by Eric Zuesse The basic policy-difference on Syria has been between U.S. president Barack Obama’s insistence that Syria’s legal president must be ousted before any peace-process starts, versus Russian...

Video from UK Indymedia World-class set of independent Syria experts pull Britain’s latest folly apart. Investigative reports: Interview with Mehrnaz Shahabi, an Iranian Bristolian, on Syria: Roland Dumas and...

from Seemorerocks It’s an old habit that is difficult to throw off. I have been accustomed, during my life (or at least for the last quarter-centrury) to rely on...

by Eric Zuesse For the first time today (December 15th), the United States has publicly and officially accepted the position that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.N. Secretary General...

Eric Draitser of Stop Imperialism appears on CPR News (Dec. 15, 2015) to discuss the latest talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and...

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org According to Britain’s Telegraph, in a recent report, the U.S. Tow antitank missiles that U.S. President Barack Obama sent in October to the Islamic...

Free Syrian Army fighters. Photo Reuters. RFERL reports on its “Tracking Islamic State” live blog: […] 11:57 Here’s a translation of the full quote from Putin regarding his claim...

Remarks by Stephen F. Cohen Professor Emeritus Princeton University and New York University At San Francisco Commonwealth Club, November 18, 2015 Some of you may know that the small...

by Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because...

by Kit The mandated, acceptable opinions that we’re all currently being told we should hold are becoming more and confused, contradictory and insane. As a writer, one hates to...

via Russia Insider WASHINGTON – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, on Saturday issued the following statement concerning Turkey’s...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo Burhan Ozbilici/AP RT reports Russia has received additional intelligence confirming that oil from deposits controlled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) goes through...

by Dave Lindorff, from Counter Punch In considering the terrifying but also sadly predictable news of a Russian fighter jet being downed by two Turkish fighters, let’s start with...

Hollande’s dilemma: Join Russia or remain a Neocon poodle Ajay Goyal writes for Sputnik International: When François Hollande arrives in Moscow [on November 26] to meet President Vladimir Putin,...

Cartoon “There’s a new sheriff in town” by Christo Komarnitski A highly representative sample of comments about Russian president Vladimir Putin being currently posted on popular US news sites...

As part of our challenging the narrative of the “new 9/11” series Thierry Meyssan, of Voltairenet.org, suggests the French public have paid the price for their government’s dangerous politics....

From Cubainformación, translated by Joshua Tartakovsky Arnaldo Pérez Guerra, Magazine Final Point (revista punto final): Syria lives in an inferno, as the crisis will continue as long as there...

Sputnik International reports: Putin said at the G20 summit that Russia has presented examples of terrorism financing by individual businessmen from 40 countries, including from member states of the...

from Media Lens One of the great Freudian slips of our time was supplied by a Fox News anchor on March 24, 1999, as Nato was preparing to wage...

Right Sector in Mariupol: “Here to defend Ukraine, not elections”. Photo Jerome Sessini. On October 25, Bloomberg Business reported: Local elections in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol, a key...