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As Russia Considers Air Defense Upgrade for Syria, US Makes Secret Visit to Israel

Rumors that Russia may be moving advanced air defense upgrades into Syria have triggered bellicose rhetoric and threats between Israel, Russia and their respective allies.

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Russian S-300 air defense systems on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Increasingly, it appears that the recent U.S. coalition missile strikes on Syria have utterly backfired: instead of weakening Syria or degrading its military capabilities, the attack may have actually served to strengthen Syria's defenses. Since the massive strike which involved the U.S., U.K., and France launching over 100 cruise

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Western-Backed Regime Change Looms As Armenia PM Resigns Following Mass Protests

Western-backed NGOs have been heavily involved in post-Soviet Armenia’s education system, community and charity works, selling the public on the perception that Armenia’s economic woes are directly the result of their corrupt, Russia friendly government.

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People celebrate Armenian Prime Minister's Serzh Sargsyan's resignation in Republic Square in Yerevan, Armenia, April 23, 2018. Sargsyan resigned unexpectedly on Monday, an apparent move to bring to an end massive anti-government protests. (Grigor Yepremyan/PAN/AP)

After 11 days of mass protests and violent clashes over the perceived power-grab following the outgoing Armenian President's election to Prime Minister, Serzh Sargsyan has resigned and police have released opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan. The people are against my rule,” Sargsyan, who took office as prime minister after serving as Armenia’s

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Turkey Joins Other Nations Flocking from US Dollar Hegemony

“With the Dollar, the world is always under exchange rate pressure. We should save states and nations from this exchange rate pressure. Gold has never been a tool of oppression throughout history.”

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After Venezuela, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands prudently repatriated a substantial portion (if not all) of their physical gold held at the NY Fed or other western central banks in recent years, this morning Turkey also announced that it has decided to repatriate all its gold stored in the US Federal Reserve and deliver it to the Istanbul

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DNC Files Suit Against Russia, Trump, and Wikileaks for Conspiring in 2016 Election

The DNC argues that a cyberattack undermined its ability to communicate with voters, collect donations and operate effectively as its employees faced personal harassment and, in some cases, death threats.

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Traditional Russian Matreskas depicting Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump displayed in a shop in Moscow. Nov. 8, 2016. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Did The Democrats' "The Russians did it" narrative just jump the shark? The Washington Post reports that The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the

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Famed War Reporter Robert Fisk Reaches Syrian ‘Chemical Attack’ Site, Concludes “They Were Not Gassed”

Fisk is the first Western journalist to reach and report from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack widely blamed on Assad’s forces.

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Robert Fisk in one of the miles of tunnels hacked beneath Douma by prisoners of Syrian rebels." (Photo: Yara Ismail via the Independent)

Robert Fisk's bombshell first-hand account for the UK Independent runs contrary to nearly every claim circulating in major international press concerning what happened just over week ago on April 7th in an embattled suburb outside Damascus: not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he's encountered

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Following Fresh US Sanctions over Syria Ties, Putin Warns Of Global “Chaos” If West Hits Syria Again

The U.S.-led strike on Syria was denounced by Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin as an “act of aggression,” and a “war crime” by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

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Shortly after U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley revealed that Russia would be slapped with a third round of sanctions on Monday for "enabling the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons in civil war," Russian President Vladimir Putin said that further attacks on Syria by Western forces, "in violation of the U.N. Charter," would send international

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“People Are Dancing In The Streets”: Syria, Russia, Iran Shrug Off Trump’s Airstrikes

Over 100 cruise missiles were fired Saturday morning at three mostly empty military installations in Syria, including one research and two storage facilities in airstrikes that lasted no more than 70 minutes.

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The Scientific Educational Center in the Barzah district of Damascus, Syria, the most heavily damaged target in the US' latest attack on the country.

Just like that, Trump's second Syrian attack appears to have come and gone. Sure, over a 100 cruise missiles were fired on Saturday morning local time at three mostly empty military installations, including one research and two storage facilities in airstrikes that last no more than 70 minutes. Syrian air defenses may or may not have intercepted

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