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New US ambassador to Russia presents diplomatic credentials to Putin in official ceremony


RT
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:20 UTC
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© Pavel Golovkin / APU.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman, left, walks after presenting credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, during a ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017.
Vladimir Putin has accepted credentials from foreign envoys, including the new US ambassador, urging "predictable" dialogue with Washington. Bilateral ties hit a new low on Monday when the US "completely...unlawfully" seized the Russian consulate in San Francisco.

Current Russia-US bilateral relations cannot "cause satisfaction," Putin said during an official ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow.

"We are advocating constructive, predictable and mutually-beneficial cooperation," the Russian leader stressed, adding that "strict adherence to the principles of equality, respect for national interests and noninterference in the internal affairs" must be the basis of the bilateral cooperation.

Comment: Following the ceremony, Huntsman released a statement saying he "looks forward to working to rebuild trust between our two countries and to strengthening the bilateral relationship based on cooperation on common."

We shouldn't expect anything new from this hypocrite. During his confirmation hearing last week he said, "there is no question, underline, no question" that Moscow interfered. He also said he would not hesitate to remind Russian officials that they are accountable for their actions. It's quite obvious the US intends on driving relations with Russia further into the ground, and there is no genuine intent toward 'rebuilding trust with Russia'.

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Maduro to meet with Putin during energy summit in Moscow

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:06 UTC
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is set to shortly arrive in Moscow as part of the Energy Efficiency and Energy Development International Forum which is held during Russian Energy Week. The event brings together the CEOs of top oil and gas companies, as well as minsters and heads of state from prominent energy producing nations.

Later this week, Saudi Arabia's King Salman will meet with President Putin, in an historic visit for a Saudi monarch. Saudi Arabia and Russia have already confirmed a $1 billion bilateral investment fund in another historic first.

While the world's eyes have been focused on the rapidly expanding relationship between traditional US ally Saudi Arabia and Russia, few are discussing the Maduro-Putin meeting which is also to take this week.
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Israel is adapting to the end of the Syrian war with provocation towards Lebanon and Hezbollah

Mahan Abedin
Russia Insider
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Syria ruin
© Hadi Kharat/Anadolu AgencyBuildings and roads in ruin after airstrikes were carried out in Idlib, Syria on 25 September 2017
Everyone else is reconciling themselves to the idea Syria, with Russian help, is on the way to crush the jihadi insurgency

As the Syrian conflict gradually winds down it is becoming easier to identify the winners and the losers. At a global level the conflict is seen widely as a big win for Russia, and by extension a loss for the United States.

However, despite their significant differences, Russia and the US have established an uneasy accommodation in Syria, as demonstrated by a succession of local ceasefire deals.

The same logic applies to Turkey and Iran, two major regional powers which are setting aside their differences to focus on the bigger picture in post-conflict Syria.

However, there is one clear loser in the conflict which is unable to reach an accommodation with its regional foes: Israel.

Comment: See: Hezbollah leader: US and Israel back plot to carve-up region after 'failure of ISIS project'

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Iran and Turkey boost military alliance after Iraqi Kurdistan referendum


Sputnik
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:52 UTC
Iranian military
© REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi
Turkey and Iran have agreed to boost military ties following the referendum in the Iraqi Kurdistan where more than 90 percent of voters supported the idea of independence from Iraq.

Turkish and Iranian chiefs of staff of the armed forces held a meeting on Monday in Tehran and agreed to expand military cooperation between the two countries, local media reported.

According to Tasnim News Agency, the sides agreed to expand the cooperation in training, holding war games and the exchange of experience.

Comment: Israel's overt support - and the US's covert support - for the Kurdish referendum have backfired and driven strong regional power Iran and Turkey into each others' arms. And the statements mentioned in the above article are being backed up with action on the ground:
Iran says its military has held a joint military drill with the Iraqi armed forces amid tensions over a recent referendum on independence in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.

The Iranian military announced on its website on October 2 joint military exercises in the country's western border area with units of the Iraqi Army involving armor and artillery units as well as other air units.

In its report about the exercises, the semiofficial ISNA news agency quoted the commander of the ground forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Mohammad Pakpour, as saying that "Iran and Iraq have common enemies and they need to ensure the security of their own borders against threats."

Meanwhile, an official in Iraq's Kurdish region said that Iraqi and Iranian units began exercises at 11 a.m. local time "only 250 meters from the border."

"Iraqi forces are dressed in black and there is a large number of Iranian forces," said Shwan Abu Bakr, the customs chief at the Bashmakh border post between Iraq's Kurdish region and Iran.

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On September 30, Iranian armed forces spokesman Masoud Jazayeri told reporters that the exercises would be held "in the coming days along the shared border."

Jazayeri said the decision to carry out the drills followed a high-level meeting of Iranian commanders where "the territorial integrity and unity of Iraq and the illegitimacy of the independence referendum in northern Iraq were stressed again."

Iraqi soldiers last week also took part in a Turkish military drill close to Iraq's frontier.


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Pepe Escobar: The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:55 UTC
People react as they gather at Plaza Catalunya after voting ended
© Reuters/Susana VeraPeople react as they gather at Plaza Catalunya after voting ended for the banned independence referendum, in Barcelona, Spain October 1, 2017.
A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union: 'In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else'.

Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-described home/patronizing dispenser of human rights to lesser regions across the planet: "In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else." Call it democracy nano-Franco style.

