Is #Turkey Now “#Officially” an #Ally of #Russia?

Shifting Alliances: Is Turkey Now “Officially” an Ally of Russia? Acquires Russia’s S-400. Exit from NATO Imminent?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Turkey is taking delivery of Russia’s S 400 missile defence system. What this signifies is that Turkey and Russia are now “officially” allies. The first shipment of the S-400 landed in Ankara on July 12, according to Turkey’s Ministry of Defense. Read more...

Europe and the JCPOA: International Hypocrisy, Will the US Start a Disastrous War in the Middle East?
By Robert Fantina
The U.S. hoped, naively, to gain widespread support for additional sanctions against Iran, but found itself the target of criticism for creating the entire issue by abrogating the agreement in May of 2018. Read more...

From Enlightenment to “Enfrightenment”: Romanticism as a Tool for Elite Agendas

By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
Romanticism is an eighteenth century artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement which emerged as a reaction to Enlightenment ideas of science, reason and human progress. Its effect on politics has been to reassert conservative ideas about society based on hierarchy and individualism as the Romantics looked back to medieval times and monarchism for inspiration. Read more...

Were the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity?
By Rossen Vassilev Jr.
Was President Harry Truman “a murderer,” as the renowned British analytic philosopher Gertrude Elizabeth Anscombe once charged? Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki indeed a war crime and a crime against humanity, as she and other academic luminaries have publicly claimed? Read more...

Iran vs. Spineless Europe. How far will US-western Threats Go?
By Peter Koenig
Iran announced the second step in reducing her commitment under the 2015 so-called Nuclear Deal, officially known as The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), by exceeding the limit set by agreement of 3.67% uranium enrichment and 300 kg of enriched uranium accumulation. Read more...

5G Threatens Weather Forecasting. Devastating Health Impacts
By Renee Parsons
In its haste to win, the telecom industry, its friends in Congress and the Federal bureaucracy are intent on foisting 5G on a largely unsuspecting American public before all the technological kinks have been worked out. Read more...

Political Agreement in Sudan Sets Stage for Interim Governing Council
By Abayomi Azikiwe
What has been hailed as an historic pact between the Forces for Freedom Change (FFC) and the Transitional Military Council (TMC) in the Republic of Sudan, the two major entities vying for state power, has left out some important interests which could derail any attempt to bring peace and stability to the country of over 41 million people. Read more...