THE RUSSIA DESK

A new Eurasia-led order encompassing the vast majority of the world’s population is a work in fast progress. China using Eurasia as the larger stage to upgrade its global role, in parallel to the fast-evolving Sino-Russian-Iranian interaction, carries larger than ...
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The following is an exclusive interview with Russian Duma deputy, Yevgeny Fyodorov, a high-ranking conservative, nationalistic lawmaker in President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party. He has been Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy of the State Duma and a member of ...
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MARC NORTON—Nowadays, there is tremendous agitation against Russia by the Western media, asserting that it commits aggression and is very dangerous. In 2015, I decided that I wanted to see for myself, whether these reports were true, or not. That’s ...
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Raisi’s main theme is ‘resistance,’ and that was imprinted in all of his meetings. He duly emphasized the Afghan and Iraqi resistances: “In modern times, the concept of resistance plays a central role in deterrence equations.” The Islamic Republic ...
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger. He discusses the scandal surrounding Boris Johnson over Downing Street parties during Coronavirus lockdowns, growing US tension with Russia over Ukraine amid the backdrop of ...
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Alexander Mercouris discusses the unfolding crisis in Ukraine and the mounting tensions resulting from Washington's intransigence in connection with Russia's legitimate security demands. Fairness and reciprocity is something the imperial Beltway elites never knew or have entirely forgotten ...
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By John Helmer, Moscow DANCES WITH BEARS @bears_with The current generation of Russian leaders was educated to believe that imperialist and capitalist systems like the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the United States make  rational and predictable calculations of ...
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A discussion with Canadian geopolitical analyst Patrick Armstrong about the current tensions between the Empire and the Russian bloc, exacerbated by the Empire's refusal to recognize Russia's just demands for her right to her own national security ...
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The problem with preemptive false flag accusations is of course that the side making the claim can simply launch an unprovoked attack and then say “See? They’re staging a false flag to frame our side, just like we said ...
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"In conclusion,  the negotiations will be very interesting. In the West, they have not understood that the rules of the game have changed.  This is not Russia backed into a corner. We have set the rules now.  If there are ...
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STEVEN SAHIOUNIE —When police are killed, this means the protesters were neither unarmed, nor peaceful.  If this happened in Washington, or London, they would be termed domestic terrorists and the security forces would seek to quell the violence and restore ...
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PEPE ESCOBAR—The prospect of yet another color revolution inevitably comes to mind: perhaps Turquoise-Yellow – reflecting the colors of the Kazakh national flag. Especially because right on cue, sharp observers found out that the usual suspects – the American embassy ...
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