Russia
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Video: Twitter Bans RT and Sputnik Ads, Who's Next?
Twitter has announced it will ban advertising from the Russian-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik. We speak to journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #152 By William Blum
21 October 2017 — The Anti-Empire Report Capturing the wisdom and the beauty of Donald J. Trump in just one statement escaping from his charming mouth: “Our military has never been stronger. Each day, new equipment is delivered; new and beautiful equipment, the best in the world – the best anywhere in the world, by far.”… Continue reading
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Sputnik and Russia Today Under Investigation by US Department of Justice (DOJ) By Philip Giraldi
Somehow everything keeps coming back around to Russia. In one of its recent initiatives, the Justice Department (DOJ) appears to be attacking the First Amendment as part of the apparent bipartisan program to make Vladimir Putin the fall guy for everything that goes wrong in Washington. In the past month, the DOJ has revealed that… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #151: Cold War then. Cold War now By William Blum
The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper. Continue reading
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Endless Hostility Against Russia: Selected Articles
16 September 2017 — Global Research Hostile US Actions Against RT and Sputnik News By Stephen Lendman, September 15, 2017 Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called US hostile actions against RT and Sputnik News an attempt to censor their operations, a cause for great concern. US and other foreign correspondents in Russia operate freely without interference. Continue reading
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BRICS: Weakening US Hegemony, Reshaping the Global Economy?
3 September 2017 — Global Research In light of the ninth BRICS summit which will be held in Xiamen, China on September 4 and 5, Global Research brings to your attention some articles on the framework and roadmap of the BRICS partnership. Will the US empire break the on-going strategic relations between the concerned countries? Or will… Continue reading
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China and Russia, Beijing’s “Belt and Road” Initiative, Towards an Economy of Peace? By Peter Koenig
1 September 2017 — Global Research Why is Peace not breaking out, when the vast majority of the world’s populace does not want war? Why is the world one huge fireball of hostilities, conflicts, threats of economic sanctions, propaganda of lies and mind manipulations, fearmongering – killing – massive killing – 12-15 million people killed since… Continue reading
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The 2014 Ukraine Coup Was as Much About China as Russia. Eurasian Trade and the New Silk Road By Adam Garrie
17 August 2017 — Global Research The events which led to the 2014 coup in Ukraine are generally blamed on anti-Russia actors, including the United States and EU. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was recently in the EU where he said the following, “The largely-provoked-from-the-outside Ukrainian crisis has become the direct consequence of such short-sighted policy of Washington and… Continue reading
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Video: Russia Sanctions: Congress Obstructs Trump's 'One Good Policy'
Blaming Russia for the 2016 election outcome is an “extraordinarily dangerous game that’s leading us into a very dangerous new Cold War with a nuclear power,” says Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent Continue reading
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Video: Russia Sanctions: Congress Obstructs Trump’s ‘One Good Policy’
Blaming Russia for the 2016 election outcome is an “extraordinarily dangerous game that’s leading us into a very dangerous new Cold War with a nuclear power,” says Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent Continue reading
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Will Sanctions against Russia Lead to War? Selected Articles
31 July 2017 — Global Research The Kremlin has responded to the US Congress’ newly passed bill sanctions against Russia. What happened to the 2-hour talk between President Putin and President Trump at the G20 Summit? Read our selections below. “Tensions between Russia and the US have reached a level not seen since the height of… Continue reading
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Russia in Ukraine: enemy or friend? By Eric Walberg
The eastern Ukrainians, mostly native Russians, centred in Donetsk and Lughansk, saw the coup as a surreal rerun of WWII, this time with Banderistas triumphant. They had no real plan, but panicked at the thought of what was to come, and seized government buildings and declared themselves mini-republics, calling on Russia to come and rescue… Continue reading
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Truth of Ukraine War Revealed: Watchdog Media Releases Timeline Video of Ukrainian War From Euromaidan to MH-17
These volumes have been aptly and poetically titled “Roses Have Thorns”, and are accessible at the Watchdog Media You Tube page linked below. These chronological video volumes include 17 videos totaling over 32 hours of first-person and MSM video clips related to the war. This downloaded and archived footage has been thoroughly sorted over the… Continue reading
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Video: NATO-Russia Tensions Rise, Arms Makers Benefit
For the first time, the U.S. has deployed advanced Patriot missiles as part of military exercises in the Baltic region, escalating tensions with Russia and boosting military industry stock prices to record highs (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US
Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost six months ago. One way to measure the dearth of coverage is to compare the attention paid to comparable protester arrests in Russia last month. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Trump Plays Nuclear ‘Chicken’ with Putin Over Syria
28 June 2017 — Global Research Hersh: Trump Ignored Intel Before Bombing Syria By Seymour M. Hersh and The Real News Network, June 28, 2017 In this article is the full transcript of the interview with Seymour Hersh on his report about the western allegations on Syria. Continue reading
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Media: Eager for World War III on MSNBC
If we’re heading toward World War III, let’s hope that some episodes of MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell Reports survive the nuclear winter to provide future civilizations with some clues as to how we got there. Continue reading
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New World Order Triumvirate: US, China, Japan? By Eric Walbeg
19 May 2017 — Eric Walberg Watching the most recent Hollywood blockbuster, The Martian, I was struck by the political subtext. The great pioneer of outer space was the Soviet Union, and in those days, Hollywood followed the spirit of detente and cooperation in space with such uplifting films as Space Odyssey 2010 and the… Continue reading