RT is releasing a prophetic 2011 interview with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was killed on Tuesday
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was killed on Tuesday, according to sources close to the family and local media.
He had intended to run for president of Libya, which remains divided between rival governments and has been plagued by intermittent civil war since his father was killed in a US-backed uprising more than a decade ago.
In 2011, Saif al-Islam spoke to RT’s Maria Finoshina, condemning NATO’s bombing of Libya. He argued that the West sought to control the country’s oil and gas resources and correctly warned that the violence would not end with his father’s death.
“Their goal is to control Libya. This is the target. And Libyans will not allow them to do that, so the fight will continue,” he said.
He denied involvement in the killing of protesters and accused Western governments and the international media outlets of spreading lies in order to “create chaos” in Libya.
The companies have claimed that foreigners are eager to buy systems developed and tested in Gaza despite an EU arms sale ban
Israeli start-up executives claim that foreign requests to purchase their weapons and related systems are up sharply, the Washington Post wrote on Tuesday. Israel’s strikes on Gaza and Lebanon, as well as attacks on the Hezbollah militant group, have reportedly stoked foreign demand for the weapons and other technology used by Israeli troops.
According to Startup Nation Central, Israeli start-ups brought in a record $15.6 billion in investments in 2025, up from $12 billion in 2024, and industry experts predict that the trend will continue, WaPo said.
The surge in demand for Israeli military technology stands in contrast to the position of many European governments, which have condemned Israel’s conduct in Gaza and in some cases moved to suspend or limit arms exports to Israel over fears they could be used to violate international humanitarian law. Among the nations that have banned or restricted arms sales are Britain, Italy, Spain, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
“There are governments that are publicly virtue-signaling about Gaza, to placate the street while also sending their defense leaderships to talk with Israeli companies to protect that same street,” Aaron Kaplowitz, founder of 1948 Ventures, a Miami-based venture capital firm that invests in Israeli military tech, told WaPo.
Just a few days earlier, the newspaper wrote that Google had breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage. According to a former Google employee, Google’s Gemini AI technology was being used by Israel’s defense apparatus at the same time the company was publicly distancing itself from the country’s military after employees protested a contract with West Jerusalem.
Google employees became directly involved in providing the Israel Defense Forces with access to AI tools soon after the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, which led to Israel’s bombing and ground invasion of Gaza, according to the media.
More than 71,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel Defense Forces’ invasion of Gaza, according to local health officials, and much of the enclave’s population has been displaced from their homes.
The White House has reportedly signaled cuts to Iraq’s oil-export revenues if former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returns to power
The US has warned Iraq of possible economic repercussions if former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki returns to power, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
Last month, Iraq’s Shiite bloc in parliament nominated the 75-year-old al-Maliki, whom Washington views as too close to Iran, for a third term, likely securing his return once a new president is elected. Al-Maliki served two consecutive terms as prime minister from 2006 to 2014 – the first leader to do so since the 2003 US-led invasion – and previously held other cabinet posts.
The White House has stepped up pressure on Baghdad in recent days, people familiar with the matter told the outlet, and warned that al-Maliki’s return could prompt financial measures, including limits on oil-export revenues.
The leverage dates back to the aftermath of the catastrophic US invasion of Iraq, which placed Iraq’s oil proceeds under US oversight and effectively gave Washington supervision over 90% of the country’s budget. Exports are deposited in an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the name of Iraq’s Finance Ministry and managed by the central bank, funding salaries, pensions, and government spending.
US President Donald Trump has warned that Washington would “no longer help Iraq” if al-Maliki returned to office, accusing him of pursuing “insane policies and ideologies.” Iran has reportedly urged its Iraqi political allies to resist US pressure.
Al-Maliki has denounced what he called Washington’s “blatant interference,” insisting that the choice of prime minister is a sovereign matter.
Under Iraq’s power-sharing system, the premiership is reserved for a Shiite politician, while the presidency and parliamentary speaker posts go to a Kurd and a Sunni respectively.
The politician spent 25 years in exile and returned after the US toppled Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-led government. He participated in the US-backed “de-Baathification” program, which critics say fueled sectarian violence and Sunni radicalization.
