RT | 2 Dec 2014 France’s Socialist-led parliament has passed a symbolic vote to recognize Palestinian statehood, despite staunch objections from Israel. MPs in Britain and Spain have already passed similar motions. The proposal was passed with 339 votes in favor and 151 against, meaning that it was supported by more than two-thirds of French…
Steve MacMillan | NEO | 27 Nov 2014 Is the Western elite’s brainchild – the European Union – disintegrating? Due to persistent economic problems, the rise of “popular resentment” across the continent, the political fallout after the illegal coup in Ukraine and the subsequent unpopular economic war on Russia, the EU is on the verge of…
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times | 1 Dec 2014 Are the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia on a mad spiral leading to yet another war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it. The US-propelled vassal currently starring in the oligarch dance in Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, last week advanced the proposition…
By Nigel Farage MEP | ICH | 27 Nov 2014 “Do we actually want to have a war with Putin? Because if we do, we are certainly going about it the right way.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNsXEu8ljM?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Amongst the long list of foreign policy failures and contradictions in the last few years including, of course, the bombing…
By Paul Craig Roberts | 23 Nov 2014 According to news reports, Washington has decided to arm Ukraine for renewed military assault on Russian ethnics in Donetsk and Luhansk. A Russian foreign ministry official condemned Washington’s reckless decision to supply weapons to Kiev as a violation of agreements that would make a political resolution of…
By Pepe Escobar | Asia Times | 21 Nov 2014 These are bleak times. I’ve been in serious conversation with some deep sources and interlocutors – those who know but don’t need to show off, privileging discretion. They are all deeply worried. This is what one of them, a New York strategic planner, sent me:…
by AFP | November 22, 2014 Source: “The result (of the probe) is almost zilch. A lot of hot air, but nothing done” Germany is dropping a probe into the alleged tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone by US spies, due to a lack of evidence, magazine Focus said Saturday. Six months after the…
By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | 20 Nov 2014 It’s long overdue but better late than never that Europe might just be back-pedalling on America’s aggressive agenda towards Russia. The business-like visit to Moscow this week by Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggests that Europe can come to its senses to seek a…
Finian Cunningham |Strategic Culture Foundation | 18 Nov 2014 US President Obama was joined by European leaders last weekend in trying to turn the G20 summit in Australia into a forum for baiting Russia, rather than dealing with the more onerous problem of a failing world economy. The annual meetings of the world’s top economies…
Barak Ravid | Haaretz | 17 Nov 2014 Haaretz obtains full document of EU-proposed sanctions against Israel Sanctions could apply to Israeli politicians opposed to the two-state solution, which could include Bennett and Rivlin; steps against European companies working in settlements; punitive measures against Palestinians over ‘negative measures.’ An internal European Union document on proposed…