Новости за 25.08.2016

Jim W. Dean - Iran pulls another major flanking move in the heart of the US Asia Pivot with its forging new major economic relations with the Muslim powerhouse of the region Indonesian, while bridging the Shuni-Sunni religions gap to do so.

…from SouthFront On August 24, Turkey, in close cooperation with the United States, destroyed the hopes of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) to link up Kurdish cantons in northern Syria and de facto set up a semi-independent state along the Turkish border. The Turkish Armed Forces and militant groups loyal to Ankara entered Syria, […]

The fact that Iranian troops were fighting in Iraq and Syria was initially suppressed in the Iranian media, but discretion was relaxed when the Islamic State (IS) group advanced through large parts of Iraq in 2014.

It looks like the new campaign team Trump hired last week have told him he needs to tone down the hate speech and the anti-immigrant rhetoric. However, it is precisely the crap that has flowed out of his mouth that has gotten Trump this far for the simple reason that it appeals to the masses of undereducated, underemployed and disenfranchised poor white folk.

Quite what the Turks are playing at here is difficult to discern, they are ostensibly US allies and part of the US-lead coalition but have just attacked a US ally and fellow member of that coalition while at the same time attacking ISIS.

Member of the Russian Paralympic team for fencing, Roman Fedyaev, lost a leg in an accident on the slopes. The athlete continues to prepare for the world’s main sporting event, although the chances of getting there are shrinking with each passing day. China Condemns CAS ‘Unscrupulous’ Decision to Ban Russian Paralympic Athletes On August 7 […]

Under new commander Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, AFRICOM has deployed the lethal helicopter in the Libyan theater to deplete and degrade violent extremists. © AFP 2016/ Vano Shlamov Abrams Tank’s Major Upgrades to Give US Marines a ‘Hunter-Killer’ Edge The US Marines have unveiled their new secret weapon in the air offensive against Daesh (known locally […]

In a remarkably strident report, the US Treasury has criticized the European Commission’s tax probe into Apple, Starbucks, Fiat (now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), and Amazon, claiming that it should not be able to collect back-taxes on the companies in Europe. EU Competition Chief Set to Probe Google Tax Breaks The European Commission launched a […]

Popular American actor Steven Seagal met President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko who showed his guest around the country’s capital, introduced him to the national cuisine, presented him with some gifts, including a watermelon, and fed him a carrot, which was freshly picked from the fields. Famous actor Steven Seagal arrived to Minsk on August 23 for a […]

Jay Michaelson: Donald Trump is the candidate of the 'white undereducated' and the 'losers.'

We thought we understood who was aligned with who, but the latest developments where Syrian got forces have been bombing the PKK/YPG forces in the far NE corner of Syria has thrown a spanner in the works and has us a little mystified to be frank; in the absence of further info, we simply do not know what exactly is going on and what machinations have brought about this state of affairs.

The propaganda machine and Zionist outlets have done everything they could to demonize Russia, but Vladimir Putin “continues to ride high.”

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Millions read the news today, the pedophile ring “busted” or the earlier article about how the FBI actually ran it for several weeks, expanding it, drawing in tens of thousands. Those who read it thought they knew, thought they were getting the story but as is so often the case, […]

Jim W. Dean - Aleppo has been pushed out of the news with the fighting between the US-backed Kurds and the Syrian Army, which had the US threatening to shoot down Syrian planes that even "threatened" US advisers.

When Thatcher took power in 1979 Britain was only 7th or 8th largest arms exporter in the world. By the time she left office in 1991, we were second only to the US of Arms in arms exports. Thatcher destroyed British industry and replaced it with an arms industry - that is why Britain has been involved in one conflict or another since 1991, that is why we are friends with any rotten, evil regime who will pony up the cash for our cluster bombs, land mines and other 'goodies'.