Trump will meet this week with Putin in Helsinki. But despite talk of a “grand bargain” that enlists Russia in helping the US-Israel-Saudi-UAE front against Iran, don’t expect it to happen, says professor Rami Khouri in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...For Europe, thinking about energy security means thinking about Russia.
Read more...Italy threatens to make trouble on another European front.
Read more...Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
Read more...Russia remains very much entwined in Europe’s economy.
Read more...An awful lot of well-placed people want war with Syria….even after Russia has drawn a red line.
Read more...A big crack opens up in the official story about the Skripal poisoning.
Read more...Real News Network interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the insane arms race between the United States and Russia, which leaders from both parties are doing their utmost to stoke.
Read more...Why Germany’s plans to hurt Russia via its gas exports may not go all that far.
Read more...Some critical background on why Putin decided to invest heavily in technologies that could counter or circumvent US threats.
Read more...New Pentagon Nuclear Posture Review makes nuclear war more likely, as a logical extension of policies launched by Trump’s predecessor.
Read more...A Russiagate debate.
Read more...The lunacy of current Trump foreign policy is not unprecedented. This RNN interview discusses similarly unhinged incidents from the 1950s and 1960s.
Read more...Russia case was a black job assigned by Republican candidates for president, then the Democratic National Committee, to discredit Trump in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Read more...Mark Ames rebuts Kathy Lally’s scurrilous piece in the Washington Post.
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