sputnik_news_logo_204_10Titles and highlights from each are below. There's so much being exposed here, that it is hard not to notice these things. The second article (the RT) is the main article on which the third one (a Sputnik) was based. I thought the Sputnik one had better pictures.

Washington's 'Peace'... It's Complicated (Sputnik News)

"This week US Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly phoned Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to firm up the forthcoming peace negotiations supposedly aimed at bringing an end to the Syrian conflict. But, according to a Reuters report, Kerry's purpose of contacting Lavrov appeared to be less concerned with finding peace and more to do with protecting terrorist outfits in Syria.

"Strangely, or perhaps not, Washington and Moscow – the two main diplomatic forces behind the Geneva talks – have not yet agreed on an acceptable list of opposition factions.

"...Kerry is basically telling Russia to lay off known terrorist groups – groups that have shared American weaponry with Daesh and Nusra – in order to give "peace a chance" in Syria. This flawed logic is consistent with repeated demands from Washington that Moscow must curtail its military operations in Syria to exclusively target Daesh.

"This is what the "peace process" in Syria is really all about for Washington and its allies. It is not about finding a genuine peaceful solution. It is all about achieving regime change by politics, because regime change by proxy war has failed – thanks to Russia's military intervention.

"Here's to a peaceful New Year Mr Kerry. And it's really not complicated. You and your government just need to back off from unlawful interference in other sovereign countries."

rt_cube_logo_150_6Is NATO's European honeymoon on the rocks? (Robert Bridge, RT)

"Just this month, Polish military police, accompanied by Antoni Macierewicz, the new defense minister of the newly elected Law and Justice Party, conducted a dramatic midnight raid on a NATO-linked counterintelligence center in Warsaw. Yes, you read that right: Polish authorities conducted a raid on a NATO-linked facility on their own territory... "Nothing like this has happened in the history of NATO, where a member state attacks a NATO facility."

"First, the promise of 'hope and change' that failed to materialize under US President Barack Obama has been a major letdown not just for millions of Americans, but for countless Europeans as well.

"The Western military bloc continues to agitate Russia, pushing smack against the very border of NATO's Cold War nemesis, while recklessly hampering one of Europe's most reliable trading partners.

"Although these two events in two major European countries may be nothing more than mere blips on the radar screen concerning NATO's relationship with Europe, they could also be warning signals of an approaching earthquake in which the steady encroachment of nationalistic political demands begin to seriously clash with NATO's global objectives, which, at this stage, don't seem remotely concerned with the true well-being and security of the European people."

Europeans Finally Losing Patience With NATO's Reckless Mess (Sputnik News, based on the above RT)