The speaker of the ruling party of Zimbabwe, ZANU-PF stated that the Zimbabwean government would like to join the BRICS economic bloc. Christopher Mutsvangwa told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, “We made it clear that we would like to become a…

This country thrived and grew for years on a system of meritocracy. Excellence was not only what most people strived for but what most expected in every aspect of our lives. We went to restaurants that had five-star reviews. We bought the…

With this banking crisis, which has serious Lehman vibes, it is a good time to revisit my article, Is This The End of The End of History, from March of last year. The article delt with the theme of collapse vs stagnation, and historical…

The U.S. downplayed the importance of the China-brokered normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA has resulted in a more aggressive stance from Iran. The burgeoning relationship between China and Iran – and China and Saudi…

In the third and final part of his series, Nicolas JS Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies. In the first two parts…

For the past year, Nato countries, led by the US, have strived to nudge the rest of the world into providing military aid for Ukraine and sanctioning Russia, in the hope of isolating the latter. They have, by and large, failed on…

Vladimir Putin I am glad to seize this opportunity to address the friendly Chinese people in one of the largest and most authoritative world media in advance of the state visit of President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping to…

During the International Parliamentary conference Russia-Africa held March 19-20 in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a speech at the plenary session, reminded African parliamentarians that the partnership between Russia and African countries has gained additional momentum and is reaching a whole new…

Alexander Dugin We are actively and intensely demasculinated and dehumanised and those who resist are relegated to the margins, to the obscurantists, branded with the most disgusting labels and then killed. Contrary to the ‘traditional values’ enshrined in Decree No. 809, liberals…

Once something is denied, and adamantly, you can suspect it is either true or something which raises too many inconvenient questions. Old news, such as US Produced Sarin Gas Used in Syria in Ukraine Lab, is now very current when we see vivid clips…

Back in 1959 Vice President Richard Nixon visited Moscow and held his famous “Kitchen debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. Nixon favorably compared the standard of living of American suburbanites to that of their Russian counterparts under Communism. Criticizing Soviet society was a serious…

State of the Union: We haven’t taken the lessons of the U.S. failure in Iraq to heart. Monday, March 20, marked the twentieth anniversary of America’s invasion of Iraq. To commemorate the beginning of the end of American unipolarity, The American Conservative will be…

If it seems to you like everything is breaking loose all at once, it isn’t just your imagination.  At the beginning of January, I warned that the overall theme of this year would be “here we go”, and global events have certainly been…

The author last commented on the situation in Pakistan in connection with a large-scale terrorist attack on the (apparently) heavily guarded grounds of a Shia mosque on January 30 in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Once again, the author has to state…

The US plan involves providing ISIS and other extremist groups with armored vehicles as well as the planned ‘kidnapping’ of Russian and Iranian military personnel The Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has warned that the US occupation…

An Israeli delegation from the Galilee village of Kfar Kama, in northern occupied Palestine, was blocked from attending a UN tourism event in Saudi Arabia starting on 12 March after the kingdom denied them visas. The occupied village was among 32 sites…

Digital dictatorship marks the combination of algorithms, the invisible computer codes that increasingly run the Internet and by inference, our lives. While lacking a distinct ideological backing, it also carries mild connotations to the Italian fasci and fascio. Literally, fasci means bundle or sheaf, and figuratively league – the league of the Fasci Italiani…

The new capitalists were supposed to be different. Unlike those corrupt titans of Wall Street or the money-grubbing oil men, the 21st-century tech gurus were meant to be a more ‘enlightened’ class of entrepreneur. They were going to transform our world, with…

The failing 167-year-old Swiss usury branch of private central banking known as Credit Suisse is swimming in scandals, many of them horrendously appalling, that date back many years. Despite only just recently capturing headlines for its likely soon collapse, the ongoing stock selloff…

Russian and Iranian trade via the Caspian Sea has grown by 70 percent in the past 12 months. Developing overland routes is expensive and unlikely to have immediate foreign funding, leading to prioritization of trade via the Caspian Sea. China’s money lending…

When reporters, journalists, or your friends suggest that the Democrat Party is acting like a Communist party, it’s because THEY ARE acting like third world Communists. This Twitter thread by Senator JD Vance says it all. Alvin Bragg is bought by George…

