Новости за 29.12.2016

… by Michael Shrimpton Happy New Year everybody! With President Trump in the White House and Brexit finally starting to happen, it should be a good one. Assuming, that is, that the incoming Administration are briefed on the DVD and don’t walk into a bear-trap, like poor old President Reagan did. I hope that Donald […]

Asif Haroon Raja Till as late as 1990, India remained a close knit strategic partner of former USSR and it kept belittling the US imperialist policies and its provision of military assistance to Pakistan on all international forums. It fully supported the Soviet military intervention and occupation of Afghanistan. Paradoxically, today India is among […]

Jim W. Dean - We are seeing a solid response to VT's emergency message sent to the Russians as the liberation of Aleppo began, to focus on turning the atrocity story media campaign around on those who have been doing it a long time now, and their supporters.

Understanding the bond between the New Left and Jewish progressive intelligentsia...

Jim W. Dean - The focus now is the black box comment on the cockpit tape of a flap problem, but where it is acknowledged could still be a sabotage issue

…from SouthFront On December 29, preliminary reports appeared that an evacuation agreement were made between the Syrian military and militants operating in Syrian Ayn al-Fijah, Baseema and Dayr Qanoon in the Wadi Barda region northwest of Damascus. Local sources reported that militants are divided over the withdrawal issue. So, most likely, the Syrian military will […]

…from SouthFront ISIS terrorists have continued desperate attacks against Syrian government forces at the Tyas Airbase and nearby points. Since December 27, ISIS has launched 3 attacks against the Syrian army and its allies in the area, but failed to achieve any sucess. 2 battle tanks, 7 armoured vehicles and 3 vehicles equipped with machine […]

Various grassroots groups and prominent figures around the country are preparing for massive demonstrations to disrupt Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.

Iran's Deputy Navy Commander for Coordination, Admiral Peiman Jafari Tehrani, admitted his country needs better military equipment, including but not limited to the building of a new aircraft carrier, as cited by semi-official Fars news agency.

Mr. Trump, where is your man representing the interests of the “Common Man” who helped you get elected? We see none.

Jim W. Dean - This quickly built Russian gas line is proof that Crimeans voted themselves a future when they rejected being a part of the coup in Kiev. They are now energy independent from Kiev.

Jonas E. Alexis--John Kerry: “The settler population in the West Bank alone – not including East Jerusalem – has increased by nearly 270,000 since Oslo, including 100,000 just since 2009 when President Obama’s term began."

Mainstream media, academia – the whole dominant discourse, really – tell us that secularists are the reasonable people, whereas religious folk tend to be fundamentalist, irrational, potentially extremist crazies. But is that really the case?