For almost a century British and American geostrategists tried to prevent Russo-German and Russo-Chinese rapprochement as it threatened to undermine the UK/US dominance. Likewise the China-led 'One Belt, One Road' project is regarded by US geopolitical analysts as a menace. [...]

Colombia is being crushed under a failed 2016 peace accord between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). While the agreement initially brought hope for a brighter future, its implementation has been marred by complexities and setbacks. Colombia is also dealing with runaway inflation that is crushing the population.   [...]

Working alongside WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, Judicial Watch released a batch of 296 emails showing Hillary Clinton committing MORE crimes, but they also show how dirty and complicit Huma Abedin has been. The emails of Hillary Clinton go back until 2003, but we are working tirelessly to confirm that they go back further to show what Hillary was doing around 2000-2001. [...]

“Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky,” I recently read in an article. “A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.” Before long I also read that in Italy a university had cancelled a literature course on Dostoyevsky over the Ukraine crisis. [...]

Washington’s neocon hypocrisy surfaced again with the furor over Russia using an Iranian base to launch airstrikes against terror groups in Syria, while the U.S. uses other Mideast bases for the same purpose, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes. We should reflect on the meaning of Russia’s use of a base in Iran for staging airstrikes in Syria, and about what lessons we could learn from t [...]

Truckers used to make $110K per year on average. Now many are homeless. So what happened? We dug into it as part of our new Class Room series, which looks at how jobs that used to provide a solid, middle class life now barely provide a living. With trucking, that story starts with deregulation. Big Box stores like Walmart were allowed to crush worker power and wages across an entire industry. Now [...]

Vladimir Putin’s popularity in the Czech Republic has surged and could now be higher than that of Angela Merkel, who has seen steadily falling ratings, German mass media report, referring to data from recent opinion polls. Die Welt newspaper reported that just a year ago more than 70 percent of Czechs said they trusted the German chancellor. [...]

Fifty years ago, on September 11, 1973, a coup d’état took place in Chile. Even if half a century has passed, it retains a dramatic relevance. This is, in short, the story. In November 1970, Salvador Allende became President of Chile, he was elected by a coalition of democratic forces with a program of social progress and national sovereignty. Two months earlier, in September, President Nixon [...]

US President Barack Obama said Russia "in fact" had "hacked into the DNC," but that the actual voting process was not compromised. The White House was just trying to "let people know" what was going on, and the media interpreted the reasons, he said. [...]

Russia will continue supplying RD-180 rocket engines, which are used by NASA and the Pentagon, to the United States until at least 2020. “We signed the contract until 2020, and we will supply our partners with six more RD-180 engines,” said Igor Arbuzov, CEO of Russia’s Energomash. The RD-180 engines operate at the first stage of the US Atlas V rockets. [...]

Israel must be held to account. No more excuses, it's time to say stop. Debate of a Sinn Féin will Dáil motion which calls on government to refer the brutal Israeli attacks in Gaza to the International Criminal Court for investigation. [...]

Leaders and top officials from the UK, Germany, and France have “grossly interfered” in US internal affairs, “campaigned” for Hillary Clinton, and openly “demonized” Donald Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. [...]

US President Donald Trump has praised Washington's cancellation of $230mn in funding for stabilization in war-torn Syria. Let "other rich countries" pay it, Trump says, while the US spends its money on its military and allies. The US officially ended support for stabilization projects in Syria on Friday. The $230mn worth of funding had been frozen for months before that however, after House forbid [...]

Discusses with Laura Dowling from the Laura Dowling Experience about Irish Politics and where Ireland stands in Europe as an independent country. Laura and Clare Daly talk openly about the Dublin riots? Migration in and out of Ireland, Israel Palestinian War, Russia Ukraine War, Sanctions initiated by the American government and the European Parliament on aggressors in war. What it’s like being [...]

Six Russian long-range Tu-22M3 bombers launched airstrikes on Daesh arms and ammunition depots in Syria's Deir ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.   [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused US President Donald Trump of flipping the script on destruction across the Middle East by blaming Iran instead of looking at US policies that have delivered “horrors” in the region. [...]

The longer this war persist the more territory Ukraine will lose, and Russia is never going to give any of it back to Ukraine. If Putin tries to give any of that territory back to Ukraine that would be a huge slap in the face to the families who lost loved ones in this war. Putin would never do that, the Russian people would be furious with him if he did. If anyone who has been keeping up with thi [...]

French and Iraqi forces have uncovered a mustard agent and missiles in an area formerly controlled by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) during a sweep of eastern Mosul. The mustard agent was found in an abandoned storage area near the historic Nineveh ruins, AP reported, hoping to avoid attracting attention from locals [...]

A Russian military Il-20 aircraft with 14 service members on board went off the radars during an attack by four Israeli jets on Syria’s Latakia province, the Russian Defense Ministry said. [...]

Jeffrey David Sachs (/sæks/; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist, academic and public policy analyst. He is the former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is known as one of the world's leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty. Detroit, Michigan, U.S. [...]

This week, the situation in southeastern Ukraine took a turn for the worse, with clashes intensifying between Kiev forces and Donetsk People's Republic militia. Concerned by the situation, Opposition Bloc Rada lawmaker Vadim Novinsky reminded President Petro Poroshenko of his 2014 election campaign pledge to end the war in the Donbass. [...]

WASHINGTON - The US Navy 6th Fleet is informed about the deadly crash of the Russian Il-20 in the Mediterranean near Syria and is ready to provide assistance at sea to any country if needed, the 6th Fleet's public affairs officer, Cmdr. Kyle Raines, told Sputnik. [...]