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Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War? According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls […]
Syrian Fighters Enter Afrin; Turkey Retaliates With Immediate Bombing Sending Turkish Lira, Stocks Tumbling
Syrian Fighters Enter Afrin; Turkey Retaliates With Immediate Bombing Sending Turkish Lira, Stocks Tumbling As we reported yesterday, in a surprising twist in the ongoing Syrian proxy war, YPG Kurdish fighters in north-western Syria – who are backed by the US – had struck a deal with the Russia-backed Assad regime for Syrian forces to […]
Five Reasons To Be Absolutely Certain That The Establishment Is Lying About Syria
Five Reasons To Be Absolutely Certain That The Establishment Is Lying About Syria Whenever you see UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on video she’s trying to start World War Three. At today’s UN Security Council Haley gave remarks about why the UN should “take action” against two of the US power establishment’s favorite targets, Russia and the […]
America’s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In Kind
America’s Election Meddling Would Indeed Justify Other Countries Retaliating In Kind Highlighting the U.S.’s long history in meddling in other countries’ elections is not “whataboutism,” but rather a highly germane point to understanding the context for the allegations of Russian meddling in Election 2016, Caitlin Johnstone observes. There is still no clear proof that the Russian […]
Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission
Dancing to US Tune: NATO Creates Military Schengen and Launches Iraq Mission The NATO defense chiefs’ meeting on February 14-15 was mainly devoted to sharing the defense burden and other issues routinely discussed at any event. As usual, there were turgid speeches with opaque meaning to leave one guessing what’s really behind those nice words. In fact, […]
Munich Conference: “For The First Time In Decades We Are Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict”
Munich Conference: “For The First Time In Decades We Are Facing Threat Of Nuclear Conflict” Over the past fifty years, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has traditionally reflected the current state of world military affairs. Each February, more than 450 senior decision-makers from around the globe descend into Munich, Germany, to discuss current and future […]
The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis
The EMP Threat: How It Works and What It Means for the Korean Crisis Before we begin with this week’s installment of This Week in Geopolitics, I want to draw your attention to the 2018 Strategic Investment Conference. Last year at the SIC, I said the United States would likely launch a pre-emptive attack on […]
Russia Warns US To “Stop Playing With Fire” In Syria, Immediately Leave Area It Controls
Russia Warns US To “Stop Playing With Fire” In Syria, Immediately Leave Area It Controls Two weeks after a US B-52 strike killed scores of Russian mercenaries in Syria, which according to Bloomberg and Reuters were are as many as 200, while Russia said no more than 5 Russians were killed in the attack then […]
Kim Dotcom: “Let Me Assure You, The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack”
Kim Dotcom: “Let Me Assure You, The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack” Kim Dotcom has once again chimed in on the DNC hack, following a Sunday morning tweet from President Trump clarifying his previous comments on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump I never said Russia did not meddle in […]
Turkey Threatens to Invade Greece
Turkey Threatens to Invade Greece Turkey’s ruling party, and even much of the opposition, seem intent on, if not obsessed with, invading and conquering these Greek islands, on the grounds that they are actually Turkish territory. “The things we have done so far [pale in comparison to the] even greater attempts and attacks [we are […]
The Three Global Super-Powers
The Three Global Super-Powers There are currently three global super-powers, three nations that lead the world: China, Russia, and US. After World War II, until recently, the US clearly dominated the world, not only culturally, with more influence over the world’s other cultures than any other single nation possessed, but also economically, with product-dominance throughout the world, […]
Russian Meddling: Gagging on the Irony
Russian Meddling: Gagging on the Irony The irony that is most gagging is that America’s power elite is destroying the nation’s social order by its concentration of wealth and abuse of power. The irony of the Deep State’s obsessive focus on “Russian meddling” in the precious bodily fluids of our hallowed democracy is so overwhelming […]
Mueller, Russia and Oil Politics
Mueller, Russia and Oil Politics Dunder-Mifflin as Troll Farm The Mueller indictment made public on Friday charges 13 Russian nationals with trolling the American electoral process to ‘sow discord’ by falsely representing themselves as American dissident personas. Once the field of presidential aspirants had been narrowed in 2016, their goal became to support Donald Trump’s […]
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’
The US-UK Deep State Empire Strikes Back: ‘It’s Russia! Russia! Russia!’ There’s no defense like a good offense. For weeks the unfolding story in Washington has been how a cabal of conspirators in the heart of the American federal law enforcement and intelligence apparat colluded to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton and, when that failed, to […]
Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria
Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images Ending America’s Disastrous Role in Syria America’s official narrative has sought to conceal the scale and calamitous consequences of US efforts to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. That is understandable, because US efforts are in blatant violation of international law, which bars UN member states from supporting military action to overthrow other […]
