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I might soon get a most unwelcome visitor: Hurricane Erika

Dear friends, It looks like next week East-Central Florida might get a most unwelcome visitor: Hurricane Erika.  At this point in time, this is by no means certain, the system might weaken and peter out and it might turn into another direction, but so far it looks like it is coming directly towards yours truly: So far there is definitely no reason to panic, but this is a good time

President Bashar Al-Assad’s al-Manar August 25, 2015 Interview

source: http://syriatimes.sy/index.php/interviews/19297-president-bashar-al-assad-s-al-manar-august-25-2015-interview DAMASCUS, (ST)_ The terrorists are the most important real tool in the ongoing aggression against Syria, outlined H.E. President Bashar Al-Assad . In an exclusive interview with the Lebanese al-Manar Satellite TV, aired Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. (GMT), President Al-Assad pointed out that encountering Israel deems it necessary for us to encounter its tools in the interior, asserting that Israel from time to time carries out acts

Ukraine SITREP August 26th, 2015 by Scott

On Monday night I was up watching in stunned amazement a meltdown of the almighty market the likes of which has not been seen in years. Even if you never held or traded stocks, you couldn’t miss the corporate media talking heads blubbering something incomprehensible, like “it’s a garden verity market adjustment.” I want to share with you two very useful links. These graphics give you a full world markets

I am drowning (in bills), SOS!

Dear friends, I have not been bringing up this topic since July 4th and instead I have posted appeals for others.  As a result, donations have, yet again, come to an almost complete fullstop (thanks to the few who did send them in!!!!).  In contrast, the bills have continued to come in with an enviable regularity.  As a result, I am again “drowning” in bills in struggling to make ends

Ivan Ilyin on Orthodoxy

Foreword by The Saker: Today the Nazi-occupied Ukraine is celebrating “independence day”.  The festivities will center on a military parade in which the Ukronazis will try to ape the Russian Victory Day parade, but will feature US Hummers, NATO style uniforms and the usual torrent of hate-filled russophobic statements.  The highlight of the parade will be the march of the Aidar death squad.  As for the regime in Kiev, it

Yemen Map of War, August 15-23, 2015: The Ulterior Negotiations

Despite the reports of a continuation of the military escalation, a lot of experts argue that the active phase of the military conflict has almost ended. These forecasts aren’t related to ‘great successes’ of the Saudi-led ground forces: the most of Saudi militants’ gains admired by mainstream western media are a transfer of control under settlements from the Houthis’ government to local tribals. The real reason is a break in

The Russian-Chinese-Indian Strategic Convergence In Myanmar – PART I

by Andrew Korybko The Southeast Asian state of Myanmar is beleaguered by creeping threats that risk returning the country to the dark days of full-scale civil war. Neighboring powers India and China have no interest in seeing this scenario, as such an event would spoil the role that they expect a stable Myanmar to fill vis-à-vis their strategic vision for the country. In what makes for tragic irony, however, their

MH-17 one year later

This column was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/flight-mh-17-one-year-later/ Over a year has passed since Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 has been shot out of the skies by somebody, but we still don’t know the truth and all sorts of hypotheses are circulating on the Internet. In the West, the Emperor Barak Ist decreed on the day after the actual shoot-down that the party responsible for this atrocity was, of course,

Minsk -2: A Rotting Corpse

by Christopher Black for the New Eastern Outlook The Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement is dead but no one wants to bury the rotting corpse. Since it was signed in February of this year the Donbas governments and Russia have bent over backward to comply with the terms of that agreement hoping against hope that the Kiev junta would do the same. They hoped in vain. Poroshenko and his fascist allies instead

A Network of Power: Gas Pipelines of the European Continent (Infographics)

by SouthFront: http://southfront.org/network-of-power/ Natural gas has limited and expensive transport options. As a result, natural gas pipelines are constantly used as tool of the political pressure and bargaining. One of the most notable battlefields is the European continent, where Russia has exerted its influence through an intricate network of pipelines. Find the text with an additional information about the pipelines below the graphics. (for high resolution image go here: http://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/A-gas-pipeline-network-of-the-European-continent.jpg) 1. NORD STREAM

Is an Ukronazi attack imminent? Yes! So what else is new?

Novorussian officials have called a press conference today to warn about the high risks of an Ukronazi assault on Novorussia in the very near future.  I have asked our translation team and friends to subtitle the video of this press conference and I hope to get it in the next 24 hours or less. The press conference was unique in that Edward Basurin, the Deputy Defense Minister and spokesman for

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