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Russian military commends IDF for not falling for 'provocation' of ISIS in Syria

RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:46 UTC

The Russian military thanked Israel for foiling a daring ISIS plot in Syria. The militants attempted to lure the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) into striking Syrian government troops, but Israel did not fall for it.

Moscow "thanked the IDF leadership" for effectively destroying Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) targets and "preventing a large-scale provocation" staged by the militants, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The militants attempted to trick Israel into striking the Syrian Army.

Earlier that day, the IDF had confirmed striking targets in Syria's southwestern Quneitra province, which borders Israel. The army said two rockets were launched over the Golan Heights from Syrian territory, and later identified the incident as "errant fire from the internal fighting in Syria." In response, the IDF conducted an airstrike on the launcher which fired the rockets, and shelled the surrounding area with artillery.

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President Xi to BRICS summit: 'There will be no winner in a global trade war'

RT
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:46 UTC

All parties in the trade conflict will only lose, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was talking at the BRICS summit in South Africa on Wednesday.

"A trade war should be rejected because there will be no winner," Xi said at the opening of the BRICS summit of emerging economies in Johannesburg.

"Unilateralism and protectionism are mounting, dealing a severe blow to multilateralism and the multilateral trading regime," the Chinese president said, without naming the United States. "We are facing a choice between cooperation and confrontation, between opening up and closed-door policy and between mutual benefit and a beggar-thy-neighbour approach."

Comment: Also see: Trump's "art of the deal" in play as he proposes removal of ALL EU-US tariffs and end to trade war

Palestinian UN ambassador: Trump's Middle East peace plan 'dead upon arrival'

The New Arab
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:56 UTC

US President Donald Trump's so-called "deal of the century" for Middle East peace is "dead upon arrival", the Palestinian envoy to the UN said on Tuesday.

Riyad Mansour told reporters on Tuesday that after President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December, the United States "lost the qualification to be the only party to supervise the political process".

The Trump administration has not yet set a date for the plan's reveal, with the official stating last month it wants to launch the proposal "when the circumstances are right".

Drawn up by Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner along with Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt, the roadmap is likely to be hugely fa vourable to Israel.

Putin: BRICS trade grew significantly in last year as influence of developing economies surges

RT
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:22 UTC

Russian trade with fellow BRICS countries has grown significantly in the last year, and the country wants to keep the momentum going, said President Vladimir Putin in his opening address at the BRICS Summit in South Africa.

The 10th annual BRICS summit takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 25-27, where the leaders of governments of the five member states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) meet to discuss cooperation in political and socio-economic affairs.

"Strengthening trade and investment ties with BRICS partners is one of the key priorities for Russia, and by the end of 2017 our trade with other members of the association grew by almost 30 percent, surpassing $102 billion, and we are determined to do our utmost to further increase trade within the BRICS," Putin said on Thursday.

Grand Deception: From USSR to Russia - The Transition That Took Five Million Lives

Alex Krainer
The Naked Hedgie
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:40 UTC

In a recent appearance on FOX News, U.S. senator Ted Cruz stated categorically that Vladimir Putin was a KGB thug who said that the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 21st century was the dissolution of the Soviet Union (the quote and the warped timeline Cruz's own). The foregoing article should explain why Vladimir Putin may have said something of the sort. It is part 5 in a six-part series on Russia's 1990s transition from communism to capitalism, excerpted from Chapter 3 of my book, Grand Deception: the Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act, and Anti-Russia Sanctions. The book's previous incarnation was banned last summer.

Links to previous posts: introduction, part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.

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A woman reaches into her bag, which rests on a fallen Soviet hammer-and-sickle on a Moscow street in 1991.

"Does America want Russia to raise its living standards and consume most of its fuels and raw materials domestically? Or, does it see a chance to nail down its Cold War victory by destroying Russia's potential power to be a rival, by turning it into an exporter of oil, gas and other raw materials?" ~ Dr. Michael Hudson speaking before the Russian parliament, 15 March 1999.

"To make ends meet, professors had to become taxi drivers, nurses became prostitutes and art museums sold paintings right off their walls. Nearly every Russian was cowed and humiliated..." ~ Bill Browder, Red Notice

The transition program engineered by the American deep state and its Wall Street patrons was nothing short of catastrophic for Russia. The perfect storm of sudden price liberalization, drastic curtailment of government spending and bank credit, and opening of domestic markets to unrestricted foreign competition produced a toxic brew that devastated the Russian economy, destroyed its currency, and plunged much of the population into poverty and hunger. After 1992, Russian middle class saw their savings evaporate and their real wages halve - if they were fortunate enough to receive them at all.¹

All aboard the Crazy Train: Mass media gone mad over Russia

Paul Street
Information Clearing House
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:55 UTC

Flipping through the cable news stations last Saturday morning, I came across an amusing sight at Russia- frenzied MSNBC. There was the stern host Joy Reid ("#AM Joy") giving a concerned and sympathetic interview to William Browder, a worried multimillionaire financier who said that Vladimir Putin wants to murder him.

"Are you afraid, Bill?" Joy Reid asked, "are you taking precautions for your safety?"

"Am I at risk of being killed by Vladimir Putin's regime? ...Yes," Browder said, adding that there's not much he can do "if they're going to use chemical weapons to put poison on my door knob."

