Germany is grappling with its worst energy shortage in decades as it might not meet the threshold of adequate natural gas reserves before winter.  Germany’s national Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag interviewed Klaus Muller, head of the Federal Network Agency, the government regulator of electricity, gas, telecommunications,…

Sanctioned Russian fertilizer tycoon Andrey Melnichenko warned that attacks on his company may affect hundreds of millions. EuroChem founder Melnichenko has accused the EU of triggering a global famine with sanctions. Sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian fertilizer producers are akin to…

Things grew more serious on the third consecutive day of protests at the Port of Oakland, as truckers opposed to a new California labor law blocked gates and triggered a total shutdown of operations on Wednesday.  Per The Associated Press:  The protest…

This July 4th, a larger-than-usual shadow is cast upon America which has come face-to-face with some serious historic reckonings. While the existence of an oligarchy and international “deep state” should not be ignored as a political force of history- arranging wars, assassinations…

Germany’s new leadership has gone “all in” on its alliance with the US, overturning a strategy that had underpinned its success What was known as the “memory culture” was an essential element of the foreign policy strategy of post-war Germany. Wise leaders…

Transcript of Michael Hudson interview on The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong DANNY HAIPHONG: Today we have a very special guest. I want to introduce our guests because we have a lot to talk about over the next hour and it is…

The military is facing its most severe staffing crisis since the advent of the all-volunteer force in 1973. Amid the first conventional war in Europe since 1945 and China’s massive military buildup — including nuclear weapons — the U.S. military is experiencing…

Readers who take a more or less constant interest in current international politics are probably aware of the existence of an interstate configuration called the Quad, which includes the United States, Japan, India and Australia. Although since its establishment in early 2021,…

China is again conducting major military exercises in waters around Taiwan, according to state media reports, which further decried US support to Taiwan separatist forces as “futile”.   China’s Defense Ministry was cited in Reuters as describing the drills as a warning aimed…

I hate to snuff out any post-Independence Day fervor that you still might be enjoying. Oh, well. “Wet Blanket” is my middle name. All the annual Old Glory-waving rituals and public displays of patriotic affection can’t change this bitter fact: Our once-sovereign…

By the time you read this, the U.S. economy will likely be officially mired in what could be a long and deep recession. Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said Tuesday we’re already there: We think we are in a recession. We were…

Even if Russia were to start Nord Stream 2 tomorrow, the gas flows through it would be unable to alleviate much of the natural gas shortages in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, adding that he had warned German Chancellor Olaf Scholz…

As petroleum stocks dwindle and demand soars, refining margins are skyrocketing. U.S. refiners have been operating at full tilt in recent weeks to keep up with demand. There is a growing concern that refiners may not have much room to safely increase…

Have you ever watched the Netflix series „The Umbrella Academy”? No worries, who has watched then knows, and who has not we are not to summarise the story. This is not about it. What is important, however, that is like the Netflix,…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said his country was pursuing “diplomacy and patience” on the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue, although he added firmly that “no one will compromise on Egypt’s water quota.” This rather firm statement by the Egyptian President…

When the corrupt installed warmongering puppet gets into the last stage of paranoia and sees even his own appointee and childhood friend Bakanov as “suddenly pro-Russian”, then it seems that truth may be that a large majority of the Ukrainian population is…

How much gold will you trade for a few eggs? It depends on how hungry you are. Two ideas will help us understand the rest of this tumultuous decade: core-periphery and the revaluation of what’s truly important: systemic adaptability, transparency, accountability, risk, capital…

Dutch farmers who are livid over government plans to cut nitrogen emissions by 50% – 95% have now taken to blocking food distribution centers in protest of the plan, which would shutter an estimated one-third of farms in the Netherlands. Dutch farmers…

Russia’s special military operation to localize neo-fascist activities in Ukraine continues to receive more and more documentary evidence of the criminal plans and activities of the current government in Kiev, sponsored by Washington, as well in as the USA itself. This special…

Protests have erupted across Libya over armed militia presence, soaring inflation and power outages. Key oilfields and ports have been closed since April due to the ongoing political crisis. The already-battered oil market could face further supply disruptions if Libya descends into…

The longer they remain in control of our government, the closer Democrats move our country toward a full-blown dictatorship, as evidenced by a provision added to the annual Pentagon spending bill by a top Democrat. The provision, offered by Rep. Adam Schiff…

In the recent Wall Street Journal article “Inflation Surge Earns Monetarism Another Look,” Greg Ip writes that a recent surge in inflation is not likely to bring authorities to reembrace monetarism. According to Ip, money supply had a poor record of predicting US inflation…

The EU has facilitated grain deliveries from Ukraine using alternative logistics routes, according to the bloc’s foreign-policy chief. Brussels has facilitated the export flows via its so-called “solidarity lanes,” top diplomat says. The European Union has accelerated the export of Ukrainian grain,…

