By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – 28.12.2016 It seems hardly a coincidence that the US out-going president announced fresh sanctions on Russia just when the later was busy discussing a deal on Syria with Turkey and Iran in Moscow. Far from being just a sort of coincidence, the act is an apt […]
By Stephen Lendman | December 27, 2016 Post-9/11, an array of police state laws, executive orders, memoranda, various national security and homeland security presidential directives, along with other repressive measures eliminated constitutional protections. Indefinite detention without charges or trial became the law of the land. Torture-obtained evidence may be used against detainees in trial proceedings, […]
Press TV – December 27, 2016 Russia has warned that a US decision to ease restrictions on the provision of arms to militants in Syria compromises the safety of Russian aircraft and servicemen operating in the Arab country. On December 8, the White House said US President Barack Obama had relaxed the so-called Arms Export […]
By Wayne MADSEN | Strategic Culture Foundation | 25.12.2016 If one wishes to believe NBC News’s «exclusive» report, President Barack Obama almost delivered the Halloween scare of all time on October 31, 2016, just a week before he accused Donald Trump of being «temperamentally unfit» to be commander-in-chief. On Halloween, Obama activated the White House’s […]
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | December 25, 2016 Full eight weeks ago when I wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin must have had a game plan by honouring Henry Kissinger as a member of the hallowed Russian Academy of Sciences, it was a mere hunch. (See my blog Russia honours American icon […]
Sputnik – 24.12.2016 In its pursuit to change the Syrian government, Obama administration is ready to help any ‘destructive forces’, including Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Commenting on the issue of expansion of the US sanctions against Russia, the Foreign Ministry said that Moscow sees this act as […]
By Christopher Black | New Eastern Outlook | December 22, 2016 The bullets of an assassin shook the world on Monday. Shot from behind by a former Turkish police officer, at an art gallery in Ankara, right across the street from the US embassy, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, a man with a […]
By Michael Jabara CARLEY | Strategic Culture Foundation | 23.12.2016 Relations between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Barack Obama are poisoned and irretrievably damaged. It’s therefore a good thing that Obama is leaving office on 20 January. Bad US-Russian relations are of course nothing new. Since the Anglo-American war against Iraq in 2003, […]
By Ulson Gunnar | New Eastern Outlook | December 23, 2016 In the week leading up to the brazen, cold-blooded murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, Turkey, the United States repeatedly and publicly threatened “retaliation” against Russia for allegedly “hacking” the 2016 US presidential elections. During the same week, Syrian forces backed by Russian air […]
By Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report | December 21, 2016 It is no coincidence that anti-Russian propaganda is being ramped up at the same moment the Syrian government is poised to retake its country from terrorists. Barack Obama and the rest of the war party are left to sputter nonsensical statements because their grand […]
