Chuck Spinney: Turks Ambushed Russians – Analysis by Pierre Sprey in Conversation with Andrew Cockburn

While circumstances of the recent  shoot-down of the Russian SU-24 by a Turkish F-16 in the border region of Turkey and Syria remain murky, this is best analysis that I have seen to date.    Be warned, however: I am biased, both the interviewer and the interviewee are good friends of mine. The map below …

Ray McGovern: Obama An Empty Shell — Allowing Neocons, Wall Street, and Arms Merchants to Thrive on Proxy War with Russia

The US-Russia Proxy War in Syria It does not appear as though Obama has the same degree of control over foreign and defense policy that Putin enjoys in Moscow   . . .   Perhaps the greatest danger from Obama’s acquiescence to the neocons’ new Cold War with Russia is that the neocon hopes for “regime change …

Mongoose: Erdogan’s Dirty Dangerous ISIS Games — Turkey Goes to War on Arabia, Russia, and the West

Erdogan’s Dirty Dangerous ISIS Games More and more details are coming to light revealing that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, variously known as ISIS, IS or Daesh, is being fed and kept alive by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President and by his Turkish intelligence service, including MIT, the Turkish CIA. Turkey, as …

Berto Jongman: Russia’s War Room Rivals US National Military Command Center

Vladimir Putin’s massive, triple-decker war room revealed It could have been a scene straight out of “Dr. Strangelove” when President Vladimir V. Putin stepped into the Russian Ministry of Defense’s brand new, three-tiered, multibillion-dollar control center this week, for a war briefing that had its fair share of movie-like pageantry.

Berto Jongman: One US Captain Stopped US Nuclear Launch on Russia from Okinawa in 1962

The Okinawa missiles of October Bordne was serving at one of four secret missile launch sites on the US-occupied Japanese island of Okinawa. Editor’s note: As this article was being considered for publication, Daniel Ellsberg … wrote a lengthy email message to the Bulletin, …assert [ing], in part: “I feel it’s urgent to find out …