In Stephen Vincent Benet’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” the tale is told that if you approached Webster’s grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, “Neighbor, how stands the Union?” “Then you better answer the Union stands…

After calling on all member states to reduce gas consumption by 15% in the face of the threat of a complete Russian gas cutoff, the IEA says the European Union will need to cut even more in order to get through the…

The top U.S. general asserted Sunday that the Chinese regime’s military has become more “aggressive” and dangerous over the past five years. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that the United States and its allies have conducted…

The White House keeps insisting that it will not directly involve American soldiers in the war in Ukraine, but it keeps taking steps that will inevitably lead to a large-scale open combat role for the US against Russia. Among the most recent…

On July 10 Japan held elections for 125 of the 248 seats (i.e. 50%+1) in the House of Councilors, the upper house of the Japanese Parliament. The results of these elections have attracted special interest owing to a number of different factors….

Israeli is sending a delegation to Moscow to try to persuade Russian authorities not to shut down Jewish Agency’s branch. Moscow’s Basmanny District Court said earlier that it had received a request from the Justice Ministry to liquidate the Russian branch of the…

Today is July 4th, Independence Day. And, in the world of the New Normal, maybe that’s something we should all celebrate. The United States of America has become a corrupt Imperial juggernaut, chewing up the world and spitting out bones. We have all…

The Russian economy has withstood the pressure of unprecedented sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, praising the government for its decisive response to Western sanctions. Western nations have failed in their attempts to destabilize the Russian economy with sanctions, President Vladimir Putin…

The most popular US news host Tucker Carlson has hammered the corrupt government of the Ukraine and its supporters in the US. The US should focus its energies on countering China, not Russia, the Fox News host argued. Fox News host Tucker…

Not since Wile E Coyote’s repeated failures to nab the Road Runner have we seen debacles like the ones now unfolding in the UK and Europe as a consequence of their misguided effort to destroy Russia. Germany’s economy is on the precipice. With…

Its genuine popularity at the grassroots level shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, neither those in the country nor observers who’ve objectively followed events there from afar. What took everyone off guard, however, was that PTI was “allowed” to win by those…

Either one ascribes to the oversimplified and arguably inaccurate assessment propagated by many in the Alt-Media Community for reasons of “narrative/political convenience” or they aspire to obtain a more nuanced understanding of the complex socio-political processes (soft security) connected to Color Revolutions…

“The following is an excerpt from Michael Walsh’s forthcoming book, Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order, which will be published by Bombardier Books and be available October 18, 2022. Walsh has gathered a series of essays from among eighteen of…

In a piece of news that shocked the mainstream media, but which shocked no one familiar with the academic industry writ large, retired US Army general John Allen was forced to resign as president of the Brookings Institution after it was revealed the FBI…

Looking forward, it’s expected that Russia will double down on educating its policymaking elite about the significance of China, India, Iran, and Turkiye for their country’s grand strategy in the context of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. From there, focus will gradually evolve…

The irony is that the suppression of dissent is the suppression of competing ideas that generate systemic stability via rapid adaptation. Nations that appear stable may fail once they’re under pressure. What do I mean by “under pressure”? Pressure can come from many…

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced in Moscow on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin will travel to Tehran on July 19, to take part in a tripartite meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts as part of the Astana peace process to…

In the coming days, the world will witness the development of a very interesting chess game in the Middle East between the presidents of the US and Russia – Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, who are going to make significant for both…

The American policymakers, when wanting to isolate and antagonise Russia, must have asked, “What ‘redline’ would have to be crossed for Putin to act?” In retrospect, in light of Putin’s Victory Day Speech which coincided with Russian successes in the Donbass region…

The former leader appeared to be unresponsive at the scene, according to Kyodo News. Shinzo Abe, former prime minister of Japan, collapsed during a speech after gunshots were reportedly heard, according to Japanese public broadcasting agency NHK. Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has…

The destruction of ‘phantom wealth’ via default has always been the only way to clear the financial system of unpayable debt burdens and extremes of rentier / wealth dominance. The notion that the world could always borrow more money as long as…

Subscribers have noticed that it’s been quiet on this site for a while. This is because I spent much of the last month researching the #CryptoCrash, and the last week and a half engaged in an increasingly maddening search for a civilized…

The emerging trend is that the Polish-Prussian alliance is giving way to a Polish-German rivalry, albeit one that Warsaw won’t be able to beat Berlin in. This aspiring regional leader went all-in by doing too much for Ukraine too fast, and now…

At present, Cuba has relations with the three most famous and internationally recognized nations as part of the BRICS among multipolar projects: Russia, China and India. Therein lies part of the motivation for Cuba and India’s joint efforts to continue to expand…

“The decisions we have taken in Madrid,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said as a summit of the alliance’s members closed in Madrid on June 30, “will ensure that our Alliance continues to preserve peace, prevent conflict, and protect our people…

Russia’s defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, has visited troops in the liberated Donbass, met with Russian commanding officers, discussing ways and means to stop Kiev’s attacks on Donbass civilians. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has inspected Russian troops involved in the ongoing military…

