Global Times – 2018/3/27 On March 26, the US, Canada, and several European Union countries expelled Russian diplomats from their respective foreign embassies and consulates in retaliation against Russia’s alleged poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter. As of this writing, 19 countries, including 15 EU member states, have shown their support […]
By John Wight | RT | March 30, 2018 The Fusion Doctrine – no, not the title of the next Bond movie, the name of the UK’s new security and defense strategy. And, yes, you guessed it: a key threat cited within this security strategy, set out in a new UK government report, is Russia. […]
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | March 30, 2018 The video of Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi nonchalantly zipping up his trousers at the JFK airport in New York after the frisking when he landed on American soil recently, gives a dismal feeling. But one would say, ‘No surprises here!’ No, I’m […]
Sputnik – 30.03.2018 The Russian embassy in London has expressed bewilderment over how British media is handling the case of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, particularly its remarkable fidelity to a single unproven version of the incident. Freedom is diversity. With Russian media under constant pressure for not being “free” enough, British media […]
Strategic Culture Foundation | 30.03.2018 The mass expulsion this week of some 130 Russian diplomats by Britain, the United States and other NATO allies is but the latest step in a long campaign to criminalize Russia. Like past ruses to demonize Russia, this latest effort will also fail. Because they are based on lies and […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | March 30, 2018 When some advocates of the lone-nut theory of the Kennedy assassination wish to poo-poo the notion that the U.S. national-security establishment would implement a regime-change operation against Kennedy, they bring up Vietnam. They either deny that Kennedy intended to pull U.S. troops out of Vietnam […]
RT | March 28, 2018 Britain is preparing for a counter-propaganda war against Russia amid allegations that the Kremlin is spreading fake news regarding the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. Intelligence services will now be tasked with identifying trolling social media platforms in a bid to clamp down on what is deemed by the UK government […]
© Sputnik/ Vitaliy Belousov Sputnik – March 27, 2018 On Monday, a number of European countries, as well as the United States and Canada, announced they were expelling Russian diplomats over the Skripal case. Radio Sputnik discussed the significance of the diplomatic response by the Western powers with Srdja Trifkovic, a US journalist and writer […]
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent on March 4 on a park bench in Salisbury, England.
Skripal had been a Russian double agent, a spy who turned over 300 names of Russian spies to British intelligence from 1995 to 2004. He was (not so surprisingly) arrested in Russia in 2004 and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. He was released in a spy-swap in 2010, settled in the UK and became a British citizen.
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | March 27, 2018 The mass expulsion of Russian diplomats by some countries of the European Union and North America on Monday is an unprecedented and intriguing development. First, the US alone accounts for some two-thirds of the expulsion – 60 diplomats. Curiously, even Britain, which is apparently […]
