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Syria Summit Kicks Off In Russia With Some Anti-Saudi Trolling
Syria Summit Kicks Off In Russia With Some Anti-Saudi Trolling
"No need for empty words or gimmicks - including glowing orbs - when you're actually...
Agreements on Syrian integrity, Disagreement on Kurds
Sochi Talks Roundup: Russia, Iran, Turkey Reach Important Breakthroughs on Syria
Speaking to the press after his meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in...
“De-Dollarization” and the “Resistance Economy”? President Putin in Tehran, Negotiating A...
De-Dollarization and the Unfolding Resistance Economy?
By Peter Koenig
President Putin arrived in Tehran on 1 November for talks with the Ayatollah Khamenei. First, to cement the Nuclear...
Russian, Iranian and Turkish Chiefs of General Staffs Agreed on Measures...
The chiefs of general staff of Russia, Iran and Turkey have agreed on measures to enhance cooperation in the Idlib de-escalation zone. Moreover, the...
Vedomosti: Putin, Erdogan shape Syria’s future in Sochi
The Syrian crisis was the focus of talks between Russian and Turkish Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the Black Sea resort...
Saudi crisis threatens wider war in the Middle East
13 November 2017
The recent mass arrests in Saudi Arabia combined with the kidnapping of Lebanon’s prime minister, the escalation of the war against Yemen...
Russian nukes would cause ‘overwhelming damage’ to any potential enemy –...
Russia’s nuclear deterrence is strong enough to ensure a “level of unacceptable damage” to any potential aggressor, the Chief of the General Staff has...
Leon Trotsky: Twenty Years After 1905
A speech by Leon Trotsky (December 1925)
This is a speech made by Leon Trotsky on 26 December 1925 and reproduced in the Soviet newspaper,...
The War will provoke Revolution! The Durnovo memorandum to the Tsar
In the following Memorandum addressed to the Tsar in February 1914, the ex-Interior Minister Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo predicts with what happened in 1917 with...
Socialism, Land and Banking
2017 compared to 1917
By Michael Hudson
October 19, 2017
Socialism a century ago seemed to be the wave of the future. There were various schools of...