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says his government has contingency plans for military action in Ukraine. Budapest needs to protect ethnic Hungarians living in the western part of the bordering country, FM Peter Szijjarto has said. Hungary has military plans on how…

The European energy crunch is set to worsen this week after Norwegian offshore oil and gas workers went on strike, threatening to sever the Scandinavian country’s energy supplies to the UK and Europe, according to Reuters.  As much as 1,117,000 barrels of oil…

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have…

Under normal circumstances inflation occurs, when too many monetary units (US dollars, Euros, Chinese Yuan) chase too few goods. But we are not living in normal times. To the contrary. We are living in an increasingly divided world, not only in political…

Moscow warned the five UK and US citizens to turn back instead of joining Ukrainian forces. The Russian Defense Ministry claims to know the identities of foreign fighters going to join the Ukrainian troops. The Russian military has published the names of…

It is bad business to engage in a hybrid war crusade against a nation-civilization state like Russia, which is capable of bringing so much good business to Latin American and Caribbean countries, not to mention the ability to purchase goods, energy and…

When will this nonsense on familial connection between Australia and the Pacific end?  In 2018, Australia’s then Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew upon a term that his predecessors had not.  On November 8 that year, he announced that Australia’s engagement with the region would…

Saudi Arabia, the largest U.S. export market in the Middle East, invited Chinese President Xi to visit Riyadh in March as relations with the U.S. have faltered since Joe Biden was elected, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to a report from…

There’s a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” It reveals a lot when it comes to success and failure….

A recent incident involving a MiG-29 fighter aircraft from Myanmar which flew into Thai airspace triggered political fallout particularly instructive in understanding the current dynamics in both countries as well as across wider Asia. It also gives a glimpse into the dynamics…

Ultimately, it was Iran and not Pakistan that ended up being the global pivot state after the latter abandoned this role upon the successful US-orchestrated regime change against former Prime Minister Khan, thus ceding it entirely to the neighboring Islamic Republic that’s…

When Russia was arbitrarily excluded from the ‘Group of eight’ (G8) in 2014, many in the West saw this as a step toward a more cohesive western bloc – the so-called G7 – that could collectively – and effectively – counter Russia…

Marinate those ribs, ice the beer, and get the fireworks ready so we can revel in the red, white, and blue. Let’s raise our collective glasses today to the bold few who spoke on our behalf more than 200 years ago. Thomas…

A translated version of an article by Aleksandr Dugin has appeared on KATEHON, an anti-globalist, pro-Russian website. (When I tried to post a link to the article on Twitter, they said that “the link has been identified by Twitter and its partners…

The problem is that the authorities who replaced him following the post-modern coup in early April comprise members of the pro-American school of thought instead of the multipolar one whose representatives they deposed through superficially “democratic” means. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran…

The island nation of Sri Lanka, located south-southeast of India in the Indian Ocean has suffered economic and now political chaos that has grabbed international headlines. The Western media has floated narratives ranging from “debt trap diplomacy” perpetrated by China and its…

When Joe Biden abruptly withdrew all American troops from Afghanistan last year, he left behind billions of dollars worth of American war machinery for the Taliban – the terror organization then taking over the country – to have and to use. He…

The entire country is at risk of blackouts this summer, say analysts. And the independent media is pointing to green energy as one of the culprits. On July 4, Power the Future founder and executive director Daniel Turner told Fox News that a “huge…

All hail our globalist overlords. “The following is an excerpt from Michael Walsh’s forthcoming book, Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order, which will be published by Bombardier Books and be available October 18, 2022. Walsh has gathered a series of…

Today’s world is faced with two possible future systems. On the one hand, there is a multipolar approach in defense of sovereign nation states premised on long-term thinking, scientific optimism and win-win cooperation stands as one possible outcome; on the other, there is…

The internationalization of the rupee aligns with one of the top five trends connected with the global systemic transition to multipolarity, particularly the one predicting that non-Western alternative platforms will become increasingly popular across the Global South. 11 July will be seen…

And once again, as happens often with consequential news in the United States and the West, no one has noticed and no one seems to care. If you’ve blinked over the last month, you may have missed it… China and Russia are…

Katehon Think Tank   Developments in the field of security in the Baltic Sea area show a strong trend towards the regionalization of European security. In December 2007, the European Council published the conclusions of its Presidency, inviting the European Commission to…

Perhaps one of the more astute observers of Russian foreign policy in recent decades has been John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago. He has spent years warning against US-led NATO enlargement as a tactic that would provoke conflict with the Russian…

It’s perhaps hard to believe now, but only eight years ago, Russia was a full member of the former G8. Since then, there have been dramatic changes. Just before the G7 leaders met at Elmau Castle in Bavaria, last week, their counterparts…

We Are Z The Schloss Elmau, ‘a Luxury Spa Retreat and Cultural Hideaway’ was a very suitable location at the end of June 2022 for the G7 elitists, ‘hiding away’ from the anger of their exploited peoples. Holed up in a…

On July 1 at the White House, US President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.” American gas…

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on road transportation cooperation, at the end of the two countries’ Road Transportation Joint Committee meeting in Moscow on Wednesday. The MOU, inked by Iranian deputy transport and urban…

Alexander Dugin The country [Ed. note: Russia] is in a very peculiar state today. It is like being poised between a past that has already ended and a future that has not yet begun, or rather has begun but has not yet been realised or accepted….

