Clifford Cunningham | 8 Aug 2016 China and Russia will conduct joint naval drills in the South China Sea after China’s Defense Minister warned the military, police and public to prepare for a “people’s war at sea.” China’s Defense Ministry signaled its intention to conduct joint naval exercises with Russia in the South China Sea…
RT | 2 Aug 2016 The Chinese navy held a large-scale “live ammunition” drill in the East China Sea, which involved hundreds of ships and submarines from all three fleets of the People’s Liberation Army. The exercise involving China’s East Sea, North Sea and South Sea fleets practiced both offensive and defensive capabilities of the…
The Independent | 20 July 2016 Previous prime ministers have avoided answering the hypothetical question of whether they would ever press the nuclear button Theresa May has declared without hesitation that she would order a nuclear strike to kill hundreds of thousands of people if she thought it was necessary. The Prime Minister gave the blunt reply…
Business Insider | 5 July 2016 LETTERS TO TONY BLAIR: Saddam Hussein’s lawyer wrote these letters as part of a plan for the Iraqi leader to step down before war was declared — but Blair ignored them Between the years of 2003 and 2011, more than 461,000 people died as a result the Iraq war. In the…
RT | 6 July 2016 The long-awaited findings of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the invasion of Iraq by Britain in 2003 were finally published on Wednesday. Follow the reaction to Chilcot’s revelations throughout the day with our LIVE updates here on RT.com It has taken seven years, £10 million (US$ 13 million) and 2.6 million…
Stephen F. Cohen | 9 June 2016 NATO is continuing its military buildup and “exercises” on Russia’s borders, Moscow is taking “counter-measures,” while the US mainstream media remains silent Listen to audio of discussion between Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of…
The Intercept | 9 June 2016 I met a few of them in the town of Pibor last year. These battle-tested veterans had just completed two or three years of military service. They told me about the rigors of a soldier’s life, about toting AK-47s, about the circumstances that led them to take up arms. In…
Global Research | 7 June 2016 “It’s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. You don’t just invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests.” (John Kerry, “Meet the Press, 2nd March 2014.) If “a week is a long time in politics”, a quote attributed to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (1964-1970 and…
Seymour Hersh | 2 May 2016 From Seymour Hersh’s The Killing of Osama bin Laden, published in April by Verso Books. Read Hersh’s interview about the book on Alternet. It’s now evident, fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, that Obama’s foreign policy has maintained many of the core elements of the global war on terror…
John Pilger | 20 March 2016 I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.” Few…