The Russian authorities say an explosion on a Russian submarine , within Russian territorial waters has killed 14 sailors. The submarine is identified as AS-12 (nicknamed LOSHARIK). President Putin said seven of the 14 were captains and that two of the dead had received high military honors[...]
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The US Navy is Flunking the Polar Test of Global Warming
While Trump touts spending billions of dollars to build more F35 fighter jets, he seems not to understand even the basics of our military needs. After all, won’t global warming make the ice breakers obsolete? Seems like our opponents get a different message. As the poles melt, the Russia[...]
Being Black in Putin’s Russia
Black skin remains extremely rare in Russia. One estimate says that there are between 40,000 and 70,000 Russians of full or mixed-African heritage. Kevin O’Flynn, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Image 1: “African-Russians activists demonstrate in a march against racism in the Volga city of Niz[...]
MiG Crashes Off of Russia’s Antique Aircraft Carrier
A Russian MiG-29k jet just crashed during its debut off the Syrian coast The jet crashed in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to land on Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Monday in a statement. As Russia’s lone aircraft carrier and the Russian navy’s flagshi[...]
The Incorporation of Russia and China
Putin Proposes State Corporate Structure Modeled After China After Vladimir Putin hinted at his September 5 Bloomberg interview that he might not run for presidency in 2018 and suggested that the next leader should be “fairly young” but “mature” [Note 1], pundits are now guessing his success[...]
Fascists Across World Celebrate Trump, Russia Admits It has Worked With Trump
The horror over Trump is that he is part of movementd we have seen before. The movement, called fascism under Mussolini and populism uder Hugo Chavez, is misunderstood because of Hitler’s version that conflated racism with state corporatism and nationalism. Mussolini’s fascism, the o[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Russian jets resume heavy bombing of Aleppo: Navy to create permanent base
Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Air strikes mostly hit the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, Zakaria Malhifji of the Aleppo-bas[...]
While Russia threatens war with the US, The Venezuela’s prize for peace and sovereignty goes to … Vladimir Putin
Masuro: ”I’ve decided to create the Hugo Chavez prize for peace and the sovereignty to Vladimir Putin. “I think President Vladimir Putin deserves this Hugo Chavez award,” He went on to describe Putin as a “fighter for peace.” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/08[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Russia Threatens War With The US!
‘S-300, S-400 air defenses in place’: Russian MoD warns US-led coalition not to strike Syrian army Russia’s Defense Ministry has cautioned the US-led coalition of carrying out airstrikes on Syrian army positions, adding in Syria there are numerous S-300 and S-400 air defense systems up and run[...]