“It’s not a beginning of war, it is prevention of a situation that could lead to global military confrontation. It is also the end of the war that was being carried out [in Donbass]”, Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry,…

The Western countries will suffer every bit as much as Russia will, and quite possibly more considering that Russia has proven its ability to weather sanctions due to the growth of its domestic production base. Despite all the hysterical talk about a…

The Associated Press has published yet another article based on unevidenced assertions by anonymous government officials about the scary horrifying frightening Russian menace, this time to accuse another media outlet of promoting propaganda. Without a trace of irony. “U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused…

About those truckers… Like many, I have spent the last couple of weeks a bit entranced by the trucker protests happening in Canada (and now around the world, from Paris to Wellington). I initially tried to document here every twist and turn…

French President Emmanuel Macron has held a series of phone calls with US President Biden and Russia’s Putin on Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden have both agreed in “principle” to hold a meeting to halt escalation…

An Associated Press poll has found that just 26 percent of Americans believe their country should be playing a major role in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Jennifer Rau, a 51-year-old mother of three adopted teenagers who lives on Chicago’s South Side,…

Ottawa police put an end to the “Freedom Convoy” protest in the downtown district that lasted for three weeks. On Friday and Saturday, officers arrested demonstrators and seized their vehicles. Now Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson wants to sell those seized trucks and campers to…

  I can’t believe I am saying this, but thank goodness for Twitter right now. Were it not for the social media giant, what coverage would we have of the weeks-long freedom protest in Canada right now? Even Tucker Carlson often has…

Over the last decade, Russia has been successfully strengthening its influence in different parts of the world: first and foremost, in the countries of Asia and Africa.  The trade turnover with them has been growing every year, including the countries of South-East…

  Here’s a quick quiz: How do we know the new developments in special counsel John Durham’s investigation are important? Answer: Because the New York Times and Washington Post claim they aren’t important.  Big Media’s messengers for the Deep State are nothing if not consistent….

New Zealand has defied the wrath of its Anglosphere allies to sign a big new trade deal with Beijing China and New Zealand this week completed the ratification of their upgraded free-trade agreement, which will come into force in April. Although the deal…

Dozens of people once again took to the streets of the Bahraini capital, Manama, on 18 February to protest against the deepening of ties between their government and the Israeli occupation. The protesters carried banners condemning the normalization of diplomatic relations with…

Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO who answers to Washington declared today (Feb 19) at the Munich Security Conference that “if the Kremlin’s aim is to have less NATO on its borders, it will only get more NATO.” He says NATO…

President Joe Biden has announced the first round of economic sanctions on Russia as tensions in Ukraine continue to mount. The sanctions came in response to an announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin recognizing two breakaway republics in Ukraine and his decision…

The unprecedented credit-fueled bubbles in stocks, bonds and real estate are popping, and America’s corrupt leaders can only stammer and spew excuses and empty promises. Unbeknownst to most people, America’s leadership made a pact with the Devil: rather than face the constraints and…

Shortly before 1am Kiev time Ukraine’s President Zelensky announced: “The enemy’s sabotage forces have entered the capital. Me and my family are remaining.”  “We need to talk about a ceasefire with Russia,” he added in the video message. Then what followed suggests…

By Ye Xie, Bloomberg markets live commentator and analyst The U.S. expanded sanctions against Russia on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin moved to recognize breakaway territories in Ukraine as independent states. The standoff may further Moscow’s de-dollarization movement and see the Chinese yuan play…

As noted earlier, over the past centuries, there have been various assessments of changes in fertility and their impact on the state structure and social processes. Nevertheless, it has always been recognized that the demographic situation of a country is invariably a…

Russia is going for basically a zero civilian casualty approach, even as they are being accused of “genocide” and all kinds of other lunacy. The media is saying “why is it taking them 4 days??? Russian army meets no resistance and the…

What I am writing here I have been warned against. As we move toward the last full week of February 2022, we are told that the world is at the brink of a war. But who believes this? Certainly, anyone reading the…

DONETSK, Ukraine Feb 24 (Reuters) – At least five explosions were heard in the separatist-held eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk early on Thursday, a Reuters witness said. Following the blasts, four military trucks could be seen heading for the scene. Hours earlier,…

The prospect of a “high intensity” armed conflict involving major military powers has been a subject of reflection and concern in expert circles and the media for some years now, and as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, this issue has become even more…

The German chancellor said the row between Russia and the West is potentially dangerous but can be resolved. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said Ukraine isn’t about to be admitted to NATO despite Moscow’s fears  NATO currently has no plans to admit…

Washington has gotten so big and filled with far too many unelected people drunk on power who want to control the American people. We all agree that Washington is broken. It is one of the few things that people on both sides…

Yesterday, President Trump proposed a full forensic audit of the Zuckerbucks used to buy the 2020 election while speaking at CPAC in Florida: “A Republican Congress should launch a select committee, as opposed to an unselect committee, to get to the bottom…

