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According to Russia’s General Staff  the terrorist group Al-Nusra Front is receiving daily arms shipments across the border from Turkey. Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy told journalists on Friday that the Al-Qaeda linked group remains a major destabilizing factor in Syria. The group used the ceasefire between government forces and moderate rebels in Syria to regroup and renew hostilities. RT reports: “Damascus is being continuously shelled from Eastern Ghouta. There were numerous attempts to capture power station near Homs and block the road connecting Aleppo and Damascus.

Authored by Pepe Escobar, Op-Ed via RT.com,

So foreign ministers from the 28 NATO member-nations met in Brussels for a two-day summit, while mighty military power Montenegro was inducted as a new member.

Global Robocop NATO predictably discussed Afghanistan (a war NATO ignominiously lost); Iraq (a war the Pentagon ignominiously lost); Libya (a nation NATO turned into a failed state devastated by militia hell); Syria (a nation NATO, via Turkey, would love to invade, and is already a militia hell).

Submitted by Michael Klare via TomDispatch.com,

Washington’s Sanctions Against Russia Wreck Not Russia But Washington’s European Vassals

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/05/26/europe-revolts-against-russian-sanctions.html

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Russia’s Deputy Chief of General Staff met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday to discuss strategic military cooperation. According to TASS: China was represented by Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission Admiral Sun Jianguo, Russia – by Chief of the Main Operations Department of the Russian General Staff Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy.