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Russia will establish an unofficial no-fly zone over Syria
Today Defense Minster Shoigu announced measures which went far beyond what I had hoped for. Continue reading
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The Highest Degree Of Certainty: The New Evidence In The Downing Of Flight MH17
On Sept. 17 the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation held a briefing for members of the press, to present documented new evidence that the Ukrainian armed forces helped to bring down the Malaysian airliner that was flying over the Donbass in July 2014. Continue reading
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Tensions Grow as China, Russia and Iran Lead the Way Towards a New Multipolar World Order By Federico PIERACCINI
Military and economic tensions are increasing due to the ramped up warlike stance of the US establishment. The impossibility of halting the shifting world order in favour of prolonging the unipolar moment has left the US deep state reaching for any available weapon at hand, taking no heed of the dangers and consequences of such… Continue reading
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Flight MH17, Ukraine and the Civil War By Prof. Kees van der Pijl
On the margins of D-Day celebrations in Normandy in June 2014, Poroshenko agreed with Putin to start talks on a ceasefire, for which a Russian emissary arrived in Kiev on the 8th. On 24 June the Russian Federation Council revoked the authority granted to Putin in March to deploy Russian troops in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Russia Challenges the Findings of the International Commission on MH-17
The Russian Authorities continue to challenge the version that Flight MH-17 was brought to the ground by an air-ground missile. They declassified information contradicting the conclusions of the Dutch Commission of Inquiry Into the Crash. Continue reading
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New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria By Bill Van Auken
Replete with sinister looking graphics portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin as a villainous cyberage cyclops, the report purports to untangle “the threads of the most effective foreign campaign in history to disrupt and influence an American election.” The report could serve as a textbook example of CIA-directed misinformation posing as “in-depth” journalism. There is no… Continue reading
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The Skripal Affair – Another False Flag in NATO Litany to Criminalize Russia By Finian Cunningham
If we start from a premise which understands that Britain and its NATO allies are capable of mounting false flag events in Syria with chemical weapons, then it is entirely possible that British secret services carried out a similar propaganda stunt in England with regard to former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. Continue reading
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NYT Admits That Its “Mountain of Evidence” For Russian Collusion Is Smaller Than A Molehill By Moon of Alabama
The New York Times spends 10,000 words in some 199 paragraphs on the alleged ‘Russian influence’ in the U.S. election. The long piece is a repetition of unproven intelligence claims, spin around a few facts and lots of innuendo. Few readers will ever digest it in full. Continue reading
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The Dutch Investigation into Flight MH17 and Kiev’s Veto By Prof. Kees van der Pijl
The Dutch government, soon to be given charge of the investigation, ruled out any dealings with the insurgency. After foreign secretary Timmermans at the UN called local volunteers ‘thugs’ on 21 July, falsely accused them of robbing the victims’ corpses, the option of negotiating with the insurgents was effectively closed. Although the Dutch government later… Continue reading
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UK: Fresh novichok allegations used to escalate anti-Russia offensive By Thomas Scripps
While the facts remain obscured in the case of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov and their alleged role in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the political significance of the story is crystal clear. The novichok scandal is at the centre of the British government’s ratcheting up of diplomatic, economic and military tensions against… Continue reading
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Russia reveals the MH17 ‘smoking gun’ By Pepe Escobar
18 September 2018 — Asia Times Defense Ministry provides missile engine evidence, shifting blame to the Ukrainian military The Russian Defense Ministry may have finally unveiled the “smoking gun” able to solve the mystery surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, shot down on July 17, 2014 over the Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine. Continue reading
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Russian Il-20 downed by Syrian missile after Israeli F-16s used it as cover during attack – MoD
The Russian military says an Israeli raid on Syria triggered a chain of events that led to its Il-20 plane being shot down by a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile. Moscow reserves the right to respond accordingly. Continue reading
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Flight MH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War. Prism of Disaster
‘Based on wide-ranging meticulous research, van der Pijl utilises the case of the downing of MH17 as a prism to refract the political corruption of state-directed oligarchic capitalism in Ukraine coupled to the self-interest of a neo-liberal driven European Union. He offers a masterly analysis of the complex domestic personal relationships and class forces involved… Continue reading
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Novichok News Links 14-16 September 2018
16 September 2018 — William Bowles Why We’re Blind to the System Destroying Us https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/09/why-were-blind-to-the-system-destroying-us/ Continue reading
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RT editor-in-chief’s exclusive interview with Skripal case suspects Petrov & Boshirov
13 September 2018 — RT RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has spoken exclusively to the two men the UK named as suspects in the Skripal poisoning – Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Russian envoy urges OPCW to take action to prevent false flag in Idlib
THE HAGUE, September 12. /TASS/. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) can and should play an important role to thwart the staging of a false flag ‘chemical attack’ provocation in Syria’s Idlib, Russian Permanent Representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin told reporters on Wednesday. Continue reading
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Filming of staged chemical attack in Syrian Idlib begins – Russian MoD
Several Middle East TV channels and a US news channel have been sent to Jisr al-Shughur in Syria’s Idlib Governorate to produce the footage needed for the provocation, a statement by the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said. It added the intelligence came from local residents of Jisr al-Shughur. Continue reading
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Skripal and Syria… The Imperative of Criminalizing Russia By Finian Cunningham
There is a direct link between Britain’s sensational allegations against Russia in the Skripal affair and NATO’s losing covert war in Syria. Continue reading
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Skripals – The Mystery Deepens By Craig Murray
The Metropolitan Police state that Boshirov and Petrov did not arrive in Salisbury until 11.48 on the day of the poisoning. That means that they could not have applied a nerve agent to the Skripals’ doorknob before noon at the earliest. But there has never been any indication that the Skripals returned to their home… Continue reading
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UK “identifies” Russian agents in attempted Skripal assassination By Robert Stevens
The UK government and media have doubled down on their anti-Russian campaign following Wednesday’s announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that two men have been named as suspects in the poisoning of former Russian/British double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. The police released passport photos and CCTV images of two men in… Continue reading
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