Moscow’s announcement that some troops are withdrawing from near the border with Ukraine has sparked a media storm. Does Russia’s order to pull back some troops from the Ukrainian border mean there will be no invasion as many predicted?  As Western leaders…

NATO has moved its staff in Ukraine, the representative of the bloc’s Information and Documentation Center says. The move comes amid clashes in the war-torn Donbass region. Amid an increasingly tense standoff in eastern Ukraine, NATO has sent personnel stationed at its…

Will far-right Ukrainian militias play the same role as the mujahedeen did in Afghanistan? For almost three months, the Western mainstream media, in a move not dissimilar to its previous assertions that Saddam Hussein had the capability to launch WMDs within 45 minutes, or…

The U.S. Constitution We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our…

In talks with Sergei Lavrov this week, Secretary Blinken certainly has diplomatic options. The question is, will he pursue the right ones? In a sign that a diplomatic way out of this crisis is still possible, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken…

The Kremlin has been very clear about its intentions in Ukraine since Russia initially invaded Crimea in 2014 and annexed it: President Vladimir Putin wants to return Russian-speaking regions of the former Soviet Union, notably those closest to Russia’s borders, to the…

The republics have Moscow’s backing under pacts inked with the two regional leaders, the country’s foreign minister says. EU’s Josep Borrell doesn’t deem a presumed Russian military presence to be a “fully fledged invasion” at this point. Moscow will act as a…

For the first time throughout the current two-month long standoff between NATO and Russia over Ukraine, the specter of nuclear war has been directly raised, with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday warning that his country stands ready to deploy nuclear weapons if…

Donetsk People’s Republic residents celebrate the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognize both Donbass Republics as independent states, launching fireworks in the centre of Donetsk. Dozens of Donetsk residents have gathered at the city’s central square, bringing Russian flags, DAN…

The entire world is filled with big governments and out of control central banks. Since the US fell for the Siren Song of big government in the 1910s, many other countries have followed suit. Now, against the backdrop of the pandemic, debt…

The US State Department has evacuated Ukraine embassy staff from Ukraine to Poland on Monday, amid fears that Russia will launch an attack on Kiev, Bloomberg reports. War fears escalated on Monday, after Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow would immediately recognize the…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has authorized an order to mobilize as many as 700 D.C. National Guard members ahead of an upcoming trucker convoy to the nation’s capital. The National Guard said in a press statement that Austin approved requests from the…

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is one of the most qualified public health pandemic experts in the United States. To the narrative-shapers, he’s a pariah. As a prominent epidemiologist and statistician, Kulldorff has worked on detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks for two decades. His methods…

I was thinking to title this article “Why There Will Be No Red Wave in November” but decided against it.  While I think there is a high probability that the Red Wave will not materialize, I felt that I needed to spend…

Simply put, the US China containment’ policies have failed miserably. The US is increasingly belligerent in its efforts to stifle China’s rise and pressure its allies to do the same. But none of the tactics – trade wars, “freedom of navigation” operations…

At least one of the two consecutive blasts in Lugansk has affected a gas pipeline At least two explosions have rocked the city of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine late on Friday, Sputnik news agency’s correspondent has reported. Local media have also confirmed…

Iran and the United States used to be the closest allies before the 1979 Iranian revolution, but now they are uncompromising enemies. Quite a peculiar political metamorphosis.  Makes one wonder how former close friends turned into such enemies in just over forty years?…

By Michael Every, Hugo Erken, Michiel van der Veen, Ryan Fitzmaurice and Stefan Voge of Rabobank Summary Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine linger despite recent possible de-escalation We build on our recent ‘Ukraine metacrisis’ to model three macroeconomic war scenarios…

Zelensky has a maximum of 30 days of Life in his current Avatar before he is discharged from duty by those who pull his string and the serious negotiations commence to offset the effects of the next round of chaos that will…

So… You effectively declared a cold war on your two most powerful adversaries at the same time, bullying and harassing them with the military and sanctioning them. Then you got disturbed and surprised when they decided to ally together? Is it possible…

The famous short story by Edgar Allen Poe, The Purloined Letter, is apt in describing the agenda of Klaus Schwab, founder some 50 years ago of what is today the globally influential Davos World Economic Forum (WEF)–Hidden in plain sight. Schwab published…

Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened.  Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons…

“We want to remind you that Russia has never attacked anyone throughout its history.” Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman “NATO leaders are now engaged in the most blatant and irresponsible destabilisation and hybrid war operation since they used Islamic terrorists to destroy Libya…

See Part I for how RAND and its creed “systems analysis” was created and how Albert Wohlstetter would ultimately become the kingpin of RAND. A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: the Fabian Society For us to understand what ultimately made Albert Wohlstetter the…

