The Islamic State militants launched an offensive on the eastern entrance of the Lybian strategic city of Misrata on Sunday. As result, four security personnel were killed and three others were wounded. Last week, five people lost their lives and six others were wounded after Takfiri terrorists attacked the western gate of Misrata. Lybia is beset with a profound political crisis as it currently has two rival governments, one based in the capital Tripoli and the other in the eastern city of Tobruk.

The forces of the Hezbollah managed to drive al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front militants out of Qarnat al-Tannour Heights on Sunday. According to the sources, a large number of the militants were killed and injured in the operation by the resistance movement and many others fled the area. The recaptured area overlooks the three key valleys of Uwaiss, Atneen and al-Khayl in Arsal barrens, the sources added.

Colombia works closely with the US, through Bernard Aronson, a very intrusive neo-conservative 'overseer', who is Washington's coordinator in the Colombian counter-insurgency war. The US maintains seven military bases and has stationed over one thousand US 'advisers' in the field and within the Colombian Defense Ministry. The military offensive was launched by the Santos regime precisely when it was officially engaged in two and a half year-long 'peace negotiations', during which three of five items on the 'peace agenda' had been agreed to and the FARC had ordered a unilateral cease fire.

Two months earlier, President Santos treacherously set-up the FARC to lower their defenses by appearing to 'reciprocate' when he ordered "the suspension of air force bombing of FARC field camps". In other words, the Santos government and US adviser Aronson used the 'cover of peace negotiations' and the FARC's unilateral 'cease fire' to launch a major military offensive. The FARC ended its cease fire and resumed combat in ten regional 'departments', as the regime intensified its offensive by bombing villages in FARC-controlled regions. While Santos and Aronson escalated their military offensive in Colombia, the FARC negotiators in Havana continued their "peace" negotiations....

Early results in Turkey's parliamentary election have shown that the ruling party will fall short of a majority and for the first time in 12 years have to form a coalition, spoiling President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of sweeping constitutional changes.

Preliminary results, with over 99 percent of votes counted, suggest the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has garnered some 41 percent of the votes, a loss of 9 percentage points, netting it about 258 seats in the country's 550-seat Grand National Assembly. The data comes from Turkey's NTV channel, citing the central electoral committee.

The polls opened at 8 a.m. local time (5 a.m. GMT) on Sunday and closed at 5 p.m. local time (2 p.m. GMT).

While the official results are to be presented in 11-12 days, preliminary results indicate that three opposition parties have passed 10 percent barrier necessary to enter parliament, and that to form a government the AKP will have to enter a coalition with one of them.

The Republican People's Party (CHP) has preliminarily garnered about 25 percent of the vote (a rise of 4 percentage points), taking about 130 seats in parliament. Ahead of the voting, the party pledged to limit the president's influence over the judiciary and executive branches.

On May 21 the Ukrainian parliament voted to suspend all military cooperation with Russia. The new law effectively terminated the 1998 agreement on the transit of Russian military units to Transnistria through the territory of Ukraine.

Simultaneously, Moldova tightened the rules of transit for Russian military personnel traveling via Chisinau airport.

Chisinau had periodically blocked and deported Russian soldiers who were not clearly identified as international peacekeepers or who had failed to give sufficient advance notice.

Even though much cooperation was of course already suspended, throughout the current crisis Russia had been able to use Ukrainian territory to supply its peacekeepers in Transnistria, a narrow strip of land on Ukraine's western border. No longer.

Russia's response was quick and stern.

"The Ministry of Defense is left with no other option than to supply Russian forces with all the necessities by air bridge, with military-transport aircraft," Yuri Yakubov, a senior Russian MoD official, said after the Ukrainian vote. "The Russian contingent will be supplied under any circumstances," he added.

The US-assembled coalition of the willing that - supposedly - is fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh across "Syraq" met in Paris this week. In theory, they'd examine what to do next after the loss of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria.

The script, though, came straight from the Surrealist Manifesto.

The US State Department's number two, Tony Blinken, swore Washington does not doubt its "winning" strategy. He insisted that the "winning" strategy has killed at least 10,000 fake Caliphate jihadists. A chorus of CIA spooks was forced to raise their eyebrows.

Blinken also insisted on "progress"; he might have confused the issue with the FBI nailing FIFA bigwigs. The coalition, predictably, supported Baghdad - with plenty of rhetoric and a vague promise of more weapons, and extolled the government to be more inclusive towards Sunni tribes.

No one addressed the fact that it is a Ba'athist support base among Sunnis - call them, Donald Rumsfeld-style, "remnants" of the Saddam regime - that has ensured the fake Caliphate's success in Anbar province. And that's what prevents Baghdad from being more inclusive.

