Once again the British media is going through a James Bond moment following the discovery on Monday of two Russians – Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia – seriously ill and poisoned on a bench in the town of Salisbury.
RT | March 6, 2018 One of the key people behind the policies that destabilized Libya and Syria, causing a flood of refugees to Europe, accused Russia of influencing the Italian elections after voters gave the cold shoulder to establishment parties. Russia’s utility as the universal scapegoat cannot be underestimated these days. A historically-separatist region […]
By Catte | OffGuaurdian | March 4, 2018 The Guardian produced two responses to Putin’s speech of March 1, in which he both unveiled far-reaching new Russia weapons systems and used this as a platform to (once again) plead for an end to Western warmongering. Both of them display both the intellectual/educational/ethical impoverishment of the […]
RT | March 5, 2018 “Icarus,” a documentary that credits claims of Russian state-sponsored athletics doping won an Oscar at the highly politicized awards ceremony. It beat another film praising the controversial White Helmets in Syria’s Aleppo. ‘Icarus’ director Bryan Fogel and producer Dan Cogan picked up their statuette at Sunday night’s Academy Awards in […]
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | March 3, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s State-of-the-Nation speech Thursday represents a liminal event in the East-West strategic balance — and an ominous one. Russian President Vladimir Putin That the strategic equation is precarious today comes through clearly in Putin’s words. The U.S. and Russia have walked backwards […]
One might have come to think that all of Europe has really striven to become a “superstate” under a mutual commonwealth type of government, or rather, thinly disguised socialism. But in the last two years we have seen signs of discomfort with this system, with Brexit and the advance of increasingly popular nationalist movements within several European countries. As these leaders have risen, so has a perhaps begrudging admiration for the two leaders of the most powerful nation states in the world – the Russian Federation and the United States of America.
RT | February 28, 2018 Facebook has not found any indications that Russia interfered in the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union referendum. Experts from the social media giant did not find any evidence of active advertising initiated by Russian accounts during the Brexit vote. A letter from Simon Milner, Facebook’s director of policy in […]
By Daniel Lazare | Consortium News | February 24, 2018 Fads and scandals often follow a set trajectory. They grow big, bigger, and then, finally, too big, at which point they topple over and collapse under the weight of their own internal contradictions. This was the fate of the “Me too” campaign, which started out […]
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | February 22, 2018 Now that I have been nominated again – this time by author Paul Craig Roberts – to be CIA director, I am preparing to hit the ground running. Ray McGovern Last time my name was offered in nomination for the position – by The Nation […]
RT | February 22, 2018 It seems that ‘the bots’ (especially the ‘Russian bots’) narrative is being used as a kind of defensive mechanism, journalist and human rights activist Mike Raddie told RT amid reports of a massive account purge on Twitter. A crackdown on bot spam or dissent? “The whole meme of the bots, […]