A little-known aspect of the disastrous Western occupation of Afghanistan was that UK and Australian companies sought to access the country’s $3 trillion worth of untapped minerals – with little regard for the welfare of Afghans. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in…

The Department of Justice has vowed to crack down on ‘corporate greed’. The US Department of Justice will investigate and prosecute those found to be exploiting supply chain issues to make higher profits. The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that…

For many weeks now, the President of the United States Joseph Biden, his Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have been telling the world that “it is certain that Russia will invade Ukraine,” that an “invasion is imminent,”…

No one wants Ukrainistan, least of all Vladimir Putin. Latest factor: A smoking gun document supports Germans who differ with Washington on NATO membership expansion Its GDP of $98 billion (in constant 2015 US dollars), down 43% since 1989, falls in between Ethiopia and…

Russia’s continued request for Kiev to finally implement the Minsk Accords might be the last chance that the rest of Ukraine has to remain unified, albeit not as a ‘unitary’ state since it seems almost inevitable that only a ‘confederal solution’ can…

The tactic of fascists In a fascist government, those in power control businesses or have the explicit support of corporations in punishing individuals. This makes for absolute power of the government, leaving nowhere for the individual to turn for support. They can…

Just one of multiple plans that have been revealed for truckers’ convoys in America to protest COVID mandates and the multiple impacts of Joe Biden’s presidency, such as exploding fuel prices, already is confirming there are 1,000 trucks lined up to take…

Western media leads us into war in Ukraine with Russia, but don’t worry, Biden’s got the autocue working now. Western media leads us into war in Ukraine with Russia, but don’t worry, Biden’s got the autocue working now. “We’re heading for a…

The situation at the southern border has been so bad that it can’t wait three more years for a new administration to step in, and border states have the constitutional authority to defend themselves, according to Russ Vought, former director of the Office…

The Joe Biden administration’s ‘new’ Indo-Pacific strategy document contains nothing ‘new’ insofar as the cardinal objective of this strategy is concerned i.e., ‘encircling China.’ Interestingly enough, the strategy has been revealed despite the Biden administration’s various rhetorical claims that the administration is…

Civil liberties have been sacrificed to the culture war. Last month I gave a speech at the ‘Kill the Bill’ rally in Westminster, with a bunch of fellow lefties who were rightly angry at Priti Patel’s proposed Policing Bill, which would have…

Big Meat. Supermarket chains. Mom and pop gasoline stations. Computer chips. Russian President Vladimir Putin. What do these all have in common? They are, according to President Joe Biden, the reasons he’s currently overseeing the worst bout of inflation in four decades. This has…

Kiev’s continued shelling of those newly independent republics as part of its ongoing genocide against their indigenous Russian people and its occupation of their territory that the Kremlin officially recognizes as falling within their sovereign borders could very likely provoke Moscow to…

“Do the Russians want war?” This is the type of headlines in Middle Eastern media reports on the recent Western-led information campaign dealing with the alleged military threat posed by Russia. The mosaic of approaches and opinions is wide-ranging. Some commentators take…

We have been utter fools. We have treated Russia with amazing stupidity. Now we pay the price for that. We had the chance to make her an ally, friend and partner. Instead we turned her into an enemy by insulting a great and proud…

Ban is latest bid to become more self-sufficient and add value to the Southeast Asian country’s rich list of resources Indonesia is taking control of its mineral resources, incentivizing investment in processing facilities and shifting the international balance of economic power. On…

In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal last week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it’s “Time to Increase Defense Spending.” Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine war to push for funneling ever…

Working alongside local citizens, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) intercepted and expelled a US military convoy that was attempting to enter the village of Tal Dahab in Al-Hasakah governorate on 13 February. According to the Syrian news agency (SANA), the convoy comprised…

Have you been “vaccinated” and don’t even know about it?  That could be the case if you’ve submitted to a PCR test, according to piece earlier this month at Need to Know News.  What should be noted is this contention is based on…

Post-Iraq the US has zero moral authority. The narrative managers aim to suck you in to arguing about the minutiae of the inner workings of the latest target of the empire, when in fact a simple “Shut the fuck up, it’s none…

The energy sector is facing shortages on all sides, with commodity prices soaring around the world and very little hope that it will be solved in the near term. Frac sand is the latest vital material that the energy industry can’t get…

Nepali police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters objecting to a U.S.-funded infrastructure program presented to parliament on Sunday for ratification, witnesses and officials in the capital told CNN. The protesters said the grant would undermine Nepal’s laws and sovereignty,…

Sergey Karaganov argues Moscow is taking a new tack with the West, and is increasingly resistant to sanctions and political pressure  Moscow’s confrontation with NATO is just the start It seems like Russia has entered a new era of its foreign policy…

A trucker-led convoy will kick off on Feb. 23 from the Barstow area in California, and head eastbound toward the capital of the constitutional republic—Washington D.C.—to peacefully protest to end the federal government’s emergency powers (pdf) declared since March 2020 in response…

Up until February 23rd, 2022, the powerful countries of the world played a very rarified game. Too many people try to analyze geopolitics like it is a game of chess. Move, counter-move. Push a pawn? Threaten a knight, that type of thing….

