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Can Russia stop America's reign of terror?

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The Eastern front is being reinforced. Military replenishment delivery is carried out in the directions of Ukraine and the Baltic states for months. Like so many times before in their history, the USA is preparing for war once again with its loyal lieges, the foolish and corrupt Europeans, playing the role of support.

The deployment of troops in the name of peace and democracy is accompanied by an unprecedented lying and bashing campaign against Russia, its people and government. Western media, completely in the possession of US-loyal oligarchs, is being an utmost compliant helper to the agendas of the faschistic US-regime, day by day obediently spreading the crudest propaganda in the world.

Russia has not only managed to rise from rubble of the Soviet-era within a short time, but even developed with all its ambitions into a global power, albeit not enough, since behind the curtain there's a lot of other things going on. It's difficult to find trustworthy sources to cover the subject, however the alleged contract, signed between the Rothschilds and the Bolschewiks, when the latter took over in 1917, is claimed to run out either this, or next year.

Putin has no wish to prolong this contract, as it seems - even more, he wants to put cash generation back under state control. This adds up to circling messages of Russia wanting further to trade raw material exports in Ruble. Even the solution of founding an own central bank for the BRICS-states indicates these rumours being close to the truth.

But the raising of other powers is something the US-junta cannot tolerate at any cost. Especially when this very power becomes bold enough to get off the monetary and debt system, that has kept the entire world more or less under the heels of USA in order to enslave and plunder. Free competition of currencies? No way!

If Russia was really to establish an alternative currency system, then states and private persons could choose what system they trust more. There's really only one option, when deciding between western debt-money, created out of thin air, and a monetative system, covered by an economic performance of such a huge country, like Russia.

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Will Turkey exit NATO over refugee blockade, arming of Kurds and no EU membership?

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Barrack Obama
© AP Photo/ Susan Walsh
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan envisioned himself the Sultan of a new Ottoman Empire, but now faces the bleak reality that he is the annoying little brother of the US and Europe who will never get his way.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced this week that NATO will expand its presence in the Mediterranean in order to stem the tide of Syrian refugees flowing from Turkey into Europe. Ankara has objected, feeling the alliance's resources could be put to better use elsewhere.

Turkish officials argue that NATO's limited resources should instead be directed towards combating 'Russian aggression' in a bid to hamstring the alliance's efforts to prevent human smuggling in the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.

There are currently over six million refugees of the Syrian Civil War, with 2.75 million seeking shelter in neighboring Turkey. The country has become the single largest host nation of migrants fleeing the horrors of war and the threat of enslavement at the hands of Daesh extremists.

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South Front Syrian war coverage: SAA advances in Latakia, Russia bombs Nusra arms depot (VIDEO)

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International Military Review - Syria, June 17


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Putin condemns ban of Russian athletes in Rio Olympics

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© Mikhail Metzel / TASS
Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the 2016 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016.
President Vladimir Putin has condemned the ban on Russian athletes' participation in the Rio Olympics as "unjust." Yet, he believes a "solution" can be found to the conflict, stressing that Russia will continue to fight doping.

"If someone in your family has committed a crime - would it be fair to prosecute all family members, including you personally? It's never been done anywhere, and the people who have no relation to violations, why should they suffer for others?" Putin asked the heads of the world's largest news agencies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, stressing that "responsibility must always be personified."

Speaking earlier at the forum, Putin called the decision of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to exclude Russia's track and field team from the upcoming summer Olympic Games part of "anti-Russia policies."

"If someone is trying to politicize something in this area, I think this is a big mistake," he stressed.

Comment: It's pretty low that the West would resort to politicizing sport in order to further demonize Russia. They are so desperate to make Russia look bad, that they are afraid of what successful Russian athletes in the Olympics will do to their propaganda efforts.


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Get on it already! Assange threatens to release enough information to indict Killary

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange targets "war hawk" Hillary Clinton
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warns more information will be published about Hillary Clinton, enough to indict her if the US government is courageous enough to do so, in what he predicts will be "a very big year" for the whistleblowing website.

Expressing concerns in an ITV interview about the Democratic presidential candidate, who he claims is monitoring him, Assange described Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump as an "unpredictable phenomenon", but predictably, given their divergent political views, didn't say if he preferred the billionaire to be president.

He was not asked if he supported Green Party candidate Jill Stein, even though she said she would immediately pardon Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning if elected.

"We have emails relating to Hillary Clinton which are pending publication," Assange told Peston on Sunday when asked if more of her leaked electronic communications would be published.

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Grandmaster Putin - pulling Russia from the brink, restoring Russia's place in the world

Russian President Vladimir Putin
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
The 1990s are behind us, as is the breakup of the Soviet Union. The 2000s balancing over the cliff, the years of the debt slavery to IMF, unlimited rule of the oligarchs, the status of the regional power, gangs of non-systemic opposition by the American embassy, isolation and haughty attitude - all of this is in the past.

It is very important today, having finished that part of our path, to learn lessons from the past. Particularly because the war itself hasn't disappeared, and the pressure of the collective West on our country is very much in evidence right now.

