The United States and its allies should not forget their own mistakes in the military resolution of conflicts, Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.

Commenting on an internal memo allegedly written by US State Department diplomats to President Barack Obama, Zakharova said: "Regardless of whether this letter was sent or not - we've seen quotes. We are talking about the fact that all international formats set up with US participation, the corresponding resolution of UN Security Council, documents adopted after the meeting of the International Syria Support Group, say that no military scenario for resolving the Syrian issue is considered. Only peaceful path, only political dialogue - only these approaches. The main thing is that it was already outlined in legal documents."

However, "we know that tough debates are underway in US on military or peaceful scenarios on any issue," she continued. "We saw this in case with the Iranian nuclear program, we remember how high-ranking officials called for resolving the issue of Iranian nuclear program by military means. Here's a concrete example of how wisdom gained the upper hand. We now see an issue that has truly been resolved, and not exacerbated," she said.

Vladimir Putin has called on the EU to restore cooperation with Russia. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Putin said Russia was ready to meet halfway, but stressed that the EU should also be willing to compromise.

"We do not hold a grudge and are ready to meet our European partners halfway," the Russian president told the forum. "But it certainly cannot be a one-way game."

"Our recent meetings with representatives of the German and French business circles have proved that the European business is willing and is ready to cooperate with our country. Politicians need to meet the businesspeople halfway, and show wisdom, foresight and flexibility. We need to regain trust in Russian-European relations and to restore the level of interaction," Putin said.

Russia will continue along a political course based on supremacy of the international law and respect for the interests of all players in the global arena.

Russia will further adhere to a foreign policy course aimed at protecting its national interests and ensuring security of its people, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during his annual address to the Russian Parliament.

"Currently, the world is gradually becoming polycentric. In this context, many nations express their willingness to independently decide their future. No country or a group of countries can alone resolve modern global issues," the minister said.

According to Lavrov, despite the fact that the West is seeking global dominance Moscow will continue to protect its national interests. The ultimate goal of Russia's foreign policy is cooperation with other nations to establish peace and resolve global conflicts.

"We do not intend to give into attempts to drag us into a confrontation, not with the United States, not with NATO, not with the European Union.

Clearly, confrontational habits and fruitless geopolitical games only impede efforts to achieve sustainable global development and generate crises like the one in Ukraine," Lavrov told Russian lawmakers.

The EU Commission is working to create an EU-wide snippet tax, which would effectively tax internet hyperlinks.

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. When European nations were ruled by Kings and Queens, Princes and Dukes, royalty would suppress peasants in a variety of ways, all to enrich their bloodline and strengthen the thrones they held. Whether by tax or something a bit more sinister, the 1% ruled over the 99% with impunity.

Who could forget the Prima Noctis scene in Braveheart when the Duke of the land rides into the wedding party to"bless" the wedding by taking the bride into his bed.

After a torrent of multifaceted politically-motivated assumptions about the Orlando shooting which claimed the lives of 50 and left scores more injured, the extent to which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interacted with the suspect, Omar Mateen, before the attacks was partially revealed.

In a press conference, FBI Director James Comey would admit (emphasis added):

...the FBI's Miami office opened a preliminary investigation, and over the next 10 months we attempted to determine whether he was possibly a terrorist. Something we do in hundreds and hundreds of cases all across the country.

Our investigation involved introducing confidential sources to him, recording conversations with him, following him, reviewing transactional records from his communications, and searching all government holdings for any possible connections, any possible derogatory information. We then interviewed him twice. He admitted making the statements that his co-workers reported, but explained that he did it in anger because he thought his co-workers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was Muslim.

FBI Director Comey never elaborated on just how those informants interacted with Mateen. However, examining publicly available FBI affidavits from other investigations that resulted in arrests and prosecutions, it is almost certain the informants posed as terrorists with ties to Al Qaeda or the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS).

Bulgaria's prime minister ruled out participation in plans to form a united NATO Black Sea naval task force to counter the Russian Navy in the region. The president of Romania said the initiative is about joint drills, not maintaining a separate fleet.

"I always say that I want the Black Sea to see sailboats, yachts, large boats with tourists and not become an arena of military action ... I do not need a war in the Black Sea," Reuters cited Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov as saying at a media briefing. "To send warships as a fleet against Russian ships exceeds the limit of what I can allow," Borisov told reporters in Sofia on Thursday, as cited by Bloomberg. "To deploy destroyers, aircraft carriers near [the resort cities of] Bourgas or Varna during the tourist season is unacceptable."

