by Paul Craig Roberts Today (April 14) Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. All...

Russian sappers work on demining Palmyria after its capture from ISIS. Photo Russian Ministry of Defense. RT reports: A Russia-drafted resolution on the role of UNESCO in restoring the...

You'd be forgiven for thinking, given the above picture, that the Panama Papers had something to do with Vladimir Putin. Maybe he was a kingpin of the whole thing....

by TutisIceCream A very short study of the schizophrenia transfixing US security as reflected in the psychopathy gripping the Guardian. One could be forgiven for thinking that the relationship...

from The BlogMire, via Russia Insider For some time I’ve been trying to develop an all-encompassing theory to account for the behaviour of Western leaders and the media over...

by Eric Zuesse On Friday, March 18th, a combined effort by George Soros, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, and Tayyip Erdogan, has arranged to get the EU to abandon previously...

The Western MSM are all a flutter: Russia are pulling out of Syria (sort of). They can't quite decide if it's a victory, or a defeat. They don't know...

An Antonov transport plane at the Russian Khmeimim base in Syria’s Latakia province. The Saker analyses the Russian military pullout from Syria: […] It is way too early right...

Russian fighter jets fly over Moscow. Photo Alexander Vilf/Sputnik John Helmer, “the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia”, writes from Moscow in his blog Dances with Bears: It...

A Russian soldier stands guard at at humanitarian aid distribution point in Syria. Footage released on Thursday shows officers from the Russian Ceasefire Coordination Centre in Syria overseeing negotiations...

Syrian children are seen in a destroyed car in center of Aleppo, Feb. 18, 2015. Photo: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Sputnik International reports: […] In his analysis, published in the...

Reuters reports: Last July, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seemed to be losing his battle against rebel forces. Speaking to supporters in Damascus, he acknowledged his army’s heavy losses. Western...

 RT reports Ukrainian radicals wrecked the offices of Russian companies Sberbank and Alfa-Bank in Kiev as they marked the second anniversary of the bloody Euromaidan riots, which left around...

by Eric Zuesse Syria’s President, Bashar al-Assad, issued on February 17th, a decree: …granting a general amnesty for military deserters inside and outside the country and the crimes included...

A Turkish army tank at the border with Syria. Press TV reports: Saudi Arabia and Turkey appear to be backpedaling on rhetoric to launch ground operations inside Syria, with officials sayingthey would...

via Russia Insider Nine years after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the world against irresponsible US policies spreading instability and threats of new wars around the world, those dangers...

Syrian army in the Aleppo countryside. Mike Whitney writes in Global Research: “This is the beginning of the end of jihadi presence in Aleppo. After 4 years of war...

by Kit Philip Hammond is talking again, lying again, contradicting proven facts again. Pushing an hysterical pro-war agenda again. Demonizing Russia, again. And, again, nobody believes him. Even the...

by Danielle Ryan, via Russia Insider Better travel to Ukraine, Mexico, Colombia, Mali, Mauretania, Yemen, Libya, Turkey or Egypt instead. If you’re perusing the holiday brochures any time soon,...

Gulf News`reports: The upcoming Geneva talks, slated for Thursday, is [sic] expected to be a catastrophe for Syria’s opposition. The talks, which were supposed to take place today, were...