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Contributing editor and volunteer translator Tom Winter, retired Classics professor, monitors the news in 6 languages, and sometimes cannot help writing satire, since that’s what today’s news mostly deserves

Eurasia

Goal of Italian PM: End Anti-Russian Sanctions

Tom Winter Mar 9, 2019 0

"There are some historically Russian regions, with Russian culture and tradition, which on a legitimate basis belong to the Russian Federation,”
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Eurasia

Sanctions bringing Siemens turbine production to Russia

Tom Winter Mar 7, 2019 0

And Siemens will make compressors of Yamal natural gas fields. "Siemens and NOVATEK have a successful working relationship as they supplied gas turbine generators and boil-off gas…
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Eurasia

Meanwhile in Odessa, to fight corruption is to put your life on the line

Tom Winter Mar 7, 2019 0

"Even after the mayor was formally charged with abuse of power, no one at Council meetings calls for his resignation, or asks if this or that business is legal, and whether mafiosi may…
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United States

Times we laughed at the US State Department: “Now is the time to act in support of…

Tom Winter Mar 7, 2019 0

This one is the contrast between acknowledged US efforts to undo Venezuela and the non-interference in other countries' affairs punch line. It's another "you can't make this up.
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Eurasia

“US and its vassals should stop serving us fairy tales.” — Lafontaine

Tom Winter Mar 6, 2019 0

If Putin were to start making regulations for Germans, they might still be considering buying "Trump's dirty and expensive fracking gas."But until then, the US and its vassals should…
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Eurasia

Ukrainian war-alarmists count eight Russian submarines — in the Azov Sea!

Tom Winter Mar 6, 2019 0

The Ukrainian state propaganda, daily convincing the inhabitants of the threat of invasion by the Russian army, spread infographics to the media, according to which there are 8…
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Eurasia

US Soldiers at Lugansk Front seek Ukrainian Passport to enter Russia

Tom Winter Mar 5, 2019 0

American intelligence officers had arrived at the Ukrainian positions in the Donbass. The delegation also included “defense attache Colonel Kevin Wofford, assistant military attache…
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Anglo 5

How many ways have the neocons of America divorced the US from the world — we count them

Tom Winter Feb 26, 2019 0

Also in October, “we” threatened to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. This became effective February 1. At the Munich Security Conference, Chancellor…
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Latin America

Venezuela: Only US Military can put Guaido in power

Tom Winter Feb 25, 2019 0

US Secretary of State Pompeo tirelessly posts on Twitter and strongly condemns Maduro for civilian casualties. A personification of Double Standard sits in the State Department of the…
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Eurasia

German MP: European security only happens with Russia

Tom Winter Feb 23, 2019 0

The current US administration combines the erratic destructiveness of Donald Trump with the neo-conservative aggressiveness of Pence and Bolton. This is a toxic mixture.
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