Prominent French intellectual Emmanuel Todd argues the Ukraine proxy war is the start of WWIII, and is “existential” for both Russia and the US “imperial system”, which has restricted the sovereignty of Europe, making Brussels into Washington’s “protectorate”. A prominent French intellectual…

Imran Khan’s supporters violently clashed with police officers outside a courthouse Police in Islamabad have filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, after crowds of his supporters rioted outside a courthouse in the Pakistani capital. Khan was due to appear…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 19 March for talks with President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. The two discussed the issue of stability in West Asia and the necessity of bringing Syria back into the Arab…

One month after Seymour Hersh reported that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines, US officials find a scapegoat in Ukraine and stenographers in the New York Times. Nearly six months after the Nord Stream pipelines exploded and one month after Seymour…

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, called for Iran and the United Arab Emirates to put their “family differences” aside during the important high-level talks in Abu Dhabi on 16 March. Shamkhani, who is affiliated with Iran’s top…

Despite the threat of sanctions, the parliament is set to vote on an anti-LGBTQ bill Western countries should stop “wasting the time of humanity” by trying to impose their beliefs and practices, including homosexuality, on other people, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has…

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at how the regime’s narrative on foreign policy is failing, and how some in Congress are finally standing up to the warfare state. Yet, the regime wants more US wars in Syria, Ukraine, and now even…

Multiple law enforcement agencies are discussing security preparations in the event former US President Donald Trump is charged. The former leader could face charges as early as next week, multiple senior officials told US media. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies…

Interview of Paul Craig Roberts by the Russian Geopolitical institute GEOFOR. Amid a possible financial crisis in the United States, GEOFOR turned to Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy, US economist and ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in…

In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries about their attitudes towards the West and towards Russia and China. The findings in the study, while not…

Graeme MacQueen’s work is a testament to a man devoted to the search for truth and the freedom and peace that ensue from its discovery. I think it is surely not an accident that he is a Buddhist scholar and a former…

It is “terminal” because the controlling power, the U.S. regime, now spends approximately half of the entire world’s military costs and hides much of that by paying it out from federal Departments other than the official ‘Defense’ Department so as to (in comparison…

Chinese President Xi Jinping sets the table for his Russia visit declaring that “no single country should dictate the international order”. China’s president has previewed his visit to Moscow by declaring that “no single country should dictate the international order”. Chinese President…

Beijing’s holdings of US securities have dropped to their lowest since May 2009 China has continued to slash its holdings of US treasury securities amid the growing threat of economic sanctions from Washington, according to data released by the US Treasury on…

The PCR tests that the government pushed on the masses during the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “pandemic” are nothing more than a scam, unearthed emails show. Prof. Martin Neil in September 2020 received a handful of anonymous emails that unequivocally prove the fraudulent nature of…

A shocking article published by The Wall Street Journal in December 2020 has resurfaced.  In it, American physicians admitted to putting patients on ventilators who did not need it as a step in their protocol.  It was done not as a treatment likely to benefit…

The Pulitzer-winning journalist discusses the fallout from his report exposing how the US blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipelines. Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, which…

One by one, the financial institutions that billions of people rely on to conduct business and live their lives are collapsing. And Miles Franklin CEO Andy Schectman is warning that the endgame of all this financial melee will be hyperinflation. Schectman joined Mike Adams, the…

It almost looks as though the drone incident with Russia was staged in order to get people to start demanding de-escalation. Pentagon officials say they don't yet know whether a Russian fighter jet intended to collide with a U.S. drone, forcing it…

There has been a noticeable decline in the percentage of Americans identifying as religious. Some perceive this seismic shift as evidence of a secularizing culture. In some quarters, the secularization of America is viewed favorably as an agent of modernization. But researchers…

The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment.  It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former.  Russia, not being an ICC member country,…

J6 was a peaceful protest. FBI and CIA agents working as agent provocateurs herded peaceful protestors into the Washington, D.C. Capital. The Uniparty then unlawfully imprisoned innocent “right-wing” protestors for political leverage. In Trump’s defense, despite the election being clearly stolen, he…

