Author: RT

'Ready to fire anytime on short notice': India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missiles India’s Strategic Forces Command has test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads as part of a yearly training session. The launches went off without a hitch. The pair of Prithvi-II missiles were fired from Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha late Wednesday night in a readiness test for the Indian missile forces, government sources told local media. “Both tests met all parameters,” an official from the Integrated Test Range told the PTI news agency, adding “The missile trajectory was tracked by radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations by the [Defence Research and Development Or...

Navy commando accused of war crimes faces expulsion from SEALs after Trump restored rank The military has launched proceedings to expel commando Edward Gallagher from the Navy SEALs – who faced court-martial for war crimes earlier this year – even after President Trump restored his rank in a recent clemency order. A review hearing scheduled for early December will determine whether Gallagher will continue to be a SEAL, Navy Captain Tamara Lawrence told Reuters. The commando’s own lawyer also confirmed he had been served with a notice informing him of the upcoming hearing. Also on rt.com Navy SEAL accused of killing captured ISIS teen & posing with body cleared of most charges While Gallagher was indicte...

‘Surveillance giants’ Facebook & Google ‘threaten human rights’ with data-grabbing – Amnesty Tech titans Google and Facebook employ “surveillance-based business models” that threaten human rights and erode privacy worldwide, Amnesty International said in a new report, calling for an end to the data-grabs. Published on Wednesday, Amnesty’s “Surveillance Giants” report outlines how Facebook and Google, and their many affiliated platforms, operate in ways that are simply incompatible with the right to privacy and pose a “systemic threat” to free expression on the internet. “Despite the real value of the services they provide, Google and Facebook’s platforms come at a systemic cost,” the report says. The companies’ surveillance-based business mod...

Mission update: NATO’s new enemy is ‘Chinese Communist Party,’ Pompeo tells Alliance With the US establishment’s attention firmly fixed on the impeachment hearings in Washington, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems to have expanded NATO’s mission into the Far East, to oppose the Communist Party of China. Speaking at the meeting of NATO ministers of foreign affairs in Brussels on Wednesday, Pompeo said that “our alliance must address the current and potential long-term threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party,” adding that NATO countries cannot ignore the “fundamental differences and beliefs” between themselves and the ruling party in Beijing. The US Secretary of State framed the anti-China pivot in the context of what he described as NATO’s vict...

‘Military mutiny key factor in Bolivia’s coup & main reason Venezuela’s Guaido can’t oust Maduro’ The ouster of Bolivian President Evo Morales was only possible with the support of the country’s military, and Venezuela’s opposition is unlikely to effect its own putsch plot while the army has Caracas’s back, an analyst told RT. After another lackluster attempt to launch mass demonstrations to depose Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, opposition figurehead Juan Guaido may be wondering how his counterparts in Bolivia obtained their coup with such speed. But Lucas Koerner, independent political analyst and editor of Venezuelanalysis.com, says it’s all about the guns. “The key factor are the armed forces,” Koerner told RT’s Rick Sanchez. “...

US ‘shot itself in the foot’ by sanctioning us, Putin says amid reports that Russia has become ‘bulletproof’ for investors The Kremlin may have felt ‘some anxiety’ when the US started sanctioning Russia, but in the end that only made its economy stronger. Investors seem to agree, with Russian bonds now deemed more appealing than those of China and US. Restrictions that the US and its allies have been imposing on Moscow since Crimea reunited with Russia and the Ukrainian conflict broke out in 2014, “have forced us to develop import substitution” in key areas like agriculture, pharmacy, defense and others, President Vladimir Putin said at the ‘Russia Calling’ investment forum in Moscow on Wednesday. This allowed Russia to make “a serious, huge step fo...

The law is thrown out of the window in Assange’s case, Roger Waters tells RT (VIDEO) Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has condemned Swedish prosecutors who yesterday dropped a rape investigation into WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, saying the whole thing was “a complete bogus set-up” from the beginning. Rogers told RT that the statement from Swedish prosecutors claiming that the evidence against Assange had “weakened” since 2010 was a “mealy-mouthed bunch of bullsh*t” and that there was “no evidence to support the idea that [Assange] injured anybody.” https://cdnv.rt.com/files/2019.11/5dd5911385f54072527be241.mp4 It’s partly because of this whole “set-up” that Assange is still suffering in London’s Belmarsh Prison with no real process ...

‘Stop the massacre’: Ousted Morales calls for UN to intervene in Bolivia Ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for the UN to denounce and “stop this massacre” of indigenous Bolivians by the “dictatorship” currently in charge, saying that 30 people have already been killed. Tweeting from Mexico, where he was given political asylum after being forced to resign by the Bolivian military on November 10, Morales described the current authorities as the “dictatorship of Áñez, Camacho and Mesa,” referring to the self-proclaimed “interim president” and opposition leaders who lost the election to him last month. La dictadura de Áñez, Camacho y Mesa ya ha provocado 30 muertes y decenas de heridos con represión de la Policía y FFAA. Hago...

Prince Andrew QUITS public duties after car crash Epstein interview The Duke of York has been granted permission by the Queen to “step back from public duties” to deal with the media fallout over his past relationship with the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. In a public statement on Wednesday, Prince Andrew said it had “become clear” to him that his association with Epstein has become a “major disruption” to his family's work and that he needed to step away from public duties “for the foreseeable future.” The statement comes after Prince Andrew sat down with BBC Newsnight for what turned into a train wreck interview which sparked hundreds of humiliating memes and prompted the Duke’s PR man — who reportedly advised him against doing the interview ...