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Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing
Coming Attraction: Lunatic Loose in West Wing As Uber-Hawk John Bolton prepares to take over as national security adviser on Monday, Ray McGovern looks back at when Bolton was one of the “crazies” in the George W. Bush administration. John Bolton’s March 22 appointment-by-tweet as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has given “March Madness” […]
UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet
UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet Update: It appears that either the British government can’t keep its lies and proof-less accusations straight or something far more nefarious is at play. Following headlines (below) that British government scientists admitted they couldn’t tell where the poison – identified by the UK […]
A Dangerous Crossroads: What’s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West?
A Dangerous Crossroads: What’s in Store for the Relations Between Russia and the West? No, it’s not a return to George Kennan and his containment policy. It looks more like a slow strangulation, with mounting pressure everywhere. The furor over the Skripal poisoning case is being raised at a time when moves by the West are […]
U.S. and Russia Making Preparations for World War III
U.S. and Russia Making Preparations for World War III The anti-neoconservative Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who had been the chief aide to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and had opposed America’s invading Iraq, spoke on March 2nd explaining how the U.S. and Russia are drifting ever-more-rapidly into World War III. He said it’s essentially the […]
Russia ‘Novichok’ Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Haven’t Learned the Lessons of Iraq
Russia ‘Novichok’ Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Haven’t Learned the Lessons of Iraq The current state of anti-Russia hysteria is reminiscent of earlier dark chapters of American history, including the rush to war in Iraq of the early 2000s and McCarthyism of the 1950s, Patrick Henningsen observes. If there’s one thing to be gleaned from […]
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
© Rangizzz | Dreamstime.com The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be Looks like we’re in for a much rockier ride than many expect This marks our our 10th year of doing this. And by “this”, we mean using data, logic and reason to support the very basic conclusion that infinite growth on a finite […]
Russian Ambassador Speaks Out: “Relations With The US Are The Worst I Can Remember”
Russian Ambassador Speaks Out: “Relations With The US Are The Worst I Can Remember” The Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, told NBC’s Today that he can’t remember a period when relations between Washington and Moscow were worse, after both countries expelled dozens of each other’s diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian […]
Theresa May Reportedly Considering Ban On Russian Sovereign Debt Sales
Theresa May Reportedly Considering Ban On Russian Sovereign Debt Sales Echoing the Treasury Department’s decision to prohibit trading in Venezuelan “hunger bonds” in US markets, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is mulling whether to throw her support behind a measure that would ban the sale of Russian sovereign debt in City of London financial markets. […]
Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians
Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians Ankara (GPA) – Turkey has broken with their NATO allies and decided not to expel Russian diplomats at the behest of the UK. Following the alleged March 4th alleged Russian poisoning of Sergei Skripal, an ex-double agent in the UK, several European countries and the US have […]
The March We Need: A March for Peace… or, at least, De-Escalation
The March We Need: A March for Peace… or, at least, De-Escalation Students march for gun control; women march for a variety of causes, and, well, against anything Trump; but who is marching for less American war in the Greater Middle East? Why? Why isn’t there a passionate coalition willing to combat the American war […]
3 Recent Events That Could Send the US Hurtling Toward World War III
3 Recent Events That Could Send the US Hurtling Toward World War III Recently, the news has been all abuzz with teen activists who want to take away our guns but refuse to use clear backpacks, the Facebook privacy scandal, and how someone bit Beyonce in the face. But there are three recent events that […]
The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin
The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin Photo by @markheybo | CC BY 2.0 Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent on March 4 on a park bench in Salisbury, England. Skripal had been a Russian double agent, a spy who turned over 300 names of Russian spies to […]
Russia Warns West Risks “Hot War” After Mass Expulsion Of Diplomats
Russia Warns West Risks “Hot War” After Mass Expulsion Of Diplomats After a legion of western nations announced this week that they would expel Russian diplomats in solidarity with the UK, one Russian ambassador warned during an impromptu unscripted speech that, by hastily blaming Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian spy at a […]
Germany Approves Russia-Led Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
Germany Approves Russia-Led Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline Germany approved on Tuesday the construction and operation of the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in its territorial waters, thus issuing all necessary permits for the German section of the project that has torn Europe and EU member states over the implications of Russia’s gas giant […]
Former OPCW official: no conclusive proof of Russian complicity in Salisbury attack
Former OPCW official: no conclusive proof of Russian complicity in Salisbury attack But Russia’s denial of past ‘Novichok’ programmes is misleading Nerve agent found in Salisbury does not conclusively prove Russian complicity Russia’s denial of a Novichok programme is true but misleading — a secret nerve agent programme to create Novichok-type agents was run under a different […]
