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18Feb

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Germany, Russia

German Intel Clears Russia on Interference

NOVANEWS Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. media only wants stories of Russian perfidy, so when German intelligence cleared Moscow of suspected subversion of German democracy, the silence was deafening, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern After a multi-month, politically charged investigation, German intelligence agencies could find no good evidence of Moscow-directed cyber-attacks or a disinformation campaign aimed at subverting the democratic process in Germany. Undaunted, Chancellor Angela Merkel has commissioned a new investigation. President Barack Obama talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 Summit at Schloss Elmau in Bavaria, Germany, June 8, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Last year, Berlin’s two main intelligence agencies, the BND a...

5Feb

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Russia

Analyzing Current Trends: Russia and West on the Threshold of Drastic Changes in Relationship

NOVANEWS By Andrei AKULOV The prospects for improvement of Russia-US relations become a matter of grave concern for European politicians. With Donald Trump’s «America First» policy, Europe may be left on its own. The calls for lifting the sanctions against Russia are getting louder – loud enough to make this issue become a part of EU’s shaping external strategy. Italy’s former Prime Minister and European Commission ex-President Romano Prodi called on Europe to scrap immediately the anti-Russian sanctions, rather than wait for US president Donald Trump to do it first. His opinion on the sanctions is very illustrative. According to the patriarch of European politics, «The fact that it is necessary to lift the sanctions with Russia immediately. I am deeply convinced of this. You can sacrif...

26Jan

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Russia

Could Russia Recognise Kosovo?

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini In two consecutive days this week one of the most popular newspapers in Serbia – Blic – runs on its title page the headline that Putin is prepared to recognise Kosovo as a favour to Trump. The newspaper cites Mary Dejevsky – a former correspondent to Moscow and Washington and currently author for The Guardian and member of the British think-tank Chatham House – who claims that the recognition of Kosovo might be a part of a package deal, which would provide closure for several problematic issues from the time of the Cold war, which have been placing strain on the American-Russian relations. The analyst has met Putin himself on several occasions through the influential Valdai club, reminds BalkanInsight. The issue has been tackled by Blic for three days in a row now...

16Jan

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Russia

Making Russia ‘The Enemy’

NOVANEWS By Robert Parry Consortium News Despite conflicting accounts about who leaked the Democratic emails, the frenzy over an alleged Russian role is driving the U.S. deeper into a costly and dangerous New Cold War, writes Robert Parry. The rising hysteria about Russia is best understood as fulfilling two needs for Official Washington: the Military Industrial Complex’s transitioning from the “war on terror” to a more lucrative “new cold war” – and blunting the threat that a President Trump poses to the neoconservative/liberal-interventionist foreign-policy establishment. By hyping the Russian “threat,” the neocons and their liberal-hawk sidekicks, who include much of the mainstream U.S. news media, can guarantee bigger military budgets from Congress. The hype also sets in...

9Jan

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Russia

Hacked or Leaked?

NOVANEWS By Jack Speer-Williams by Speer-Williams – Jsw4@mac.com The American media keeps promoting the concept of a Russian hack of the DNC emails. There was likely no hack, but there was a leak from a Democratic insider.* *Former British Foreign Ambassador Craig Murray told the UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, that he received the Podesta/Clinton emails on behalf of Wikileaks from a Democratic Party insider and whistleblower and not from any Russians. UK Foreign Ambassador Craig Murray Additionally, Mr. Julian Assange of Wikileaks has stated the DNC emails were leaks, not hacks, and were not from the Russian government or any other government. But what is more important than who leaked or hacked the DNC emails is … Are the emails true? What hopefully will prove to be clearly i...

9Jan

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Russia

Insane USIC report blames Russia for telling the truth

NOVANEWS By Kevin Barrett Confession: I helped the “Russian hackers” (RT) “undermine Americans’ confidence in their ‘democracy'” (by telling the truth) By Kevin Barrett Donald Trump is right about one thing: The breathlessly-awaited United States Intelligence Community Report blaming Russia for hacking the 2016 election is a joke. I’m not saying that as a Trump fan. From where I sit, the Trump Administration is shaping up to be a real disaster, possibly orders of magnitude beyond what we have experienced under Obama. But the USIC Report is as dumb as anything Trump has ever said, which as we all know is about as dumb as dumb gets. A third of the USIC Report is devoted to bashing Russia Today (RT). Why? Because two RT programs, “Breaking the Set” and “The Truthseeker,” have expose...

8Jan

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Russia, USA

The Russians Did Not “Hack” the US Election – a Few Facts from a Former CIA Spy

NOVANEWS By Robert David Steele Defense Intelligence norway President Barack Obama is stuck between false flag operations and political circus? ” I am deeply offended by the lies being told by the US Government – and more specifically, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the explicit approval of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the President – with respect to the Russians “hacking” the US election. Robert David Steele, Intelligence expert – I am reminded of the 935 now-documented lies told by Dick Cheney to justify a $5 trillion war and multiple occupations from Afghanistan to Niger – or in more Nordic terms, the falsification by the Swedish military, in collaboratio...

7Jan

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Russia, Syria

Russia Begins to Pull Forces from Syria

NOVANEWS Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is pictured in international waters off the coast of Norway, Oct. 17, 2016. | Photo: Reuters As the conflict in Syria nears its sixth year, Russia has begun pulling out forces, beginning with an aircraft carrier. Russia is starting to wind back its military presence in the Syrian conflict, Russian military chiefs announced on Friday. The scaling down of troops comes after President Vladimir Putin issued a decree amid the negotiation of a cease-fire with Iran and Turkey. RELATED: 70% Spike in Civilian Deaths by US-Led Coalition in Syria, Iraq The aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and its battle group will taken from its current post in the Mediterranean Sea to its base in Severomorsk, Russia, Army General Valery Gerasimov said on ...

30Dec

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Syria

Russia and Turkey Broker Ceasefire in Syria

NOVANEWS By Bill Van Auken World Socialist Web Site A ceasefire brokered by the governments of Russia and Turkey went into effect at the beginning of Friday, December 30, with the Syrian army announcing that it had “declared a comprehensive cessation of hostilities across all the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic.” The ceasefire deal comes just one week after the Syrian army and allied militias restored government control over all of Aleppo, depriving militias led by the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate, formerly known as the Al Nusra Front, of their last urban stronghold, the eastern sector of the city, which they had held since 2012. The retaking of Aleppo was a strategic defeat for the United States and its regional allies, which orchestrated, armed and supported the Islami...

29Dec

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Russia, USA

Escalating the Risky Fight with Russia

NOVANEWS Exclusive: To box in President-elect Trump, the neocons and liberal hawks are pushing for “crippling sanctions” against Russia that they see as crucial to their dangerous “regime change” agenda in Moscow, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The neocons and their liberal-interventionist chums never seem to think through one of their “regime change” schemes. It’s enough that they wrote the plan down in some op-ed article or reached a consensus at a think-tank conference. After that, all there is to do is to generate the requisite propaganda, often accompanied by intelligence “leaks” and maybe some heartbreaking photos of children, to rile up the American people so they can be easily herded into the next slaughterhouse. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by Assistan...