via Russia Insider The large-scale US-NATO amassing of military force on Russia’s Western borders, NATO’s “Eastern Front,” is unprecedented and creates the impression of preparation for actual war Nation...

by Eric Zuesse Sweden, which historically has been a ‘neutral’ country between the U.S. and Russia, is joining the NATO buildup against Russia, allowing NATO to place nuclear weapons...

by Eric Zuesse On May 18th, two top people at NATO, one being its current Secretary General — the very top person — laid out in preliminary form the case...

by Jonathan Marshall, via Consortium News If the United States ever ends up stumbling into a major conventional or nuclear war with Russia, the culprit will likely be two...

There are numerous similar stories which have had little or no root in reality. But they have lingered still, because they’re imprinted in the collective memory. Of course one...

by James Petras, via 99GetSmart Introduction President Obama is racing forward to establish his imperial legacy throughout Russia, Asia and Latin America. In the last two years he has accelerated the buildup...

by Eric Zuesse According to an April 23rd article carried by Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News), U.S. President Barack Obama is “demanding the active deployment of the Bundeswehr...

Campaigners for the “No” vote in the Dutch referendum on Ukraine’s Association Agreement with the EU in a street of Amsterdam. Photo AFP/Getty Images Dmitry Minion writes in The Strategic...

Still from the video below, showing a far-right protester pepper-spraying the police. Dozens of far-right activists clashed with police outside the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on Sunday,...

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....

I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they...

by Andrew Korybko (USA), Oriental Review The grand objective behind every Hybrid War is to disrupt multipolar transnational connective projects through externally provoked identity conflicts (ethnic, religious, regional, political,...

There have been two new developments in the long-awaited criminal investigation report into MH17 over the last couple of weeks. Though you might’ve read about one, you’re far less...

 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...

Screencap from the documentary. Ukraine’s authorities have urged a French broadcaster to take a documentary titled ‘Masks of Revolution’ off the air. They claim the movie misrepresents Maidan events,...

In his latest piece on Vladimir Putin, Owen Jones demonstrates the weakness of the politically left-of-centre press in the UK - and indeed the Western world as a whole....

by Eric Zuesse In 2009, US President Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with...

With corruption rampant and living standards falling, Ukraine may become the next failed state that 'benefited' from a neoconservative-driven 'regime change,' though the blame will always be placed elsewhere...

by Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org America’s aristocracy is determined to take over Russia. Ever since the end of the Soviet Union and of its communism, the Cold...

by James Petras, December 28, 2015 The IMF is the leading international monetary agency whose public purpose is to maintain the stability of the global financial system through loans linked to...