Brics Was Created as a Tool of Attack: Lula

August 31, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/31/brics-was-created-as-a-tool-of-attack-lula/

Former Brazilian leader Lula speaks from a room in a prison in southern Brazil. Photo: Editora Brasil 247

Pepe ESCOBAR

Former Brazilian leader wishes emerging economies were closer, recalls Obama ‘crashing’ Copenhagen climate meet

In a wide-ranging, two-hour-plus, exclusive interview from a prison room in Curitiba in southern Brazil, former Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva re-emerged for the first time, after more than 500 days in jail, and sent a clear message to the world.

Amid the 24/7 media frenzy of scripted sound bites and “fake news”, it’s virtually impossible to find a present or former head of state anywhere, in a conversation with journalists, willing to speak deep from his soul, to comment on all current political developments and relish telling stories about the corridors of power. And all that while still in prison.

The first part of this mini-series focused on the Amazon. Here, we will focus on Brazil’s relationship with BRICS and Beijing. BRICS is the grouping of major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China – that formed

DPR/Foreign delegations expected in Donetsk for Zakharchenko’s memorial events

August 26, 2019 17:49, DAN Donetsk News Agency (DPR)  https://dan-news.info/en/society/foreign-delegations-expected-in-donetsk-for-zakharchenkos-memorial-events.html

Donetsk, Aug 26 – DAN. Foreign delegations are expected to arrive in the DPR for memorial events to commemorate the late DPR Head Alexander Zakharchenko.

“The delegations from Russia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and the LPR are to arrive for memorial events to commemorate the late DPR Head Alexander Zakharchenko,” the Foreign Ministry said.

Earlier the DPR incumbent Head Denis Pushilin said that the square in central Donetsk adjacent to the House of Government (former Regional state administration) shall be named after Alexander Zakharchenko.

He reminded that in 2014 thousands of people gathered at this square for a rally against the coup-d’etat in Kiev, and this place had since become a symbol

The Anglo-American Origins of Color Revolutions & NED

August 17, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/17/the-anglo-american-origins-of-color-revolutions-ned/

Matthew Ehret*

A few years ago, very few people understood the concept behind color revolutions.

Had Russia and China’s leadership not decided to unite in solidarity in 2012 when they began vetoing the overthrow of Bashar al Assad in Syria- followed by their alliance around the Belt and Road Initiative, then it is doubtful that the color revolution concept would be as well-known as it has become today.

At that time, Russia and China realized that they had no choice but to go on the counter offensive, since the regime change operations and colour revolutions orchestrated by such organizations as the CIA-affiliated National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Soros Open Society Foundations were ultimately designed to target them as those rose, orange, green or yellow revolution efforts in Georgia, Ukraine, Iran or Hong Kong were always recognized as weak points on the periphery of the threatened formation of a great power alliance of sovereign Eurasian nations that would have the collective power to challenge the power of the Anglo-American elite based in London and Wall Street.

Russia’s 2015 expulsion of 12 major conduits of color revolution included Soros’ Open Society Foundation as well as the NED was

BRICS, Russia/Cold War 2.0 and the Buzz Around Russia’s New Ultra-Heavy Drone

August 10, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/10/cold-war-2-and-buzz-around-russia-new-ultra-heavy-drone/

Tim Kirby*

The Cold War perception of space travel as being very human-oriented with man conquering Mars to build the Capitalist or Communist cities of tomorrow has been completely replaced by the reality that drones are much better suited for space exploration than humans. When it comes to military aviation the situation is similar. The strongest and weakest point of any pilot is his brain, which cannot stand the massive gravitational forces that ultra-modern fighter jets are capable of creating. So it is no surprise that at some point the US, Russia and China will unveil a drone big enough and capable enough to replace any current generation bombers and fighters removing the limitations of the human body’s weakness to big gravity from military aviation. And, as of a few days ago the Russians did just that.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation just released video to the public of a test of their new massive pilotless aircraft called “The Hunter”. This demonstration was

UK: Boris Johnson – A Dangerous Yes Man to Washington

July 26, 2019, EDITORIAL Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/26/boris-johnson-dangerous-yes-man-to-washington/

The clownish figure of Boris Johnson comes with a trunk load of anti-Russia baggage as he arrived in Downing Street this week as new British prime minister.

