Yemen, Ukraine, and “Legitimacy”

by Anatoly Karlin at the Unz Review It has the world’s highest number of guns per unit of GDP, a population fast outgrowing the land’s carrying capacity, is riven...

Chinese military disembark in port of Aden, Yemen, to guard evacuation – official

From RT Dozens of unidentified foreign troops reported disembarking in the port of Aden turned out to be Chinese soldiers maintaining security as an unknown party opened fire on...

ACLU: Over 100 People Were Killed by US Police in March.

by Kanya Bennett, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office Here’s a statistic for you: It’s been 31 days since the release of the White House Task Force on 21st...

VIDEO: Psaki – Yanukovych left Ukraine, lost legitimacy; Hadi left Yemen, remains legitimate

The double standards of the US State Department knows no bounds… Jen is psaking again about the legitimacy and illegitimacy of various heads of state. Difficult for anyone to...

Half of Kiev’s New Conscripts Unfit, Mental Issues Top List

Mental problems have rendered one third of Kiev’s fourth wave of mobilized soldiers unfit for military service, Ukrainian politician and medic Olga Bohomolec has revealed. More than half of...

Greece Eyeing Greasy Squeeze?

Fat & Sugar Tax – an old Troika dream to come true? By keeptalkinggreece.com How much fat has one Souvlaki in pita bread? What’s the percentage of saturated fats...

A Hostage Drama in Istanbul: Radicals Killed by Police

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, RT.COM. Turkish security forces cut short a standoff with a far-left group that captured prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz, when they launched a storm on an Istanbul court....

Yemen, Where the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Also Your Enemy

Houthi dominance is hardly dangerous, but Riyadh’s ambitions may destabilize the peninsula By Graham E. Fuller, former Vice Chairman, CIA National Intelligence Council Yemen, like Afghanistan, has a long...

When will the War in Donbas Flare Up Again?

By yurasumy, 25 March 2015 Yurasumy is a Ukrainian blogger. His life as a political activist began as a self-described “Bandera follower.” Eventually Yuri from the city of Sumy...

American People Should Hold War Lobby Accountable for Libya Debacle

They enthusiastically, even gaily, blew up another country, only to blame the rescue personnel for not showing up fast enough. By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, the Cato Institute, via...

A ‘Conspiracy Of Silence’ – HSBC, the Guardian and the defrauded British public

From Media Lens The corporate media have swiftly moved on from Peter Oborne’s resignation as chief political commentator at the Telegraph and his revelations that the paper had committed...

BREAKING: Car Rams NSA, One Dead, One Injured

By RT.com An SUV truck drove into the gates of the National Security Agency headquarters on Monday morning. One of the two alleged attackers was shot dead at the...

Operation Dragoon Ride: The US Rides Again

by Jonathan Barrett at Zero Hour As operation Dragoon Ride crosses Eastern Europe already the Russians are tracking them on their provocative jaunt. Not surprising really, but it seems...

Soros: EU Should Give $50 Billion To Ukraine To “Confront Russian Threat”

From Stop NATO KYIV: American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros believes that the EU ignores the financial condition of Ukraine. He urged Brussels to allocate additional funding to Kyiv....

Czechs Divided Over NATO Show of Force

by NTV, Russia A loud debate is going on in Prague’s downtown. The political opponents are kept at a distance, separated by a police cordon on Wenceslas Square. A...

Thou shalt not yawn or stare!

Or be deemed a terrorist By Jana Winter and Cora Currier, The Intercept Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. Add one point each. Arrogance, a cold penetrating stare, and rigid posture,...

Avakov: We should have blown up separatists at the outset

Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov told Ukrainian television Thursday that Kiev had made a mistake when it didn’t blow up the regional administration centers in Donetsk and...

“The Saudis have gotten themselves caught in a big swamp”

This war has raged for years and may last for decades “Local sources confirm that Saudi Arabia continued to launch airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Jebel al-Dukhan area on...

The war on Yemen signals US is going for broke on a global scale

Obviously, for some probably crazy reason (maybe numerology, which is allegedly popular with the IMF’s Christine Lagarde), the “war party” have decided now is the time for the final...

Is Yats Packing Too?

“After Kolomoiskiy’s “resignation” there is a theoretical possibility to push through Yatsenyuk’s one. He steals big time, and is generally not a good person” While Ukrainian coal miners threaten...