Epstein Secrets

illion to $3-billion arms package Egypt is seeking from the Russians. At a time when Putin needs to pay a price for flouting international norms in Crimea, this is hardly the time to be offering funds for Russian arms. Even from their own perspective, how can the Saudis possibly hope to persuade Vladi

alestinians remaining in Syria's besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, life is a horrifying daily struggle, a veritable hell on earth. Earlier this month, Amnesty International released a report confirming this dystopian reality. The report reveals that 128 people have died from starvation since last July; the inevitable o

n nations warn of the dangerous transformation that the West's standoff with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, which began with Russia's annexation of Crimea last year, has had on regional security. Provocative military maneuvers by Russian aircraft and ships have created alarm in European capitals. In r

ort and weapons from Washington, and undertook a year-long reign of terror in which security forces and the army killed more than a million people (Amnesty International, which rarely has much to say about the crimes of US imperialism, put the number at 1.5 million). In addition to providing the essential on-the-gro

all sample of similar claims or conjec- tures that have made their way into Russian news cov- erage, especially in the wake of Moscow's occupation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine. They stand as areminder that under Vladimir Putin, the Russian media environment has been transformed from one marke

and people who wrote critical commentaries were regularly sentenced to prison terms, often under grim conditions, by dicta- torships of all stripes. Amnesty International's founding mission was the defense of what were called “prisoners of conscience,” and they ranged from dissidents and Jewish refuseniks in the So- viet