Yonhap reports that Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un will be meeting next week in Vladivostok, Russia. Putin will meet Kim before he attends an international forum in Beijing from April 26-29. The forum is about Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” initiative, a grand geopolitical strategy to connect China with Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe […]
Erdogan and Putin Pledge Closer Military Ties in Moscow; S-400 Purchase a “Done Deal”…
Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again affirmed “everything is done” regarding Turkey’s moving forward with its purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system, despite persistent condemnations and threats from Washington. Echoing similar statements of the past weeks in the face of US ultimatums […]
The Beginning of the End Of SWIFT: Russian Banks Join Chinese Alternative Global Payments System…
With Russia actively dumping US dollars and buying gold at the fastest paced in decades, the writing is on the wall when it comes to what the Kremlin thinks of any possibility for a detente in the painfully strained US-Russian relations. And with Russia now clearly seeking to end monetary ties with a dollar-denominated “west”, […]
The Illusory Truth Effect: How Millions Were Duped by Russiagate by Caitlin Johnstone…
“Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy”, read the front page headline of Sunday’s New York Times. Bit by bit, mainstream American consciousness is slowly coming to terms with the death of the thrilling conspiracy theory that the highest levels of the US government had been infiltrated by the Kremlin, and with the stark reality that the […]
Ruling Revives Questions About DC Death of Ex-Putin Aide…
On a foggy November morning in 2015, a heavily intoxicated man showed up before dawn at the Dupont Circle Hotel, forked over $1,200 cash for a ninth-floor penthouse suite and kept drinking. His bender continued all day. By the next morning, he was dead. Authorities concluded that he died of blunt force trauma, the result […]
FLASHBACK: Ex-Putin Advisor Who Died Under Mysterious Circumstances in U.S. Had Broken Neck Bone…
OPINION: The Long History of U.S. – Russian ‘Meddling’ by Stephen F. Cohen…
Even though the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found “no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia,” Russiagate allegations of “collusion” between candidate and then–President Donald Trump and the Kremlin have poisoned American politics for nearly three years. They are likely to continue to do so for the foreseeable future, due not […]
Putin Formally Suspends Russian Participation in INF Treaty, Notifies Washington…
Russia has formally pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) after previously signalling that it would take this historic step after the White House announced last month that the US would suspend all obligations under the treaty. President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday formally enacting and finalizing Russia’s suspension of the INF Treaty, which was set to […]
The Spy Who Wasn’t by James Bamford…
On a steamy Sunday last July, at about half-past noon, a caravan of unmarked SUVs exited the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office, an eight-story concrete building that exudes all the charm of a supermax prison. The cars moved swiftly across the city; speed was critical. There were indications that the target, who had canceled the […]
Let’s Start a Conversation About the Power of the Surveillance State Holds Over ALL of Us…
Nearly two years ago, Special Counsel Mueller was named to investigate whether President Trump broke the law by somehow conspiring with Russian President Vladimir Putin to win the presidency. We still don’t know the outcome of that. But we’ve learned a lot about what some in our intelligence community have been up to. And some […]
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