The grandson (hilariously enough) of former US Communist Party General Secretary Earl Browder (a dutiful servant of the Soviet Union during the Great Depression and World War II), Browder is one of at least two "Americans" (including former US Russian ambassador Michael McFaul) Putin told Donald Trump he wants sent to Moscow for questioning by Russian investigators. Trump nodded approvingly as Putin discussed Browder's theft of Russian assets during the Russian president's joint press conference with Trump in Helsinki last Monday. Trump initially said he was willing to consider Putin's request.

Comment: Yup, nothing to see there. Well nothing that mass media is interested in telling you about. They're not interested in 'informing' anybody. That's not their purpose anymore. It's all about repeating over and over again what the establishment wants you to focus on so while you're distracted with the sleight of hand, they can go on with their destructive policies of war and oppression. For more on media's favourite con-man, Bill Browder:

Get it to Langley for analysis! 'Putin gave Trump football with microchip' - Bloomberg

Simon Rite
RT
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:01 UTC

Vladimir Putin gave Donald Trump a football which might have contained a microchip which could also have been a bug - but almost certainly wasn't. That hasn't stopped Bloomberg and CNN pulling together one hell of a story.

Putin handed the World Cup soccer ball to Trump during their Helsinki meeting. The fact that it may have had an electronic chip inside makes pretty much the perfect headline for the likes of Bloomberg and CNN because it contains just about enough truth to stoke some Cold War 2 suspicion, and generate some serious clicks.

The possible spy ball in question made its appearance in an incident that would have dominated coverage of any normal high-level political summit. The US President was handed the Word Cup football, then immediately threw it at his wife's head. Not something you see everyday at international gatherings.The usual media speculators expended a lot of energy insisting First Lady Melania's smile was actually more of a grimace as she sat there squeezing the ball in an ominous sign of the painful retribution that may lay ahead for Trump.

House Republicans move to impeach Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein over Russiagate

RT
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:48 UTC

A group of Republican congressmen have introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is responsible for overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing 'Russiagate' investigation.

Eleven House Republicans, led by Rep. Mark Meadows (North Carolina) and Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), submitted the resolution on Wednesday, after meeting with department of justice officials. The move comes after months of criticism over how the investigation is being carried out from US President Donald Trump and his allies.

In their submission, the GOP lawmakers argue that when Rosenstein signed a FISA warrant authorizing the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, he made himself a witness in the department of justice's ongoing investigation into FISA abuse.

Rosenstein's signing of the FISA warrant was made public recently, when 400 pages of heavily redacted documents were released. President Trump called the documents proof that "the Trump Campaign for President was illegally being spied upon" and called for Republicans to "get tough now," a call Meadows and Jordan seem to have heeded.

US lawmakers using legislation to try to bring Europe to heel and hurt Russia - It likely won't work

Alex Gorka
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:59 UTC

In a m eeting with Russia's ambassadors and permanent representatives on July 19, President Vladimir Putin said that "the principles of competition and openness in global trade are increasingly being replaced by protectionism, while economic gain and expediency are being swapped for partisan agendas and political pressure. Economic ties and entrepreneurial freedom are being politicized." He feels that Russia must counter this trend. There is ample evidence to prove his point.

There is a large group of US lawmakers chomping at the bit to support anything that would bring Europe to heel and hurt Russia. Their target is the Nord Stream 2 gas project that has a pipeline running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany with an annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. That joint venture between Russian energy giant Gazprom and the French company Engie, Austria's OMV AG, the British-Danish Royal Dutch Shell, and Germany's Uniper and Wintershall is expected to be operational by the end of 2019. The US president has the authority to impose sanctions on the project under the CAATSA sanctions law, but there is a risk that he will not. And so some US lawmakers believe that should be rectified by making those punitive measures mandatory.

Keiser Report: Kremlin's 'nerves of steel' are what allowed Russia to overcome ruble crisis and Western sanctions

RT
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:48 UTC

RT's Keiser Report remembers the media hysteria of 2014, when many Western news outlets claimed Russia wouldn't survive the introduction of international sanctions and the ruble crisis that followed.

Max and Stacy also discuss a claim by the IMF's former representative in Russia that there "will never be a debt crisis" with the country's current economic team in charge, which is the world's best, according to him.

In the second half, Max interviews author and banker, Chris Whalen, about Trump's trade war, tax cuts and economic policies.

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Puppet Masters

Russian military commends IDF for not falling for 'provocation' of ISIS in Syria

President Xi to BRICS summit: 'There will be no winner in a global trade war'

Palestinian UN ambassador: Trump's Middle East peace plan 'dead upon arrival'

Putin: BRICS trade grew significantly in last year as influence of developing economies surges

Grand Deception: From USSR to Russia - The Transition That Took Five Million Lives

All aboard the Crazy Train: Mass media gone mad over Russia

Get it to Langley for analysis! 'Putin gave Trump football with microchip' - Bloomberg

House Republicans move to impeach Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein over Russiagate

US lawmakers using legislation to try to bring Europe to heel and hurt Russia - It likely won't work

Keiser Report: Kremlin's 'nerves of steel' are what allowed Russia to overcome ruble crisis and Western sanctions

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