The most important conclusion appears to be that the deepest and the most prolonged depressions in the history of Russia coincide not with wars but with the periods of revolutions. 1917, 1991, and, finally, the aborted one, 2012.
Russian GDP 20th century

The dynamics of the GDP per capita in Russia from 1885 through 2011. The value for 1913 is 100%.
To destroy our country, our "friend and partners" were counting precisely on revolutions. And we have to admit that relying on a revolution in Russia rather than on a military confrontation with it, they have created the largest number of problems and difficulties for us.

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Evo Morales threatens to withdraw Bolivia from OAS if it continues to act as instrument of US Empire

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Bolivia's President Evo Morales speaks during a news conference at the presidential residence in La Paz, Bolivia, June 14, 2016.
Morales said he was considering withdrawing Bolivia from the OAS if the regional body continues to interfere in the internal affairs of member countries.

Bolivian President Evo Morales lashed out at U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry over comments the secretary made about Venezuela during his intervention Tuesday at the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in the Dominican Republic.

"John Kerry continues to believe that Latin America is its backyard—and its people their peons—by asking for the recall of (Venezuelan President) Nicolas Maduro," wrote Morales on his Twitter account.

"Kerry should know we are not anyone's colony. We are sovereign states of the Great Motherland that fights for life and liberation," concluded the Bolivian leader.

Kerry has expressed his country's support for opposition efforts to oust Maduro from power via a recall referendum. At issue is when the vote will happen, should all the requirements be met, as a vote in 2016 would force snap elections.

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The exploitation of the Orlando massacre by Israeli spin doctors to destroy the 'grayzone'

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© www.haaretz.com
One in a crowd.
Authorities in Florida are still releasing the names of the 49 people massacred by Omar Mateen in Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub early on Sunday morning. It is an agonizing list of predominantly young and Latino people who could not have imagined their lives would be cut short in such a horrifying manner as they went out for a night of enjoyment. But even before all the victims are known, the US and Israeli far right are moving to exploit Mateen's crime to further a narrative that indicts Muslims collectively and fuels hatred and confrontation.

This is despite the reality that factors other than religious motivation likely played a major part in Mateen's horrific act. One group with ties to Israel's intelligence services is even trying to implicate Palestinians. "As most Israelis know, terror attacks by Islamic radicals often benefit the right, especially when placed in the hands of a master manipulator such as [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu," observed commentator Chemi Shalev, in the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz.

And the master manipulator wasted no time. "We are all shocked by the terrible massacre in Orlando," Netanyahu said at the start of Israel's weekly cabinet meeting. "Islamic terror threatens the entire world and all enlightened nations need to unite in order to fight against it."

Even as the details were emerging on Sunday, Michael Oren, the former Israeli ambassador to the US and now a member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, was advising presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on how to exploit the tragedy for political gain. "If I was Donald Trump, I would have come out the minute that the FBI started to indicate this morning that we are talking about a guy who was operating from Islamic motivations," Oren told Israeli television. "Just his name alone ... a Muslim name, the son of Afghan immigrants who apparently maintained connections of some sort to extremist Islamic organizations, that in itself will greatly influence the presidential race." Trump needed no such advice and quickly seized on the killings to renew his calls for a blanket ban on Muslims entering the United States.

Comment: 'The pen is mightier than the sword'...and spin doctors prove it over and over again. They know that messaging is the working answer to direct the public to almost any point of view they desire. There are so many questions about the Orlando massacre that haven't been answered, nor yet asked. Politicizing a tragedy, using it to create a public opinion vector, shows the pathological mindset at work. Israel is a master of it.


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Ban Ki-moon: Russia plays crucial role in solving international conflicts like in Syria and Ukraine

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
© Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon highlighted the importance of Russia's mediation efforts in Ukraine and Syria ahead of his speech in St. Petersburg, causing Kiev to lash out at the UN chief, while a UN spokesman refused to "walk back" on the statement.

In a press release posted on the UN's official website on Thursday before Ban took the floor at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the top UN official noted that Russia "has a critical role to play" in tackling global threats "from ending the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, to safeguarding human rights and controlling the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

Ban's statement apparently infuriated Ukraine, as its UN ambassador, Volodymyr Yelchenko, slammed the secretary general, accusing him of compromising his high-ranking position by issuing statements that "praise the role of the Russian Federation in settling the conflict in Ukraine." The Ukrainian government insists that Russia is also a party to the conflict, a claim that Moscow strongly denies.

Yelchenko went as far as to say that the top UN official had lost "any moral right" to express his thoughts on Ukraine's ongoing military and political crisis. He also forwarded an official letter to the UN General Assembly seeking an explanation for his comments.

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Putin: Russia will lift sanctions first if they are certain the EU will do the same

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© Mikhail Metzel / TASS
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the 2016 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016.
Russia could lift the sanctions it has imposed on the EU, but to make such a concession, it would need to be certain that reciprocal measures would follow and that it wouldn't be "once again deceived" by its Western partners, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, Putin announced that Moscow might lift the sanctions that were put in place as a counter-measure to anti-Russia restrictions.

"We must be sure that these unilateral measures taken by Russia will be followed by reciprocal steps, which won't be - as one famous classic has said - a one step forward, two steps back," he added, referring to a well-known phrase coined by Vladimir Lenin.

Putin was speaking at a press-conference following his talks with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.