Sputnik | 27 Dec 2015 On September 1, 1983 the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sakhalin Island while it was en route from New York to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska; the catastrophe claimed the lives of 269 passengers and crew on board. “Make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea.…
Reuters | 2 Jan 2016 A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years. The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation”, was signed by President Vladimir Putin…
Eric Zuesse | 14 Dec 2015 The following text is a translation by Eric Zuesse of an article in deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de The EU is in the surprising situation of needing to deal, at its upcoming summit meeting at the end of this week, with the question of whether to extend sanctions against Russia. It had been expected…
Paul Craig Roberts | 12 December 2015 My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of the neoconservatives’ aggressive policies toward Russia and China. Daily we…
Harper’s Magazine | 4 Dec 2015 Pierre Sprey, one of the brainchilds behind two of America’s most successful fighter aircraft, the F-16 and A-10, explains in detail how the Turks set up an ambush for Russia’s Su-24 On November 24, a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber near the border of…
The Unz Review | 5 December 2015 Considering the remarkable success of the Russian intervention in Syria, at least so far, it should not have come as a surprise that the AngloZionist Empire would strike back. The only question was how and when. We now know the answer to that question. On November 24th the Turkish…
Zero Hedge | December 6th, 2015 Last Wednesday, the Russian MoD delivered a lengthy presentation which contained compelling visual evidence of a connection between Islamic State’s illegal and highly profitable trade in stolen Iraqi and Syrian crude and Turkey. Here are some highlights: After loading up with oil, a truck convoy in east Syria heads…
Sputnik | 6 Dec 2015 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan planned to shoot down a Russian warplane engaged in Moscow’s anti-Daesh campaign in Syria six weeks prior to the Su-24 incident, a famous Turkish whistleblower apparently said on Twitter. Erdogan is worried about the outcome of the upcoming elections and is contemplating bringing down a…
VT | 4 Dec 2015 Iraqi PM: US Special Forces Deployment Considered Act of War ‘Hostile act:’ Iraqi PM denounces US ground forces deployment on Iraq’s territory Iraq has not requested that any country send ground troops into its territory and will regard any such move as a “hostile act,” the country’s prime minister, Haider…
RT | 5 Dec 2015 [AM editor’s note: US ‘officials’ have gone from rubbishing Russia’s allegations as “nonsense” to conceding that they are technically correct but “insignificant”. Next it will be claimed that yes it is significant but it was all part of the plan … Beam me up George Orwell]. The amount of oil…