Tag: russia
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Crowdsource Surveillance Corbett Report Flashback: Episode…
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What #Putin Gets About Soft Power
from washingtonpost.com: Much of the commentary on Russia’s recent annexation of the Crimea has focused on Russia’s hard power—its geo-political designs in the so-called near abroad, ostensible security vulnerabilities to NATO’s eastward expansion, strategic objectives, and military capabilities. These questions are not moot and have a strong sense of urgency for leaders in Ukraine, Moldova,…
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NATO Chief Calls on Russia to Stop Destabilising Ukraine
from theguardian.com: The Nato chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has joined the US and UK in issuing an urgent public call on Russia to de-escalate tensions in the Ukraine, as pro-Russia separatists remained in control of government buildings in the country’s east. “I call on Russia to de-escalate the crisis, to pull back its troops ……
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Boiling Frogs Post Roundtable #5: NATO, Russia, Turkey and the “New Cold War”
from boilingfrogspost.com: In this edition of the BFP Roundtable, Peter B. Collins, Guillermo Jimenez, James Corbett and Sibel Edmonds discuss the latest moves in the formation of a so-called “new cold war” between NATO and Russia. We also tackle Seymour Hersh and his recent article in the London Review of Books examining Turkish involvement in…
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The Great Decoupling: How the West is Engineering its Own Downfall
This is an article from The Corbett Report Subscriber, the weekly e-newsletter for members of corbettreport.com. Please support this website and this work by signing up for a Corbett Report membership today for as little as 100 Japanese Yen ($1 US) per month. CLICK HERE for details. from corbettreport.com: Reports out of Moscow indicate that…
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Back to the USSR: Putin Schools Obama in Geopolitics
from dailyinterlake.com: “Russia as I indicated is a geopolitical foe… time and time again I have clear eyes on this. I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin…” —Mitt Romney, 2012. Remember that presidential debate when Mitt Romney was (snicker) ridiculed for his position on Russia? Obama quickly…
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Why U.S. Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips Over Ukraine
from alternet.org: The way to beat Vladimir Putin is to flood the European market with fracked-in-the-USA natural gas, or so the industry would have us believe. As part of escalating anti-Russian hysteria, two bills have been introduced into the US Congress – one in the House of Representatives ( H.R. 6), one in the Senate…
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Greystone Denies Its ‘Mercenaries’ Are In Ukraine
from abcnews.go.com: The Russian government today claimed there are more than 100 American “mercenaries” from a defense contracting company disguised as Ukrainian troops in the embattled former Soviet nation, a claim the American firm and top U.S. officials deny. The Russian Foreign Ministry made the allegation in a statement today that accused Ukrainian military forces…
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Denial of Reality As Ukraine Heats Up
from thenews.com.pk: The crisis over Ukraine has provided a fresh opportunity to President Barack Obama’s domestic detractors to assail him for ‘failing to lead’ and to deploy American power to force the Russian president to retreat. Much of this criticism shows willful ignorance of the limits of US power in a transformed international environment where no single state…
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Russia Will Not Import GMO Products: PM Medvedev
from RT.com: Russia will not import GMO products, the country’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, adding that the nation has enough space and resources to produce organic food. Moscow has no reason to encourage the production of genetically modified products or import them into the country, Medvedev told a congress of deputies from rural settlements…
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Why Chocolate Is Bargaining Chip In Ukraine-Russia Conflict
from npr.org: In the political battle between Ukraine and Russia, one of the biggest pawns is chocolate. That’s because the current front-runner in Ukraine’s presidential race is Petro Poroshenko, known as “the Chocolate King.” His billion-dollar empire was founded on candy factories. Poroshenko’s chocolate became a bargaining chip in the confrontation with Russia last July,…
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Russia Tightens Pressure on Ukraine With Rise in Gas Price
from nytimes.com: Even as American and Russian diplomats groped toward a settlement that would halt further Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Gazprom, the Russian energy company, stepped up the economic pressure on Tuesday by sharply raising the price it charges for natural gas. Gazprom, a state-controlled gas exporter, raised the price to $385 for 1,000…
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FYI: Putin=Gog, Crimea=Magog
from haaretz.com: Not only Christian fans of Armageddon are buzzing: According to one rabbi, the Vilna Gaon himself predicted that when the Russians take Crimea, the steps of the Messiah will be heard.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode187 – Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode187 – Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Lord Justice Fulford ‘Campaigned to Support PIE Paedophile Group’ Judges Presiding Over Phone…
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Interview w/ Nile Bowie on Flight 370, Crimea, China and more
As Malaysia is reluctantly thrust into the world spotlight, what better time to talk again to our friend Nile Bowie, “a Malaysia-based political analyst and columnist with Russia Today”. Is the country being unfairly maligned for their handling of the mystery of the missing Flight 370? Plus, we discuss the latest machinations going on over…