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NOVANEWS ed note–I have received lots of frantic emails from people panicked over the news that ‘a deal’ had been struck between the Russians and Israel and that this intimated that Russia was going to sell out Iran and Syria. However, what we have to remember is this–what is the outcome of this latest ‘leak’ concerning emails originating with Stratfor, a known Israeli intelligence gathering agency? To cast Russia in an untrustworthy light at a time that she is becoming a major player in preventing more bloodshed in Syria and Iran. So the long and short of it is that this is likely Zionist disinfo engineered to cause squabbling and mistrust between Russia and the other players in volved in all of this. The Atlantic Wire Fresh documents released by WikiLeaks raise new questions about the ...

NOVANEWS http://www.dailystar.com.lb VIENNA: Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday blamed “external actors” for  prolonging Syria’s agony, suggesting that the U.S. and its allies opposed  negotiations to end the bloodshed there and were responsible for torpedoing a  U.N. resolution aimed at calming the situation. Sergey Lavrov also seized on a call by the al-Qaida terror network to topple  Syrian President Bashar Assad to caution that little was known about those  opposing the regime in Damascus, and implied that the opposition could not be  trusted to run the country if victorious. He also welcomed Assad’s announcement that he had ordered a Feb. 26  referendum on a new constitution that would open the way to political parties in  Syria other than the ruling Baath Party. Russia and C...

NOVANEWS “Russia and China were the only permanent Security Council members opposing the draft, reminding others that it was not their place to intervene in another country’s domestic affairs.” by Stephen Lendman From left, French representative Gerard Araud, British representative Mark Lyall Grant and U.S. representative Susan Rice confer before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at United Nations headquarters on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) Shortly before 1PM EST, Reuters headlined, “Russia, China veto UN resolution telling Assad to quit,” saying: The diplomatic “setback” came the day after “Syrian opposition (elements) accused Assad’s forces of killing hundreds of people (in) Homs, the bloodiest night in the 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab c...

NOVANEWS Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is standing firm on blocking any U.N. sanctions against Syria, its longtime ally and a significant arms customer, saying that any resolution by the world body must exclude the possibility of international military involvement such as in Libya. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that U.N. approval for sanctions against Syria mirroring those by other nations would be “unfair and counterproductive.” The U.S., the European Union, the Arab League and Turkey all have introduced sanctions against Damascus in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s violent crackdown on opponents. The uprising has left more than 5,400 people dead, according to the U.N. estimates. The U.N. Security Council has been unable to agree on a resolution since t...

NOVANEWS Reuters Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran’s nuclear programme as a threat to its own security, Moscow’s departing ambassador to NATO warned on Friday. “Iran is our neighbour,” Dmitry Rogozin told reporters in Brussels. “And if Iran is involved in any military action, it’s a direct threat to our security.” Rogozin was speaking two days after the killing of a nuclear scientist in Tehran by a hitman on a motorcycle. Kremlin Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev, who is close to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said Israel was pushing the United States towards war with Iran, according to the Interfax news agency. Russia, however, opposes a boycott of Iranian oil. “We are definitely interested in the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,...

NOVANEWS By F. William Engdahl Global Research, Washington clearly wants ‘finito’ with Russia’s Putin as in basta! or as they said in Egypt last spring, Kefaya--enough!.  Hillary Clinton and friends have apparently decided Russia’s prospective next president, Vladimir Putin, is a major obstacle to their plans. Few however understand why. Russia today, in tandem with China and to a significant degree Iran, form the spine, however shaky, of the only effective global axis of resistance to a world dominated by one sole superpower. On December 8 several days after election results for Russia’s parliamentary elections were announced, showing a sharp drop in popularity for Prime Minister Putin’s United Russia party, Putin accused the United States and specifical...

NOVANEWS By Harpal Brar Preface One of the myths perpetrated by Trotskyites, with not inconsiderable help from the imperialist bourgeoisie, is that Leninism and Trotskyism are synonymous; that Trotsky was, after Lenin, the most brilliant and greatest Bolshevik (some even implying that Lenin was a great Trotskyist); that Trotsky was the true inheritor of Leninism, and a worthy successor to Lenin, but was, alas, deprived of his rightful place by the cunning manoeuvres of a third-class mediocrity and oriental despot to boot, i.e., Joseph Stalin. This anti-communist myth, repeated ad nauseam decade after decade in truly Goebbels fashion, not only in Trotskyite publications but also in classrooms by petty-bourgeois professors and teachers of history and sociology, not to mention the imperialist...

NOVANEWS CIA/Soros funneling money through Georgia to Russian protesters   Protests in Russia By Wayne Madsen   WMR has learned from an eastern European intelligence source that the CIA. Britain’s MI-6, and George Soros, who actually fronts for the Rothschild family, has been funneling money to Russian protest movements through the Republic of Georgia. The Soros-style “themed” revolution for Russia is being called the “White Revolution” or “Snowy Revolution,| with the color white being chosen as the thematic color for the attempted Russian uprising. Perhaps not coincidentally, the White Army was also the name for the counter-Bolshevik revolutionary forces composed of czarist loyalists supported by British, French, American, Japanese, and Czech troops who, from 1917 to 1922, atte...

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman   Russia’s December 4 elections filled 450 State Duma seats, Russia’s Federal Assembly lower house.  Claims of electoral fraud followed. All elections have irregularities. At issue is whether results are comprised. Election monitor Golos accusations were spurious. America’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funds it. It supports regime change in non-US client states. It backs opposition groups, conducts propaganda campaigns, and does openly what CIA operatives do covertly to destabilize sitting governments. Its mission is subverting, not promoting democracy. It operates with State Department funding and direction. It serves US imperial interests destructively against targeted countries. So do USAID, the International Republican Institute (IRI), and th...

NOVANEWS Russia Prepared for Conflict Over Iran If Necessary, Sources Confirm   by Dr. George Krasnow   Dear Friends of the Russia & America GoodWill Association (RAGA)!  The RAGA stays away from politics, except when peace is threatened. Below is my translation of a report about Russian troops being put on high alert, as it appeared on Russia’s polit.ru site. The Kremlin is being updated about the upcoming US-backed Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, citing sources in the Defense Ministry. Strike will be sudden and inflicted very soon. A full-scale war is possible. This issue was discussed at the Russia-EU summit in Brussels with the participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Russia’s permanent representative to the E...