Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Moscow-based international affairs analyst Mark Sleboda about recent developments in Ukraine. Sleboda provides an in-depth explanation of the history leading to up to the current situation and analyses domestic factors in Ukraine that are pushing the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to pursue a more bellicose posture towards [ »» ]
Source: Press TV Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says the Sunday incident in Natanz which saw a nuclear facility lose electricity was “a bold act of nuclear terrorism on the Iranian soil”. “The appalling incident that took place in Natanz was the work of the Zionist regime, given what it was repeatedly saying before and what is still [ »» ]
Source: Asia Times by Richard Javad Heydarian Biden’s top advisors already calling for more China-checking freedom of navigation operations and strategic support for Taiwan With the impending US transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden, there are few signs that either America or China intends on backing down in the South China Sea including [ »» ]
Source: Asia times by Pepe Escobar Pulling Russia back into the Nagorno-Karabakh morass means more Turkish freedom of action in other war theaters Few geopolitical hot spots across the planet rival the Caucasus, that intractable tribal Tower of Babel, throughout history a contentious crossroads of empires from the Levant and nomads from the Eurasian [ »» ]
Source: Strategic Culture by Alastair Crooke So it never was then a ‘peace agreement’ between Israel and the UAE. It was ‘normalisation’ for the purposes of mounting a military alliance against Iran. Pompeo suggested so, this weekend. He said that the UAE and Israel have agreed to form a security and military alliance against Iran to ‘protect’ U.S. [ »» ]
Source: Bloomberg (AP) Beijing (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry on Sunday blasted a critical U.S. report on the country’s military ambitions, saying it is the U.S. instead that poses the biggest threat to the international order and world peace. The statement follows the Sept. 2 release of the annual Defense Department report to Congress [ »» ]
Source: Asia Times by Dave Makichuk You’ve seen the superhero movie scenario before — a mad scientist’s experiment goes terribly wrong, and he or she is transformed into an evil nemesis for the good guys to battle. That’s all science-fiction, right? Comic book stuff? We all know those wild and crazy military experiments only [ »» ]
Former General Wesley Clark was SACEUR, NATO’s Military Commander in Chief, from July 1997 to March 2000. He has served in the White House, Vietnam, Panama, Kuwait and elsewhere. Wesley talks about a meeting in the Pentagon in the days after 9/11. The bombs was at that time already falling in Afghanistan. One of [ »» ]
Source: Asia Times by Pepe Escobar As much as Covid-19 has been instrumentalized by the 0.001% to social engineer a Great Reset, the Beirut tragedy is already being instrumentalized by the usual suspects to keep Lebanon enslaved. Facing oh so timely color revolution-style “protests”, the current Lebanese government led by Prime Minister Diab has already resigned. [ »» ]
Source: Voltaire Net af Thierry Meyssan It is not known what the used weapon is. However, it has been tested in Syria since January 2020. It is a missile whose head has a tactical nuclear component that causes a smoke sponge, characteristic of nuclear weapons. It is clearly not a nuclear bomb in a [ »» ]
Source: Sputnik News Vladimir Putin’s article, which is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, was published on the Kremlin’s website this week. It has also appeared in a US magazine as part of the effort to steer American foreign policy toward a more realist worldview, according to [ »» ]
Source: Sputnik News by Oleg Burunov On 3 January, a US drone strike, authorised by President Donald Trump, killed Qasem Soleimani and Shia militia commander Abu Mahdi Muhandis who both were in a car at the Baghdad International Airport. Iran’s judiciary spokesman has announced that a citizen of the Islamic Republic, who allegedly provided [ »» ]
Source: TASS “The real question here: What are the grounds for the USA to occupy several swaths of this sovereign country?” the Russian embassy said WASHINGTON, June 5. /TASS/. Unlike Russia, the United States was never invited to Syria, Russia’s embassy in Washington said on Friday commenting on US Assistant Secretary of State David [ »» ]
Source: Al Aljazeera News The US has ramped up air bombings since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. US forces in Afghanistan dropped a record number of bombs last year, more than at any other time in at least 10 years, according to the US Air Force. The US has dropped 7,423 bombs [ »» ]
Source: Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday it had exposed a large cyber espionage network it alleged was run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and that several U.S. spies had been arrested in different countries as the result of this action. U.S.-Iran tensions are growing following accusations by U.S. President [ »» ]
Source: Bureau of Investigative Journalism by Jessica Purkiss There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush. Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A [ »» ]
Source: Guardian af Medea Benjamin According to new figures, the US dropped nearly three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Dare we think how Donald Trump will continue this legacy? Most Americans would probably be astounded to realize that the president who has been painted by Washington pundits as a reluctant warrior has [ »» ]
Source: CHICAGO TRIBUNE by Paul Salopek The first Americans Nawang Gayltsen ever saw had small, silver eagles pinned on their caps. Nawang will never forget those eagles. They seemed auspicious, like totems of victory or success. Today, his face wrinkles into a sad smile remembering this. The Americans came, he said, in a big [ »» ]
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