As it becomes increasingly likely that Rex Tillerson – Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State – will gain confirmation from the Senate, the State Department which Tillerson looks set to take over is witnessing a purge of its higher ranks.
Russian President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that President Putin is speaking over the telephone to US President Donald Trump tomorrow Saturday 28th January 2017.
This will be the first contact between the two Presidents since President Trump’s inauguration,
In the meantime President Trump in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News has reiterated his intention to seek good relations with Russia, and to forge an alliance with Russia to fight ISIS together
My colleague Alex Christoforou has reported on the US Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s forthright response to US media attempts to perpetuate the myth of President Assad’s sole responsibility for the Syrian war.
Russian President Putin has conducted a video conference with the MiG Bureau today in connection with the commencement by the Russian military of the flight of the MiG-35 fighter.
The extent of Russia’s determination to prevent ISIS from overrunning the Syrian army’s defences in the besieged eastern desert town of Deir Ezzor is becoming increasingly clear.
The decision of Britain’s Supreme Court to refuse the British government’s appeal against the High Court Judgment, which said that the British government must consult the British Parliament before invoking Article 50, appears to have stirred fewer passions than the High Court Judgment did.
This is perhaps because of the general expectation that the British government would lose the appeal. This meant that where the High Court Judgment came as a shock for many people, the Supreme Court Judgment did not.
Billionaire, regime change globalist, George Soros was a huge Hillary Clinton supporter during the 2016 US election cycle.
The Soros and Clinton family are united under one common driving force…to bring the world under the control of an elite super class, while removing obstacles to submission like national identity, borders, religion, and traditional family values.
For Soros and the Clintons, if the peasant masses have nothing of value to identify with, then controlling them becomes easy.
The SPD’s decision to select Martin Schulz, the German President of the European Parliament, as its Chancellor designate in this year’s German parliamentary elections, has stirred some speculation of a more substantive challenge to German Chancellor Merkel’s CDU party from the SPD.
The Russian media is reporting today that Ruslan Stoyanov, a manager working at the Kaspersky Lab, Russia’s leading cyber security and anti-virus provider, has been arrested by Russia’s counter-intelligence agency the FSB.
The FSB’s involvement, and the fact that Stoyanov is apparently being charged with treason, inevitably provokes speculation that he was providing information to the intelligence agency of some foreign government.
Reports from Deir Ezzor are sketchy, and it is clear that the crisis there is far from over. However over the last few days there have been mounting indications that the worst of the crisis may be over, with the Syrian army apparently succeeding in seizing local hilltop positions and strongpoints from ISIS, as it seeks to break ISIS’s siege of Deir Ezzor’s vital airport.
