Russia
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Why The Takedown Of Christian Strache Will Strengthen The Right
During the last days a right wing politician in Austria was taken down by using an elaborate sting. Until Friday Christian Strache was leader of the far right (but not fascist) Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) and the Vice Chancellor of the country. On Friday morning two German papers, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel published (German) reports(English) about an old… Continue reading
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What Putin and Pompeo did not talk about By Pepe Escobar
Even veiled by thick layers of diplomatic fog, the overlapping meetings in Sochi between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov still offer tantalizing geopolitical nuggets. Continue reading
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Blithering Idiots Express Fear That Putin Will Rig 2020 Election For Trump By Caitlin Johnstone
“Putin” is the number one USA trend on Twitter as of this writing, which is always a reliable sign that something very stupid is happening in American media. Continue reading
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Russian comment on developments in Venezuela
The radical opposition in Venezuela has again resorted to violent methods of confrontation. Instead of seeking to settle political disputes peacefully, it has adopted a course of escalating the conflict, provoking violations of public order and staging clashes with the involvement of the armed forces. Continue reading
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Russia Think Tank Study Shows How To Overextend And Unbalance The U.S. of A.
The Russian institute for Research and Analysis for National Defense (RAND) recently assessed how to further damage the United States: Continue reading
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Reuters Bites Off Tongue in US War Against Venezuela – Rosneft Forces Withdrawal of News Fabrication By John Helmer
The Reuters news agency has published a retraction of an “exclusive” report on operations between the Venezuelan and Russian state oil companies, PDVSA and Rosneft, after disavowing the US-supplied source. Reuters has also acted after Rosneft applied for a criminal investigation of the media company’s operations in Russia by Moscow prosecutors. Continue reading
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Debunking Myths of ‘Red-Brown’ Alliances By Max Parry
Recently, a certain political concept has been resurrected that warrants interrogation. The notion of a ‘red-brown’ alliance has been thrown around so ubiquitously as a form of political slander that any substantive meaning to the term has been evacuated. Rather than accurately designating any associations that may exist between the left and far right, the… Continue reading
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Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Moscow 2019 Conference on International Security by Sergey Lavrov
I am grateful for this invitation to once again speak at the Moscow Conference on International Security organised by the Russian Ministry of Defence. On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would like to welcome its participants coming from various countries and multilateral organisations. Continue reading
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Putin Won – Time Magazine Annoyed That He Does More Than Superman by Angelina Proskurina
Hello friends, with you is Angelina Proskurina, and today I would like to talk about latest issue of the popular American magazine “Time”, on the cover where we can unexpectedly see President Vladimir Putin. Continue reading
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Breaking News! Putin’s Vast Riches Hidden at Costco By Phil Butler
What if we all woke up one morning and everybody understood the Russian mentality? Just think, instead of listening to fairytales about Russia and Vladimir Putin, the world would be able to swiftly wade through mountains of negative bullshit to see the truth. This is the story of the “other” Vladimir Putin, the one whose… Continue reading
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The Official Skripal Story is a Dead Duck By Craig Murray
One of the striking things about the official Skripal story is the way its more wildly improbable aspects have been released to the mainstream media over a long period, so as to manage their impact. So, for example, police acknowledgement that the perfume bottle Charlie Rowley found was sealed and could not have been the… Continue reading
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Books: Surpassing US Military Supremacy by Ron Ridenour
This is not a typical leftist or peace activist, but after reading his book and a piece on the website of the world’s most aggressive naval institution, I surmise that this Russian-American seeks to influence the avaricious eagle into realizing that warring against the cautious bear would not achieve success for anyone. Continue reading
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US-Russian Escalation on Venezuela: A Background Perspective By William Serafino
The distant and sometimes evasive treatment of the international media with respect to the figure of Juan Guaidó, has made evident his erosion. Two months after having proclaimed himself “president of the Republic”, the deputy for the state of Vargas, invested by the United States and the Western media industry as a consensus figure with… Continue reading
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The Illusory Truth Effect: How Millions Were Duped By Russiagate by Caitlin Johnstone
“Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy”, read the front page headline of Sunday’s New York Times. Bit by bit, mainstream American consciousness is slowly coming to terms with the death of the thrilling conspiracy theory that the highest levels of the US government had been infiltrated by the Kremlin, and with the stark reality that the mass media and the… Continue reading
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Can China and Russia Survive in this Unharmonious World? By Andre Vltchek
Does it pay ‘to be good’? Is it still possible to play by the rules in this mad world, governed by brigands?What if the rules are defined and ratified by all countries of the world, but a small group of the strongest (militarily) nations totally ignores them, while using its professional propagandists to reinterpret them… Continue reading
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RussiaGate as Organised Distraction By Prof. Oliver Boyd-Barrett
For over two years RussiaGate has accounted for a substantial proportion of all mainstream US media political journalism and, because US media have significant agenda-setting propulsion, of global media coverage as well. The timing has been catastrophic. Continue reading
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The Skripal Case: One Year On
It is now a year since the events in Salisbury that shocked the nation, and indeed the world. Since then, your organisation has conducted an investigation into the case, and has laid out a case about what happened in a series of statements, notably those made on 5th September (no longer available on your website),… Continue reading
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What Is Vladimir Putin Really Threatening? By Phil Butler
Half a century from now historians and social scientists will wrestle with the defining questions at the dawn of the 21st-century. And unless I miss my guess, lucid researchers, philosophers, and professors will discuss what exactly it was that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened. This should also be the most imperative question for today. Continue reading
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Putin’s Lasting State (translated by Dmitry Orlov)
14 February 2019 — The Saker [This is an important document. It sets out the Russian government’s view on the state of the nation and its future and I think anyone who is interested in having a future on this planet, needs to read it. See also, Moon of Alabama’s take on Surkov’s essay. WB] Modern… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 