Canada’s Justice Minister, David Lametti, has told Trump supporters who donated to the “Freedom Convoy” to “be worried” about having their bank accounts frozen. Speaking with CTV News, when Lametti was asked if regular citizens who donated to the “Freedom Convoy” protests…

Most of the time, the vast majority of Americans simply do not care about economics.  And it pains me to say that, because I have been running a website about economics for more than a decade.  But it is true.  Under normal…

The Russian military confirmed on Friday that it will move up nuclear weapons exercises which had been previously scheduled to take place later the year, as a warning to the West as the Ukraine crisis grows hotter. Typically the drills take place in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Israel a “Russian-speaking state,” saying the two countries share a common history and extensive family ties. Israel is home to the world’s largest population of Russian-speaking Jews, with ethnic Russian Jews as well as Jews from former Soviet…

The Donetsk People’s Militia has called on the Kremlin to send financial and military aid. The request comes amid a worsening standoff across the contact line. Officials in the breakaway Ukrainian region of Donetsk have called on Moscow to send urgent help amid a…

The ongoing escalation of tensions is connected to the failure to implement the Minsk accords, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said. China is concerned by the escalation of tensions in Ukraine, which it says has been caused by a failure to implement…

To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on for survival—whether they’re a nation, a protest movement, or an…

The psychological, geopolitical, and economic dimensions of the US-led “deterrence” strategy against Russia (as their policymakers falsely describe it) were all faulty and meant that there was too much left to chance by encouraging Kiev to provoke a third round of civil…

On February 10 the U.S. Naval Institute website published a report that four more Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers had been sent to the Mediterranean Sea. The deployment, in addition to four (and soon to be six) of the warships permanently rotated out of…

As Russian philosopher and political analyst Aleksandr Dugin says, the unipolar world, globalist ideology, and Western hegemony are collapsing, and the US doesn’t want to sit idly by. Washington is willing to take any action to stop this from happening. Thus the…

The Biden administration altered the official federal policy on approving new interstate natural gas facilities and pipelines, requiring a climate consideration. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced that it will begin to “undertake a robust consideration” of the environmental justice impacts…

For all the talk our commitment to Ukraine, hitting the panic button and needlessly pulling officials out doesn’t inspire confidence. How they must be laughing in the Kremlin. Western policy towards Ukraine is evolving from the ridiculous to the positively surreal. Thus…

All things considered, objective observers should accept that China’s stance towards Ukraine and the undeclared US-provoked missile crisis in Europe fully aligns with its consistent support of international law. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi articulated his country’s principled stance towards Ukraine and European security…

Moscow’s state-owned oil giant, Rosneft, signed a US$80 billion 10-year deal to supply the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) with 100 million metric tonnes of oil. This increase in crude oil delivery volumes and mechanisms to China is part of a broad-based…

Our beat here is money – but a lot of what we write about isn’t directly related to money. It’s really about people. In our business, we try to think of the relationship we create with you, the actual person who opened…

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move…

The campaign for tough sanctions and further armament of Ukraine and the Eastern European NATO states against Russia is taking on ever tougher forms – also in the media. In view of the current situation, we present to you a special issue…

  Techno Fog On Friday, Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion relating to a defense firm’s potential conflict of interest in the Michael Sussmann case. The conflict itself is certainly intriguing, with Sussmann’s lawyers at Latham & Watkins LLP (Latham) having…

“You don’t see this? Are you guys out of your f***ing mind?” Joe Rogan asserted this week that anyone who now cannot see that Joe Biden is cognitively “basically a shell” is “out of their fucking mind.” Speaking with Coleman Hughes on…

Afghan leaders threaten to ‘reconsider’ their policy toward Washington. The Taliban has warned the Biden administration against confiscating $7 billion, reminding the US it had nothing to do with 9/11  The Taliban has warned US President Joe Biden that if he does…

It’s tempting to think that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell deserves the pickle he’s in: He ignored inflation as “transitory” when it wasn’t. Now — after one of the biggest policy blunders in recent Fed history — he needs to raise interest rates,…

Feb. 4, 2022 may very well be remembered in history textbooks as an important date in the shift of global politics. That day was not only the inauguration of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing; it also saw a historic meeting…

If there was one thing that predictably united the usually squabbling Roman elite, it was the emergence of a perceived threat to Rome’s Mediterranean and near-continental hegemony. To some degree, however difficult to calculate, it is impossible to deny that the dissolution…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is seeking to block federally funded housing organizations from incentivizing child trafficking promoted by President Joe Biden’s border crisis by stripping their licenses to operate. The Republican first directed the Florida Department of Children and Families to look…