With the resignation of Boris Johnson for his constant, almost habitual, lying, Britain’s Conservative a.k.a. “Tory” Party is currently electing its new leader. After two rounds of balloting, the contestants have been cut down to five; the third round is on Monday, July…

One June 29-30, 2022, a NATO summit was held in Madrid that was attended for the first time by the President of South Korea Yoon Seok-yeol. South Korea is not a member of the military alliance, but was invited as a partner…

The long secret war might escalate into direct confrontation. Iran’s nuclear talks are back on track. There are not very high expectations though and some experts in fact believe that deal or no deal, an Iranian-Israeli future war is almost inevitable for…

Governments of many countries have recently been talking more and more about a possible food crisis in the near future, actively involving representatives from the UN and other international organizations, and numerous media platforms in this information campaign. Yet, in addition to…

László Bogár   In a tragicomic way, the United States of America itself is the “end product” of a series of revenges There is an English saying that if you want revenge, you dig two graves at the same time. One was…

The Democrat and Republican parties have been wielding social movements as weapons in a culture war. Is it time the Libertarian Party wields the Bitcoin hammer in the battle against the Federal Reserve? In the cypherpunk mailing list, Satoshi Nakamoto had a back-and-forth…

July 8 was a muggy day in the ancient capital of Japan. Shinzo Abe, the most powerful figure in Japanese politics, was delivering a stump speech for a local Liberal Democratic Party candidate in front of the Nara Kintetsu railway station when…

Despite its resounding defeat, NATO is not quite done with inflicting misery on the land of the Afghans. Once upon a time, in a galaxy not far away, the Empire of Chaos launched the so-called “War on Terror” against an impoverished cemetery of empires…

One of the outcomes of the alleged new SARS Covid virus that publicly emerged in 2019 is that the medical specialization of virology has been raised to a stature almost Godlike in the media. Few understand the origins of virology and its…

The EU has pledged 500 million euros more in military assistance to Kiev. The approval of a fifth tranche has taken the bloc’s overall military assistance to Kiev to €2.5 billion. The European Union agreed Monday to allocate an additional 500 million…

That is Bank of America’s latest forecast for the growth of the U.S. economy in the second quarter. The second largest American bank by assets on Friday revised down its estimate for GDP growth in the April through June period from 1.5 percent…

The broke, increasingly cash-strapped government of Sri Lanka is continuing to collapse along with the rest of the country in what many economists see as a precursor for the rest of the world. Last week, the government suspended all fuel sales with…

So, Joe Biden, the alleged President of America, was supposed to go to this meeting with the Arabs and beg them for oil. Instead, the wacky sonovabitch strapped a bomb to his chest and ran into a crowd of sheiks, yelling “Ukrainia Akbar!”…

The United States wants to turn Taiwan into an Asian Ukraine. The goal is to use it as a weapon against a China, a country that has been declared an adversary. These are amended remarks given by the author at an event…

The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a position paper Monday that inexorably links two claimed global crises as one – “climate change” and the “decline of democracy.” It says fighting the former can save the latter as long as consumers stop burning…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe,…

Since the late 1970s, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman have written a series of books about the United States’ involvement in so-called “state terrorism.” Chomsky and Herman, in their publications, concluded that the global rise in state terror was the result of…

Russia and China, by holding firm, may be enough to push the U.S. axis into the grave it deserves. Finally, the United States-led military alliance called NATO has made its global cold war ambitions explicit. At last, the warmongering organization has come…

Waste is not growth, and neither are the unlimited expansion of debt and speculative bubbles. The financial punditry is whipping itself into a frenzy about a Federal Reserve “policy error,” which is code for “if the music finally stops, we’re doomed!” In other…

Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath. ❖ Remember when rich people were so worried about Jeremy Corbyn raising their taxes that they spent months…

On July 7, 2022, Bloomberg ran a story with the headline “Pakistan’s $1 Billion Gas Tender Flop to Worsen Energy Crisis”. The author, citing traders, writes that state-owned Pakistan LNG received not a single offer in a $1 billion liquefied natural gas purchase tender….

