Zero Hedge November 17, 2015 The world may have moved on from the tragic terrorist attack that took place just three weeks ago above Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, which killed all 224, but for some inexplicable reason Russia refused to admit what was obvious to most from the first minutes since ISIS released a video clip…
RT | 16 Nov 2015 President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states. During the summit, “I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State (IS, formerly…
Sputnik | 10 Nov 2015 This week the “story” was of alleged systematic drug abuse in Russia’s sports. And the Western media are full of howling headlines impugning Russia for running a “state-sponsored” doping program among its athletes. The unverified findings have swiftly led to predictable calls for the Russian authorities to be sanctioned and even for its athletes to be banned from next year’s Olympic…
Eric Zuesse | 11 Nov 2015 On Saturday November 7th, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, who had started his career at the Defense Department during the Reagan Administration as an aide to then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Cold-Warring against the communist nations U.S.S.R. and China, delivered a speech saying, “We are in the middle…
The Saker | 8 Nov 2015 Whether this tragedy was directly linked to the war in Syria or not, there is no doubt that the downing of Kogalymavia Flight 9268 was the main event of the past week. Since I have covered this issue elsewhere, I shall not return to it in detail again here.…
Eric Zuesse | 9 Nov 2015 Western ‘news’ media simply refuse to report the lying that’s done by Western ‘news’ media and their governments. Western media didn’t even report — and more than a decade after the fact, they still are not reporting — that George W. Bush was lying when he said on 7 September…
SCF | 7 Nov 2015 Like a good laundering machine, the Western media operate an efficient spin cycle for rinsing out dirty water. No sooner had Russia’s foreign ministry issued a fairly straightforward statement on Syria’s political future this week, then Western media news outlets were getting all in a lather with the spin that…
Counter Punch | 3 Nov 2015 Can someone explain to me why President Obama decided to announce that he’s going to deploy U.S. Special Forces to Syria on the same day that Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to meet with Russian and Iranian diplomats to discuss how to end the four and a…
RT | November 1, 2015 The US Special Forces are being used as “human shields” to curb Russian air strikes against anti-government mercenaries Obama’s decision to send Special Forces into Syria is being widely viewed as a US military escalation in the country. The troop dispatch also signals that the US trying to forestall Russian…
VT | 31 Oct 2015 Gordon Duff began his recent article with the headline: “ISIS in Sinai, an Israeli group, claims shoot-down and posts video.” The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Post, and the Financial Times have confirmed Duff’s suspicion. They have recently reported: “Hours after the crash, a branch of…