The US invasion and its aftermath caused widespread violence and disruption across Iraq, with multiple surveys suggesting hundreds of thousands of deaths and long-term social and economic consequences.
Illegal immigrants are being brought into the US to skew vote results in key states, the president has alleged
US President Donald Trump has argued that Republicans should “nationalize” voting in some states, alleging that illegal immigrants are being allowed to participate and skew the results.
In a podcast interview with former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino published on Monday, Trump claimed that the Republican party may never win another election unless illegal immigrants are deported from the US.
“These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally,” he said, adding that he is amazed that the party is not “tougher” on the subject.
“The Republicans should say: ‘we want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least… 15 places, the Republicans ought to nationalize the voting’,” he said, without elaborating.
When asked by ABC news to comment on what Trump meant, a White House spokesperson reportedly referred to the president’s push to standardize photo ID verification for voting and to crack down on no-excuse mail-in votes.
Trump said that some states were “crooked” with their vote counts in the 2024 election, and again claimed that he also won the 2020 election, which he has long said was stolen.
During Trump’s reelection campaign, Elon Musk also alleged that illegal immigration was being leveraged to skew the balance of votes in swing states.
The tech mogul argued that Democrats were “fast-tracking” giving out US citizenship to illegals, while simultaneously flying them out to swing states to drum up support and cement a “surefire way to win every election.”
Illegal immigration, a keystone issue in Trump’s reelection campaign, has increasingly become a bone of contention in the US.
Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has faced a renewed wave of protests ignited by growing outrage over the fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minnesota last month.
A UAV “aggressively” approached the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, the US military has claimed
The US military shot down an Iranian drone on Tuesday after it “aggressively” approached the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, Reuters has reported, citing US officials.
An Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying toward the carrier “with unclear intent,” Reuters wrote, citing the US military.
The reported incident comes as a US ‘armada’ led by the Abraham Lincoln is positioning itself in the region and diplomatic efforts to arrange nuclear talks between Iran and the US are underway.
“An F-35C fighter jet from Abraham Lincoln shot down the Iranian drone in self-defense and to protect the aircraft carrier and personnel on board,” a spokesperson at the US military’s Central Command, Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, told Reuters. No Americans were harmed in the incident, he added.
Oil futures rose more than $1 per barrel after the news.
According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, negotiations between the US and Iranian teams were planned for this Friday, but Tehran has “demanded changes to the venue and format.”“The Iranians want to limit the talks to nuclear issues and not discuss things like missiles and proxy groups that are priorities for other countries in the region,” he claimed.
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported earlier this week that intervention by Moscow and Ankara had diminished the likelihood of a US attack on Iran and made discussions possible. Russia has repeatedly said it believes the Iranian nuclear issue should be resolved through political and diplomatic means.
Despite his threats of new military action, Trump told reporters on Sunday that he hopes “we make a deal” with Iran. Washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, prompting Tehran to gradually scale back compliance and enrich uranium to 60% purity.
The event’s organizers were allegedly persuaded by the party’s ties to the US administration, an AfD member has claimed
Alternative for Germany (AfD) had to use “pressure,” including its contacts with the administration of US President Donald Trump, to get an invitation to this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC), one of its members has told Politico.
AfD known for its anti-migrant rhetoric and calls for Berlin to stop sending military aid to Ukraine, has been barred from attending the event for three years, following the German interior ministry’s classification of the party as “a right-wing extremist” organization.
The policy was reversed in December under interim MSC head Wolfgang Ischinger.
According to one of the three AfD MPs who received invitations, Heinrich Koch, the party only managed to secure them “because we made an impression with our contacts to the Americans.”
The Trump administration has criticized the so-called ‘firewall against the far-right’ policy used by mainstream German parties to prevent AfD from making it into government, despite its rapidly growing popularity. Last year, US Vice President J.D. Vance used his bombshell speech to tell the conference “there is no room for firewalls.”
Koch claimed he told the MSC representatives they could simply go to the conference this year as guests of the US delegation.
The MSC itself denied that threats involving the US made it change its mind. Ischinger told Politico that the organizers had to decide “on our own conscience” to “reflect the current reality.”
“It would be very difficult for the Munich Security Conference… to justify categorically excluding the largest German opposition party,” he said, adding that it was “the right thing” to do.
