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Ukraine Gets Official NATO Status: Weighing Up the Pros and Cons
Ukraine Gets Official NATO Status: Weighing Up the Pros and Cons NATO has granted Ukraine the status of an aspirant country. Macedonia, Georgia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina have similar status. This means Kiev has been offered a real chance to make its dreams come true. The next step will be obtaining its Membership Action Plan (MAP), a set of criteria […]
The Rise of the New McCarthyism
The Rise of the New McCarthyism From the Archive: On March 9, 1954, Senate Republicans criticized Joe McCarthy’s overreaches and took action to limit his power, marking the end of McCarthyism. On the anniversary of that event, we republish an article on the New McCarthyism by Robert Parry. Make no mistake about it: the United States […]
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad
Trump Seeks Congressional Funding for 60,000-Man Army to Overthrow Assad ISIS, or ISIL, or Islamic State, has been almost completely defeated in Syria, but the U.S. Department of Defense is requesting an increase instead of a decrease in funding to support “Vetted Syrian Opposition,” or fighters in Syria against Syria’s Government, and it refers to […]
Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3
Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3 Senior DIA, Air Force and Army officials admit that NATO expansionism and US covert interference in Russian internal politics may trigger “next global conflict” French soldiers unload tanks from a train in northern Poland for a NATO military exercise (Source: LA Times) Published by […]
Putin Says “US Political System Eating Itself Up”, Explains Preparation For Nuclear War
Putin Says “US Political System Eating Itself Up”, Explains Preparation For Nuclear War In a move that will likely prompt more calls for collusion, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin offered more words of praise for President Trump on Wednesday, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been […]
Shale Pioneer Issues Warning To US Drillers
Shale Pioneer Issues Warning To US Drillers U.S. shale has effectively upended the oil industry, with predictions that total U.S. oil production will surpass Saudi Arabia’s output this year, in turn rivalling Russia’s to become the preeminent global producer. From its position of being dependent on, and subordinate to OPEC, the U.S. has seemingly become […]
Russia Blamed For Italian Election Outcome
Russia Blamed For Italian Election Outcome If there is a European election, and the anti-establishment parties score a stunning victory (as just happened in Italy, and a few months prior, in Austria), who’re you gonna blame? Vladimir Putin (of course)! That’s what Samantha Power, one of the top diplomats in the Obama administration, did when […]
Light It Up
Light It Up It must be hard on The New York Times editors to set their hair on fire day after day in their effort to start World War Three. Today’s lead story, Russian Threat on Two Fronts Meets Strategic Void in the U.S., aims to keep ramping up twin hysterias over a new missile […]
Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything
Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything “I’m not convinced on this bot thing,” said one of the men behind the Russian bot thing. BuzzFeed News; Getty Images By now you know the drill: massive news event happens, journalists scramble to figure out what’s going on, and within a couple hours the culprit is found — […]
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is I love Americans. I get friendly flak from some of my more jaded lefty readers whenever I say that, because having to deal with the flaws of one’s own countrymen is a very different experience than appreciating them from afar, but […]
How the US Establishment Lies Through Its Teeth, for War Against Russia
How the US Establishment Lies Through Its Teeth, for War Against Russia The same people, Republicans and Democrats, who lied through their teeth for an invasion of Iraq in 2003, are doing it again for an invasion of Russia, sometime soon, so as to ‘defend’ ‘democracy’. The US has by now swallowed up virtually all lands surrounding Russia, at […]
Ukraine Freezes After Russia Halts Gas Deliveries
Ukraine Freezes After Russia Halts Gas Deliveries Last week, Russia’s state-run gas giant and quasi-monopolist when it comes to European natgas supplies, Gazprom, announced it would not restart shipments of natural gas to Ukraine’s Naftogaz starting March 1 after the two sides failed to reach an agreement, Gazprom deputy chairman, Alexander Medvedev, told journalists. Russian […]
Putin’s stunning revelations about new Russian weapons systems
Putin’s stunning revelations about new Russian weapons systems If you have no read it yet, please check out Putin’s full address to the Federal Assembly. What stunned me, and many other, are the new weapon systems Putin has announced. First, he confirmed that the Sarmat ICBM would replace the old but already formiable SS-18 “Satan”. […]
NPT Violated: Russia Raises Issue of Utmost Importance
NPT Violated: Russia Raises Issue of Utmost Importance Speaking at the UN Geneva Disarmament Conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is threatened by American tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) stationed in Europe and the destabilizing effect of joint nuclear missions (JNM) that NATO forces are being trained for. The statement is more than […]
