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Rumors are starting to flow about an alleged attack on the Russian Aerospace Forces airbase in Khmeimin Syria.  I have been parsing the Russian news sources and here is what I can say so far: an attack did indeed take ...

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the National Defense Forces (NDF), the Tiger Forces and other pro-government factions, supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces, have achieved a notable progress against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) ...

by Kakaouskia for the Saker blog Greetings to the Saker community and readers. For some time now, US and its vassal states and Russia are engaged in an economic war. The first salvo was when VISA and MasterCard – which are ...

Transaction fees, a bugbear for a lot of in the bitcoin community, are on the way down. Spiraling fees were a contentious issue that reached fever pitch in the twilight of 2017. But with the dawn of a brand new ...

by Peter Koenig for the Saker blog On 21 September 2017, the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, spoke to the head and the members of the Assembly of Experts with kind of a State of the Nation Speech.  http://english.khamenei.ir/news/5142/Angry-at-Iran-s-Victories-and-Their-Own-Defeats-is-the-Reason. He ...

by Jimmie Moglia for the Saker blog I first read Freud’s writings when, probably unconsciously, I believed that if everybody says the same thing, it must be true. Freud’s extraordinary theories and mystifying lingo had many admirers and promoters. Just as ...

In a New Year speech, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un vowed to accelerate mass production of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles. “The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my ...

by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog I am on vacation and trying to stay away from politics to recharge my batteries, but a sane voice on Iranian politics in English is almost impossible to find, so…. Despite the Western media’s ...

It  was a nights exemplary artistry and entertainment, witnessed with a mammoth audience as Davido headlined so what can easily be referred to as Africa’s biggest concert of the entire year;’30 Billion Concert’– offering some of the  most celebrated and ...

A Sunni militant group, Ansar al-Furqan, has claimed to have blown up an oil pipeline in the southern Iranian province of Khuzestan. The group released a video allegedly showing an attack on a pipeline near Omidiyeh. The Iranian government has ...