The party has faced increasing scrutiny from the authorities. In May 2025, the German domestic security service (BfV) classified it as an ‘extremist’ organization, which allows police to closely monitor the party’s activities.
The AfD still remained the most popular opposition party throughout 2025 following the February elections, where it got 20% of the vote, taking second place to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc. Its popularity has since grown, with the latest polls suggesting it is supported by around 25% of Germans, on par with the CDU/CSU.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was shot in his own garden, a family source has claimed
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been assassinated, a source close to the family confirmed to RT on Tuesday.
He was killed by four people “who quickly fled the scene after shooting him in his garden,” a family source told Al Arabiya. According to media reports, for the last several years Gaddafi had been living in hiding in Libya.
In 2015, a Libyan court sentenced Saif al-Islam to death for his role in the crackdown on protests during the 2011 unrest that led to the downfall of his father’s government. The International Criminal Court separately charged him with crimes against humanity. Saif al-Islam was released in 2017 as part of a general amnesty.
In 2021, he registered as a candidate for the presidential election scheduled for December, but the vote ultimately collapsed amid political deadlock.
Muammar Gaddafi seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled the oil-rich country until his killing in 2011 by insurgents backed by a US-led military intervention.
Libya has since experienced intermittent civil war and remains divided between rival governments in the west and east. Presidential and parliamentary elections have repeatedly been postponed as political tensions persist.
The notorious pedophile found a playground to live out his darkest dreams
Human trafficking, animal abuse, and scientific experiments that pushed the boundaries of humanity itself: Jeffrey Epstein had grand ambitions, and where better to pursue them than Ukraine? A wild west where everyone has a price, and citizens are little more than lab rats.
Within days of Epstein’s 2019 arrest for sex trafficking, media reports began to shed light on the financier’s bizarre scientific ventures. Epstein, the New York Times reported, would gather the world’s leading scientists at his Manhattan apartment, or fly them to his private island to discuss his visions of “seeding the human race with his DNA,” cryogenically freezing his head and penis for future research, and in one unhinged conversation, “bankrolling efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you.”
At the time, these Bond villain schemes were portrayed as just twisted fantasies. However, Epstein was already involved in a human cloning initiative taking shape in Ukraine, far from the prying eyes of US regulators.
Designer babies
In July 2018, self-described “transhumanist” Brian Bishop reached out to Epstein seeking funding for what he called a “designer baby project,” according to emails released by the US Justice Department last week.
Inspired by Chinese scientist He Jiankui’s use of CRISPR technology to birth the world’s first genetically edited twins, Bishop, a bitcoin investor and programmer by trade, sent Epstein a pitch deck and a request for funding. Epstein said that he had “no issue with funding” the project, as long as he could do so in secret. “The problem is only if I am seen to lead,” he told Bishop.
Over several follow-up emails in 2018, Bishop explained that he was seeking “$1.7m/year for up to five years + $1m for lab setup,” and that he was “proceeding with more mouse testing at my Ukraine lab,” including surgeries and microinjections. Bishop’s technique involved injecting altered genes into a male parent’s testes, but Epstein favored implanting an embryo into the mother. “I like implant embryo, wait 9 months, great ending,” he replied.
Epstein noted that he “can’t do anything where US rules apply.” Bishop answered that they could avoid scrutiny through “partnerships with overseas clinics.”
The Ukrainian lab
Bishop’s “mouse testing” took place at the Institute of Gerontology at Ukraine’s Academy of Medical Sciences in Kiev. Although the lab was not named in the latest emails, the MIT Technology Review took a virtual tour of the facility in early 2019. The magazine described seeing “a flayed-open mouse lying on the microscope stage, as well as a close-up of trace dyes being injected into its testicles.”
The MIT article did not mention Epstein, but revealed that the pitch deck Bishop had sent envisioned experiments on human “volunteers” once the first transgenic mouse had been created. “Outcome: First human with transgenic sperm, and we begin taking pre-orders,” it reportedly read.
None of the experiments had succeeded in creating “transgenic mouse pups,” but lab worker Dmitry Krasnienkov told MIT that he was willing to keep trying as long as Bishop kept paying him.