The dour, hapless Theresa May has been replaced by a guy who seems to think that geopolitics is a circus conducted with custard pies to the face.

His past deplorable comments about the Skripal affair blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering an assassination plot in England last year, plus his outrageous denigration of Russia’s World Cup as comparable to Nazi Germany holding the Olympic Games in 1936, demonstrate that this politician is unfit for office. He can only make relations with Russia even worse.

Moreover, Johnson’s cringing sycophancy to US President Donald Trump adds a whole new disturbing risk of war with Iran.

Everything about this 55-year-old polemist, who made his journalistic career on the back of concocting sensationalist rubbish, speaks of someone who is unscrupulous and a self-serving egomaniac. Added to those “qualities” are his dense stupidity and

BRICS/Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty

published on July 17, 2019, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation http://www.mid.ru/en http://www.mid.ru/en_GB/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3728033?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw&_101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw_languageId=en_GB

Question: Can an improvement in the relations with the United States be expected in the near future?

Sergey Lavrov: An improvement will hardly materialise any time soon, since it is anything but easy to sort out the mess that our relations are in, which is not our fault. After all, bilateral relations require reciprocal efforts. We have to meet each other half way.

Russia is ready to move in this direction, as we have said on a number of occasions. We proceed from the premise that Russia and the United States bear special responsibility. We are the two largest nuclear powers, the founding members of the United Nations and permanent members of its Security Council. Cooperation between our two countries is key to ensuring stability and predictability in international affairs. However, not everything depends on us. It takes two to tango, as the saying goes.

The situation is quite complicated on the American side. On the one hand, President Donald Trump talks about seeking to be on good terms with Russia, but this attitude is far from prevalent in Washington. We see this in unfriendly steps, such as various groundless accusations Russia faces, imposing financial and economic sanctions, seizing diplomatic property, kidnapping Russian nationals in third countries, opposing Russia’s foreign policy interests, as well as attempts to

No Alineados/Venezuela consolida cooperación bilateral con países del Mnoal

Publicado 20 julio 2019, TeleSur.net https://www.telesurtv.net (Venezuela) https://www.telesurtv.net/news/venezuela-cooperacion-bilateral-paises-mnoal-20190720-0024.html

En el marco de la diplomacia bolivariana de paz, este sábado autoridades venezolanas sostuvieron sendos encuentros bilaterales con las delegaciones de Rusia, Turquía, Irán y Palestina.

En el marco de las actividades diplomáticas paralelas al desarrollo de la Reunión Ministerial del Buró de Coordinación del Movimiento de Países No Alineados (Mnoal) que se celebra este fin de semana en Venezuela, altos funcionarios del Gobierno Bolivariano sostienen sendos encuentros bilaterales con las delegaciones extranjeras para consolidar vínculos de cooperación y solidaridad.

Este sábado, la vicepresidenta ejecutiva Delcy Rodríguez mantuvo reuniones de trabajo con representantes de las cancillerías de Rusia, Turquía, Irán y

BRICS/Thinking Fast and Slow: Why the West Cannot See the Rise of Russia and China

July 17, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/17/thinking-fast-and-slow-why-west-cannot-see-rise-russia-china/

Martin Sieff*

Why do Western leaders, pundits and academics all continue to despise the remarkable progress in economic and strategic cooperation being made between Russia and China and with their neighbors?

In the past six years, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China met each other for sustained conferences on no less than 30 occasions.

