by Pepe Escobar for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog and originally posted at Asia Times When the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in “operations” in the South China Sea, it did not escape to many a cynic that ...
Read More »Rockets Pounded U.S. Bases In Iraq Following Hezbollah-Israeli Escalation On Lebanese Border
On July 27, fighting broke out between Israeli forces and Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese contact line. This became the heaviest open confrontation between the sides in about a year. The incident occurred in an area known as Chebaa Farms, which ...
Read More »Israeli strikes in Syria: Iran reveals extent of losses & warns Tel Aviv
Iran warns Zionists to stop lying Source: Al-Alam, July 17, 2020 Translation: resistancenews.org Iranian Armed Forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Abu Al-Fadl Shukarji has warned Zionists against continuing their lies about targeting Iranian sites in Syria. Brigadier Shikarji added that only 8 Iranian ...
Read More »Israel Responds With Force To Iranian Plans To Deploy Air Defense Systems In Syria
South Front Late on July 20, the Israeli Air Force carried out a new wave of airstrikes on the southern countryside of the Syrian capital of Damascus. According to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA, Israeli warplanes launched missiles from the ...
Read More »Pelosi: Trump Will Be ‘Fumigated Out’ Of White House If He Loses Election
Donald Trump will be “fumigated out” of the White House if he refuses to leave following the presidential election, according to the top US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi reminded the Republican president that he will ...
Read More »Russia’s Sechenov University Successfully Completes Trials of World’s 1st COVID-19 Vaccine
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University have been successfully completed, Vadim Tarasov, the director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Biotechnology, told Sputnik. ...
Read More »Iran-China pact turbocharges the New Silk Roads
China will invest $400 billion in Iran energy and infrastructure but nothing in strategic pact allows for a Chinese troop presence or island handover By Pepe Escobar – republished from Asia Times by permission of author Two of the US’s top “strategic threats” ...
Read More »News flash: Capitalism has no answer for 50 million jobless people
by Ramin Mazaheri for Ooduarere via the Saker Blog Oh – did you have one? Well… we’re waiting. But we will certainly be waiting in vain because the “best” US economic minds, journalists, professors and pundits got nuthin’. Even God’s ...
Read More »Landslide Approval Of Constitutional Amendments Following Russian Referendum
On July 2nd, 100% of the vote on the referendum in Russian for amendments on the constitution was counted. The results are: 77.92% in favor, 21.27% against. The voter turnout was 67.97%. There was not a single district that voted ...
Read More »Russian Private Military Contractors Took Control Of Libya’s Largest Oil Field
Washington is concerned by the growing Russian influence in Libya as Turkish-led forces are preparing to storm the port city of Sirte, controlled by the Libyan National Army. On June 26, the US embassy in Libya released a statement claiming ...
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