Jeremy Corbyn today accused the Tory government of "colluding" in suspected war crimes as Theresa May welcomes the leader of Saudi Arabia for a major visit.

Labour's leader demanded Britain stop selling weapons to the powerful Arab state to halt a "humanitarian disaster" in Yemen.

And he declared: "British military advisors are directing the war."

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will face angry protests today as he arrives at Downing Street for a three-day trip to Britain.

Authorities are still investigating how Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter fell into a critical condition. That hasn't slowed, let alone stopped, Britain's mainstream media in spinning some pretty wild theories.

Was it the work of Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea, or someone else entirely? So far, the media have come up with a grab-bag of theories despite no confirmation of any facts from either the Russian or the UK government.

Was it the McMafia?

The Times penned an article headlined 'Peculiarities point towards twilight world of McMafia' on Tuesday. The newspaper wonders: Why would the Russians or Putin kill a spy, living peacefully and quietly (apparently) for the last eight years?

Iran's atomic authority warned that they could produce highly enriched uranium in just two days, should the United States bow out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), meant to put a halt to Tehran's atomic ambitions.

"If America pulls out of the deal... Iran could resume its 20 percent uranium enrichment in less than 48 hours," Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told the state-owned al-Alam TV on Monday.

Does the comical gullibility of the Western public have any bounds? Disregarding all the previous false alarms and thoroughly debunked psyop false flag operations designed to pin genocidal misconduct on the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Asad in order to produce a rationale for full scale intervention in Syria, the Western propaganda machine is now being reactivated, hoping to finally score where previously it had failed miserably. East Ghouta (2013), Aleppo (2016), Khan Sheikhun (2017), and now a resuscitated East Ghouta with the tedious "Assad killing his own people" narrative all over again -- perhaps in this case the fourth time's a charm, in Syria at least. After all, given the Western audience's known attention span, the phony 2013 East Ghouta genocidal episode must by now appear pre-historical, so isn't it about time to revisit the same location and give it another try? It just might work this time around.

Predictably (making accurate predictions is easy when arrogant but unimaginative propaganda hacks keep warming over the same cliches) the impending collapse of the terrorist-held enclave of East Ghouta in close proximity to Damascus is being bitterly denounced by their Western sponsors as a new "Srebrenica" in the making. That is meant primarily to evoke genocidal connotations and to create the pretext and concoct the appearance of moral legitimacy for broadening the scope of the current open-ended imperialist intervention on the ground in Syria. On cue, on February 20, and not mincing words either, the London Guardian newspaper made it unambiguously clear where the upcoming Propagandaministerium campaign is going, even as it was gathering steam: "Eastern Ghouta is another Srebrenica, we are looking away again -- The horror of the Bosnian Muslim massacre of 1995 is being repeated today in Syria."

Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a civil suit against President Trump in an effort to void a nondisclosure agreement between the two.

Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, claims in her suit filed Tuesday that the nondisclosure agreement is not valid because Trump never signed the deal, according to documents revealed publicly by her attorney, Michael Avenatti.

Amid escalating tensions with Washington over immigration raids, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is traveling to Sacramento to drop a bombshell: The federal government is suing California over its new immigration laws.

The United States is seeking to block three state laws - including its so-called "sanctuary state" policy relating to local law enforcement - that, the lawsuit says, "reflect a deliberate effort by California to obstruct the United States' enforcement of federal immigration law."

When news of the federal lawsuit broke late Tuesday, Gov, Jerry Brown quickly issued a statement decrying the move, as well as Sessions' trip to California.

At a joint press conference Tuesday with the Swedish Prime Minister, a Swedish journalist asked President Trump about comments he has made about the influx of Syrian refugees into Sweden and immigration politics.

"You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening in Brussels. You look at what's happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris. We've allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country and there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing. So we're going to keep our country safe," President Trump said at a campaign-style rally in February 2017, promoting a ban on refugees from Syria.

Trump praised Sweden's "wonderful" prime minister but remarked: "Certainly you have a problem with the immigration, it has caused problems in Sweden."

During the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the operations of Russia's 58^th Army were termed as "coercion into peace". It is an appropriate term once one recalls what truly was at stake then. Russians did win that war and, indeed, coerced Georgia into a much more peaceful mood. In Clausewitzian terms the Russians achieved the main object of the war by compelling the enemy to do Russia's will. Russians, as the events of the last 19 years showed, have no illusions anymore about the possibility of any kind of reasonable civilized conduct from the combined West, least of all from the United States which still continues to reside in her bubble which insulates her from any outside voices of reason and peace. The American global track record of the last few decades does not require any special elaborations-it is a record of military and humanitarian disasters.

Vladimir Putin's March 1^st, 2018 address to Russia's Federal Assembly was not about Russia's upcoming presidential elections, as many in the election-obsessed West suggest. Putin's speech was about coercing America's elites into, if not peace, at least into some form of sanity, given that they are currently completely detached from the geopolitical, military and economic realities of a newly emerging world. As it was the case with Georgia in 2008, the coercion was based on military power. The Pre-Shoigu Russian Army, for all its real and perceived shortcomings, disposed of the US-trained and partially equipped Georgian force in a matter of five days -- the Russian Army's technology, personnel and operational art was simply better. Obviously such a scenario is not possible between Russia and the United States; that is unless the American myth of technological superiority is blown out of the water.

Ubiquitous IT giant Google has silently inked a partnership with the Department of Defense to militarize artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, reinvigorating fears of a Terminator-style apocalyptic scenario.

Google has been secretly working with the Pentagon in order to help its 1,100-strong fleet of drones to detect images, faces, and behavioral patterns, and plans to scour through massive amounts of video footage in order to improve bombing accuracy for autonomous drones. The endgame is to improve combat performance by automating the decision-making process in locating and targeting combatants, The Intercept reported on Tuesday.

Project Maven was launched in April 2017 to establish an "Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team," which advocates using sophisticated algorithm-based technologies to combat rising "competitors and adversaries".

People often refer to the United States as a democracy, but technically speaking, that's not true. It's a republic.

Big deal, you say? If you care about your rights, it is. The Founding Fathers knew their history well, so they knew better than to establish the U.S. as a democracy.

In a democracy, of course, the majority rules. That's all well and good for the majority, but what about the minority? Don't they have rights that deserve respect?

Of course they do. Which is why a democracy won't cut it. As the saying goes, a democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

The Founders were determined to forestall the inherent dangers of what James Madison called "the tyranny of the majority." So they constructed something more lasting: a republic. Something with checks and balances. A system of government carefully balanced to safeguard the rights of both the majority and the minority.