High alert: Russia tests army’s readiness in massive snap exercise in west & south
Russian Army units as well as the Air Force, Airborne Troops and the Navy’s Northern Fleet have been put on high alert as part of a large-scale snap exercise which the Defense Ministry says will check troops’ readiness to tackle ...
Read More »Operation Euphrates Shield Undermines Kurdish Hopes for Autonomy in Syria
Trouble between Moscow and Tehran?
While the granting of the use of the Iranian airbase in Hamedan to the Russian Aerospace forces was greeted with a lot of coverage, the recent departure from Hamedan of the Russian Tu-22M3 has attracted much less attention. The official ...
Read More »China Increases Its Involvement in the Syrian War
A Turkish “invasion” of Syria? Maybe not – let’s wait and see…
So the Turks have crossed into Syria. This everybody agrees upon. What remains completely obscure are the real goals of this operation. I won’t give the answer here simply because I don’t have it. But let me share a few ...
Read More »The Ukraine celebrates its 25th year of independence
And this what that independence did to the population of the Ukraine (in millions, official Ukie statistics)
Read More »The Empire Files: ‘This Ship is Sinking’ Says Former Bush Official
U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.) is the perfect example of what I call the “Old Anglo Guard”, i.e. the product of the pre-Neocon US Anglo imperialist culture. He completely fails to see how “his people” gave birth, so to ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – August 24, 2016: Turkish Intervention Started
CBN drags Nine Banks For Failing To Remit $2.3bn NNPC Funds
Determined not to tolerate any further breach of extant financial regulations, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has barred nine banks from all foreign exchange transactions. The banks, THISDAY exclusively gathered this afternoon, were barred for failing to remit the ...
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