A permanent presence of NATO task force near the Russian borders in the Black Sea would have "destabilizing character," Andrey Kelin, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's European Cooperation Department, said Wednesday. The alliance "has no relation" to the Black Sea, he added.

More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration's policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country's five-year-old civil war.

The memo, a draft of which was provided to The New York Times by a State Department official, says American policy has been "overwhelmed" by the unrelenting violence in Syria. It calls for "a judicious use of stand-off and air weapons, which would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process."

Such a step would represent a radical shift in the administration's approach to the civil war in Syria, and there is little evidence that President Obama has plans to change course. Mr. Obama has emphasized the military campaign against the Islamic State over efforts to dislodge Mr. Assad. Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, led by Secretary of State John Kerry, have all but collapsed.

But the memo, filed in the State Department's "dissent channel," underscores the deep rifts and lingering frustration within the administration over how to deal with a war that has killed more than 400,000 people.

The Russian economy, thought to have suffered significant losses after sanctions were imposed by the EU and US in 2014, is now returning to growth, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

"We have almost overcome the period of recession and the economy is enjoying all the conditions necessary for growth,"Putin said at a meeting with investors and members of the Russian Direct Investment Fund on Thursday. "The economy has adapted to the new circumstances," Putin went on, adding that the country's macroeconomic situation is stable and the level of inflation has decreased.

Volumes of Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves have remained high thanks to the Central Bank's efforts, the president noted. "Moreover, after introducing a flexible national currency rate, it [economy] now has competitive advantages," Russia's leader stressed. "The Russian financial market is one of the most open among the developing markets," Putin said.

Despite the recent years' steep decline, the Russian economy is starting to grow again. This positive trend is especially welcomed in Finland, a Nordic nation which traditionally has had strong economic ties with Russia and was heavily hit by the economic slump, exacerbated by the anti-Russian sanctions.

The growth is already visible in some of Russia's industrial sectors, estimates by Illka Korhonen of the Bank of Finland show. According to Korhonen, the Russian economy has reached its turning point and is starting to recover. Also, Russian manufacturing is increasingly competitive in relation to a number of imported goods, owing to the weakened ruble.

The Russian economy took a deep plunge in 2008-2009 as the nation's GDP shrank a whopping 10 percent, Korhonen pointed out, according to Finnish national broadcaster Yle. Remarkably, the recovery was fast and in about four years Russia was back to its pre-2008 level. In contrast, Finland is still struggling to reach the pre-2008 level in terms of GDP.

Korhonen attributed this level of adaptation to changes in the price of oil. In July 2008, the price reached nearly 150 dollars a barrel, only to sink to around 30 dollars a barrel in January 2009. Some two to three years later, we were again back at 100 dollars. At present, however, the recession seems to have come to stay. The price per barrel is now a little over 50 dollars. In a few years, it may settle at 60 dollars, Korhonen estimated.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a highly influential German philosopher. To this day his Hegelian Dialectic is a model used by central powers of government to create a problem that causes a reaction most often in the form of a crisis or series of crises, and consolidation of concentrated power results in fewer hands as a consequence of the proposed solution put forth by the same political body that created the problem and crises in the first place. It's been a highly effective deadly game formula of deceit that the ruling elite has perpetrated on the people to fool and entice them into blindly accepting greater centralized control and authority.

This article will demonstrate how New World Order globalists and their neocon puppets in Washington have consistently employed this repeating cycle of the Hegelian Dialectic consisting of problem (originally called thesis), reaction (anti-thesis) and solution (synthesis) during this century's federal governmental domestic policies. Inasmuch as US Empire virtually controls all Western nations as well as nearly all Third World nations, this insidious undemocratic process is unfolding globally on the geopolitical chessboard with the ultimate objective of establishing one world government tyranny.

This endless do-loop application stateside will be analyzed to demonstrate how the feds have amplified and concocted a "homegrown" enemy of radicalized violent extremists to intentionally include millions of nonviolent, law abiding US citizens as the identified problem. Washington's domestic policy under the seamless Bush-Obama regime has incessantly sought ways to criminalize dissidence, as of late augmented by the militant imposition of a sanctified Political Correctness agenda designed to kill free speech and make dissent an unsafe, subversively heretical act in the land of the no longer free. Successful deployment of this Hegelian Dialectic has enabled the elite since 9/11 to radically transform America from a constitutional republic into a fascist totalitarian police state. Noted constitutional law attorney John Whitehead wrote recently:

In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death.