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Ukraine Invites Russian “Military Specialists” In Donetsk To Promote “Conflict De-escalation” | Zero Hedge
Ukraine Invites Russian “Military Specialists” In Donetsk To Promote “Conflict De-escalation” | Zero Hedge. If the US has become the undisputed world leader in sending non-lethal “military advisors” to the middle east, then Russia is learning fast, and as Interfax just reported, the head of the Russian Armed Forces chief of staff Gerasimov just confirmed […]
ISIL and Iran to dominate Gulf Arab summit – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
ISIL and Iran to dominate Gulf Arab summit – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. Gulf Arab leaders have arrived in the Qatari capital for a summit expected to push forward plans for a unified military command and an Interpol-like agency to counter regional foe Iran and self-declared jihadist groups. Foreign ministers from the six-member […]
Greer’s ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ sees end of empire — Transition Voice
Greer’s ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ sees end of empire — Transition Voice. Apparently, people who write titles for politico-military thrillers about nuclear brinksmanship find the language of The Star Spangled Banner just too good to resist. Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a 1977 drama starring Burt Lancaster as a renegade air force general who takes over a nuclear missile silo […]
Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians
Purported Islamic State Video Calls For Attacks On Canadians. OTTAWA – A slickly produced video released on Sunday urged Muslims to launch indiscriminate attacks against Canadians, similar to those carried out in October in Ottawa and Montreal. The SITE Intelligence Group, an American based company that monitors trends within the global jihadist movement, said the […]
Canadian Embassy in Cairo closed due to security concerns | Reuters
Canadian Embassy in Cairo closed due to security concerns | Reuters. (Reuters) – Canada’s embassy in Cairo was closed on Monday until further notice because of security concerns, an official answering its emergency telephone line said, the second diplomatic mission to shut its doors this week. A message on the embassy’s website read: “The ability […]
Why a Moscow meltdown could spread around the globe | World news | The Observer
Why a Moscow meltdown could spread around the globe | World news | The Observer. Russia matters. It mattered in 1998 when the shock waves from its debt default reverberated around the world. And it would matter again should the plunging oil price lead to economic collapse. That’s despite the fact that Russia is a […]
‘Don’t get Russia wrong’: NATO intel warns against misjudging Moscow on Ukraine — RT News
‘Don’t get Russia wrong’: NATO intel warns against misjudging Moscow on Ukraine — RT News. Russia doesn’t want Ukraine to be split up, NATO intelligence officials say, warning their colleagues against wrongly assessing Moscow’s policy on the crisis in eastern Ukraine. That’s according to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel written by intelligence […]
Massive Explosions Reported Following Israeli Aistrikes Near Syrian Capital | Zero Hedge
Massive Explosions Reported Following Israeli Aistrikes Near Syrian Capital | Zero Hedge. The last time Israel ignored Syrian sovereignty and attacked Bashar al Assad’s nation without fear of reprisals was in the spring of 2013, when the US was eager to launch an all out war, and tear apart the last country that stood in […]
West’s action in Libya in 2011 was a ‘mistake’ – Italy’s foreign ministry — RT News
West’s action in Libya in 2011 was a ‘mistake’ – Italy’s foreign ministry — RT News. Western countries made a ‘mistake’ three years ago, when they intervened in Libya to overthrow the Gaddafi regime, according to Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The statement came amid reports of the US discussing airstrikes on Libya’s territory. “Three […]
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Reckless Congress ‘Declares War’ on Russia
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Reckless Congress ‘Declares War’ on Russia. Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever. H. Res. 758 was billed as a resolution “strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has […]
NY Times Liars Exposed – LewRockwell.com
NY Times Liars Exposed – LewRockwell.com. Well, well, well. Gloating is unseemly, especially in public, but give me this one, will you? It has been a long and lonely winter defending the true version of events in Ukraine, but here comes the sun. We now have open acknowledgment in high places that Washington is indeed responsible […]
Tomgram: Engelhardt, War to the Horizon | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Engelhardt, War to the Horizon | TomDispatch. It was the end of the road for Chuck Hagel last week and the Washington press corps couldn’t have been more enthusiastic about writing his obituary. In terms of pure coverage, it may not have been Ferguson or the seven-foot deluge of snow that hit Buffalo, New […]
Deadly blasts rock Baghdad’s Shia areas – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Deadly blasts rock Baghdad’s Shia areas – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. At least 16 people have been killed in two car bombs that went off in the Sadr district of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials said. The blasts happened at around 6:30pm (15:30 GMT) on Thursday in two different parts of the district. Al […]
Made in the USA – How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Made in the USA – How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg. I hadn’t written a single piece on the U.S.-Ukraine-Russia quagmire for the entirety of 2014, until Monday when I published: Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize – Remarks by […]
Putin Says Crimea Sacred, Attacks U.S., EU Over Ukraine – Bloomberg
Putin Says Crimea Sacred, Attacks U.S., EU Over Ukraine – Bloomberg. President Vladimir Putin attacked the U.S and Europe for backing Ukraineand said that Crimea, which the Kremlin annexed from Ukraine in March, has “sacred meaning” as Russia’s “Jerusalem.” Crimea’s “territory is strategically important” and for Russia it’s “like theTemple Mount in Jerusalem” is for Muslims and Jews, Putin said in his […]