When historians look back on this chaotic and turbulent period, they will find that few individuals inflicted as much damage on the environment and promoted the interests of the “dirty fossil fuel” lobby as Greta Tunberg, who by shaming and forcing “serious”…

Nevertheless, no one should fall under the false assumption that this development implies a trans-Atlantic rift between the EU and the US since nothing of the sort is unfolding. Rather, what happened was that the EU unexpectedly pushed back against the US…

Far more radiation was released across the world after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster than the Japanese government has claimed, new global data conclude. The study on the post-earthquake disaster combines radioactivity data from around the world to estimate the scale and…

The amount of Russian fuel oil imported by Saudi Arabia between April and June of this year more than doubled compared to last year, Reuters reported Friday. “Data obtained by Reuters through Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking showed Saudi Arabia imported 647,000 tonnes (48,000 barrels…

The worship of the “heroes of Mariupol”, i.e. bandits from Azov, cowardly hiding behind the backs of civilians imprisoned in Azovstal, is another example of the progressive nazification of political consciousness in contemporary Poland. In Gdańsk one of the the squares was…

The world’s largest crude oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, continues to keep close ties with Russia while the top oil consumer, the United States, pleads with major producers—including the Kingdom—to boost supply to the market and help ease consumers’ pain at the pump. …

Wait, so is this some kind of hoax, or is QAnon doing bombings now? RT: A mystery-shrouded monument in the US state of Georgia was severely damaged in an explosion early on Wednesday. It was later demolished entirely, for safety reasons. State…

It’s Italy which will fire the starter’s gun on a turnaround on the EU’s policy on Russia and the Ukraine war. It might well be Italy which marks the starting point of a demise of sorts of the EU, as the coalition…

Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious,…

A report published earlier this week provides fresh evidence that the U.S. Deep State is heavily invested in Ukraine and is going all-out to prevent the country from falling into Russian hands. Readers likely recall that despite the fact that the U.S….

Western Europe is on suicide watch as virtue signaling nations tore down their fossil fuel infrastructure (and nuclear power plants) to appease the “greenies.” Now, countries like Germany, France and the UK are facing an energy catastrophe as Russia steadily reduces natural…

Russia’s ex-president has issued an apocalyptic warning to those seeking to “judge” the country. Those seeking to “judge” Russia might face the “wrath” of God, the country’s ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has cautioned. Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has warned against any attempt…

Have you become numb to all the bad news yet?  Almost every single day, something really horrible seems to happen in the United States.  It is just one thing after another and it has been that way for months.  It is as…

Two powerful leaders met beneath the hot Jeddah sun to discuss oil and killing and friendship. One of the leaders rules a tyrannical regime which funds terrorists, murders journalists, suppresses civil rights and commits war crimes. The other, the Crown Prince of Saudi…

An Australian bank that collapsed has urged its 6000 customers to withdraw $100 million worth of deposits before it starts closing accounts from next Tuesday. Volt, a digital bank called a neobank which was launched in 2017, announced it was handing back…

It may be premature, but one suspects that there is a fundamental shift taking place in the balance of power throughout the world. This is manifesting itself in a variety of different ways. One such clue was the recent meeting of the…

The strike on Novaya Kakhovka was carried out with American weapons, local administration says. Victims reported as a result of Ukrainian strike on a city in the Kherson region, controlled by Russian forces. The Ukrainian attack on Novaya Kakhovka – a city…

Serbia is one of the key battleground countries in the New Cold War that is being cajoled into the Western orbit. During the 1990s, the Clinton administration orchestated a regime change in Serbia targeting the socialist Slobodan Milošević, first by bombing and…

The US has been accused of recruiting hundreds of ISIS, HTS, and Al-Qaeda militants to fight on the side of Kiev. The CIA is actively working to recruit ISIS militants imprisoned by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria to…

While we notice the closest integration among emerging countries, we notice a certain disparity among the richest, first-world countries, because they may not seem like it, but they also have internal problems that cannot always be fought. And the most recent of…

This should be undertaken in full consultation with the Indian diaspora in Vladivostok, that country’s consulate there, a range of economic and political experts from both countries, and of course their related government departments. A pipeline of talent should be created for…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is proving to be a masterful geopolitical player with ever move he implements to counter tired, predictable and toothless sanction efforts imposed on him by corrupt and morally bankrupt Western countries. For more than a decade, Putin allowed…

These humanitarian rich feel just terrible about the sins of America, but not terrible enough to sacrifice any element of their privileged lifestyles—the just deserts they feel for being so righteous. Marie Antoinette, the beheaded wife of the beheaded French Bourbon King…

US forces are regularly subjected to attacks as well as protests by locals against their illegal presence on Syrian soil. Several reports from Syria’s Deir Ezzor governorate claim that a US military base came under a large-scale missile attack on the evening…

There is no sign of intelligence anywhere in the Western world California Democrat Governor Newsom intends to phase out gasoline powered cars by 2035 and replace them with battery powered cars that have to be continually recharged with electricity.  Currently, there is insufficient…

The Walt Disney Company, which recently sparked controversy for inserting radical sex and gender ideology into its children’s programs, has come under scrutiny again after a clip from the new series “Baymax!” showed the namesake nurse robot taking advice on menstrual products…