Watching a UN Security Council session yesterday revealed two vitally important facts. First, the world's representative officials are absolutely useless. Secondly, the children of the Donbass need Vladimir Putin the redeemer. The killing from the west simply is not going to stop, not as long as the west's leadership is still in office. On this anniversary of the D-Day landings another "D" invasion may be needed, only this time to liberate the Donbass from another Nazi assault.

This may well be the longest rant you ever read. For English speakers though, it should also be required reading.

When US Secretary of State John Kerry travelled to Sochi, Russia begging and audience with Vladimir Putin, the straight shooter in me sighed a breath of relief. "At last my government realized their folly, they know they have lost", I thought out loud. A colleague on social media tweeted me, I cannot remember who; "Don't be so optimistic, they'll not stop Phil". Watching RT's live coverage of a special session called over hostilities in the town of Marinka, West of Donetsk, I became physically ill as any decent human being would. Many of the diplomats within the UNSC, especially those from the UK Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, are simply liars or worse. Taking the gloves off here, Rycroft's commentary before the world yesterday frames a British government neck deep in committing its own form of terrorism. Read what Rycroft interjects, then continue on to read from real people on the ground in Donbass:

The G7 states are ready to implement additional Russia sanctions over Ukraine, US President Barack Obama said at the G7 summit in Bavaria on Monday.

"There is strong consensus that we need to keep pushing Russia to abide by the Mink agreement," Obama said. He added that the Western partners also need to encourage Kiev to stick to the Minsk deal.

"There was discussion of additional steps," if Russia "doubles the aggression on Ukraine", however they were on a technical and not political level, he added.

UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said in an interview that placing American nuclear warheads on British territory is not ruled out - but it would have to be "a very delicate act."

There have been "some worrying signs of stepping up levels of activity both by Russian forces and by Russian-controlled separatist forces" in Ukraine, Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr.


There have been media reports in the last week that Washington was considering withdrawing from a Cold War-era treaty with Moscow and returning nuclear-capable medium-range missiles to Europe in an effort to counter what it calls "Russian aggression."

On May 21st, I headlined "Secretary of State John Kerry v. His Subordinate Victoria Nuland, Regarding Ukraine," and quoted John Kerry's May 12th warning to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to cease his repeated threats to invade Crimea and re-invade Donbass, two former regions of Ukraine, which had refused to accept the legitimacy of the new regime that was imposed on Ukraine in violent clashes during February 2014. (These were regions that had voted overwhelmingly for the Ukrainian President who had just been overthrown

They didn't like him being violently tossed out and replaced by his enemies.) Kerry said then that, regarding Poroshenko,

we would strongly urge him to think twice not to engage in that kind of activity, that that would put Minsk in serious jeopardy. And we would be very, very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may be

Russia is about to take another major step towards liberating the Ruble from the Dollar System. Its Finance Ministry just revealed it is considering issuing Russian state debt in Chinese Yuan. That would be an elegant way to decouple from the dependence and blackmail pressures from the US Treasury financial terrorism operations while at the same time strengthening the bonds between China and Russia - Washington's worst geopolitical nightmare.

Russian Deputy Minister of Finance, Sergei Storchak, announced that his ministry is making a careful study of what would be required to issue Russian bonds denominated in Chinese Yuan. The latest news is part of a long-term strategy between Russia and China that goes at the heart of American hegemony—the role of the dollar as the leading world central bank reserve currency.

The dollar is used in some 60% of central bank reserves today. The second largest is the Euro. Now clearly China is carefully moving, as the world's largest trading nation, to create its Renminbi or Chinese Yuan as another major reserve currency. That has huge geopolitical implications.So long as the US dollar is leading reserve currency, the world must de facto buy US dollar Treasury bonds for its reserves. That has allowed Washington to have budget deficits since 1971 when the dollar left the gold exchange standard. In effect, China, Japan, Russia, Germany—all trade surplus countries, finance Washington's deficits that allow her to make wars around the world. It is a paradox that Russia and China at least, are determined to end as soon as possible.

Last year Russia and China signed enormous 30-year energy deals for delivery of Russian oil and gas to China. The payments will be in local currencies not in dollars. Already in 2014 settlement in national currencies between China and Russia in bilateral trade increased nine times over 2013. Lin Zhi, head of the Europe and Central Asia Department of the Chinese Ministry of Economic Development announced last November that, "About 100 Russian commercial banks are now opening corresponding accounts for settlements in yuan. The list of commercial banks where ordinary depositors can open an account in yuan is also growing." Last November 18 Russia's largest bank, Sberbank became the first Russian bank to begin financing letters of credit in Chinese yuan.