President Xi paid a state visit to Russia from June 5 to June 7 where he and President Putin held bilateral talks which resulted in the two leaders signing an agreement to step up global strategic stability in the modern-era. Then from June 8 to June 10, both leaders also attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

There was nothing sinister or secret about these meetings. On the contrary, they were extensively covered in the Russian and Chinese media. And they celebrated major advances in

Abya Yala, Patria Grande/VenezuelaLa serenidad de Putin, los susurros de Xi Jinping, los efectos especiales de Hasán Rouhaní y el poder armado del pueblo venezolano

04 07 2019, Rebelión http://www.rebelion.org (Mexico) http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=257948

Antonio Maira

Rebelión

La serenidad de Putin

Los acuerdos unilaterales, bilaterales, trilaterales, cuadrilaterales, multilaterales, que ha establecido Venezuela con cada uno de sus aliados y estos entre sí, han cerrado una cadena de eslabones entrecruzados –o mejor dicho-, una tupida red tanto comercial, como política, diplomática y, sobre todo, económica y militar; que hace inútil la palabrería de Donald Trump, su gesticulación feroz, su aparente falta de coherencia, la explosión final de una política de amenazas dispersa; muy americana, de jugador de casino, alquimista de bolsa de valores, viejo lema precarcelario de “Tolerancia Cero”, permisos indiscriminados (menos a los ciudadanos con antecedentes: negros, hispanos y amerindios, principalmente) para compra y tráfico de armas, y pistola vaquera al cinto.

La idea de buscarle garantía represiva a la libertad de empresa en el marco de un sistema formalmente democrático, nació en los EE UU y fue codificada en la ciudad de Nueva York, la urbe más simbólica del fin del milenio. Siguiendo modelos clásicos de marketing, la idea-sistema policial y sus procedimientos operativos fueron etiquetados para el rápido consumo de masas. En el corazón del “reino de la libertad” un plan de operaciones para la represión fue bautizado con un lema, rotundo, escueto, de claridad impertinente: “Tolerancia cero”.ii

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BRICS, Russia/Vladimir Putin’s news conference following the G20 summit

June 29, 2019, 10:50, President of Russia http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news (Russia) http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60857

Following the G20 summit, the President of Russia answered journalists’ questions.

Osaka, Japan

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon. Let us begin. Go ahead, please.

Question: Good afternoon, Mr President. We would like to ask, since I am the first to ask a question, about your personal results of the summit. There was a lot of scepticism prior to it, coming both from other leaders and expressed by you, concerning the possible results of the summit. Was the scepticism justified? What are the outcomes for world trade and the global economy?

And the second question, if I may: what were Russia’s objectives here at the G20, and were the results achieved?

Vladimir Putin: There was certain scepticism, it is true, and not from me alone. Yet on the whole the G20 summit has proved its relevance, we have to admit that, and it was effective in all the major areas of work. The result has been achieved. I think we can congratulate the Japanese presidency on that. Japan did a lot for the summit’s success, and its efforts paid off.

I would like to single out four major fields where the needed agreements have been reached. It is true that there were no breakthrough decisions. However, all the participants reconfirmed their commitment to continue efforts to improve the global trade system, including work to reform the WTO. The very fact that everyone confirmed the need for the process and reaffirmed their readiness to work along the lines is a positive development in itself.

Positions have been coordinated, except for the United States, which always has a special opinion. In fact, the US

Donetsk/DPR Post launches online queue to apply for DPR and Russian passports

July 01, 2019 13:17, Donetsk News Agency (Donetsk) https://dan-news.info/en/society/dpr-post-launches-online-queue-to-apply-for-dpr-and-russian-passports.html

 

Donetsk, Jul 1 – DAN. The DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) state company Donbass Post has launched an online queue to apply for DPR and Russian passports, the company said.

“The Donbass Post has launched an online queue to the migration service offices, the system functions smoothly, over 1,000 people have been registered within the first hours,” the report said.

The queue is accessible via the Unified Communications Centers, there are currently

Provoking Iran Could Start a War and Crash the Entire World Economy

June 23, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation https://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/23/provoking-iran-could-start-a-war-and-crash-the-entire-world-economy/

Federico Pieraccini*

Tensions in the Persian Gulf are reaching a point of no return. In recent weeks, six oil tankers have been subjected to Israeli sabotage disguised to look like Iranian attacks to induce the United States to take military action against the Islamic Republic. Some days ago Iran rightfully shot out of the sky a US Drone. In Yemen, the Houthis have finally started responding with cruise and ballistic missiles to the Saudis’ indiscriminate attacks, causing damage to the Saudi international airport of Abha, as well as blocking, through explosive drones, Saudi oil transportation from east to west through one of the largest pipelines in the world.

