Total Ignorance: Where’s Libya, Iraq or Iran? NYC doesn’t care! (video)
RT
January 1, 2011
The men and women hoping to become the next President of the U.S. appear to spend as much time demonstrating their ignorance of the world, as they do their political credentials. But as RT’s Anastasia Churkina found out, that could just be a reflection of society.
The year of dissent: Battling Europe (video)
RT
January 1, 2012
2011 will be remembered for its mass protests in Greece where angry crowds clashed with police and trashed the streets of Athens in response to the government’s austerity measures. The leaders there remain have been under immense pressure from the EU to make saving cuts in order to qualify for desperately-needed bailout money. RT’s correspondent Sara Firth has been covering the protests in Greece during the past year.
William Engdahl on NATO’s Encirclement of Russia
Why Moscow Doesn’t Believe Washington on Missile Defense… or on Just Almost Nuthin’…
by William Engdahl
Geopolitics-Geoeconomics
December 28, 2011
Most in the civilized world are blissfully unaware that we are marching ineluctably towards an increasingly likely pre-emptive nuclear war. No, it’s not at all about Iran and Israel. It’s about the decision of Washington and the Pentagon to push Moscow up against the wall with what is euphemistically called Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD).
On November 23, a normally low-keyed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the world in clear terms that Russia was prepared to deploy its missiles on the border to the EU between Poland and Lithuania, and possibly in the south near Georgia and NATO member Turkey to counter the advanced construction process of the US ballistic missile defense shield: “The Russian Federation will deploy in the west and the south of the country modern weapons systems that could be used to destroy the European component of the US missile defense,” he announced on Russian television. “One of these steps could be the deployment of the Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad.” Those would be theatre ballistic missile systems. The latest version of Iskander, the Iskander-K, whose details remain top secret, reportedly has a range up to 2000 km and carries cruise missiles and a target accuracy to 7 meters or less.
Medvedev declared he has ordered the Russian defense ministry to “immediately” put radar systems in Kaliningrad that warn of incoming missile attacks on a state of combat readiness. He called for extending the targeting range of Russia’s strategic nuclear missile forces and re-equipping Russia’s nuclear arsenal with new warheads capable of piercing the US/NATO defense shield due to become operational in six years, by 2018. Medvedev also threatened to pull Russia out of the New START missile reduction treaty if the United States moves as announced.
Image: NATO’s creeping encirclement of Russia. Engdahl concludes, “in any case the fact that Washington continues to tear up solemn international arms treaties and illegally proceed to install its global missile shield is basis enough for those in Moscow, Beijing or elsewhere to regard US promises, even treaties as not worth the paper they were written on.”
Medvedev then correctly pointed to the inevitable link between “defensive” missiles and “offensive” missiles: “Given the intrinsic link between strategic offensive and defensive arms, conditions for our withdrawal from the New Start treaty could also arise,” he said.
The Russian President didn’t mince words: “I have ordered the armed forces to develop measures to ensure, if necessary, that we can destroy the command and control systems” of the US shield, Medvedev said. “These measures are appropriate, effective and low-cost.” Russia has repeatedly warned that the US BMD global shield is designed to destabilize the nuclear balance and risks provoking a new arms race. The Russian President said that rather than take the Russian concerns seriously, Washington has instead been “accelerating” its BMD development.
Read the rest of Engdahl’s report here, in .pdf format. For more of Engdahl’s work, please visit his website, Geopolitics-Geoeconomics here.
WTF? Two Prime Ministers, One speech (video)
YouTube – UndefeatedArmy09
August 22, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard give the same speech on Iraq. Still believe politicians call the shots? Think again.
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(hat tip: The Front)
Powerful Earthquake Strikes off Japan, Felt in Tokyo
The Intel Hub
January 1, 2012
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — A powerful earthquake struck southeast of the Japanese main island of Honshu on early Sunday afternoon, seismologists said, but no tsunami alert was issued. Shaking was felt in Tokyo.
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake at 2.27 p.m. local time (0527 GMT) was centered about 486 kilometers (302 miles) south-southwest of Tokyo. It struck about 370 kilometers (229 miles) deep, making it a deep earthquake, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
No tsunami warnings were issued because of the depth of the earthquake, JMA said. Shaking could be felt in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, witnesses said.
© 2012. BNO News. All Rights Reserved. Published by The Intel Hub with permission.
Libya rebels go gunning for Syria to topple Assad (video)
RT
January 1, 2012
Former Libyan rebels are now chanting for Syrians to follow their revolutionary path. Hundreds of mercenaries, some of whom are said to be former terrorists, are ready to pick up arms again to help overthrow President Assad.
Strait of Hormuz Heats Up – False Flag Possibility Increasing (video)
Corbett Report
January 3, 2012
Iran has warned the United States it will take action if an American warship returns to the Persian Gulf. It left the area when Iran started its 10-day naval war games, during which they successfully test-fired a number of different missiles. But Russia’s defence ministry says that despite the latest military exercise, the Iranians don’t have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles. Meanwhile France is pushing for stricter sanctions as it says it’s sure Tehran is developing nuclear weapons. It’s urged EU countries to follow the U.S. in freezing Iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports. Tehran has been threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most important oil routes – if the West stepped up sanctions. RT talks to James Corbett, editor of the Corbett Report website.
