Pepe Escobar| Russia Insider | 5 Dec 2014 So the EU “defeated” Putin by forcing him to cancel the South Stream pipeline. Thus ruled Western corporate media. Nonsense. Facts on the ground spell otherwise. This “Pipelineistan” gambit will continue to send massive geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. In a nutshell, a…
Sean J. Li | Defense One | 3 Dec 2014 China announced in September that it would send a battalion of seven-hundred infantry soldiers to reinforce the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), a heretofore unprecedented move that triples its troop contribution. It is suspected by commentators, such as Colum Lynch at Foreign Policy, that this commitment was made…
by Mac Slavo | SHTFplan.com | December 2, 2014 The Cold War 2.0 is going hot The Cold War 2.0 is going hot, and while it may someday be fought with planes, tanks, guns and bombs, the first front is being fought with oil and shale gas. The U.S. and European sanctions against Russia…
By SteveMC | Reports from Underground | 14 Nov 2014 US Airstrikes Against ISIL not Meant to Destroy ISIL Instead of deterring the radical Islamist group, American airstrikes against them have accomplished two things: they have increased ISIL recruitment while at the same time have destroyed and degraded Syria’s infrastructure, murdering innocent Syrian civilians along…
By Christina Lin | ICH | 15 Nov 2014 CNN on 12 November reported Obama administration is suddenly focused on removing Assad as the core of its anti-ISIS strategy, once again submitting to Turkey and Arab Gulf states that enabled ISIS to begin with, and are actually contributing very little to the anti-ISIS efforts to…
Thierry Messyan | Voltaire Network | 10 Nov 2014 Washington seems to have abandoned its Levant remodeling map for another. However, the failure of the first project and the strength of the Syrian people do not bode well for the implementation of this new plan. Thierry Meyssan reviews the adjustments it requires and the division…
Pepe Esocbar | RT | 11 Nov 2014 There’s hardly a more graphic illustration of where the multipolar world is going than what just happened at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. Take a very good look at the official photos. This is all about positioning – and this being China, pregnant with…
By Mike Faulkner | Greanville Post | 12 Nov 2014 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was launched sixty five years ago following the signature of the Atlantic Pact in 1949. The original member states that came together under US tutelage claimed that their alliance was dedicated to the preservation of peace and to the defence…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | November 12, 2014 Announcement follows NATO moves in Eastern Europe Russia will send long-ranger bombers on regular patrols over the Gulf of Mexico, according to military officials. Following moves by NATO in response to the crisis in Ukraine, Sergei Shoigu, the Minister of Defense for the Russian Federation…
by Petr Lvov | NEO | November 12, 2014 [AM editor’s note: this sounds like an argument being put forward for world government without explicitly stating so.] In his speech at a meeting of the Valdai Club on October 24 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin made a number of frank, sharp remarks regarding US policies. In fact,…