US, Russia sign deal to transport astronauts until 2016
Editor’s Note: Yeah, sure. 1970’s technology is the best we can do. Don’t insult our intelligence. The Soyuz capsules will provide the only link for…
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Russia to Impose Internet Controls Like China?
Russian Prime Minister Igor Sechin David Makarewicz, Contributing Writer Activist Post In a Wall Street Journal interview, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has publicly…
Russia threatens NATO with nukes
PressTV The Russian president has called on NATO to clarify Moscow’s role in a European missile system, warning if no agreement is reached, Russia will…
China-Russia oil pipeline launched
Strategic Pipeline Announced PressTV Russia and China have launched a 3,600-kilometer pipeline to export the oil of the biggest producer in the world to the…
Naked emperor and a conspiracy of silence
Spengler Asia Times America is exceptional – utterly and absolutely exceptional – because the rest of the world depends on American guns, American money and…
The “Great Game” and the Conquest of Eurasia: Towards a World War III Scenario?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research “The great wars of history — we have had a world-war about every hundred years for the last four centuries…
Expats recalled as North Korea prepares for war
North Korean Workers – Reuters image Shaun Walker The Independent A mass exodus of North Korean workers from the Far East of Russia is under…
China, Russia quit dollar
Su Qiang and Li Xiaokun AsiaOne Business St. Petersburg, Russia – China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using…
Gates warns of fallout if Russia arms treaty fails
Anne Gearan Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday that Russian cooperation on U.S. priorities from the Afghan war to…
Obama returns fire after China slams Fed’s move
Dees Illustration Patricia Zengerle and Krittivas Mukherjee Reuters President Barack Obama defended the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing dollars on Monday after China and Russia…
Russia, Venezuela Reach Deal On Country’s First Nuclear Power Plant
Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press MOSCOW — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reached a deal with Russia on Friday to build the South American country’s first nuclear…
Turkey and Russia Defy America’s Imperial Design in the Middle East and Central Asia
Eric Walberg Global Research The new Ottomans and the new Byzantines are poised for an intercept as the US stumbles in the current Great Game….
UN meeting on food prices seeks transparency
Associated Press ROME — Delegates at a special U.N. meeting prompted by worries over high food prices were discussing Friday a grain export ban by…
Global food risk from China-Russia pincer
World food supplies are caught in a pincer as China becomes a net importer of corn for the first time in modern history and Russia’s…