Special counsel John Durham’s team alleged on Feb. 12 that a tech executive aligned with the Democratic Party was paid to spy on former President Donald Trump’s residences and the White House when Trump was president. Lawyers for the Clinton campaign allegedly paid…

In a long overdue decision, Russian President Putin after consulting with the National Security Council officially recognized the two breakaway republics of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk. Subsequently, the Russian parliament unanimously approved the decision and authorized deployment of Russian peace-keeping forces in the Donbass…

Bank Run? Canada’s Top Banks Mysteriously Go Offline. Currently, something is going on with the banks in Canada – what is it? Some people that donated money to Freedom Convoy reported they cant access their bank accounts online. Earlier this week that the…

If Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine, there will be a lot of disappointed Progressives in this country.  The Left has been using Russia as the “bad guy” for years now.  Russia served well for a while to keep Trump preoccupied and prevent him…

The EU’s top court rejected actions brought by Hungary and Poland and said the bloc’s funding may be denied to nations violating rule of law. The European Court of Justice has ruled that the EU may cut funding to member states that…

The Truckers’ Freedom Convoys that touched down in Ottawa on January 29 have helped set in motion a worldwide showdown. The ante was raised in this showdown as the Truckers’ action in Ottawa sparked a series of supportive actions cutting off the flow…

The Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his United States counterpart Antony Blinken are scheduled to hold a meeting next week at an as yet undisclosed European location. It is difficult to see what the two men have to talk about. Lavrov…

Joy reigned in my house this past week as one child’s school lifted its mask mandates. At the same time, frustration ensued when another child was uninvited to an event due to her jab status. My little neck of the country can’t…

History will register that the birth of the baby twins – Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics – only a few hours before 2/22/22, was simultaneous to the birth of the real, 21st century multipolar world. As my columns have stressed for a few…

If the west is able to discover the moral fitness to survive at this late stage of decay, it will be due to our rediscovery of this lost heritage and recognize its living expression in the Russian-Chinese alliance today. In my last essay,…

Defense Minister argues that airstrikes on foreign soil could fall under the country’s strict self-defense policy. Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi has refused to rule out conducting ‘self-defense’ airstrikes on enemy soil. Japan has reserved the right to conduct preemptive airstrikes against…

“The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And…

There are few words to describe the depth of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s depravity. I’m not going to even try. This is a person (because no real man would ever govern like him) is so thoroughly ill-prepared for its job it…

The United States and the UK cannot afford to indulge in the Left’s “painful woke psychodrama” that is weakening the West just when it is confronted with severe external challenges, the chairman of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has warned. In a speech hosted by…

The DPR Head Denis Pushilin has signed the decree on mobilization on Saturday morning calling on “all males capable to take up arms to rise to protect their families, children, wives, and mothers.” The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic has called…

Supply shortages… That’s what is fueling the market right now. Oil companies are making out like bandits… Natural gas prices are skyrocketing… And commodities like lithium, cobalt, and aluminum have soared to new heights. But it’s not all sunshine and roses for some industries. The…

In the midst of this current “Ukrainian Crisis,” I am reminded of a very solid volume I read in 2015, during what was back then the first Ukrainian Crisis: Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (2015, Tauris), by Prof. Richard Sakwa. Sakwa, whose father…

Russia’s goal is not to destroy Ukraine—this could be accomplished at any time. Rather, the goal of Russia is to destroy NATO by exposing its impotence, writes Scott Ritter. In the quiet fields outside the sleepy college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sits…

The upshot of the Russian response, transmitted to Washington on Thursday, regarding security guarantees may look as if the stalemate is heading toward a war. Moscow has rejected the US’ call for ‘de-escalation’ by pointing out that the Russian troops are deployed on…

Durham’s Revelations: Destruction of the National Security State—or Just Hillary Clinton? Some see in Special Prosecutor John Durham’s February 11th filing in the case of former Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussman, the beginnings of a case which will take down the “seditious…

With the situation in eastern Ukraine deteriorating each day, the West keeps on promoting its “Russian threat” rhetoric and pledges “never-before-seen” sanctions on Russia should it invade Ukraine. Meanwhile, Kiev keeps violating the Minsk accord and continues to shell Donbass, forcing thousands…

I’m surprised both of the size of the operation and the type of operation. While I did expect standoff destruction of the nazi units and considered the possibility of standoff destruction of Ukrainian military assets I did not expect to see troops…

Average folks in many Western countries are increasingly rising up against what they sincerely regard as anti-scientific mandates being imposed upon the population for political reasons related to unprecedentedly strengthening the state’s power over its citizenry in violation of their constitutionally enshrined…

As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, on January 26, to Russia’s demands of withdrawing NATO…

The great truckers’ convoy that converged on Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, has exposed the ugly truth at the heart of this historic moment for Western Civ: that governments have declared war on their own citizens. It happens that PM Trudeau represents his…

