Russia
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Russia united — for the time being By Eric Walberg
The Duma elections held no surprises, but the election turmoil can’t obscure the kind of politics that will continue to characterise Russia over the coming decade thanks to United Russia and its eminence grise, predicts Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Why Moscow does not Trust Washington on Missile Defense By F. William Engdahl
Most in the civilized world are blissfully unaware that we are marching ineluctably towards an increasingly likely pre-emptive nuclear war. No, it’s not at all about Iran and Israel. It’s about the decision of Washington and the Pentagon to push Moscow up against the wall with what is euphemistically called Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD). Continue reading
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Rampant Militarization of the World: West Risks New Arms Race In Europe
About a month ago, NATO tested first-strike capabilities by using a mobile radar in Turkey. Why would a defensive system need to test offensive capabilities? We have the cyber warfare center. You said it also can be used as an offensive tool by the U.S. We have hypersonic missile tests and the Prompt Global Strike… Continue reading
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Russia's High Stakes Energy Geopolitics BY F. William Engdahl
Nord Stream was not cheap. It cost a total of more than $12 billion for the complex 760 mile long undersea pipeline through the Baltic Sea from Vyborg near Russia’s St Petersburg to north eastern Germany. It was laid in remarkable time and with extraordinary environmental precautions to insure protection of sea life, a precondition… Continue reading
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Diplomatic Blowback By Craig Murray
Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or ‘Explanation of Vote’ for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation… Continue reading
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Outcome of the Visit to Syria by a Mission of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) By Alexander Lukashevich
The Mission included staff from several UN institutions and humanitarian agencies (UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, IOM, etc.). The Syrian authorities provided the Mission unimpeded access to all objects of interest. The UN officials traveled to a number of populated areas, visited schools and hospitals, and had substantive conversations with governmental entities, local authorities and population. Continue reading
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Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg
Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of Western-backed regime change in Libya was not just Quixotic but downright stupid. Continue reading
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Wayne Madsen: NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten” (Thrust to the east)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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Wayne Madsen: NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten” (Thrust to the east)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s raison d’etre had ceased to exist and that the collective ‘defensive’ organization would join the Warsaw Pact in historical oblivion. Continue reading
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Alexander Salitski – No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I)
Last June, Russia’s series of investment forums presented Moscow with an opportunity to unveil plans for a serious correction of its economic policies, and what seems to be at the bottom line is a radical departure from the concept of state capitalism. Continue reading
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Moscow: ‘Weapons drops break resolution’ By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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Moscow: 'Weapons drops break resolution' By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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SCO vs Bilderberg: Where are the real decisions being made? By Eric Walberg
As the Western elite gathered in picturesque St Moritz to grapple with pressing world crises, the outsiders met in the bleak steppes of Central Asia, writes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Final Statement – Adopted by the International History Conference Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War
We are increasingly alarmed with the current rise of revisionism of the history of World War II in the West and in several post-Soviet republics where incendiary political considerations outweigh commitment to historical accuracy. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil
Kevin Hall of McClatchy Newspapers reports that on April 20 the big Italian oil company Eni put off its deal with Gazprom, the big Russian oil company, connected to its president, Vladimir Putin, put off a deal that would have given Gazprom a big stake in Libyan oil. That’s been an objective of US foreign… Continue reading
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US breathes life into a new cold war By M K Bhadrakumar
America, one of the most cynical superpowers in history, struts around the globe creating havoc unimpeded. Where’s the champion to relieve humanity of this newfangled pestilence? Continue reading
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Russia's U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia’s U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia's turnabout on Libya arouses doubts, welcome
Russia’s change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition. Continue reading
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Russia’s turnabout on Libya arouses doubts, welcome
Russia’s change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition. Continue reading
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