Vladimir Putin's Holds Direct Line Q&A Session

​"Yes, every country has its own interests, but they should not be advanced via egotistical political methods," Putin said, adding that many of Russia’s partners are beginning to realize this.

"We need to sit at the negotiating table and not just contemplate but actually develop contemporary, up-to-date mechanisms of international and European security," he said.

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This is one of the most important articles you can read at this time. The entire Western world has been told that there was a chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and the story came from a group of "rescuers"  called the White Helmets, which were founded by a shadowy ex UK intel officer and are funded by the UK, UN, USAID and others. The West is threatening to go to war over this unsubstantiated report. We have never been closer to nuclear annihilation.

The NYT wrote in breaking the "chemical attack" story that it got the report from the White Helmets "and others," meaning it was ONLY from the White Helmets because it did not name the "others."

I read this site and had sent out a link to it to all or most of you but then the site went down. It comes and goes, so I decided to copy it in case it goes down again.

The Western world is conjuring up a war based SOLELY on the "chemical attack" story by the White Helmets, which is a total fake. In fact, Vanessa Beeley, the author of this remarkable piece of investigative journalism, is in Douma right now and has tweeted that there is NO trace of any such attack anywhere in town! The Russian investigators has said the same thing. Of course, no Western msm are there because they claim it is too dangerous. Yet the whole area has been purged of militants and is safe enough for anyone. If I had an extra $5000 I would not hesitate to go now and send back a report.

We are being deceived big time! And Trump has said that, on the basis of this report, he will attack Syria. He has sent almost the entire US Navy to the Mediterranean for that purpose. We were fooled once by Bush in exactly this way, and to the credit of Western citizens, they are not swallowing this story whole the way they swallowed the wmd story that destroyed Iraq and started the rapid descent into bankruptcy of the US, from which there is no way out.

If you still have any suspicion that Assad "gassed his own people," read the whole article pasted below (or try the link, which may work) and you will be disabused. The whole Assad story in the West is a hoax and this is just the latest installment.

- Don Hank

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"Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the country's parliament, speaking about Russia's success in the defense sector, relations with the US and NATO, social and economic development of the country, as well as Moscow's plans concerning the technological advance in big data, AI and cryptocurrency."

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From reading Tolstoy in the original to finding a job, romantic love and new friends: Here are the stories of foreigners who thought they were merely learning grammar rules, but instead discovered an entire new world.

Article originally published on Russia Insider
by Alexandra Guzeva

Dear friends of the Russia & America Good Will Association (www.raga.org) and antiwar colleagues!

​For Memorial Day on May 29, 2017, I got a shorter than usual newsletter. Our Russian friends must know that Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the USA for remembering those who died while serving in the US armed forces. Observed on the last Monday of May, Memorial Day is to remember those who died while serving, while Veterans Day honors all U.S. military veterans.

As a member of Veterans for Peace (VFP), I think that the best way to honor those fallen in the service to their country is to conduct such foreign policy that minimizes and, hopefully, reduced to nil, human sacrifices on both sides. We should strive to achieve our national security by not threatening, humiliating and bombing our opponents but by pacifying them with our readiness for a negotiated compromise. It is my duty to forward the BELOW announcements of various peace promoting events.

In my book, Russia Beyond Communism: A Chronicle of National Rebirth (https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Beyond-Communism-Chronicle-Contemporary/dp/0813383617), written and published BEFORE the collapse of the USSR, I predicted that the best future was to abandon Communist ideology and return instead to the traditional roots of Russian culture, including Russian Orthodox Christianity. In fact, my book was dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of Russia's baptism in the year of 988. Since the August 1991 coup, Russia has been indeed returning, gradually and tentatively, to its traditional Christian roots. If before 1991 Soviet soldiers were forbidden to wear crucifix or any other religious symbol, now Russian generals, politicians, and Vladimir Putin like to stress that Russia's basic ethical value system is close to that the US and European Union.