Americans’ pride in their country has steadily fallen since Gallup started conducting a survey on the subject in 2001. You will find more infographics at Statista Now, as Statista’s Katharian Buchholz reports, national pride in the U.S. has plummeted to an all-time low, as the fewest respondents in…

Narendra Modi urges ditching British legacy to reform Indian education. India needs education that can help its people prosper, not the legacy British systems designed to create a “servant class,” said PM Modi. Speaking at an educational policy summit on Thursday, Indian…

As has been repeatedly pointed out by many media, the United States has long shown the world its disregard for international norms and its willingness to wage war with weapons of mass destruction anywhere in the world. This fact was further documented…

A note in Lisa Daftari’s The Foreign Desk newsletter reads of the latest on the Ukraine war and Washington efforts: “$54 Billion Dollars… and Russia Controls an Area the Size of Mississippi”. In terms of geography and land mass, this represents about one-fifth of…

The Kiev regime will accept anyone willing to fight in its suicidal confrontation with Russia. Western mercenaries are often considered the mainstay of all foreign personnel fighting for the Kiev regime. However, although they’re the ones with the most media exposure, the…

Western taxpayers’ money in time of existential economic and social crisis are used for “good causes” abroad, lining the pockets of Kiev’s corrupt installed puppets, just before they run away to seek exile in that same west. Western weapons supplied to Kiev…

Peter Navarro, 73 years old, was Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy during the Trump administration. I do not know him.   Last February the Democrats subpoenaed him to appear before the Democrats’ “Select Committee on the January 6 Attack,”…

Now, if you are comfortable endorsing the pro-Ukraine, fight to the death of Russia messages those folks are repeating ad nausea then we are not friends. The people I named above epitomize the evil and corruption that infest Washington. They oppose vehemently…

The SEC has just proposed a new ESG rule that could spell disaster for some American farms and ranches. The rule will force farms and ranches to adopt more rigorous reporting regimes which could weigh on their bottom line. A 2018 survey of…

Russia’s certainly right with respect to Brazil and India deserving permanent UNSC seats but it’s unrealistic to expect the Golden Billion’s three permanent members to agree to this, not to mention without also possibly bestowing the same privilege to their German and…

The recent NATO summit held in Spain included as guests the nations of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. By expanding the invited countries, NATO was signaling that it was the longer confined to the North Atlantic, as its name consistently represents, but…

The federal government of Switzerland has warned that it may ration energy in the event of natural gas shortages. Switzerland gets most of its gas through trading hubs in neighboring countries in the European Union, which means that disruptions affecting the rest of…

America is lagging behind its international competitors in the hypersonic weapons race. This week’s test provided more insight into just how badly the U.S. is behind.  Bloomberg was the first to report the Common Hypersonic Glide Body atop a two-stage missile booster that…

Boris Johnson resigns as Conservative leader but will push to stay on as prime minister until the autumn, prompting a backlash from some Tory MPs who say he has to go now. Johnson today told The Queen he plans to resign after…

The Biden administration has worked hard to keep Russia from treating America as a co-combatant in Ukraine. But that doesn’t mean NATO isn’t deeply embroiled in the fight. The level of support is extraordinary and increasing, including sanctions, intelligence sharing, weapons transfers, and money. Add…

The Russian Defense Ministry says its missiles hit depots of US-made ammunition for HIMARS rocket launchers in Ukraine. Depots packed with US-made shells and rockets in Ukraine have been hit by missile strikes, Russia says. Russian warships have destroyed stocks of US-supplied…

Throughout the 19th century, Americans generally had a much better understanding of their anti-colonial origins than is the case today. Even though the last official war fought between Britain and the USA occured between 1812 and 1815, the British failure to destroy…

Today, politicians and common people in all countries expressly say that the United States is losing its influence on the global stage. Even The Washington Times, by publishing the results of the new survey conducted by Pew Research Center, acknowledges that the…

China likely imported another 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of discounted Russian crude oil in June after bringing in around the same amount in May, keeping Russia as its top oil supplier ahead of Saudi Arabia for a second consecutive month….

The massive money creation in the 2000s has led to a debt and asset bubble, which is about to burst. Investors will be shocked by the speed of the decline and won’t react before it is too late. The massive money creation…

Author and historian Douglas MacKinnon joined Rachel Campos-Duffy on FOX and Friends Weekend on Saturday to discuss the current crisis facing our nation. MacKinnon penned “The 56” on the 56 who risked all to sign the Declaration of Independence. In the book,…

In Washington’s ongoing efforts to confront and contain China’s rise on the global stage, it has announced yet another bloc, the “Partnership in Blue Pacific.” The Financial Times in a recent article titled, “US and allies launch initiative to help Pacific Island nations,” would…

On take-up-arms question, one-in-three Republicans, compared to one-in-five Democrats thought it’s soon perhaps time, since they see no other “democratic” or “my-vote-counts” way to change the oppressive totalitarian government that steals elections and robs them of their basic freedoms and of their…

