After South China Sea Ruling, Beijing Unveils New Guided-Missile Destroyer

July 13, 2016

On the same day that the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled against China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, Beijing has commissioned its fourth guided-missile destroyer. The …

All Russian Officials & Politicians May Face Anti-Corruption Polygraph Tests

July 13, 2016

Politics

The Russian public chamber has proposed a nationwide program in which civil servants, politicians and even civil activists undergo universal polygraph tests to detect and purge those previously engage…

NATO’s Warsaw Summit suggests US-led military bloc is divided

July 13, 2016

Europe

Participants attend the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland July 8, 2016. © Kacper Pempel / Reuters The Financial Times is as pro-NATO as a newspaper possibly could be. So when it revealed on Sunday the org…

The West Is Provoking A World War: Russia Is Being Pushed To Its Limits

July 13, 2016

Europe

Editor’s Note: Tensions in Europe are heating up between Russia and Western nations. In an indicator of what’s to come, it was reported today that Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked every sin…

Clashes Between Syrian Army, Kurds Pushes Brzezinski Plan Forward In Syria

July 13, 2016

Opinion

It was only a matter of time before the Syrian military and Kurdish organizations butted heads in Syria over who controls specific territory in the north. Over the past few months and as both the Kurd…

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot: Afghanistan is FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition/ repair)

July 13, 2016

Media

Afghanistan keeps dropping out of the headlines. Despite its endless bleeding, its Enduring Freedom torment, caused by America’s anti-communist obsession, and perpetrated by its imperialist instinct f…

The Myth of the War on Terrorism

July 13, 2016

Middle East

Remember “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”? That was the justification for the worldwide war on terrorism the Bush administration trumpeted in the early days of…

NATO Reaffirms Its Bogus Russia Narrative

July 13, 2016

Europe

Exclusive: President Obama and NATO leaders signed on to the false narrative of a minding-its-own-business West getting sucker-punched by a bunch of Russian meanies, a storyline that suggests insanity…