Global outrage has continued to grow since the Biden administration stole Afghanistan’s foreign reserves with nearly 23 million Afghans facing acute hunger. Following the Biden administration’s unilateral decision last week to seize $7 billion worth of assets from Afghanistan amid a mounting humanitarian crisis that threatens to…

Is the Biden administration focusing on Russia and Ukraine in order to blame this ‘conflict’ for high gas prices, inflation, and the pending collapsing economy? The Conservative Treehouse asks if Biden’s handlers are using the Russia and Ukraine mess for the economic…

Twitter has announced policies promising the censorship of “misleading?” posts relating to the conflict between Russia and the West and their Western-installed warmongering proxy puppets in the Ukraine. Any post that (mis)leads to a quicker and less bloody end of the Western-initiated…

Alexander Dugin Important topics for geopolitics of 2022. A strengthening of the multipolar world is very likely in 2022, as the policies of Russia and China will become increasingly clear. Both nations will continue to strengthen their ties. Therefore, it is very…

Mass-data cloud analysis has become the new type modus operandi, vice basing forecasts on a psychological profiling of others’ innate natures. What we have been witnessing began on 3 December 2021 when the Washington Post signalled a massing of Russian troops for an invasion…

The info-terrorism campaign that was launched not just against Russia and even the US-led West’s Ukrainian ‘allies’ but also against the entire global public largely succeeded in manipulating popular opinion against Moscow by misportraying this crisis as being over nothing more than…

Finland may be viewed as “the happiest place to live” but not if you value free speech. A major free speech case is brewing in the country after Member of Parliament (and former Interior Minister) Päivi Räsänen was criminally charged after tweeting a…

The showdown in the Conservative camp took place on a far greater scale for a number of reasons. First, within the logic of factional struggle and partly due to Moon’s policies, “People’s Power” has in part become an alliance of all who…

Reserves in the country at an all-time low RT reports. Germany’s depleting natural gas reserves have fallen to about 35%, economy ministry says. Natural gas reserves in Germany, which has one of the highest underground storage capacities in Europe, have fallen to historically…

Recent John Durham court filings suggest Hillary Clinton’s campaign associates “spied” on Donald Trump’s campaign and “protected White House communications,” the Wall Street Journal declared Monday. After ignoring for 48 hours a tantalizing development in one of the largest political scandals in the past ten years,…

Why ‘sadly’? Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the Covid-19 Omicron variant had “sadly” outpaced world vaccine drives in spreading immunity. The billionaire said ‘next time’ scientists must work better to produce enough vaccines sooner Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the Covid-19 Omicron…

When NBC’s Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: “There’s not. That’s a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another.” “It’s not like we’re…

An introduction of Polish troops seems the most realistic of the existing options of quick assistance to Ukraine. If this happens, it would be a big victory for London and Washington in the short term, but the consequences of this in the…

Alexander Dugin Amid the stormy propaganda that the West has unleashed on the Ukrainian issue – ranging from a call for the repatriation of US and European citizens in Ukraine to the media leak that the Kiev government has begun to move…

Republican New Mexico Congresswoman Yvette Herrell has launched a campaign to provide Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters with asylum. Rep. Yvette Herrell likened Canada’s treatment of demonstrators to ‘an authoritarian regime’. A US congresswoman has promised to introduce legislation to grant asylum to…

Russia has for a couple months insisted that it has no plans to invade Ukraine, even as positioned extra forces in the south near the border, but the Kremlin is now issuing fresh warnings on its ‘red lines’ after reports emerged that Ukraine…

While the US’ fading unipolar hegemony over Western Eurasia largely remains assured at least for the time being, it mustn’t be taken for granted in Eastern Eurasia lest it suffer the same fate as what’s befalling it in West & South Asia…

When warmongers want a war they do everything possible to get and instigate one. Heavy fire and explosions have been reported on the contact line in Ukraine’s war-torn Donbass region, with Kiev’s forces and those loyal to the two breakaway self-declared republics…

Leonid Savin The current confrontation between Russia and the West is not the result of a sudden confluence of circumstances: the contradictions have accumulated over the years and the issue is no longer just Ukraine, where in 2014 a coup d’état took…

Aubrey Cottle, the hacker claiming credit for stealing convoy donor info, has boasted of work with the FBI and Canadian law enforcement. The data was published by DDoSecrets, an anti-Wikileaks non-profit which has targeted states in the crosshairs of US intelligence. On…

Top officials at a U.S. federal cybersecurity agency are urging a judge not to authorize at this time the release of a report that analyzes Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Georgia, arguing doing so could assist hackers trying to “undermine election security.” Jen Easterly, the…

The coronavirus may go but, from cancer to AIDS, the mRNA vaccines are here to stay. The Covid19 narrative is broken, that battle is over. Yes, there are still pockets of token resistance, little embattled squares who aren’t ready to give up…