On May 25, President Putin gave a Speech at a ceremony consecrating the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs.  Symbolically the Church is near the Lubyanka Square with its Lubyanka Building notorious for Soviet secret police persecution of all believers as well as dissidents.  That's what he said:

This ceremony consecrating the new church at the Sretensky Monastery is an important and significant event not only for Orthodox believers, but for our society as a whole. This is because this church is dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, and to the new martyrs, in other words, to the memory of those who suffered during the years of anti-religious persecution and who died during this time of repression. At the same time, it embodies the spirit of reconciliation.

It is deeply symbolic that this new church is opening on the year, which marks the 100th anniversary of the February and October revolutions (of 1917) that were the departure point for many of the serious trials our country had gone through during the twentieth century.


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Appeal to the Governments of Russia and the USA to start cooperation in the development of Global Peace Science as a common platform for the "nuclear zero" and the world pacifization* providing planetary security. 
 
TO: The Presidents of Russia and the USA; 
TO: The Foreign Minister of Russia and the United States, Secretary of State; 
TO: The UN Secretary General; 
TO: The International Peacemaking Organizations, World Civil Society.
 
SUBJECT: Russian and US cooperation in the development of Global Peace Science (GPS) as a common platform for "nuclear zero" and the world pacifization providing planetary security and preventing nuclear confrontation. 
 
APPEAL INITIATORS: The GPS coauthors, leaders of peacemaking organizations and peacemakers from different countries (42 of 21 countries - below). 
 
* Pacifization. It is the GPS concept designating the universal process of reconciliation via harmonization. It is similar to globalization and informatization, supplementing them and embodied in the constant growth of reconciliation of international relations in global society as result of spreading consciousness and peacebuilding technologies of GPS. Not to be confused with the local attempts of violent reconciliation – "pacification."
 
Sirs,
 
Our Appeal to you contains a number of sections – steps of understanding for necessary and possibility of the Copernican revolution of the Russian-American relations, which are the key to save the lives of the two nations and humanity as a whole. Using Einstein's words, we can say that "peace between the US and Russia cannot be achieved through violence, it can o­nly be attended through understanding." The highest form of understanding global peace is the jointly recognized science of global peace.

The traditional ideologies of both sides were unable to ensure peace between them in the past, igniting a war, especially nuclear confrontation up to the limit point of ‘no return’ of the first nuclear missile, which will launch the nuclear annihilation of mankind via its military self-destruction. John F. Kennedy predicted its opportunity still o­n September 25, 1961 at the UN: 
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."

The traditional ideologies were powerless to end the war. They have brought mankind to the very brink of nuclear war, in which, as we know, there can be no winners. It will be o­nly a victory of death over life. The past 70 years after World War II’s end are passed under the sign of threatening exacerbation of the Russian-American nuclear standoff.

The dangerous peak and limit threat of nuclear war, which cannot be further tolerated if the nuclear Powers and humanity are going to save lives, not to destroy each other, have been made the US/NATO military Summit decision in Warsaw o­n July 9, 2016 to deploy military infrastructure, including nuclear, along the western border of Russia.This decision implements the US Congress Resolution 758 o­n December 4, 2014 about preparation of the war against Russia involving 28 NATO countries in this preparation.
 
The whole world is alarmed today with the United States and Russia extreme level of nuclear confrontation, more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962. It is caused by three most menacing facts.

The first. Deployment of NATO nuclear weapons and the accompanying infrastructure o­n Russia's western border that reminds to the Russians the Hitler’s concentration of the Nazi troops within an aggressive plan Barbarossa in 1941. Now it is in 2016 - 75 years later. 

The second. Intention of the US administration to spend an additional $ 1 trillion for modernization of nuclear weapons in the next decade. For what is it? It is not for peace, it is for nuclear war. 

The third. Traditional, since Hiroshima/Nagasaki 1945, US policy, which allows the first use of nuclear weapons. "Throughout the nuclear age, presidents have allowed their senior commanders to plan for the first use of nuclear weapons..." This underscores the Pentagon's former military experts James E. Cartwright and Bruce G. Blairaug (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=706). 
 
