Ray McGovern | 7 June 2015 As much as President Obama needs President Putin’s help on Syria, Iran and other global hotspots, he has fallen in line behind U.S. hardliners in seeking to ratchet up the confrontation over Ukraine and now is trying to bring the Europeans along at the G-7, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.…
Tom Dispatch | 7 June 2015 It might have been the most influential single sentence of that era: “In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” And it originated…
VT | 4 June 2015 The real coalition goes to war, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Russia, revenge is sweet This week, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that their support of Syria will be unlimited. Over the past few weeks Iranian military leaders, both Republican Guard and the Al Quds brigade in…
RT | 3 June 2015 The Russian Investigative Committee has identified a key witness to the MH17 crash in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region. He is Evgeny Agapov, an aviation armaments mechanic in the Ukrainian Air Force. The man is currently under Russian state protection. Agapov, a Ukrainian citizen, was serving as a military mechanic in the…
Stephen Lendman | Global Research | May 29, 2015 A separate article discussed US Justice Department indictments against 14 current and former FIFA officials. Blatter wasn’t named but isn’t out of the woods. US prosecutors indicated what’s announced isn’t “the final chapter. It is not over,” they said. FBI Director James Comey indicated “work will continue until all of…
Russia Insider | 29 March 2015 BRICS countries must prepare for an efficient defense against Western masters of war The article originally appeared at Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten. Translated for RI by Mihajlo Doknic Russia’s president Putin uses unusually harsh words when it comes to the US foreign policy. He wants an alliance with China and the BRICS countries…
Zero Hedge | May 30, 2015 Meet Gulmurod Khalimov, the US-trained and funded former commander of Tajikistan’s special forces, who, as Reuters reports, has now gone to Syria to fight with ISIS. He has a message: “Listen, you American pigs, I’ve been three times to America, and I saw how you train fighters to kill…
SCF | 28 May 2015 The saying goes: don’t mix politics and sport. That is exactly what the United States’ authorities seem to be doing over this week’s dramatic arrests of World Cup officials and allegations of rampant fraud amounting to $150 million. The ostensible American concern is to clean up the tarnished image of…
Tass | 28 May 2015 Struggle against corruption inside the international federation of football associations FIFA is a crucial task, but it would be impermissible to politicize that process and violate international law as the investigation proceeds, polled experts have told TASS. “Sports and politics must be kept separately,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said about…
F. William Engdahl | NEO | 24 May 2015 These are sad days in Washington and Wall Street. The once unchallenged sole Superpower at the collapse of the Soviet Union some quarter century ago is losing its global influence so rapidly that most would not have predicted anything comparable six months ago. The key actor…