As my colleague Sergey Gladysh has reported, the International Olympic Committee (“the IOC”) has circulated a letter which has quietly skewered Professor McLaren’s report on the doping scandal in Russian sport, and in which it confirms WADA’s admission that the McLaren report does not provide sufficient evidence in
The last few weeks have witnessed an acceleration of Ukraine’s downward slide.
Following the bitter fighting in and around Avdeevka and the angry telephone exchange between Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel, an attempt was made to bring the fighting in the area around Avdeevka to an end and to arrange for a mutual pullback of forces to the starting lines.
The battle between the media and the Trump administration continues to heat up.
US President Donald Trump is making what is perhaps the most serious accusation against The New York Times in its recent history, which is that it at least in part fabricated its story of multiple contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence of 13th February 2017 by attributing it to briefings provided to The New York Times by anonymous officials who don’t exist.
The Iraqi air strikes in Syria on Friday have inevitably brought up the question of their legality. The highly probable answer is that the air strikes were legal under international law.
If the air strikes were carried out with the prior permission of the Syrian government, then the question of their legality does not exist: the Iraqi air strikes would be legal, just as Russian air strikes which happen in Syria are.
The Kremlin has confirmed that Turkish President Erdogan is travelling to Moscow on 9th and 10th March 2017 for a summit meeting with Russian President Putin and with other top officials of the Russian government.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-‘Abadi ordered his air force today to start bombing ISIS in Syria, and the Iraqi air force has duly done so, bombing ISIS positions in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, which adjoins Iraq’s Anbar province.
A video has been released showing the results of air strikes by the Iraqi aircraft (US built F-16s).
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is making quite a name for herself (and not in a good way).
Here are four recent video clips showcasing congressional stupidity to the nth degree, from Maxine Waters…
US President Trump is piling the pressure on to the FBI to find the leakers from within the US intelligence community who brought down General Flynn and who have been trying to destabilise his administration.
In two toughly worded tweets he has taunted the FBI for failing to track the leakers previously, both under his administration and during previous administrations.
According to reports cited by the Ron Paul Institute For Peace And Prosperity, covert CIA shipments of weapons to terrorist groups in Syria has been halted. This could well mean that the Trump Administration has made good on the promise to reverse course in Syria.
However, mixed messages continue to come out of Washington as General Joseph L. Votel stated that US ground troops may be sent into Syria in what would be a further illegal war on a sovereign state.
Watch Dr. Ron Paul discuss the issue here