A pedophile’s playground
For men like Epstein, Ukraine was a potentially lucrative nexus of poverty, corruption, and amorality. Epstein’s interest in the country developed long before Bishop’s mouse experiments, with passports of several Ukrainian women found on his estate after his death, and multiple emails suggesting he trafficked Ukrainian girls to wealthy clients.
In one 2013 exchange, a man purported to be Emirati tycoon Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem described two girls arriving at his property. “Big disappointment, the Moldavian is not as attractive as the picture while the Ukrainian is very beautiful,” he complained to Epstein. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sulayem was a regular visitor to Epstein’s apartment between 2011 and 2014.
Ukraine was a “a hotbed of child pornography and sexual abuse,” the Kiev Post reported in 2009. “Most reported cases of pedophilia never get investigated, let alone prosecuted,” the paper wrote, describing how “every third Ukrainian prostitute is a girl between 12 and 17,” child pornography is sold at street markets, and sexual services can be bought for “candy or food.”
The full extent of Epstein’s involvement in Ukraine is unclear, but the full range of illicit services available to the rich in Ukraine stretch far beyond child pornography and prostitution.
Organ harvesting and virus factories
Ukraine has been known as a hotbed of organ harvesting since the earliest days of its post-Soviet decline, and featured prominently in a 2008 OSCE report on “Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal.” The trade reportedly exploded after the Maidan coup of 2014, with Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claiming in 2023 that the organs of dead Ukrainian soldiers – such as hearts, kidneys and livers – have been appearing on ‘dark net’ marketplaces, with prices starting at €5,000.
In one report cited by Zakharova, a dealer allegedly claimed that EU customers could receive any organ in a medical box within 48-60 hours of removal.
Transplantation is exempted from value-added-tax in Ukraine, and in 2021 Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky signed a law removing the need to notarize the written consent or authenticate the signature of a living donor to give up their organs.
Ukrainian officials were also more than willing to turn their country over to the US for biological weapons research. Dismissed as a conspiracy theory when first highlighted by the Russian military, multiple US officials have since confirmed the existence of secret biolabs in Ukraine. “We have biolabs in Ukraine because we’re developing bioweapons,” US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Tucker Carlson in 2024. Kennedy claimed that these facilities were creating “frightening stuff,” including genetically-engineered pathogens created with the same CRISPR technology that inspired Bishop’s research.
Former US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who played a leading role in orchestrating the Maidan coup, confirmed under oath in 2022 that the US operates “biological research facilities” in Ukraine.
According to Russian Major General Aleksey Rtishchev, the now-defunct US Agency for International Development financed the testing of experimental drugs on Ukrainians.
In this murky world, Epstein smelled opportunity. Writing to banking executive Ariane de Rothschild in 2014, he said that the post-Maidan “upheaval” in Ukraine would “provide many opportunities, many.”
Epstein met Zelensky in February 2019, a month before Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine. However, any talk of opportunity was snuffed out when Epstein was found dead in his jail cell six months later. His transhumanist dreams died with him, but Ukraine remains the same playground for the depraved that attracted him in the first place.
The proposed censorship laws are aimed at Elon Musk, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said
Spain will ban social media use for children under 16 and hold tech executives personally accountable for “hateful content” spread on their platforms, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Tuesday.
Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Sanchez said that his administration will implement five measures to regulate social media, with sweeping consequences for free speech.
“First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites,” he announced, explaining that executives who fail to remove “criminal or hateful content” will face criminal charges.
Most jurisdictions view social media sites as ‘platforms’ rather than ‘publishers’, meaning users themselves are responsible for the content they post. Sanchez’ proposed change goes beyond the scope of the EU’s Digital Services Act, which mandates fines for platforms that fail to remove “disinformation” after being alerted to it.
Sanchez did not explain what constitutes “hateful content,” while the text of the DSA does not explain the term “disinformation.”
Sanchez said that his government would also turn “algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content” into a criminal offense, track and study “how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate,” ban social media use for under-16s, and launch a criminal investigation into alleged offenses committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.