Russia’s Moscow Exchange (MOEX) disclosed that it would include the Turkish lira and Hong Kong dollar in currencies that Moscow will trade with as of 1 March. The MOEX Russia Index is the main ruble-denominated benchmark of the Russian stock market. MOEX…

The West is too dysfunctional and weak now to fight on all fronts. Yet there can be no retreat without some de-legitimising humiliation of the West. Just occasionally, a window is opened onto the truth of how the ‘system’ works. Momentarily, it…

Kosovo-Metohija Serbs were targeted by a pogrom 19 years ago on March 17-19, 2004. It was the second largest pogrom Serbs in the province suffered at the hands of ethnic Albanians after the end of the 1999 NATO aggression on Serbia, then…

Background by PressTV The Russian president has hailed cooperation between his country and China, describing it as an important step in stabilizing the international situation. The cooperation in the international arena between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, as…

Given the dynamics of international processes and the earthquake disaster, Turkey remains at the forefront of the US and NATO bloc’s attention. Washington strongly opposes President Erdoğan’s policy of independence from American strategy, both in terms of reviving Turkey’s imperial status through…

Though individuals who have been heavily propagandized to think that they are better-able to rate foreign Governments than the people who live under them are (and this helps ‘justify’ what their Government is doing to foreign countries, such as invading them and…

Beijing is right to condemn the pact as spurring an arms race and undermining Asia-Pacific stability Earlier this week, a trilateral summit was held with the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom and the US in San Diego to flesh out the…

Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash. In this discussion with Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton, Hudson also addresses the US government bailout (which it isn’t…

Great. Just ever-lovin’pea-pickin’ great. In LA some sixty thousand people–who really knows?–sleep on the sidewalks, in tents, cardboard boxes, sleeping bags, or not much of anything. Others live in their cars. The same in San Fran, Seattle, St. Louis. There being no…

The Trilateral Commission’s 50th anniversary marks the culmination of its self-proclaimed “New International Economic Order”.  On March 12, the Trilateral Commission held its plenary meeting in New Delhi, India to discuss issues relating to globalization. Trilateral Commission co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski’s “Technetronic Era” has…

Tsai Ing-Wen, the leader of Taiwan, is slated to visit California and meet with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in April. This meeting will certainly cast an unpredictable variable on Sino-U.S. relations. The relationship between China and the US is already frosty and was…

There are very few issues in the US politics, both domestic and foreign, that can draw the Republicans and the Democrats into a bi-partisan consensus. Russia has been one of them in the wake of the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. More…

Trump has said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday over an indictment in New York. The possible indictment stems from an alleged $130,000 hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 over an alleged sexual encounter that the…

“There is great chaos under heaven; [hence] the situation is excellent.” —Mao Zadong With staunch US support, Pakistan’s unelected “imported government” is trying to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the most popular politician in the country, to prevent him from running…

From the Wall Street Journal – Economists are now estimating that 186 US banks may be prone to the same risks as Silicon Valley Bank. This number is likely higher as the pressures that regional banks are facing are ramping up. This…

The Western war machine only served its own interests in destroying a nation that could liberate Africa. On the 19th of March 2011, the NATO bloc began a violent 8-month long military onslaught of Libya, a sovereign African-Union founding member state, which…

Ma Ying-jeou will pay a visit to China this month amid increased tensions with Beijing, his office has reportedly confirmed. Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou will reportedly visit the Chinese mainland, starting later this month  Ma Ying-jeou, the former Taiwanese president who made history…

John Anthony Castro is running for president as a Republican. He was born on the U.S. military base in Landstuhl, Germany and lives in Texas.  According to Ballotpedia, he earned a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law, and an…

Ron DeSantis’s remarks on Ukraine were textbook realism and a throwback to an old Republican Party. erhaps the most bizarre combination of phrases was seen on a New York Post editorial concern-trolling Governor Ron DeSantis, who finally has started to comment carefully on foreign…

In conflicts, I know, neither side can be trusted. Both sides twist and distort, magnify and minimize in support of their cause. But the daily, almost hourly pictures from  Ukraine—of hardship, suffering, of death, destruction and flight, all too genuine, cause me…

I am in Ukraine today,” President Joe Biden declared in his dramatic trip to Kiev earlier this week, “to reaffirm our unwavering and unflagging commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.” For most of this first year of the Ukraine war, the American…

