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NATO Member Turkey Shoots Down Drone Of Unknown Origin On Border With Syria
NATO Member Turkey Shoots Down Drone Of Unknown Origin On Border With Syria Over the course of Russia’s involvement in Syria, the tension between Moscow and Ankara has grown steadily. In short, NATO-member Turkey has accused Russian fighter jets of violating its airspace as they buzz the border on the way to hitting anti-regime targets. […]
Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think
Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think Canada is not what it appears to outsiders. It is not what it seems even to Canadians. The idea that middle-power Canada is a strong, upright guy who steps into the fight hesitantly and defends the little man is a myth of grandiose […]
Harper’s Revolutionary Foreign Policy
Harper’s Revolutionary Foreign Policy Bellicose words, pandering flip flops, just one aim: Win votes at home. Shredded by vote-driven strategy, Canada’s foreign policy has no real conservative agenda, no moral centre. Canadian flag image via Shutterstock. No Canadian prime minister has put his personal stamp on foreign affairs more than Stephen Harper. And no prime minister has […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election
Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election Government officials say haggling by lawyers from 12 countries delaying release of trade agreement Play Media Trade deal details 2:54 Canadians won’t be able to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before they vote. Government officials told CBC News on Wednesday that the exact wording […]
How America’s Modern Shadow Government Can Be Traced Back to One Very Evil Man – Allen Dulles
How America’s Modern Shadow Government Can Be Traced Back to One Very Evil Man – Allen Dulles Allen Dulles, the CIA director under presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the younger brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and the architect of a secretive national security apparatus that functioned as essentially an autonomous branch of government. […]
US refuses to receive PM Medvedev’s delegation to coordinate anti-terrorist actions in Syria
US refuses to receive PM Medvedev’s delegation to coordinate anti-terrorist actions in Syria Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Government Hour at a State Duma plenary session. © Vladimir Fedorenko / RIA Novosti Washington has refused to receive a Russian military delegation, headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss coordinated action on the fight […]
Russia Sends Its Only Aircraft Carrier To Syria, Signals It Is Just Getting Started
Russia Sends Its Only Aircraft Carrier To Syria, Signals It Is Just Getting Started As should be abundantly clear by now, The Kremlin is adopting a “slightly” different strategy when it comes to combatting terror in the Mid-East than that adopted by the US and its Western and regional allies. The strategy of the US […]
Iran Sends “Thousands” Of Troops To Syria For Russian-Backed Assault On Key City
Iran Sends “Thousands” Of Troops To Syria For Russian-Backed Assault On Key City As those who follow Mid-East affairs are acutely aware, the regime in Syria has enjoyed both military and financial support from Iran for the duration of the country’s civil war. Syria cannot fall to the West if Tehran intends to preserve the […]
Pipeline Politics: Russia, Turkey Clash Over Energy As Syria Rift Shifts Focus To German Line
Pipeline Politics: Russia, Turkey Clash Over Energy As Syria Rift Shifts Focus To German Line In June, we noted that Russia had signed an MOU with Shell, E.On and OMV to double the capacity of the Nord Stream pipeline, the shortest route from Russian gas fields to Europe. Here is a helpful visual: What you’ll note from […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II [Part I] Political technologies have three main goals: 1. Changing the rules of the game between participants in the political process. 2. Introducing into the mass consciousness new concepts, values, opinions and convictions. 3. Direct manipulation of human behavior through mass media and administrative methods. Political technologies pursue these tactical […]
The MH-17 ‘Report’
The MH-17 ‘Report’ When I read that the report on the downing of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine was being put in the hands of the Dutch, I knew that there would be no investigation and no attention to the facts. And there wasn’t. I did not intend to write about the report, because Washington’s […]
False East/West Paradigm And The End Of Freedom
False East/West Paradigm And The End Of Freedom People are desperate for leaders and heroes. This is an undeniable condition of human life and of human civilization. Some historians and social observers, however, seem to think it is enough to simply point out this condition and pretend as if they have made some grand declaration; […]
WikiLeaks: US Government Plotted to Assassinate Bolivian President
WikiLeaks: US Government Plotted to Assassinate Bolivian President Cables leaked by U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning reveal an apparent plot by the U.S. government to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales and overthrow his administration. The cables in question were published in August in “The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire,” a book in which multiple […]
Several shells explode outside Russian embassy in Damascus during pro-Russia rally
Several shells explode outside Russian embassy in Damascus during pro-Russia rally © RT / Ruptly Several shells have exploded outside the Russian embassy in Damascus during a pro-Russia rally. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the shelling of the embassy is an act of terror. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria, Syria unrest It was intended […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part I
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part I On September 28, while addressing the UN General Assembly, Putin proposed “implementing naturelike technologies, which will make it possible to restore the balance between the biosphere and the technosphere.” It is necessary to do so to combat catastrophic global climate change, because, according to Putin, CO2 emissions cuts, even if implemented […]