As if the political and military situation at this time were not tense and complex enough, the two most important power groups in the United States, the Fed and the military-industrial complex, both face problems that threaten to diminish Washington’s status as a world superpower.

The Fed could find itself defending the role of the US dollar as the world reserve currency during any conflict in the Persian Gulf that would see the cost of oil rise to $300 a barrel, threatening trillions of dollars in derivatives and toppling the global economy.

The military-industrial complex would in turn be involved in a war that it would struggle to contain and even win, destroying the United States’ image of invincibility and inflicting a mortal blow on its ability to project power to the four corners of the world.

Just look at how surprised US officials were about Iran’s capabilities to shot down an

BRICS, Russia/It’s Back to Cold War Days Over the Baltic

June 16, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/16/its-back-cold-war-days-over-baltic/

Wayne Madsen*

It was like a day from the 1970s. Except the close encounter between a Russian SU-27 fighter-interceptor and a US Air Force RC-135V intelligence-gathering plane and a Swedish Gulfstream IV spy plane occurred on June 10. The incident, which occurred within Polish maritime airspace near the airspace of the Russian Kaliningrad region, resulted in diplomatic protests being lodged with the Russian Foreign and Defense ministries by the US embassy in Moscow.

The air encounter took place on the second day of the Baltops-2019 NATO naval and air exercise in the Baltic Sea, in which the United States, Sweden (a non-NATO member), and sixteen other nations, including non-NATO member Finland, were taking part. Not taking part in the exercise were NATO members Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Canada, Czechia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Iceland, Croatia, and Montenegro. The exercise was scheduled for June 9-21.

The Baltops exercise was being held under the command of the newly-reconstituted US Second Fleet, which is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. The annual exercise concludes with the participating ships and submarines sailing to Kiel in Germany to participate

DONBASS December 4, 5, 2016/News

DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

1- DPR Head about Donetsk music flash mob: "Good job, we should be proud of such youths!"

2- Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 5.12.2016

3- When Truth-Telling Becomes Russian Propaganda - US analyst

4- Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 4.12.2016

And more

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1- DPR Head about Donetsk music flash mob: "Good job, we should be proud of such youths!" (Video)

Monday, December 5, 2016 - 12:28, DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

A video from Donetsk music flash mob appeared in weekend to the official website and YouTube channel, gathering over 300,000 views in just two days. Channel belongs to the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexandander Zakharchenko.

  

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Zakharchenko, how did the flash mob video appear at your official website? Have you participated in the event preparations?

"Of course not. After the meeting with students the guys told me that they wanted to respond to that song flash mobs at the railway stations in Ukraine and Russia. I have to say that

NATO Continues to Prepare for War with Russia

22.10.2016, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)

Peter Korzun

NATO uses any pretext to accuse Russia of harboring aggressive intentions. It has raised ballyhoo over the recent deployment of Iskander short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles to the Kaliningrad region.

Time and time again, the alliance reaffirms its bogus Russia narrative. “We see more assertive and stronger Russia that is willing to use force,” concluded NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg speaking at the round table in Passau, Bavaria on October 10.

At the same time, NATO is pushing ahead with its military "Schengen zone" in Europe.

"We are working to ensure that each individual soldier will not require a decision at

DONBASS September 30, October 9, 10, 11, 2016/News: 1- Ukrainian punishers…, 2- LPR starts disengaging…, 3- Kiev bans Russian language…, 4- "Welcome to Donbass!"…, 5 Donetsk Defense: Situation… And more…

DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

1- Ukrainian punishers shell DPR 462 times over 24 hours

2- LPR starts disengaging its forces near Stanitsa Luganskaya simultaneously with Kiev

3- Kiev bans Russian language at Ukrainian railway stations

4- "Welcome to Donbass!" (New full documentary, 30 September 2016)

5- Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 10.10.16

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1- Ukrainian punishers shell DPR 462 times over 24 hours

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 13:33, DONi Donbass International News Agency https://dninews.com (Donbass)

The Ukrainian forces shelled DPR frontline territories 462 times over the last 24 hours, stated the vice-commander of the DPR