By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | December 7, 2022 Eighty-one years ago today, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack killed 2,335 military personnel and 68 civilians. It also damaged or destroyed 19 U.S. Navy ships, including 8 battleships. December 7, 1941, was, President Franklin Roosevelt stated, a “date that would live in […]
RT | December 7, 2022 US lawmakers have reached a compromise on the National Defense Authorization Act, agreeing to approve $45 billion more in overall military spending in 2023 than President Joe Biden had requested, as well as multiple provisions for new “security assistance” to Ukraine and increased cooperation with Taiwan. The House and Senate Armed […]
RT | December 7, 2022 The conflict in Ukraine has fundamentally transformed Germany for the better, Berlin’s envoy to Washington has argued, while acknowledging her country has been far more affected by the economic backlash of anti-Russian sanctions than the US. Emily Haber opened the op-ed, published by the Washington Post on Monday, with a […]
By Viktor Mikhin – New Eastern Outlook – 07.12.2022 As US officials travel the world lecturing everyone on human rights, that same world has accused Washington of being the number one human rights violator. Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, instigated and widely supported by the West and the United States in particular, is a prime example […]
RT | December 6, 2022 The subject of security guarantees can be raised again if the West is serious about it, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters on Tuesday. Until then, he added, Moscow will continue to respond appropriately to any further NATO expansion. Talks could begin “when they confirm that they are ready […]
By Ilya Tsukanov – Samizdat – 06.12.2022 China’s Defense Ministry has ripped Washington over a Pentagon report claiming the People’s Republic plans to ramp up its nuclear weapons stockpile to 1,500 warheads by 2035 and to make modifications to its nuclear doctrine. “It should be emphasized that China firmly pursues a nuclear strategy of self-defense, […]
War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered. By Scott Ritter | Consortium News | December 5, 2022 Recent comments by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel shed light on the duplicitous game played by Germany, France, Ukraine and the United States in the lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. While the […]
© AFP 2022 / BARTEK SADOWSKI By Ilya Tsukanov – Samizdat – 06.12.2022 In late 2021, Moscow sent Washington and its allies two draft treaties on security guarantees designed to dramatically reduce tensions between Russia and the Western bloc. Weeks later, Kiev massed troops along the contact line in the Donbass and began to intensively […]
By Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation | December 5, 2022 Something odd is afoot in Europe. Britain recently has been ‘regime washed’, with a strongly pro-EU Finance Minister (Hunt) paving the passage to an election-free premiership by ‘globalist’ Rishi Sunak. Why so? Well, to impose swingeing cuts to public services, to normalise immigration running […]
Samizdat – 05.12.2022 Canada intends to send more warships to pass through the Taiwan Strait to demonstrate that the waters claimed by China are international, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Monday. “We will continue to enforce the international rules-based order when it comes to the Taiwan Strait. And that’s why also we had […]
