Donald, you, Ben, Ted and and even Marco are rebels.  To aid your rebellion against the Washington Cartel bear in mind the words of the great philosopher, Albert Camus.  "Men's solidarity is founded upon rebellion, and in its turn, rebellion can only find its justification in solidarity."
 
Kudo to Jeb.  Although…

 
Russia has now officially entered into its first overseas war, since its former days of the Soviet Union and its foray into Afghanistan in December 1979 to February 1989.
 
Insurgent groups ("the Mujahedeen") who received aid from several Western countries and several Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and…

As combat aircraft from Russia and the United States shadow each other over Syrian airspace, director Steven Spielberg has created an Oscar-quality film about what happened when the Soviet Union shot down an American spy plane near Sverdlovsk on May 1st 1960.
 
The event was a major embarrassment to the Eisenhower administration, which got…

Comment on Brian Whitmore's RFE/RL podcast, “The Daily Vertical: Return Of The Russian World> http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-return-of-russian-world/27340254.html
 
Not much understanding of Russkiy Mir or its role in Russian foreign policy in this podcast.
 
Russkiy Mir is often represented as some new, strange…

The decision of the United States to conduct Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) around the artificial islands in the South China Sea, which China uses for justifying her sovereigny claims in this area, has somewhat increased tensions between the two countries. The newspaper Global Times known for its notorious nationalism commented on the…

Dear Amar,
 
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/...
 
Your article fleshes out several aspects of the Syria crisis of which I was not much aware. I'm tired of the simplistic one- and two-dimensional explanations that we get from our mass media. For example: The Russians don't want to lose their naval base in Tartus. They…

                                                 Incredible!  Cuban troops are being deployed in Syria, to fight alongside…

Iraq, Afghanistan, BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Syria. Various events and phenomena, but all have two things in common: they expose a consistent dimenssion of the international affairs and they are enforced either by undermining the American interests, or simply by ignoring them. Is this the end of US global domination? Let us, for now…

As global warming shrinks the polar ice caps and leaves Arctic waters open for longer stretches, the world is intensifying its focus on opportunities in the Arctic. The open waters are attracting the development of raw materials, tourism, fishing etc, thus establishing new ship traffic and creating additional demands.
The Arctic is still in its…

The tapestry of ancient Silk Routes
 
The ancient maritime and overland Silk Routes have been revived. Its modern incarnation, driven by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (B&R), stands on the verge of connecting the Eurasian landmass, East Africa and Western Europe into a single trading matrix.
 
Many Asian communities were…

 Ukraine has another crisis facing it and it is one which is not, so far being mentioned, as far as I can determine in any of the various (and many) media outlets and it is a crisis, which, I suggest, is no less serious than the one's facing it right now.   The only difference being that this is a crisis just waiting in the wings…

By Mathew Maavak
(Also read Part I). This article appeared as an OpEd in the Eurasia Review on Oct 21, 2015
Recently, a US professor had mailed me enquiring about the possible misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to monitor people who did not subscribe to the mainstream political narrative. She was concerned about the…