This article was written for the Unz Review The latest big news out of the Ukraine Have you heard what the latest big news out of the Ukraine is? No? There is a mini-Maidan under way and Ukrainian nationalists seem to ...
Read More »Game over: How the Kurds lost the high risk gamble
By Aram Mirzaei As predicted, the Kurdish referendum ended in a conflict over the disputed areas in northern Iraq, areas that have been occupied by Kurdish Peshmerga forces since the 2014 ISIL invasion of Iraq. Throughout these weeks, Kurdish media close ...
Read More »Syria War Report – October 25, 2017: US-backed Forces Seize More Oil Fields In Deir Ezzor Province
Late on October 24, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) accused the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) of attacking its units on the eastern ban of the Euphrates, near Deir Ezzor city. The incident allegedly took place at Jubaylah. According to ...
Read More »Video: ‘Pinch Me If You Don’t Believe I’m Real’ – Putin To Nigeria Student
Vladimir Putin asked a student to pinch him after a young man from Nigeria said he couldn’t believe that the Russian president was really standing in front of him, during an informal meeting at the 19th World Festival of Youth ...
Read More »Latest NATO Arms From US Found in Daesh Depot in Al Mayadin – Syrian General
Brigadier General of the Syrian Arab Army shows reporters the weapons they captured after the liberation of the Syria’s city of Al Mayadin. NATO official has denied the information. The largest Daesh storehouse captured by the Syrian armed forces in the city of Al Mayadin, ...
Read More »Reporting from Korea during the 2013 ‘crisis’: 5 key facts the West ignores
by Ramin Mazaheri In 2013 my bosses in Tehran sent me to Seoul, and I felt quite courageous: just like today, Seoul was about to be ground zero for thermonuclear war. And then – as we all know from the movie ...
Read More »Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club
I am not sure how optimistic it will sound, but I am aware that you had very lively discussions over the last three days. I will try, as has now become customary, to share with you what I think about some of the issues. Please do not take it ...
Read More »Xi’s road map to the Chinese Dream
by Pepe Escobar for the Asia Times China’s Belt and Road Initiative – the New Silk Road – will spark the country’s development and turn the dream into reality. Now that President Xi Jinping has been duly elevated to the Chinese ...
Read More »Chemical Weapons Use in Syria and Decline of International Institutions
Written and produced by SF Team: J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson When it comes to the two verifiable uses of sarin or sarin-like substances in Syria, namely the 2013 Ghouta attack and the 2017 Khan Sheykhoun attack, nearly all the available ...
Read More »Putin’s answers a US journalist on the Ukraine
Thanks to Eugenia for translating and subtitling this interesting exchange! (please give the player a few seconds to load) UPDATE: I know that some have problems loading this video – me too. We are trying to find a better place ...
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