On January 21, 2022, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach attended a talk in New Delhi, India, organized by the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. Schönbach was speaking as the chief of Germany’s navy during his visit to the institute. “What…

Anti-vaccine demonstrators have ignored a warning from the authorities to leave voluntarily. New Zealand’s anti-vaccine mandate protest has continued to grow despite police telling demonstrators to leave voluntarily or be towed away. Hundreds of protesters defied a police ultimatum to leave the…

Putin is not going to “invade” Ukraine. Nope. But Russia now is prepared to fight on behalf of two independent Republics who ask for Putin’s help. Putin signed an agreement with the leaders of Donetsh and Luhansk respectively about 11 pm Moscow…

On February 4, 2022, the Winter Olympic Games opened in Beijing, where 63 South Korean athletes will compete for medals in six sports. On December 6, 2021, Jen Psaki said that the United States is “diplomatically boycotting” the Beijing Winter Olympics because…

Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal speak with Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitri Polyanskiy on escalated tensions on the Russian-Ukraine border, US accusations of an imminent Russian invasion, and the context missing from a US media that refuses to…

Russia appears ready to negotiate and the contours of a war-ending deal are in sight Vladimir Putin opened the invasion of Ukraine with a punitive, brutal campaign, announcing Russia would force Ukraine to surrender, subject its leaders to trials as Nazis committing…

Ponzi schemes keep going until the perpetrator is stopped from the outside. They never stop by of their own volition. Bernie Madoff kept going until it all blew up. In the year 2000 the Nasdaq composite exceeded a P/E of 200 before…

Israel has warned of a potential crisis with the UAE over an aviation security dispute that is threatening to halt its airlines flights to the Gulf country. Israel’s Shin Bet security service expressed concerns earlier this week over certain unspecified security arrangements…

“So-called ‘immigration reform’ is all about profits,” says Michael Lind, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The Yale-educated author wrote: Do low-wage immigrants—regardless of whether they are legal or illegal—actually suppress wages and/or take away jobs? This brings us to what…

The described backdrop to the latest round of Russian war hysteria is especially dangerous since it suggests that President Zelensky has lost control of the situation and that the prerogative for initiating hostilities rests on the shoulders of those mercenary forces that…

Considering Mauritius’ comparatively very limited capabilities in the face of the British Navy, it’ll likely have to remain content with symbolic acts of sovereignty for the time being. Be that as it is, the country can still generate significant attention for its…

I’ve just wrapped up my shift at BurgerBoy and I don’t have much time before the weekly self-criticism session at town hall. This hour with my diary is precious, especially when I have to make a big decision. Writing used to be…

Another Sunday, and Biden’s national security adviser is at it again making the rounds on the big network news shows, warning the Russian invasion will invade Ukraine “any day now” – at this point a familiar refrain we’ve heard for multiple weeks running……

Increasingly alarmist warnings of a Russian invasion overlook the fact there is a roadmap for de-escalation Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meet for talks the day before the signing…

Moscow and Minsk to continue war games as tension increases near Ukraine Belarus and Russia have decided to extend the length of their joint exercises “due to the increase in military activity” near the two nations’ borders, Minsk announced on Sunday. The…

Recent pro-Bitcoin developments from Russia could put the Eastern power in a lead position as inflation grows. How will other powers react? On February 15, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development signaled a bullish development around Bitcoin; reduced costs for bitcoin miners….

One in five Gen Z adults now identify as LGBTQ, while the number of total Americans doing the same has doubled in a decade, according to a new Gallup poll. Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially also known as zoomers, is the demographic cohort born between the…

It’s long past time for conservative folks to wake up. Today’s great threat to capitalist prosperity, personal liberty and constitutional government as we have known it is not Marxism, socialism or any other variant of traditional left-wing ideology. The real threat to…

Propaganda isn’t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we’d never normally accept. That’s what most people think of when they hear that word, but there’s so very, very much more to it than that. The lion’s share of…

I told you this part wasn’t going to be pretty. The collapse of fascist ideological movements and fanatical death cults never is. The New Normal is proving to be no exception. After three weeks of non-violent civil disobedience outside the Canadian parliament…

The purpose of this piece is to debunk the top ten infowar narratives about this conflict in order to enlighten readers about the truth of what’s really happening and why. What comes next is a list of false narratives followed by the…

  The relations between Ankara and Washington have for many years now been characterized as a “fragile equilibrium.” Back when Erdogan just came to power, the US supported his Justice and Development Party, which, however, over time stopped being an American project…

Hate crimes against Asian Americans mushroomed over the past two years. According to the Guardian, they jumped 567 percent in San Francisco since 2021, and you don’t have to look far to find out why. The main reason is, quite simply, incessant…

The War in Yemen needs to end immediately, this is an unjust war that is creating a huge human catastrophe. The only way to accomplish this is to end all military aid and sales that would support the war in Yemen by…