These facts testify to the practically 100% possibility of nuclear aggression, which lacks o­nly a pretext to fulfill it and mark the beginning of a nuclear war. Finding this pretext will not be difficult, if desired. In a nuclear war, as we know, there can be no winners.It would be a suicide of humanity and life o­n the planet.Main thing: these facts are evidences of roughly violated rights of humanity and every person to life, peace and freedom from the military, primarily from nuclear annihilation and from its threats emanating from any country. Therefore, they force other countries, including Russia, to increase its defensive power against the growing nuclear threatand aggression.Unfortunately, the various tensions between the two nuclear Powers, possessing 95% of the world nuclear weapons, are approaching the point of "nuclear non-return." 

To stop approaching this point and turning its movement backward can o­nly intensively develop peace cooperation between the two countries. Examples of this are: this is the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) 1975 and the subsequent cosmic cooperation, which prevented the proliferation of nuclear weapons in near space. Today new effective efforts in their cooperation and in the new innovative areas are needed. Where is the way out to peace today in the US and Russia nuclear confrontation? Who and what can show the way out?
 
The Copernican revolution of US-Russia relations, in whose hands are humanity’s nuclear keys from the realm of the dead Hades, demanding a Copernican revolution of thinking, which was accomplished by Global Peace Science, published in Russian and English in 2015/2016 respectively.
 
The effective mutually acceptable way out and promising area of ​​cooperation could be joint development of Global Peace Science (GPS). The GPS first version, after many years of work was completed in 2016 by 174 co-authors from 34 countries with the participation of 59 scientists and peacemakers from the United States and 33 - from Russia (http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf, p.6). This work in fact marked the beginning of cooperation between the two countries in the crucial field of global peace as the best security for all. The further joint development of GPS will create a common scientific platform not o­nly for "nuclear zero" and the geopolitics of peace but also a new level of understanding, thinking and culture of global peace and partnership of countries in humanitarian sciences. GPS found presentations o­n all continents and was sent to the United Nations (and UNESCO), together with a corresponding petition for discussion at the General Assembly (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=686). 

For the Program of cooperation between the two countries in this field, we offer the title "Russia and USA. Global Peace Science as Platform of 'Nuclear Zero', Pacifization and Planetary Security." Briefly: "Russia and USA: GPS" or "Nike" Program from the name of the Greek goddess of victory, symbolizing, in this case, the joint victory of Russia and US over the war. This name is consonant with the name of the first program "Apollo–Soyuz". The "Nike" Program will begin joint development of a yet unknown social cosmos of global peace with the prospect of unlimited economic and cultural growth through innovative peace technologies.

The starting fundamental act could be a Global Peace Summit of Russia and USA together with the international peace-making organizations of civil society under the UN aegis, for example, in June 2017 in St. Petersburg, with approximately the following agenda: 

1. The establishment of a joint Institute of Global Peace Science (IGPS) or Russia-America Pacifization Institute (RAPI) for its development. Two equal compartments of IGPS/RAPI in Russia and USA are assumed. 
2. Organization in 2017/2018 through IGPS of an International Scientific Contest for the GPS best variant (see Contest rules in GPS Chapter 8.21). 
3. Global Peace Science (GPS) and holistic strategy of pacifization (reconciliation through harmonization) of international relations in geopolitics.
4. New scientific technologies of pacifization/harmonization based o­n GPS: universal statistical digitization and informatization, globalization, economic growth, democratization, institutionalization, monetization, intellectualization, personal harmonious growth, harmonious education and the like. 
5. Constitution of the Earth Federation as a Global Peace Constitution: the highest instrument of international law, ensuring global peace based o­n social harmony, equality of nations and justice for all.
5. The primary nuclear disarmament to "nuclear zero" for 10 years, until 2030, and to get the nukes off of hair trigger alert.
6. Global disarmament for 50 years via annual reductions of global military spending of 2%, starting since 2020 or 2030.
7. The scientific program of the UN reform o­n the basis of GPS.
8. Annual International Scientific Conferences dedicated to development of GPS.
9. The principle and the agreement: "Global Harmony as the Absolute Guarantor for World Security" (Terrence Paupp, 2010: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=254). 
10. Harmonious multipolar world order based o­n science (GPS). 
(For another edition of this Agenda you can see below**).