Nano-Franco is Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose heroic shock troops were redeployed from a serious nationwide terrorist alert to hammer with batons and fire rubber bullets not against jihadis but ... voters. At least six schools became the terrain of what was correctly called The Battle of Barcelona.

Extreme right-wingers even held a demonstration inside Barcelona. Yet this was not shown on Spanish TV because it contradicted the official Madrid narrative.
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The Committee to Investigate Russia is being run by "Meathead"

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Reiner Freeman
Imagine a movie script in which everything you read, hear, and see is concocted by a global cabal of elites bent on profit at all cost. If you can believe that Sylvester "Rambo" Stallone avenged America's loss in the Vietnam War, then Hollywood run by Zionist mafiosos is just another movie and popcorn. Allow me to present you with an all-star cast of globalist propagandists.

When a friend shared a video featuring legendary actor Morgan Freeman warning Americans we are under attack by Russia, I figured it was some kind of spoof. Then I followed the headlines and the trail of Russophobic nonsense back to an organization called the Committee to Investigate Russia. The video is part of a campaign by filmmaker Rob Reiner and his scary friends to put the fear of Putin in every heart in America. Quoting the Daily Beast on Freeman's performance in the short: "We have been attacked. We are at war."

Comment: In the video below is Rob Reiner's first iteration of the liberal "Meathead". Looks like the scriptwriters were a little smarter back then. A pity that Reiner got subsumed by the very pro-war forces his fictional character rails against in the popular American TV show 'All in the Family'.



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SDF Commander boasts US-backed SDF will never return any land to Syrian government - Russia and Syria discuss repairs to Euphrates dam


SouthFront
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 02:47 UTC
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Omid Kabar
On October 1, Omid Kabar a commander of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said at a funeral for SDF fighters who were killed in Raqqa city that the SDF will not handover al-Tabqah town or any other area to the Syrian government.
"The regime says we will hand over our regions or al-Tabqah town to the regime's army ... Our people must realize that within five years of our revolution as the People Protection Units and after our alliance with other factions in the name of Syrian Democratic Forces, we have not handed over any inch of our land... We will never hand it over. Our law is clear. The land that is watered with the blood of the martyrs belongs to the people and we will not hand them over to any force," Kabar said.
Moreover, Kabar claimed that over 300 Syrian Army (SAA) soldiers defected to the SDF during the "last period". However, Kabar did reveal no details or proofs.
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'Double standard & hypocrisy': Serbian president slams EU denouncement of Catalan referendum


RT
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:10 UTC
Catalonia referendum voter
© Eloy Alonso / ReutersA man casts his vote in a polling station for the banned separatist referendum in Barcelona, Spain October 1, 2017.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accused the EU of hypocrisy and double-standards following its denouncement of the Catalonian referendum as illegal, while acknowledging the independence of the breakaway province of Kosovo.

"The question every citizen of Serbia has for the European Union today is: How come that in the case of Catalonia the referendum on independence is not valid, while in the case of Kosovo secession is allowed even without a referendum," B92 quoted Vucic as saying during a news conference.

"How did you proclaim the secession of Kosovo to be legal, even without a referendum, and how did 22 European Union countries legalize this secession, while destroying European law and the foundations of European law, on which the European policy and EU policy are based?"

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Report: Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump scale back roles amid increasing pressure

Adam Shaw
Breitbart
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:09 UTC
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Jared Kushner, President Trump's senior adviser, and daughter Ivanka Trump are reportedly shrinking their West Wing roles as the pair comes under increasing pressure and annoy top officials with their presence and terrible advice to the president.

According to Axios, the couple is making more of an effort to "stay in their lane" due to their creating "periodic confusion and resentment" by their presence. White House counsel Don McGahn has reportedly complained about the couple's presence, while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is rumored to have nicknamed them "the royal family," according to the outlet.
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Fancy-pants university specializing in international affairs ditches Russian studies program

Eric Owens
The Daily Caller
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:10 UTC
Russia
© Shutterstock/bodrumsurf, AFP Getty Images/Alexsey Druginyn, Shutterstock/Andrey Arkusha
Administrators at Johns Hopkins University have eliminated the school's Russian major.

The Russian program director at Johns Hopkins, Olya Samilenko, told Inside Higher Ed that she was "blindsided" by the decision, particularly since Russia's geopolitical ambitions have clearly been on the rise in recent years.

"This is a crazy decision based not on the merits of the program but on something we can't even grasp," Samilenko said. "We don't understand it."

Samilenko also called Russian President Vladimir Putin "a major, major player in world politics" and noted that he "has already invaded half of Ukraine."

Johns Hopkins also conspicuously holds itself out as an elite school for the study of international affairs.


Comment: Russia has demonstrated its military capabilities in Syria, much to the chagrin of the Neocons and their terrorist proxy armies. If Putin 'invaded half of Ukraine', the results would be evident. It could be that Russia provides some types of support to fight actual fascists and Neo-Nazis, but to refer to such a possibility as some full-scale invasion of eastern Ukraine is ridiculous.


Comment: One one hand, it's pretty insane that a university such as John Hopkins would eliminate their Russian program. On the other hand, it doesn't sound like their program director had a mental elevator that reached the top-floor. You would hope that a country involved in a significant conflict with another would seek knowledge and awareness as a means of working toward resolution. Not so in the good 'ol U.S. of A.! 'Merica seems hell-bent on quickening its own destruction with self-righteous stupidity.

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