For the first time in 54 years, the world’s two major nuclear-weapons powers, Russia and the United States, will not be bound by any arms-control treaties and so will be legally free to cram their nuclear arsenals with as many new warheads as they wish — a step both sides appear poised to take.

It’s hard to imagine today, but 50 years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia (then the Soviet Union) jointly possessed 47,000 nuclear warheads.

But as public fears of nuclear annihilation increased, especially after the near-death experience of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the leaders of those two countries negotiated a series of binding agreements intended to downsize their arsenals and reduce the risk of Armageddon.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/12/us-russia-nuclear-arms-pact-perilously-nears-expiration/

TikTok’s new CEO Adam Presser says users can say that they are a proud Zionist but using the term “Zionist” in a negative sense is hate speech and accounts are being banned for it.

Now a member of Nigel Farage's Reform UK, Nadhim Zahawi—who oversaw the UK's coercive rollout of mRNA Covid "vaccines", complete with mandates, travel restrictions and vaccine passports—refuses to answer a valid question about Covid "vaccine" safety.

"I would not be sitting here, nor would Nigel be sitting next to me, if we didn't agree that we did the right thing for the nation to get the vaccine programme to the success that it achieved—the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe, if not in the world."

In January 2021, Nigel Farage publicly called for TONY BLAIR to lead the UK's Covid "vaccine" rollout, claiming "he commands respect" and is "seriously bright".

If this doesn't raise serious eyebrows about the trustworthiness of Nigel Farage and Reform UK, I don't know what will.

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Michael Parenti passed away on January 24, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in New York to working-class Italian-American parents, Parenti earned his Ph.D. from Yale and taught at various universities, though his uncompromising critiques of power often cost him academic positions. He paid the price for refusing to soften his analysis or conform to academic orthodoxy. Parenti authored over two dozen books, each one of them a testament to his moral integrity, analytical lucidity and political passion. In them he eviscerated and criticized US foreign policy as ruthless imperialism driven by capitalist needs for markets, resources, and profit, dismantling myths of democracy promotion and detailing the massive human and environmental costs borne by the Global South. He revealed, before Chomsky, how corporate-owned media invent a parallel reality and manufacture consent for elite power. His fiery lectures introduced generations to radical political economy, anti-imperialism, and class analysis.

The best way to honour his memory is to switch off your phone, pick up one of his books https://www.michael-parenti.org/books, sit comfortably and engage in a silent conversation with its author. His voice endures wherever power is questioned and the oppressed defended. So, follow his example, support organizations advancing economic justice, anti-imperialist solidarity, or independent media as these causes were central to his life's work. @LauraRuHK

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