It’s getting rather tiresome hearing about Joe Rogan in the mainstream press. The man’s podcast is a massive benefit to humanity and his guests and his long-form style only help to lessen ignorance. That is all. It should be a non-issue. But…

Brussels has made clear its intentions to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but Paris, it seems, has other ideas. This week, China and France signed a third-party market cooperation agreement to the tune of $1.7 billion. As China Daily…

President Ebrahim Raisi says the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) threatens stability and security of independent countries. TEHRAN (Iran News) – President Ebrahim Raisi says the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) threatens stability and…

As maintaining the status quo is not a viable solution to the US crisis with Russia over Ukraine, what are the president’s other options? The US has three possible options to address the crisis with Russia over Ukraine, but only one solution…

The CIA essentially sets its own rules over what data it collects, and politicians know it. Here’s how it is allowed to do so. Senators’ demands for more transparency on the CIA’s activities obscure the fact that is essentially allowed to set…

The US and its allies have already set the scene for Revolution 2.0 in Syria. The question is whether their plan is to extract concessions from Russia over Ukraine, or to go full out and risk a West Asia-wide conflagration. With new…

American ‘perception managers’ propagate false narratives about Russian-Pakistani relations in an attempt to drive a wedge between Russia and India while also presenting Pakistan as a liability to US interests. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s upcoming visit to Moscow later this month…

On Thursday, Russia said it has “deep” concerns over Israel’s ongoing air campaign in Syria, warning the continued airstrikes could escalate tensions in the region and threaten civilian air traffic. “Israel’s continuing strikes against targets inside Syria cause deep concern,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria…

Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were maverick outsiders unacceptable to the ruling elite. In his new book, States of Emergency, Kees Van Der Pijl explains how the establishment got rid of both. The ruling elite’s effort to remove Trump with Russiagate and…

The entire Ukrainian state structure is extremely worried about being abandoned by the US-led West after their American patron beat the drums of war, accelerated Ukraine’s economic collapse, then literally fled in the face of their fearmongered ‘Russian invasion’. Ukrainian President Volodymyr…

On Thursday, US President Joe Biden urged US citizens to leave Ukraine immediately. The attacks of the Ukrainian Army with US troops and mercenaries on Donbass population in a war that has never stopped have increased four-fold in recent weeks RT TV…

Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes. Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative….

Canada’s prime minister won a skirmish but lost his credibility, which means that he has also lost legitimacy and will lose the war. As the philosopher Bertie Wooster was wont to observe, “it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced…

Daniel Falcone: Could you give the context of the framework that brought us to Amnesty International’s findings regarding Israel and Palestine? What has changed regarding the organization to make this happen? Richard Falk: I have no insight into the inner workings of Amnesty International, but…

Recently, ECB President Christine Lagarde shocked markets with surprisingly hawkish talk at her monetary policy press conference. Lagarde didn’t make any sudden moves in policy or anything.  The ECB has yet to end any of its bond-buying and internal debt-transfer alphabet soup…

Starting weeks ago the US and UK began pledging to ramp up shipments of what they dubbed “defensive” weapons to Ukraine, which is believed to have so far mainly included anti-tank and anti-armor systems and munitions. For example when last month British Defense…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sounded “like Hitler” when he made comments about leaders facing a choice on whether or not to “tolerate” people who aren’t vaccinated and also negatively…

On fourth of February 2022 an important meeting took place in Beijing., China between the leader of China Xi Jin Ping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Putin was in China at Xi’s invitation to attend the opening of the Winter Olympics….

Fifty years after Nixon’s trip to Beijing, China grows stronger than the Soviet Union ever was. Mao Zedong arrived in Moscow in 1949 expecting to be feted for delivering China, the world’s most populous country, to Communism. Instead, Joseph Stalin humiliated him by making him wait…

The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime…

In recent years, Syria, unfortunately, has increasingly become an arena of confrontation between many countries, primarily through the fault of the US, Israel and Turkey. As a result of Washington’s blatant neo-colonial approach to Syria, US military personnel, that has been illegally…

Joe Biden told the American people, on 15 February 2022, “The United States and NATO are not a threat to Russia. …  To the citizens of Russia: You are not our enemy.” He expected Americans and Russians to believe that America’s anti-Russian military alliance…

Conservatives’ reluctance to be as assertive as the left has seen them lose valuable ground in the culture wars. Conservatives have given the left free rein to dismantle cultural norms. The time to fight back has arrived.  For too long, the right…

Leonid Savin Cuban poet, philosopher, politician and revolutionary José Julián Martí Pérez in Cuba is a national hero who gave his life for the liberation of his homeland. In literary circles, he is considered one of the founders of modernism. In Russia, he…

Leonid Savin Multi-domain operations The first in the review will be the concept of multi-domain (that is, in many areas) operations. It is described in detail in a hundred-page document published in December 2018 by the US Army Training and Doctrine Command….