Udo Ulfkotte "European Media Writing pro-US Stories Under CIA Pressure." (RT)

‘World losing battle with Ebola’ – Doctors Without Borders Chief. (RT: Sophie Co)

Norman Finkelstein on Gaza Conflict, Hamas Goals and Iron Dome Myth. (RT America)

How Google Now Plays Cop, Gets People Arrested (RT America: The Resident)

The Roots of the New Cold War (RT: The Big Picture)

Jimmy Dore "Your Country is Just NOT That Into You." (RT: The Big Picture)

Everything You Know Is Wrong...about the Rapture? (RT:The Big Picture)

Boston Bombing -- What You Aren't Told. (RT: The Truthseeker)

US plans 'first strike' on Russia. (RT: The Truthseeker)

Ex-Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal "West scared of BRICS as it has no control over it." (RT: Sophie Co.)

Southeastern Ukraine: Crisis Diary (RT Documentary)

Fast Food Protest in Boston

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In Defense of RT

By Gene Ogorodov

Several days ago Secretary of State John Kerry lashed out against the quality reporting found at RT.  I do not work for RT. (The turkeys wouldn't give me a job; I'm too much of Marxist-Leninist for their tastes.) However, let me set the record strait. 

In researching current events one cannot depend solely upon one news outlet. One needs to read reports from the area in interest. For example, if one wants to know what the people of Crimea think you need read Crimean news. If there is a clear impetus for partisan bias it is necessary to read both sides and try to piece together an objective opinion. I'm a news junkie, and I have done due diligence on the Crisis in the Ukraine, and RT is the only major news source that I have found to represent the opinions of the Ukrainian and Crimean people and accurately represent the facts on the ground. 

RT: Act of War: 5 Years After the South Ossetian Conflict

RT -- "The War on Iran Begins...in Syria."

By Gene Ogorodov

Earlier this week RT published at op-ed by Eric Draister on the immanent US et al. direct military intervention in Syria entitled "The War on Iran Begins...in Syria." Justifiably pessimistic, Draister exposes what will inevitably be called "humanitarian intervention" as imperialistic warmongering.  I hope that this does not turn into a much broader conflict, but I believe as Draister does that a US military strike in Syria could lead down a similar path with dire consequences. 

It is notable that what might be the most significant political action in the 21st Century has gone virtually unnoticed, obfuscated by a lack of coverage and impenetrable propaganda. The Pax Americana is over, and there is nothing that bullying Syria, Iran, or China will do to preserve it. Washington needs to recognize that fact and not waist the blood and treasure of the United States fighting for the impossible. Furthermore, the US has chronic and sever internal problems that need to be addressed. 

US Goverment Debt Greater than Global GDP

RT reported last Tuesday that a report by James Hamilton out of the University of California San Diego has estimated that the Federal Government has accumulated $70 Trillion in unofficial debt. The World Bank calculations for Global GDP for 2012 is $71 Trillion. In short unofficial US debt is virtually equal to Global GDP.  It might be feasible for the US the clear its unofficial debt by subsuming the entire planet, but considering that the official debt is $12 Trillion and rapidly rising that option would solve the US's fiscal problems. To pay its debt off the US will need send explorers like Cpts. Kirk and Picard into the nether reaches of the Galaxy to rape and pillage as of yet unknown planets or devalue the dollar to such an extent that the ratio isn't ludicrous. The RT article can be found here.

RT Op-Ed: Pain in the Brass

In an Op-Ed presented on RT several months ago, “Pain in the Brass: Petraeus Joins Sullied Trinity of Fallen Generals”, William Echols has written an exceptional analysis of Gen. Petraeus' fall from grace. He brings various pieces of puzzle together from break with tradition that was the Petraeus doctrine and ultimate failure to the willingness of the Obama doctrine to ride rough-shod over the American Brass.

With three four-star generals disgraced in as many years and the tale-tale signs that two more (Generals Allen and Ward) will have joined them on the chopping block in as many weeks, Echols' Op-Ed for RT lays bare questions that should be in the forefront of responsible journalism.