China is taking advantage of cheap Russian oil and coal. Russia is looking to Asia to offload coal and oil at steep discounts. China’s industrial power is being fueled by U.S. adversaries in Russia and Iran, Hudson Institute’s Duesterberg notes. China is…

Today’s elites are caught in a dilemma: nobody wants what they’re selling. They promised a world where under their expert management, the economy would function unfailingly, there would be peace in our time, and when the pandemic hit they had it all…

Alexander Bovdunov The deployment of a Russian military base in the CAR, arms baron Jean-Yves Drian, imperial decolonization and the future African conquest of Europe-these and other topics were discussed by diplomats and experts in Moscow. On June 27, the Public Chamber…

On June 24th, at the think tank, the Hudson Institute, U.S. President Trump’s CIA chief and Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, delivered a 5,000+-word speech, suggesting that America has an essentially God-assigned mission to control the world, so as to preserve freedom and democracy for…

The UK has confirmed the start of a new program to train thousands Ukrainian soldiers on its soil, which is to last at least several weeks for each batch of recruits. Though Britain was among the earliest to begin large weapons shipments…

Candidates for Johnson’s successor have been prepared for months because that is how long it has taken to grill the Prime Minister. In the oldest liberal democracy in the World you can win elections with an unparalleled majority of votes and have…

Professor Mattias Desmet, a Belgian psychologist with a master’s degree in statistics, gained worldwide recognition toward the end of 2021, when he presented the concept of “mass formation” as an explanation for the absurd and irrational behavior we were seeing with regard…

After a month after Russia began offering passports to citizens of the republics in the Donbas region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering that “all citizens of Ukraine” be given “the right to apply for admission to the citizenship…

On June 5 Corriere della Sera, one of Italy’s oldest and most influential newspapers, splashed the pictures and names of 9 people, including mine, above the headline “Putin’s network in Italy: the influencers and opinion leaders who produce propaganda for Moscow”. According…

Despite the economic and political burdens hindering Hezbollah, the growing strength of its naval assets is challenging Israel’s supremacy at sea. The Israeli army censor has allowed the publication of a previously unreported maritime incursion by Hezbollah into Israel in 2016. According…

In April 2022, the world learned that China and the Solomon Islands had concluded a framework security treaty allowing China to deploy its naval forces in a small but strategically important nation in Oceania, just 2,000 km off the coast of the…

In a master stroke of military diplomacy, Russian Foreign Ministry announced today that it is “withdrawing” the garrison in Snake Island, the hotly contested Black Sea property from where Ukrainian forces were evicted in March in the early days of Moscow’s special…

For years, the West has made every effort to predict the fall of Russia-China ties. The frenzy reached its climax when Russia began its military operation in Ukraine in late February 2022. Many in the West – both politicians and the media…

Currently the world is on a fiat money standard—a government-issued currency that is not backed by a commodity such as gold. The fiat standard is the primary cause behind the present economic instability, and is tempted to suggest that a gold standard…

Warmongering Ukraine Rhetoric And The Dangers Of A Nuclear World War III. On Tuesday Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky addressed the UN Security Council: “We started a special military operation in order to put an end to bombardments…

While Sri Lanka’s bankruptcy is certainly a catastrophe for its people, the silver lining of sorts is that it could also become a turning point for the economic-financial dimension of the emerging Multipolar World Order if the RIC countries pool their efforts…

Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that’s probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire and the corrupt institutions which…

On July 7th, Bloomberg News headlined “EU Bureaucracy Seen Blocking 1.5 Billion-Euro Loan to Ukraine”, and reported that, “The executive arm of the European Union is blocking a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.5 billion) loan for Ukraine as caution prevails over the country’s urgent needs,…

As proxy conflicts around the world rage on, America is poised to continue proliferating further instability across the globe, particularly in the vicinity of near-peer adversaries, Russia and China, neither of which want escalation, as they need peace and stability to fulfill…

Dutch farmers are expanding their protests against the government’s climate agenda. Dutch lawmakers were voting on proposals that would likely lead to many farmers being forced to stop farming. Dutch farmers are preparing for a hot summer confronting the government’s announced nitrogen emission cuts,…

One of the hallmarks of democratic society was supposed to be “a healthy, free-flowing” media ecosystem. In times past, that media ecosystem would include various mass media outlets, from newspapers to cable TV networks. Today, the internet and social media platforms have greatly…

Banana Republics in Western ClothingMore Inflation & More Clueless QE “Guidance”, writes Egon von Greyerz, Founder of Matterhorn Asset Management (based in Switzerland):  What the U.S. in particular, and the West in general, are failing to confess is that today’s so-called “Developed Economies”…

The density of foreign policy activities by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cannot but attract attention. At the end of April, he received German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Tokyo. Immediately after that, he went on a week-long tour to three countries in…

