featured video

Michael Flynn’s extraordinary resignation, less than a month after Donald Trump took office has shocked the political establishment in the US. But what are the wider implications for the US and wider world?
1. Trump’s War Against MSM and The Deep State Will Continue
The proximate cause leading to Flynn’s resignation were anonymous leaks given to msm, including the stridently anti-Trump Washington Post. If anything, Trump who has made his disdain for mainstream media abundantly clear, will now be all the more vociferous in his attacks on the old guard.

As the fascist forces escalate their aggression against the Donbass Republics, many are questioning what the future of the Republic of Ukraine will look like in the medium and long term. The state as presently compromised will not survive but a few more years at the very most.
History is full of states coming and going/changing their borders. The idea that this state will evaporate into the annals of history is not novel. It will be one of many.
Here’s why.
1. There is no historical precedent for such a state

More and more people are beginning to realize how terrible, inaccurate, and fake CNN is, that the network and it’s personalities are pulling out all the stops to try and deflect any of the well-deserved criticism. And in expected liberal fashion, Chris Cuomo resorts to race baiting to distract sensitive viewers from CNN’s plummeting numbers.

Valery Melnikov’s collection of photographs, titled “Black Days of Ukraine”, won the top award in the Long-Term Projects category at the prestigious World Press Photo photojournalism event.
The winning photos from the Sputnik News Agency photojournalist showed the human cost of the conflict in Ukraine.

It appears President Donald Trump was once again right on target when talking about America’s aging infrastructure and facilities.
On Tuesday last week a huge hole formed in the spillway of the Oroville Dam, which is the nation’s tallest, and California’s second largest reservoir.
The dam’s emergency spillway was then put into use for the first time in 50 years. Due to severe erosion, officials are not sure it will be able to hold and are now urging residents in low-lying areas to leave, BNO News reports.

Russian President Putin – facing accusations from Western leaders of orchestrating a ‘disinformation’ campaign intended to distort outcomes in Western politics – has now intervened in the whole discussion of how contemporary news is reported.
He has done so in the most droll way, highlighting once again his mischievous sense of humour, by sending a facetious message of congratulations to the Italian newspaper La Stampa on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
Putin’s message reads as follows

It appears that Donald Trump has decided to take a step away from a potential confrontation with China. According to the readout of Trump’s call with China’s leader Xi Jinping, both presidents had a lengthy and an extremely cordial conversation in which Donald Trump pledged to honor the “one China” policy.

President Donald Trump has once again slammed Sen. John McCain on Twitter and Facebook, this time for criticizing the recent US-led raid in Yemen in which a Navy SEAL died and an 8-year-old American girl was killed.
The raid, which the US administration said was meant to extract intelligence from an al-Qaeda camp, led to a firefight, NBC News reports.

The Kremlin has released a summary of a telephone conversation between Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel, which took place yesterday Saturday 7th February 2017.
Note that the summary does not say who initiated the call.  The content of the summary however suggests strongly that it was Putin.
The summary, which is unusually detailed, reads as follows

In the midst of anti-Russian hysteria and Russophobic sentiment in the West, there are few celebrities brave enough to stand up to the mainstream beliefs and experience Russia firsthand. Below is a list of those who are. All of them have received their Russian citizenship within the last 5 years – a period which has been marked by the greatest US-Russia tension since the end of the Cold War.
Steven Seagal – an American actor, producer, screenwriter, director, martial artist, and musician.