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  *Aris Petasis and *William Mallinson As the latest neurotic and frenetic round of negotiations about illegally occupied Cyprus is planned to continue in March 2017,...

By Giulietto Chiesa Original title: "Gli Stati Profondi che vogliono inghiottire Trump" Published by "Sputnik Italia" on the 13/01/2017 We are witnessing a huge amount of "leaked...

By Anna Jaunger Original post date: 31 January 2017   A week ago, Syria peace talks came to a significant end in Kazakhstan. During these two days...

By Peter Koenig Original post date: 31 January 2017 Where is Mr. Trump coming from and where is he going to? What is really on his...

In the days since it emerged that four men had been arrested on treason charges linked to cyber intelligence and Russia's domestic security agency,...

By Kerbs on Security Original post date: 17 January 2017 A chief criticism I heard from readers of my book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of...

A top cybersecurity specialist in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) was arrested on Wednesday reportedly on suspicion of leaking information to the U.S. intelligence...

The UK accepts that Bashar al-Assad should be allowed to run for re-election in the event of a peace settlement in Syria, Boris Johnson...

More than four years on, we know that in 2012 the political fallout was only just beginning. It was in December 2011 that David Cameron reopened the European question by opting out of the new ‘fiscal compact’ drawn up by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy with the aim of enforcing budget discipline across the EU. In the US in spring 2012, Mitt Romney emerged as the candidate from the Republican primaries, but the freakshow anticipated the Trump campaign to come. In Italy the ousting of Berlusconi in a backroom coup in November 2011 and the installation of the ‘unpolitical’ economist Mario Monti as prime minister set the stage for the emergence of Beppe Grillo and Five Star in the local elections of May 2012. In France as the fiscal compact began to bite, François Hollande’s presidency was dead almost before it had started.

“Great work has been done in cooperation with our partners from Turkey. We know that only recently there was a trilateral meeting in Moscow of the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, and Iran, where all of the nations made obligations not only to control, but also to act as guarantors of the peace process in Syria.”