Moscow's "Eye In Turkey": Transfer Of S-400 Missiles Will Open Turkey To Russian Spying, NATO Warns The German language Der Spiegel magazine in a recent editorial attempted to sound the alarm of encroaching Russian influence in NATO connected with Russia’s advanced S-400 anti-aircraft systems. “The Turkish government wants to buy the state-of-the-art Russian S-400 anti-aircraft …

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Trump's Pyrrhic Victory: The US Opts For A Path That Can Only Lead To War Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Nearly everyone loses by President Donald Trump’s decision on Tuesday to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) relating to Iran’s nuclear energy program and to reinstate the “highest …

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The Worst Man In Modern History Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, It seems extraordinary that in defiance of all factual history and philosophical knowledge anyone should celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx. More than anyone, through wrong-headed ideas, he bears responsibility, indirectly admittedly, for the deaths of an estimated one hundred …

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Rome Has A Big Problem With Burning Buses Yesterday, a public bus caught fire on Rome’s Via del Tritone. The number 63 bus quickly become engulfed in flames but thankfully, the driver and passengers escaped unhurt. Interestingly, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, the sight of a burning bus in central Rome is nothing new with people blaming …

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Putting London's "Soaring" Homicide Rate In Perspective London has a problem with rising violent crime, that is unfortunately a fact. According to Metropolitan Police statistics, there was a 51 percent rise in murders from financial year 16/17 to 17/18. Picking up on the issue, U.S. President Trump said at an NRA rally on Friday that …

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Firepower: Russian Troops Get New Kalashnikov Assault Rifles As the United States Army marches towards acquiring the LSAT (Lightweight Small Arms Technologies) light machine gun for their infantry, Russia’s Defense Ministry recently purchased the newest family of Kalashnikov assault rifles for Russian soldiers. Russian soldier aims the new AK-12 assault rifle. (Source: Sergey Bobylev, TASS) The Russian Defense Ministry …

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UK New Car Registrations Are Set To Tumble In the case of a no deal Brexit, in which the country must resort to WTO rules for international trade, the negative effects on the UK car industry could be devastating. The current uncertainty surrounding the type of deal that will be struck with the EU is already …

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Meanwhile In Greece… Less than a week after the Greek government sent additional police forces to reinforce its land border with Turkey as fears mount over a sharp rise in the number of refugees and migrants crossing the frontier, The Guardian reports that  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced down protests from citizens Thursday upset over …

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As US Military Effectiveness And Diplomacy Fade, Many Countries Start Ignoring Washington Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Diplomatic work continues in some of the areas with the highest geopolitical tensions in the world. In recent days there have been high-level meetings and contacts between Turkey, Iran and Russia over the situation in …

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What May 2018 Has In Store: It's Difficult To Understate The Looming Dangers Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The month of May is always associated with V-E Day. The sentiments of “never again” were strong 73 years ago, in 1945 when the UN was founded. Since then Europe has put a …

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