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Victory Day Memories
May 11, 2016 Watch List

Victory Day Memories

by Jimme Moglia …memory, the warder of the brain, shall be a fume… Macbeth, act 1, sc. 7 Seventy-one years ago, May 9, 1945, was Victory Day. Nazi Germany officially signed the unconditional surrender to the Soviet Union. For Russia, WWII became the “great patriotic war”, celebrated each year, as you know, in Moscow’s Red Square. “Nothing ‘gainst Time’s scythe can make defence,” (1) but in Russia the years did

IMPORTANT: SouthFront Faces a Stiff Pressure from Ill-Wishers
May 11, 2016 Blog, Community News and Announcements

IMPORTANT: SouthFront Faces a Stiff Pressure from Ill-Wishers

by SouthFront SouthFront has been under stiff pressure from different sides (corporations and, as we could consider, governments). Recently there was another blatant attempt to impede the project’ activities. PayPal restricted the project’s account again and requested additional data 24 days ago (on April, 15). We have been granted 28 days to provide the data or our account will be suspended (deleted). This is the exact same request that we

Mohamed Bin Salman: The accidental Saudi “King”
May 10, 2016 Guest Analyses

Mohamed Bin Salman: The accidental Saudi “King”

by Ghassan Kadi The thirty year old Saudi Prince, Mohamed, son of incumbent King Salman has risen to prominence by way of mere chance. When I worked and lived in Riyadh back in 1979-1980, nearly every Saudi government office I ever walked into had at least one wall that featured the then four-tiered royal lineage. Back then, Khaled was king, so his portrait was the main one, followed by the

Victory Day Parade on the Beautiful Square in Moscow
May 09, 2016 Watch List

Victory Day Parade on the Beautiful Square in Moscow

Note: this year I decided to post the original Russian audio version because I believe that it has a much stronger “punch” then any version with English-language comments.  Oh, and the “Red Square” is a mistranslation.  While “Krasnaia” nowadays does indeed mean “red” at the time the square was built the word “krasnaia” meant “beautiful”.  Enjoy! The Saker

The Second World War, History And Remembrance
May 08, 2016 Watch List

The Second World War, History And Remembrance

by Peter Lavelle for The Duran The political abuse of history to deny the Soviet Union’s decisive contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany is dividing peoples and is serving to rehabilitate European fascism. As the 71st anniversary of fascism’s demise in Europe approaches, history is being re-cast, particularly events before, during, and after World War II. This history is being reinterpreted and even rewritten in a number of post-Soviet

China and Russia prepare for a hot war with Eurangloland
May 08, 2016 Guest Analyses

China and Russia prepare for a hot war with Eurangloland

By: Jeff J. Brown Crosslinked with China Rising Radio Sinoland: http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/05/08/china-and-russia-prepare-for-a-hot-war-with-eurangloland-moscow-beijing-express-160508/ SoundCloud podcast: https://soundcloud.com/44-days/china-and-russia-prepare-for-a-hot-war-with-eurangloland-moscow-beijing-express-160508mp3 Practice makes perfect. Pictured above, Chinese and Russian military command centers, which are going to join hands later this month of May. (Images by China Defense Observation) The Sino-Russian alliance continues to prosper and expand, even though the two countries’ governments don’t want to call it that. Since the last installment of the Moscow-Beijing Express, I

They will never be Russians
May 08, 2016 Guest Analyses

They will never be Russians

by Rostislav Ischenko Translated by Seva Source: https://cont.ws/post/257189 There were two news items last week: an attack by Nazi goons on Vasily Volga, who is trying to promote in Ukraine a left-wing pseudo-opposition project integrated into the regime, and of similar attack on a group of former members of the Regions Party, who tried to organize in Kharkov a pseudo-opposition event as a part of the centrist pro-peace and pro-European

Amazing scene in the Turkish Parliament
May 07, 2016 Watch List

Amazing scene in the Turkish Parliament

A Kurdish MP from Ferhat Encu has openly defined the regime in Ankara and denied the legitimacy of the Turkish presence in Kurdistan.  For that he was attacked by Turkish MP who threatened to shoot him on the spot.  Listen for yourself: As for the Turkish Parliament, it starts to look like the Ukrainian one: Frankly, it is about time the all those who had to suffer from the Turkish

Kudrin Returns?
May 06, 2016 Guest Analyses

Kudrin Returns?

by Alexander Mercouris for The Duran The announcement that former Russian Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin has been appointed deputy head of Russian President Putin’s Council of Economic Advisers has provoked a stir. This is not surprising. Few individuals in Russian politics polarise opinion as strongly as Kudrin does. Kudrin’s admirers are to be found in the business community, amongst liberal economists and amongst people of generally elite backgrounds and liberal views. Amongst people of

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