Strategic forecasters must always aspire to reflect reality as accurately as they can, understanding that this is impossible to perfectly do in practice but nevertheless continually moving in this direction and regularly improving their work to this end. President Putin spoke to current staff…

The Coming Panic Will Be Too Late At some point, the Fed will react and in panic lower rates and inject fake money into the system. But that will be much too late. No amount of fake money can save a system…

You might have noticed a certain political instability in the air, not just in the US but all over the world. In a world in which people generally care about rights and freedoms, surely this was inevitable, however much the expert managerial…

The American Consulate in Mumbai has no place whatsoever at all in demanding that India ban Russian vessels, and it’s only as a result of Delhi’s goodwill that there hasn’t (yet?) been an official condemnation of this. ThePrint, one of India’s reputable…

The former US president has a five-point lead over the incumbent ahead of a possible clash in 2024. Former US President Donald Trump has scored an early lead over incumbent Joe Biden in a potential 2024 election rematch, according to a new Emerson…

Russia would need to go beyond its traditional rhetoric of Soviet assistance rendered to Africa. Are there concrete success stories and policy achievements, at least, during the past decade in Africa. The young generation and the middle class, aged between 25 to…

To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat. Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away from Playa Girón, along the Bay of…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the Canadian government “satanists” for blacklisting the Orthodox Patriarch. “Only satanists” could sanction the Patriarch, says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova. Doubling down on its commitment to Ukraine, Canada on Friday blacklisted 29 Russians and 15…

EU nations are split on the Ukraine, with some member states opposing a new aid package, Kiev’s finance minister has said. Marchenko also lamented that while Ukraine needs €5 billion ($5.05 billion) every month, Kiev has been receiving much less than this…

A gunman on a rooftop opened fire on the participants of an Independence Day parade in Chicago on Monday, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in…

It seems a short leap from Robinhood or Coinbase to a Ponzi scheme. “Investing is simple here,” Robinhood’s website leads. “Start building your portfolio with just $1.” Scroll down a bit on coinbase.com, and it says, “Take control of your money.” Charles…

Farmers‘ protests against globalist Great Reset food policies spread to Germany, Italy, Poland  and Spain. 16-year-old farmer’s son Jouke Hospes, who was shot at by police Tuesday evening despite having turned his tractor away from the police roadblock said: “I  can’t believe…

Things are a tad wonky. The problem that market participants are not thinking about is this. When combining the most levered global and US economy in the history of our planet, record low interest rates (lowest in recorded history), the greatest disruption…

Katehon Think Tank   For many years the USSR lived under the yoke of harsh sanctions imposed by “partners” in Western countries. This is no exception for contemporary Russia. Today, almost any action in the political arena can serve as a pretext…

Given the growing importance of the Caspian Sea in recent times, the summits of the Caspian basin states, along with the EAEU and the SCO, are becoming essential platforms for strengthening ties within Eurasia. Whereas major oil and gas fields previously generated…

The top seller on Amazon for books devoted to war and peace as of this writing, Scott Horton’s newest offering, Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a timely must read. As Washington barrels heedlessly along into Cold War II,…

The country’s media watchdog blocked access to VoA and DW after they refused to obtain a broadcasting license. The Turkish Broadcasting Authority (RTUK) has blocked the websites of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) and the US international radio station Voice of America…

All Empires end in ignominy. The United Kingdom is drawing to a close, not with a bang but with a fart. A century from now, the dominant historical narrative will be Chinese, and Chinese historians will puzzle over how Boris Johnson fell…

What Cairo is cleverly doing is setting Sudan up to fail in an attempt to divide and rule both it and Ethiopia in order to create the conditions for exerting Egyptian hegemony over the wider region at both of their expense. Patriotic…

Crowds of people gathered in Ottawa on Canada Day to call for freedoms as police continued to maintain a heavy presence, at times confronting some of the protesters. Police had set up three scanning areas to check people as they entered the precinct…

Useful European idiots “ Washington and London have drawn ´useful European idiots´ into an economic war against Russia ” – said former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev – adding that “the onset of a systemic crisis in the Eurozone is beginning to come true.” He…

Are we under attack?  Previously, I have written about a series of very strange fires that have occurred at key food production facilities in the United States this year.  Authorities insist that each one of those fires was an “accident”, and maybe they are…

Fast but not furious, the Global South is revving up. The key takeaway of the BRICS+ summit in Beijing,  held in sharp contrast with the G7 in the Bavarian Alps, is that both West Asia’s Iran and South America’s Argentina officially applied for BRICS…

Gazprom is proposing to extend the rubles-for-gas scheme to liquified natural gas (LNG), a senior executive said on Monday, days after Russia moved to take full control over the Sakhalin-2 LNG project. The proposal for demanding payments in rubles for LNG came…

Two tweets about American on this Independence Day. The first is from a drag restaurant in Miami, which is in Florida, a state that has a sane governor and a department of child protective services, from which we should be hearing soon:…