, or the return of a mandate in any form,” he said.
“Palestinians are to govern Palestinians. Gaza belongs to the people of Gaza and to Palestine. We will not accept foreign rule,” he added. … Full article
GAZA – In a new breach of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian child on Sunday evening in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
The child, identified as Mohammed Al-Sarahi, aged 16, was killed near the Salah al-Din Mosque in the same area, according to local reports.
His killing brings the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza on Sunday to six, including a woman who succumbed to injuries from a prior airstrike.
Since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025, continuous Israeli violations have resulted in the killing of over 580 civilians and left hundreds more injured.
By Robert Inlakesh | The Palestine Chronicle | February 8, 2026
Reports that Israeli aircraft sprayed chemical agents along the Lebanese border — later identified as toxic defoliants — have intensified concerns over environmental damage, civilian harm, and possible violations of international law, with similar incidents also reported in southern Syria.
Key Takeaways
UN peacekeepers suspended patrols after being warned that aircraft would spray chemical agents near the Blue Line.
The sprayed substance was later identified as a toxic herbicide linked to cancer.
The campaign is seen as serving both military land-clearing and civilian displacement purposes.
Similar chemical spraying incidents have been reported in southern Syria.
Rights groups say targeting farmland may constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
The president of Somalia has strongly denounced the Israeli regime’s interference in his country’s internal affairs and vowed to “confront” any Israeli military presence in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
In an interview on Saturday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state is a “reckless, fundamentally wrong and illegal action under international law.” … continue
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on 8 February that the Islamic Republic will not give up uranium enrichment, as Israel and the US are demanding – stressing that Tehran will continue to pursue a peaceful nuclear program even at the cost of war.
Araghchi also reiterated that talks with the US will not focus on anything except the nuclear issue, as Israel continues to push Washington to double down on demands for curtailing the Iranian missile program and halting support for regional resistance groups.
“Iran has paid a very heavy price for its peaceful nuclear program and for uranium enrichment,” the foreign minister said on Sunday.
“Why do we insist so much on enrichment and refuse to give it up even if a war is imposed on us? Because no one has the right to dictate our behavior,” he added.
Iran will never abandon enrichment even “if war is imposed” on the country. “Their military deployment in the region does not scare us.” … continue
The attempted assassination of a high-ranking Russian general is an attempt to sabotage talks and extend the Kiev regime’s stay in power
By Nadezhda Romanenko | RT | February 8, 2026
The assassination attempt on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, first deputy chief of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is clearly the Zelensky regime’s latest desperate bid to sabotage the emerging Russia-Ukraine-US negotiations channel in Abu Dhabi and prolong the war.
When negotiations gain traction, spoilers surface. That’s Negotiations 101. And this week’s second round in Abu Dhabi was precisely the kind of movement that unnerves actors who fear ballots, reforms, and accountability more than inevitable defeat on the battlefield.
The target choice reinforces the point. Alekseyev is the second-in-command of GRU chief Igor Kostyukov – who sits on the Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi. Striking the No. 2 as the No. 1 shuttles between sessions is both a very deliberate message and an attempt to rattle Russia’s delegation, inject chaos into its decision loop, force security overdrive, and ultimately, provoke Moscow’s withdrawal from the talks.
Nor is this the first time kinetic theater has tracked with diplomatic motion. Recall the attempted drone strike on President Vladimir Putin’s Valdai residence in late 2025, which coincided with particularly intense US-Russia exchanges. You don’t have to be a cynic to see a pattern: whenever the diplomatic door cracks open, someone tries to slam it shut with explosives, drones, or bullets – then retreats behind a smokescreen of denials and proxies. Call it plausible deniability as policy.
Why would Kiev’s leadership gamble like this? Start with raw political incentives. … continue
Three Ukrainian draft officers have been detained in the city of Dnepr for allegedly beating a 55-year-old civilian to death, local police have said.
The latest incident in the chaotic Ukrainian mobilization drive occurred early on Saturday, when the officers attempted to conscript their victim. The civilian sustained fatal head injuries after being violently detained, according to an initial police assessment. […]
Draft officials have repeatedly been documented beating up recruits, illegally breaking into vehicles and homes, chasing their victims in the streets, and brawling with onlookers. Despite mounting evidence of the lawlessness of the process and numerous incriminating videos circulating online, the Ukrainian leadership has largely turned a blind eye to the abuse nature of the mobilization. Although Kiev had previously acknowledged certain “shortcomings” with the conscription drive, senior officials routinely dismiss such concerns as “Russian propaganda.” … Full article
By Kit Klarenberg · The Grayzone · February 6, 2026
Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was British intelligence implicated in the abuse conspiracy, and did Kincora serve as a ‘honeypot’ to entrap and blackmail powerful figures?
A vast trove of declassified files on Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual, political, and intelligence escapades released by the US Department of Justice has once again thrust disgraced former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor into the spotlight. With British police reportedly reviewing Andrew’s past sexual activities and links to Epstein, questions are growing about whether Britain’s spy agencies were aware of Andrew’s alleged escapades with minors.
If the darkest rumors turn out to be true, it will not be the first time a British royal had been embroiled in a child rape conspiracy with spy agency involvement. Back in 1980, a scandal erupted when the Kincora Boys’ Home in occupied Ireland was exposed as a secret brothel run by powerful pedophiles. Chief among the alleged perpetrators was Lord Mountbatten — Andrew’s great-uncle.
From the very beginning, hints began to appear that MI5/MI6 knew of the child abuse taking place Kincora, and could have even been running the group home as part of a dastardly intelligence plot. With Britain’s domestic and foreign spies engaged in a savage dirty war in Ireland, and both services running operatives in Republican and Unionist paramilitaries, Kincora would have provided an ideal means of recruiting and compromising potential assets. Official investigations have strongly insinuated British intelligence chiefs had a close bond with many individuals who ran the Boys’ Home.
In May 2025, veteran BBC journalist Chris Moore published a forensic account of the case titled Kincora: Britain’s Shame. Featuring four and a half decades of firsthand research by the author, its groundbreaking contents have been met with general silence by British mainstream media.
In the book, Moore argues persuasively that the Boys’ Home was just one component of a more extensive child abuse network extending across British-occupied Ireland and beyond — in which London’s spying apparatus was not only aware, but likely complicit. … continue
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