  Steve Kirsch writes: This is progress. We knew this was bound to happen sooner or later. It has started and it is going to escalate from here. Watch Karl Lauterbach, Minister of Health in Germany, start the process. Executive summary “It…

The spending requested by Biden is on par with expenditures at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars—even though those wars officially ended with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly two years ago. Last week, the White House released President Biden’s…

The U.S. and Europe are the new sick men of the world. The Western response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is widely seen as a sign of a reinvigorated alliance of democracies against authoritarianism. Even historically anti-war publications like the Guardian speak volubly…

Every dawn, during my daily walk to the foothills of the Andes, I pass by the Tobalaba Aerodrome, a facility that caters to a wide variety of private aircraft. For most residents of La Reina, the Santiago neighborhood where my wife and…

Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer than hen’s teeth, but the UN High Seas Treaty was one of them.  It took over two decades of agonising, stuttering…

Ron DeSantis came out against our current blank check n’ hack cliches Ukraine policy, stating the indisputable truth that Ukraine was not a vital US interest worthy of risking World War III with Russia. The next day he was proven right when…

Do you remember when wealthy people all over the world would stash their money in Swiss banks because there were so strong and so private?  Well, the second largest bank in Switzerland is literally on the brink of collapse.  As I discussed yesterday,…

Days before the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2023, U.S. officials claimed that China was considering providing Russia with lethal weaponry to support its military campaign. China denied the accusations, and on the anniversary of the…

In a report covering covid-19 period from March 2020 to March 2021 OXFAM’s research bring home some hard facts that are camouflaged by words & terms. IMF Fiscal consolidation is nothing but austerity upon low-income & middle class populations while IMF reforms…

Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, slammed the IMF for callously unleashing riots on nations the IMF is dealing with; he pointed out that the riots are written into the IMF plan to force Nations to…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly met with law enforcement to plan security for the coming indictment of the ex-president. The former US president has predicted he will be detained on Tuesday on a charge of falsifying business records. If former US…

Bibi is by nature cautious – even timid. His radical ministers, however, are not, Alastair Crooke writes. Michael Omer-Man writes: Almost exactly 10 years ago, a young star rising in the Likud party, spoke to an audience committed to the outright annexation…

President Emmanuel Macron bypassed parliament to pass the controversial legislation. Prior to the bill’s passage, almost half a million people protested in cities across France on Wednesday, according to figures from the Interior Ministry. The country has been struck by widespread protests…

Welcome to the great banking collapse of 2023.  Please try to enjoy the ride.  When FTX crumbled, I explained to my readers that it was not the first domino to fall and that it certainly would not be the last.  Sadly, that…

Anyone who has read the many official and unofficial U.S. Government statements about the U.S. Government’s relationship to the rest of the world knows that that Government’s attitude equates competition as being hostility, and so demands that every other nation will ally itself to…

The leader of France’s Eurosceptic party The Patriots responded to continuing controversy over the Nord Stream pipeline attack by asserting, “It was obvious that the Americans were behind the bombing.” Florian Philippot made the comments during an interview with RIA Novosti. Philippot…

The on-going transformation of the world order inevitably affects the regional subsystems of international relations. Thus, in Northeast Asia, the crisis of several pairs of system-forming ties is immediately obvious: Russia-Japan, China-Japan and Japan-South Korea. Difficulties are also observed in the interaction…

The headquarters of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) in Moscow, linked to the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is arguably one of the most crucial nodes of the emerging multipolar world. That’s where I was received by Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics Sergey Glazyev –…

February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in…

Twenty years after the invasion, public opinion about the war has reversed and most believe it made the US less safe. Two decades after the US invaded Iraq, the majority of Americans realize the war was a mistake, according to an Axios/Ipsos…

During an interview with RIA Novosti news agency on 16 March, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad suggested that Russian military presence in Syria should become permanent and said he would welcome any proposals from the Kremlin to set up new military bases and…

The Department of Defense is considering tailoring back surveillance operations in the Black Sea, CNN reported, citing defense officials.  Defense department is “taking a close look” at ways to reduce or restructure spying operations in the region to reduce the chances of…

