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Rachel Marsden

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Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist and host of an independently produced French-language program that airs on Sputnik France.

France loses its uranium meal ticket in Niger

Paris has vowed to protect its interests in the country, which cut off supplies of the critical material after a coup. French President Emmanuel Macron...

Western media suddenly hates Twitter’s ‘government-funded’ labels

Establishment outlets were perfectly fine with the social media scarlet letter when it was handed to their “undesirable” counterparts. Recently, some media outlets have quit...

Macron has angered US lawmakers, but what lurks behind his China epiphany?

The French president has made bold statements about Western Europe asserting its independence from Washington’s belligerent foreign policy. En route back from his recent China...

The Taliban did in one year what Washington couldn’t in 20, sparking new panic

The ban on Afghan poppy cultivation is set to hit Europe’s heroin supplies. It’s been nearly a year since the Taliban banned Afghan poppy farming...

Germany is rewriting history to blame Russia for its own bad decisions

Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck complains that “Putin has cut off” Berlin’s gas supplies as he looks for alternatives. The German town of Brunsbuttel, near Hamburg,...

The Davos establishment reveals whom it truly fears

This year’s World Economic Forum featured calls to “master the future” and blamed right-wing populists for the rising distrust in global elites. The World Economic...

Covid-related tech was exploited for mass surveillance, just as we were warned

Various governments across the world have co-opted digital tracing for use by police and intelligence services. New revelations show that the Covid pandemic has allowed...

Chinese anti-lockdown protesters earn the praise that eluded their Western peers

Establishment politicians and media outlets have praised the ‘freedom-loving’ Chinese, after demonizing those who spoke out against their own lockdowns. “It’s really important that citizens...

How the green agenda is being used to fleece the naive

‘Greenwashing’ has gone mainstream, with both governments and corporations profiting without taking any real steps to protect the climate. Banks and corporations making pledges of...

How Washington extracts billions from foreign companies with overreaching court cases

The US has fined a French company for financing “terrorists,” but when Washington does it, they’re called “freedom fighters”. The US government is outraged that...

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