A “defecting” general, the Houla massacre, and more—so much of the news out of Syria seems pretty far from the truth. If you’re not asking questions yet, you should be. Friday, we read in the…
Category: Regions
RIA Novosti/Ilya Pitalev Search and rescue is over in southern Russia, where flash floods have killed 171 people. The Emergencies Ministry is focusing on rebuilding the water-damaged cities. Residents are trying to cope with the…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/clinton-lavrov-syria-talks-103/i8a87ffcf24615e44447902ccd2efbadf_00af14fc.flv] Washington and Moscow have a good chance of progressing on Syria in Geneva on Saturday, said Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov as he emerged from an hour of tense talks with US Secretary of…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/america-surveillance-society-drake-697/i6fc7f24f7cf8227f19b232c59561ae85_int0907.dv.flv] If America gets its hands on the WikiLeaks founder, they may go as far as execute him, a known National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas Andrews Drake told RT, adding that in the US, security…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/long-flood-aftermath-krymsk-713/i2cb050394776360419d5ba71ecfe16fd_barton0907_0800.dv.flv] As Russia mourns for the victims of the catastrophic floods in Krymsk, residents are already trying to piece their shattered lives back together. And while the world tries to understand the disaster, locals are…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/annan-damascus-talks-iran-740/ie1879fe49cc0497e6c136b7a9251488d_annan-iran-talks-syria.flv] UN peace envoy Kofi Annan is in Iran after finishing a round of talks with Syrian authorities in Damascus. The trip reinforces Annan’s belief that Tehran is one of the key players in finding…
In a recent column, “Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine whether the US economy will collapse before Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings us into military confrontation with Russia…
Is it happening again? From Infowars, we learn that plans for an evacuation of London in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack have been discussed at length – and that the security company, G4S,…
Chandra Muzaffar, President of the International Movement for a Just World analyses a wide variety of issues including the emerging BRICS nations, the crisis in Syria, and the implications of Washington’s policy shift to the Asia-Pacific region. In January 2012, US President Barack Obama unveiled the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance report, entitled, “Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense,” which confirmed America’s plans to drastically increase its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China, now the world’s second-largest economy.
On July 3, 2012, Al Jazeera published a report of the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland that claimed to have found significant traces of polonium in samples taken from…