      All items of the Summit approved agenda will make a strategic Program of the GPS Institute (RAIP), which will be the long-term program of peaceful humanitarian cooperation between Russia and the United States***. This will be a constructive scientific "Roadmap for Global Peace", free from traditional peacemaking demagogy, which has been helpless in preventing all past wars. It will give to humanity a solid hope for maintenance of its first right to life through prevention of nuclear war and disarmament up to "nuclear zero". It is the hope to witness a consistent scientific solution of all global peace challenges until full disarmament before the end of the 21st century.

A similar optimistic hope of mankind, weary with nuclear threat since 1945, will be present thanks to the two great nuclear Powers, which will find in it an inexhaustible source of inspiration and enthusiasm for self-renewal, rebirth, new common dreams and a national/global idea of realignment of the world order architecture in multipolar harmonious spirit. Russian and US cooperation programs in the development of GPS will be implementation of the great UN covenant in its Charter: "That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed." The GPS joint development by Russia and the USA as a deliberate Copernican revolution of consciousness for an overturn of their relationship and preventing global nuclear collapse - this is the best rooting of the strongest peace defence. 
​
Using the terminology of Brzezinski, the revolution of consciousness for nuclear Powers in the development of GPS is the emergence of "a new historical narrative" and scientifically "realigning the global power architecture" in the 21st century (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignment/). Therefore, the development and use of GPS are equally important for the sustainable development and realignment of relations betweentwo largest nuclear Powers - Russia and the United States, as well as for the fate of humanity in the 21st century.
 
Sincerely yours,
Leaders of peacemaking organizations:
Dr. Leo Semashko, GHA Founder and Honorary President, Russia
Julia Budnikova, President, GHA-Russia
Dr. Charles Mercieca, President, Int. Ass. of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), US
Dr. Roger Kotila, Vice-President, World Constitution and Parliament Association, US
Dan Moody, Global Peace Partners President, US
Dr. Subhash Chandra, GHA President, India
Ramesh Kumar, GHA Executive Director, India
Dr. Surendra Pathak, President, GHA-India, India
Dr. Ayo Ayoola-Amale, President, GHA-Africa, Ghana
Dr. Maria Cristina Azcona, President, Worldwide Peace Organization (WWPO), Argentina 
Dr. Uraz Baimuratov, President, GHA-Kazakhstan
Dr. Alicia Rodriguez, President, UN International Committe for Banner of Peace, Mexico 
 
PEACEMAKERS:
Dr. John Scales Avery, Nobel Peace Prize, Denmark
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize, Northern Ireland
Dr. Ernesto Kahan, former Vice-President of IPPNW, awarded Nobel Peace Prize, Israel
Prof. Rudolf Siebert, scientist, US
Delasnieve Daspet, lawyer and poet, Brazil,
Dr. Susana Roberts, poet and writer, Argentina
Dr. Takis Ioannides, writer, Greece
Dionyssios Georgakopoulos, Poet, Greece
Dr. Apostolos Paschos, doctor and scientist, Greece
Dr. Robert Burrowes, scientist and writer, Australia
Dr. Francois Houtart, Catholic priest and scholar, Belgium
Dr. Guy Crequie, writer and vocalist, France
Dr. Bishnu Pathak, scientist, Nepal
Ammar Banni, Professor, Algeria
Victor Skorlupin, engineer, Belarus
Svetlana Vetrova, singer, Russia 
Svetlana Kuskovskaya, teacher, Russia
Dr. Alexander Subetto, scientist, Russia
Vera Popovich, bibliographer, Russia
Piotr Semashko, lawyer, Russia
Alexander Semashko, manager, Russia
Leonid Timoshenko, composer, Russia
Konstantin Kushner, writer, Russia
Maria Karpinskaya, journalist, Russia
Tatiana Rumyantsev, researcher, Institute of Genetics, Russia
Reimon Bachika, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Kobe, Japan
Dr. Bruce Cook, publisher, US
Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician, author, speaker, Australia
Dr. Leonid Marachovsky, academician, Ukraine 
Dr. Tatiana Kablova, professor, Kiev University, Ukraine

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