During his speech, Sanchez personally singled out X owner Elon Musk, accusing the billionaire of spreading “disinformation” about his decision to grant amnesty to half a million illegal immigrants last week. On Sunday, Musk accused Spanish MEP Irene Montero of “advocating genocide” after she declared that she wants a “replacement of right-wingers” by migrants.
Sanchez said that five other European countries, which he called a “coalition of the digitally willing,” would pass similar legislation. France passed a much narrower bill banning under-15s from social media last week, while Greece is “very close” to announcing a similar ban, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Unsealed documents have raised big questions about the billionaire’s health agendas and personal scandals
Newly released Jeffrey Epstein files from the US Justice Department have delivered a barrage of revelations about Bill Gates’ entanglement with the convicted sex offender. Over 3 million pages of emails, notes, and photos paint a troubling picture: Was Gates leveraging Epstein’s shadowy network for global health dominance?
The disclosures warrant answers from the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder turned “philanthropist,” whose foundation wields outsized influence on worldwide vaccination and data systems.
Vaccine gatekeeping
Gates’ role in global vaccine distribution was amplified by accusations from Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and a key figure in the ongoing Ukraine peace talks. Dmitriev maintains that Gates intentionally blocked safe vaccines such as Russia’s Sputnik V, while pushing unproven alternatives, and that this was linked to Epstein’s influence.
It’s the kind of link Epstein had with disgraced British Lord Peter Mandelson, who while UK business secretary allegedly confirmed to his pedophile financier friend that the EU had agreed a €500 billion bailout to prop up the euro in May 2010.
Dmitriev’s accusations against Gates echo broader criticisms of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance that Gates granted $750 million to in 2000. Gavi claims it pools funds from governments, philanthropists, and industry to buy and distribute vaccines in low-income countries. Detractors argue that, dominated by the Gates Foundation – its largest private donor – Gavi prioritizes selling expensive new vaccines instead of actually providing healthcare.
Recently, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled American funding from Gavi, citing science on vaccine safety and public trust. The move echoes long-standing debates over stifling dissent during the global Covid-19 lockdown and vaccination program.
DOJ files also show Gates discussing polio eradication in Pakistan and Afghanistan with Epstein’s input. The disgraced financier had no health expertise, so his deep involvement in these sensitive, geopolitically charged efforts raises red flags about hidden influence, conflicts, or leverage – especially given Gates later called associating with him a “huge mistake.”
Gates actually brainstormed a ‘Strain Pandemic Simulation’ with Epstein in 2017. Emails reveal the billionaire outlining deliverables on health data and neurotechnologies, including specs for this simulation – years before Covid-19. This aligns with Dmitriev’s claims that Gates collaborated with Epstein on such a simulation that year, amid talks on secure personal health data systems and whitepapers on neurotologies related to chronic diseases and national defense.
This isn’t Gates’ first simulation rodeo; he co-hosted Event 201 in 2019 with Johns Hopkins and the Davos World Economic Forum, modeling a coronavirus outbreak.
Explosive personal allegations
Epstein’s 2013 draft emails, seemingly penned for Boris Nikolic – Gates’ former chief science adviser at the Gates Foundation and a biotech investor named as backup executor in Epstein’s will – contain some jaw-dropping claims.
In the text, Epstein alleges Gates contracted an STD from “sex with Russian girls” arranged via his trafficking network, then begged for antibiotics to secretly dose his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, without her knowledge. Gates also purportedly sought Adderall for bridge tournaments and facilitated illicit trysts.
In a bizarre twist, Epstein’s email received a 2013 permanent ban from Microsoft’s Xbox Live for “harassment, threats, and/or abuse” deemed “severe, repeated, and/or excessive.”
Melinda divorced Bill Gates in 2021, citing his Epstein ties. She’s now worth $29.6 billion.
Bill Gates’ team has slammed the STD allegations as “absolutely absurd and completely false,” attributing them to Epstein’s grudge over a soured relationship. Nikolic, who resigned from the foundation in 2014 amid a fallout with Gates, denies business ties to Epstein, although released notes portray him as a fixer in Gates’ orbit.
Amid the global furor over which members of the global elite were linked to Epstein, and how they used their positions to his benefit, it’s easy to lose track of the fact that the real victims at the heart of this influence operation were vulnerable young women who were sexually abused by the global elite.
