Vladimir Putin’s basic view has been expressed so many times, in so many different contexts, and it’s always the same: that the only people who have a sovereign right to any land, are the people who live on that land — nobody who lives outside that land does. In other words, his basic view is a repudiation — a total[Read More…]
Putin’s recent unveiling of an “invincible” nuclear missile has dealt a fresh blow to U.S.-Russia relations. The announcement about the development of a new range of strategic nuclear missile came just weeks ahead of the Russian presidential election. Putin’s claims on rendering US and NATO missile technology ‘useless’ seemed more than just domestic muscle-flexing; it was almost a direct[Read More…]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, seemed perplexed, sticking to a drafted script. Politicians on the Hill were troubled. The Pentagon attempted to be reassuring. The Russian bear was on the move in indelicate fashion – again. In his fourteenth state of the nation address, President Vladimir Putin was keen to focus on Russian-made and prowess in military[Read More…]
No other world leader is more demonized and slandered by the Western media than the Russian President Vladimir Putin. All the major US media outlets and corporations caricature one of the most rational and thoughtful leaders on the international stage. Compared to Donald Trump, Theresa May, and Emanuel Macron, not to speak of the most overrated Angela Merkel, Putin has[Read More…]
From the number of deceased Russian dissidents, complicity in their demise seems plausible. From evidence, thought, and logic, complicity seems unlikely: (1) Only circumstantial links to Putin’s office have been established in the cases. (2) Because political opposition is weak, and no obvious threat to the ruling United Russia Party, what would the government gain in assassination of opposition figures? (3) Because Putin’s approval rating[Read More…]
This is the third part (of 5 ) of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on a recent article posing as journalism in the March 6, 2017 issue of The New Yorker. I hope to demonstrate that this article is basically a totally mendacious concoction of cold war US propaganda constructed out of unsubstantiated opinions expressed by US government officials[Read More…]
The sudden thaw in Turkey’s relations with Russia and latent hostility towards America is partly due to the fact that Erdogan holds the US-based preacher, Fethullah Gulen, responsible for the July coup plot and suspects that the latter had received tacit support from certain quarters in the US; but more importantly Turkey also feels betrayed by the duplicitous American policy[Read More…]
Turkey and Russia Monday (Oct 10) signed the Turkish Stream gas pipeline agreement. The signing of the strategic deal came after a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin who was in Istanbul to attend the 23rd World Energy Congress which gathered 10,000 participants, including four presidents, 250 energy ministers, academia, policymakers and CEOs of top energy companies. This[Read More…]
Most Americans know very little about Russia, and what they do know is subverted by many decades of U.S. government anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda. From 1917 to Dec. 26, 1991, when the USSR imploded, Washington depicted the Soviet Union as an immoral aggressor state seeking to destroy capitalism and freedom in the United States and rule the world. Again,[Read More…]
On Tuesday, August 9, 2016, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in St. Petersburg to hold talks with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was Erdogan’s first foreign visit since the July 15 abortive coup against his elected government. St. Petersburg is Putin’s hometown. Addressing a joint press conference after the talk, Putin said: “I believe that we have all the necessary prerequisites[Read More…]
Yemen Is a Public Health Catastrophe 
We, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic 
40th anniversary of epic 153 of Graham Gooch 
Horn of Africa: A blamegame 
Hunting in Yemen 
How Rich Countries Are Cheating In Climate Change Negotiations 
Save Pollinators Campaign Needed On Urgent Basis As Bees, Butterflies and Birds Face Increasing Risks 
The United States After Trump 
Experts demand compulsory licensing for generic production of a drug against Covid-19 
From Pacifism To Violence and the Dialectic 
PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA 
Earth’s Real Treasure 
Rekindle the flame of Martyrs of Sewewala of Punjab on 30th anniversary 
7th night of Belfast riots and protests: Bus set alight and petrol bombs thrown 
Himachal Move For Selling Liquor at Petrol Pumps Will Be Dangerous For Safety 
Can Farmland for the Landless Become A Reality On A Large Scale 
The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded 
A Compliment to Bharat Dogra The Global Anti-Eritrea-Ethiopia Agenda 
Bengaltattva vs Hindutva: who will win West Bengal? |Part Three| 
Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress 
Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India 
Is it possible for CBI to probe and prove? 
Mamata’s Call for United Front: Can Democracy be saved in India? 
Pathways for Progress of Farmers’ Movement 
Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of Displaced Farmers and Migrating Workers 
Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans 
From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future 
Jordan is where domestic and regional fissures collide 
Cooling the Planet? 
The Far Right in Uniform 
U.S. Values vs Chinese Values: Empire vs Bandung As Seen From Cape Verde (Africa) 
Babulal Gandhi: Over 90 years old and still a hardy farmer 
Aruna In Vienna 
Democratic fascism 
Issues of Increasing Concern in School Education 
China’s Policy Towards Liberation of Bangladesh 
Telugu community in Canada raises voice for GN Saibaba 
Ecology And Economics 
What Is Health? 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
