Новости за 18.06.2019

While most of us are aware of the massive U.S. intelligence network, we rarely see exactly how much this network costs taxpayers.  In this posting, I want to look at the budget for the Department of Defense's Military Intelligence Program or MIP as well as the National Intelligence Program or NIP.

Donald Trump is bombastic. He speaks his mind. Many Americans came to love him because his rudeness allowed him to turn the tables on the media.

Roger Stone is requesting proof that Russians hacked the DNC server, as was reported in the Mueller report. Stone claims if the Russians didn’t hack the DNC, his case should be dismissed.

According to legend, Krutitskoe Podvorye was founded in 1261, when the Muscovy lands were under the rule of the Golden Horde. Initially, the residence was a monastery. It then became the residence of the bishop of the local diocese, a religious academy and finally part of a series of fortresses that protected the southern road into Moscow. Now, it is an embassy church for Russia's Patriarch.

Stephen Adler (image below), the American chief executive of Reuters news agency, has ordered into publication three US Government-directed stories targeting the Russian oil company Rosneft —  the first in mid-April, and two published over the past week. Adler’s operations  support US coup plans in Venezuela and US sanctions against Rosneft and its chief executive, Igor Sechin.

Generally, when discussing air-defense systems here, we are referring to Russian devices that have become famous in recent years, in particular the S-300 (and its variants) and the S-400. Their deployment in Syria has slowed down the ability of such advanced air forces as those of the United States and Israel to target the country, increasing as it does the embarrassing possibility of having their fourth- or fifth-generation fighters shot down.

Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site from a former deputy editor of ours key to RI from 2014 to 2019. Asia news and commentary from Russia to China to Imperial adventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent.

The author grew up Jewish in New York City, and converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity, eventually becoming a monk.

It’s been well over a year since the then-United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis accused Russia and China of being “revisionist powers” each working its way toward making a power grab on the world stage and announced that the U.S.

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