Tag: russia

The western media is roundly condemning Russia for vetoing a Security Council resolution condemning tomorrow’s referendum on Crimean self-determination as illegal under international law.

- Seth Ferris..."Is Ukraine's Yanukovych guilty as charged or just the latest fall guy of the West?"

- “Recent events in Ukraine have exposed something of the 'dark underbelly' of America,” Gordon Duff wrote on Wednesday.

"We lost Crimea, so why not lose the whole country?"

The idea of the Russian forces that are in Sevastopol and the surrounding Crimea, being a violation of international law, is simply not true.

- You will not see a bunch of focus group tested phrases being used like our people do, all given the OK by the shrinks to produce the desired image

Hilary Clinton: Putin’s “actions on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.”

- And Western Authorities are pretending they don't know who did it. Could that be because it was them?

Martin’s statement means that Russia is far more respectful of freedom of speech and thought than our so called ‘Free West.’

- The Estonian FM says that the Kiev medical and on the ground people confirm that the riot police and protestors were shot by the same group

As tensions escalate in Ukraine, the world teeters on the brink of a precipice. One false move could plunge it into the abyss…

- Some of this is going to be out of date by the time you read it. Russia has decided on military intervention in the Ukrainian crisis,

- Western people have not understood how formerly 'backward' communist countries and Iran could have a rosier economic outlook than they do

In his recent annual meeting with the media, Russian President Vladimir Putin replied to a question about the rumored placement of Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad next to Poland.

- We have an old saying here in the US, “The witch you know is better than the one you don’t.”

- Linh Din, Press TV - Within a hundred miles of where I am, there are several tent cities where people live in the freezing cold and defecate into a bucket

- How soothing it must be for the hapless Palestinians to know the US has lost its voting rights in UNESCO

- China continues to strengthen its economic, political and geopolitical position thanks to its burgeoning relations with Russia, India and other countries.

- China continues to strengthen its economic, political and geopolitical position thanks to its burgeoning relations with Russia, India and other countries.

The exiled from Club Med American Carrier's birds can't make the trip. That means crash in the desert....

- Viktor Titov - "Russia must realize that if...Iranian oil returns to the market, the prices for the “black gold” will plummet"

This original cartoon, published here in VT for the first time, captures something of the hypocrisy of the world's most heavily-armed instruments of WMD terror commanding the Syrian government to hand over its chemical weapons without making similar demands of themselves.

Everyone, even Obama, knows Assad would have to be psychotic to launch a chemicals weapons attack with UN inspectors only miles a way.

Everyone, even Obama, knows Assad would have to be psychotic to launch a chemicals weapons attack with UN inspectors only miles a way.

Obama’s decision to procrastinate, and preserve the world as we know it for one more week, may be braver than it appears.

President Obama, you're not attacking Syria because of an alleged and unproven Chemical attack, You're doing so because ISRAEL demands it of you, and once you destroy Syria, Israel will want more blood, next it will be Iran.

Russia’s granting asylum to Edward Snowden is not just a milestone in US-Russia relations. It is a mene tekel of “How the United States is Repeating the Mistakes that Destroyed the Soviet Union”.

The story “hangs there,” a week now, no one will touch it other than the Times of Israel, their answer to VT, a publication run by former spies.

"Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!"

Hiding among the spiky rocks, I waited for the slowly approaching alien government force to make an error. Operation Assange 2.0 was bound to fail, as miserably as its first part. It looked as an almost perfect copycat; but this time the design was flawed.

The Selling of "Snowden" The Selling of Snowden By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor We are told, "and how" we are told, aided by every discredited media hack on the planet, that poor Snowden is flying to Russia where he will either be given "safe passage" or "considered" for asylum.

The two minute video from this morning (Sunday, June 16, 2013) outlines the misguided policy of the US in Syria and its failures across the region

Finnish officials started to interact with Chechen terrorists as far back as 1999. Rene Nyberg, a high standing official from Finnish Foreign Ministry, first met Chechen representatives at the Helsinki EU summit by the end of 1999.

When witnesses (including FBI agents) start "falling out of helicopters" and getting shot execution-style while in FBI custody, you know something stinks.

When witnesses (including FBI agents) start "falling out of helicopters" and getting shot execution-style while in FBI custody, you know something stinks.

"Russia says the shipment of its S-300 missile defense system is aimed at deterring foreign intervention in Syria.”

"Russia says the shipment of its S-300 missile defense system is aimed at deterring foreign intervention in Syria.”

On May 15, the UN General Assembly approved Qatar’s initiative for a new anti-Syrian resolution, as it did in August 2012. It addresses actions by the armed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and expresses support for the coalition of opposition forces.

Through a myriad of «civil society» organizations, the United States has been financing Chechen groups inside the autonomous republic, in Russia, and abroad.

So the criminal act that took place in Boston two weeks ago is merely a natural outcome of many years of indulgence and direct inciting of extremist elements against the civilization once considered as a geopolitical rival in someone’s sore mind.

"some groups have raised concerns in recent months over an apparent rise in anti-Semitic language in Tunisia." Yediot Ahronoth, April 27, 2013

As the first agitation caused by Boston marathon event is coming down, the question of what really happened is coming to the fore. Internet users were attentive enough to pay attention to the fact that some pictures were clearly a part of staged show.