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  Photo Credit: Henry Ridgwell (VOA) via Wikimedia Biden to Remove Iran-Backed Houthis from Foreign Terrorist Organization List By Hana Levi Julian The US State Department on Friday confirmed to reporters that President Joe Biden has directed his administration to remove Yemen’s Iranian-backed militia, the Houthis, from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. “Secretary (Antony) Blinken has been clear about undertaking an expeditious review of the designations of Ansarallah (Houthis – ed.) given the profound implications for the people of Yemen, home to the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe,” said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity since he was not authorized to speak publicly. He added that the “decision has nothing to do with our view of the Houthis and their reprehensible conduct, including attacks against civilians and the kidnapping of American citizens. We are committed to helping Saudi Arabia defend its territory against further such attacks,” the official

https://on.rt.com/b18t  (L) German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas © Reuters / John Thys; (R) Belarusian protesters rally in Minsk, Belarus, on December 13, 2020. © Reuters   ‘Genie’s out of the bottle’: German FM pledges €21 million to help Belarusian opposition in fight to remove embattled Lukashenko Germany has set aside €21 million ($25.3 million) as part of its new “action plan” aimed at supporting opponents of the Belarusian government, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has told an improvised pro-opposition online conference. Seemingly in an effort to cement an image of Berlin as the leader among European nations sponsoring anti-government movements in the post-Soviet space, Maas on Saturday addressed the so-called Belarus Solidarity Conference. This was a virtual event organized by the World Belarus Congress, a forum of Belarusian expatriate diasporas and opposition-supporting groups. “The Genie of democracy is out of the bottle. There is no way to put it back,” Berlin's chief diploma

  Pentagon goes rooting for ‘extremists’ among its 3.6mn trained killers Helen Buyniskiis an American journalist and political commentator  The US military is making a big show of cleansing its ranks of ‘extremism’ – because nothing says tolerance like raining fiery death on innocent strangers at the command of a guy who just stepped down from Raytheon’s board. With “domestic extremists” now officially the enemy du jour in Washington, the top order of business has become finding some. On Wednesday, newly-anointed secretary of defense (and former Raytheon board member) Lloyd Austin ordered a two-month stand-down so that commanders could engage in “needed discussions” with their subordinates on the issue. Did we mention they have a lot of subordinates? There are 3.6 million service members in the most expensive military in the world, and evaluating every single one of them for a characteristic that lacks even a universally-agreed-upon definition is certain to be both time-consuming and f

  Republicans Slam Pelosi's Latest Move That Show She's a Total Hypocrite Beth BaumannBeth Baumann| Three House Republicans on Friday sent a letter to the Acting Sergeant at Arms, Timothy Blodgett, asking him to impost a $5,000 fine on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for failing to undergo a security screening prior to entering the House floor. The letter's authors – Congressman Rodney Davis, Barry Loudermilk and Bryan Stiel – cite House Resolution 73, which imposes a $5,000 fine the first time a member fails to undergo a security screening. If a second offense occurs, the fine is $10,000. The resolution passed in the chamber on Tuesday. "The resolution, which went into effect upon passage of the House on February 2nd, imposes a fine for $5,000 for the first offense. It also directs you to notify in writing of fines being imposed of violations for House Resolution 73," the letter stated. "Yesterday, at approximately 9:59 am, multiple members observed the Speaker

  Figure 1 Change in birth-rate in months after the start of three recent epidemics, namely SARS, Zika, and Ebola (Source: The Economist; Institute for Family Studies). Scientists Ominously Warn COVID Is Reducing Fertility by aletho By Steve Watson | Summit News | February 3, 2021 Just when you thought the future couldn’t get much more dystopian, scientists have issued more stark warnings that COVID-19 is reducing fertility in men, and could contribute to depopulation of the planet. Scientists say that there is increasing evidence in patients of testicular damage and lower sperm counts and mobility, with initial studies revealing the presence of the virus in semen samples. Researchers at the Justus-Liebig-University in Germany. along with scientists from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran have reported  significant inflammation markers in samples of testicular tissue from 84 Covid-19 patients. They discovered that the inflammation and cellular stress were twice as severe in the Covi

  Who Is in Control? The Need to Rein in Big Tech January 2021 • Volume 50, Number 1 • Allum Bokhari Allum Bokhari Breitbart News Allum BokhariAllum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and was a 2020 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. In 2018, he obtained and published “The Google Tape,” a recording of Google’s top executives reacting to the 2016 Trump election and declaring their intention to make the American populist movement a “blip” in history. He is the author of #Deleted: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. The following is adapted from a speech delivered at Hillsdale College on November 8, 2020, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on Big Tech. In January, when every major Silicon Valley tech company permanently banned the President of the United States from its platform, there was a back

  The Mainstream Bubble by aletho By Ralf Arnold, translation by S. Robinson | OffGuardian | February 6, 2021 At the beginning of the already memorable year 2020, a term forced its way into public and private consciousness, which should increasingly determine and overshadow all of our lives: The “novel corona virus”, also called SARS-CoV-2. The name was officially announced by the WHO on February 11th. After that everything happened in quick succession. At first I saw the pictures of Chinese people with masks only in the Tagesschau (the flagship evening news program by ARD, one of the two main public broadcasters in Germany; S.R.), which was not an unusual sight, but soon corona also reached our newsroom. On the day when the first suspected corona case surfaced in our region, I was urged by our news chief to use it as a “lead story”, i.e. as the first report in the next news program. At that time I was already extremely skeptical and found it excessive to use a mere suspected case as t