The leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Tim Johnson (D., S.D.) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho), released a draft bill on Sunday that would provide explicit government guarantees on mortgage-backed securities…
Category: Europe
Access to YouTube has been cut off in Turkey after an explosive leak of audiotapes that appeared to show ministers talking about provoking military intervention in Syria. Other social media have already been…
Against the background of what is happening in and around Crimea, the war in Syria has been somewhat relegated to the sidelines of world politics. In the meantime, the country has experienced some…
When US President Barack Obama opened his tour of Europe this week it had the unmistakable choreography of a scripted set piece: lights, camera, action etc. The storyline is a familiar trope. America, the shining…
Forgets mentioning US – led Ssang Yong Amphibious Landing Drill with South Korea and the United States Illegal Use of the UN Designation in Korea. Ban Kyi-moon expressed his concern about successive reports of new…
In June/July 1934 Hitler launched the ‘Nacht der langen Messer’ or ‘Night of the Long Knives’. The killing operation was designed to eliminate, amongst others, radical elements in the Sturmabteilung – the brownshirts….
European countries are toeing the US line on sanctions against Russia, but when it comes to the economy they say they don’t want those sanctions, Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Center for Research on Globalization, told RT. RT: Obama said that the West is united against Russia, and that Russia could face further isolation. Angela Merkel, though, wants to deescalate the situation. The Czech parliament also voted against more sanctions. Why aren’t they all on the same page? Michael Chossudovsky: This is a double-edged sword because the EU imports more than one-third of its gas and fuel from Russia. And consequently, if there are sanctions imposed on Russia, this will immediately backlash. In effect these are indirect sanctions on the EU, because the EU has no immediate alternative to those purchases of fuel and natural gas from the Russian Federation. The pressure for the imposition of sanctions is emanating from Washington – and the governments of the European countries may in fact toe the line at the diplomatic level. But when it comes to the economic and trade the answer is no, we don’t want those sanctions, because immediately it is going to penalize not the Russian people, but the people of the EU.
The 4th Media provides two lateley subtitled videos of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interventions, one concerning the US sanctions against Russian officials, and the second being Putin’s intervention at a Meeting in support…
If the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland had not said “F**k the EU,” few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her…
“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.” Former US President Jimmy Carter I doubt that the Ukraine crisis precipitated by Washington’s overthrow of the democratic government is over. Washington has won the propaganda…