Russia Just Tipped The Balance Of Power In The Mediterranean

Russia Just Tipped The Balance Of Power In The Mediterranean

The agreement provides Russia with permanent base rights in Syria capable for the first time of challenging US strategic dominance in the eastern Mediterranean. Though there has been remarkably little discussion of the subject in the Western media, Russia last week quietly acquired for the first time in its modern history a proper permanent base…

Seymour Hersh on White House Lies About bin Laden’s Death, Pakistan and the Syrian Civil War

Seymour Hersh on White House Lies About bin Laden’s Death, Pakistan and the Syrian Civil War

What really happened on the night of Osama bin Laden’s death? In The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Seymour Hersh offers a compelling alternative version to the details that led to bin Laden’s death. He also investigates unproven assertions justifying the US’s thus far disastrous involvement in the Syrian civil war. Truthout recently interviewed Hersh…

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This is How Russia Plans to Improve and Expand Hmeymim Airbase in Syria

11.08.2016 Russia plans to expand its Hmeymim Air Base in Syria to ensure that its operations run smoothly and to enhance its security by adding extra aprons, building barracks and a hospital, as well as assigning extra space for large transport aircraft, etc., an unnamed source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestiya. The plan…