During the 36th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) held in Addis Ababa, African leaders have indeed prioritized the most significant questions especially those including peace and security necessary for sustainable development, halting the frequency of military’s appearance unto the political…

An undercover Israeli special forces unit infiltrated downtown Jenin in the occupied West Bank and killed four Palestinians on 16 March, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The four have been identified as 29-year-old Youssef Shreim, 28-year-old Nidal Khazem, 37-year-old Louay al-Zugheir, and…

After the implosion of the FTX crypto exchange run by Sam Bankman Fried, questions of due diligence and competency immediately arose, suggesting that perhaps the company mishandled assets “accidentally” and that Fried was naive and “in over his head.” Numerous central bank…

Although, unlike the last war of 1812 with France, Russia and Britain were never openly at war with each other, the scale of the geopolitical confrontation between these two European states and Moscow has long existed and is constantly growing. Especially against…

Dan Bongino didn’t hold back when discussing the upcoming arrest of Donald Trump. He ripped into liberals celebrating it — and said “the Police State is here.” He also pointed out “this is the kind of story we are used to reading…

The United States’ use of terrorist methods to eliminate Russian gas competition by undermining the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea on September 26 and numerous well-founded suspicions about Washington’s possible use of tectonic weapons in the February earthquake in Turkey…

Even though there is as of now not much prospect of the conflict in Ukraine coming to an end (and US interests actually profit from making it perpetual), there is much talk already about “rebuilding” the country. In a November video address, Ukrainian President …

Semi-partisan warfare in an urban environment The U.S. military is paying special attention to so-called urban warfare, as China has its own synonym for it – Chengshi Zozozhan (城市作战). This method is also referred to by Chinese military leaders as nothing other…

If you think the banking collapse will end with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), think again. Contagion is already spreading as Americans are waking up to the fact that the American financial system is a fraudulent Ponzi scheme that will result in financial ruin…

In hopes of further spinning its geopolitical project of establishing a “belt of instability” around Russia, the Biden administration has recently started to place a special emphasis on working with the countries of Central Asia, seeking to turn these “five” into puppet…

For Poles, as for all Europeans, the undersea explosion carried out by American, Norwegian and British terrorists is therefore the first shot of America’s full-blown war against Europe. So-called World public opinion probably sees my country, Poland as one of the most…

Customers of First Republic Bank in Southern California are lining up outside bank branches, eager to withdraw their funds in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). SVB’s collapse has raised fears that First Republic could suffer a similar bank run…

You already know things are not good for a lot of people in the United States. As of two months ago, 64% of the country said they’re living paycheck to paycheck. Even if we exclude the million or so homeless across the U.S., recent…

The former US president says warmongering globalists are more dangerous to the US than Russia or China. The country has ‘never been closer’ to nuclear war, the former president said in a video, urging a ceasefire in Ukraine. Former US president Donald…

The big talking point of the week was the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, with a couple of hundred billion in assets evaporating overnight and blowing away on the morning wind. I ought really to be more interested in this than I…

Translated from Swedish – Original Swedish Version When the school authority in Sweden in 2018 wanted to restrict the history subject in terms of time and let the teaching start in the year 1700, their actions were met with strong protests. Many…

History teaches that the greatest threat to peace today is the United States. No other nation creates dangers as great as those emanating from the U.S. commitment to the doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance. As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in…

Xcel Energy in late November told Minnesota and federal officials about a leak of 400,000 gallons of water contaminated with radioactive tritium at its Monticello nuclear power plant, but it wasn’t until Thursday that the incident and ongoing cleanup effort were made…

America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home. The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The…

In America, we have an oligarch problem, and it’s much bigger than the oligarch problem that Putin faced when he became president in 2000. The entire West is now in the grips of billionaire elites who have a stranglehold on the media,…

A vanishingly short period of relief in U.S. and global markets was shattered Wednesday after the scandal-plagued Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse announced that its auditor identified “material weakness” in its financial reporting and the firm’s largest investor—the Saudi National Bank—said it…

Iran has agreed to cease covert weapons supplies to the Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen as a part of the recent China-brokered agreement with Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported on March 16. Last week, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced that…

“We have lost many of the officers who received U.S. training over the past nine years, eroding a corps of military leaders. A lot of them are killed,” the official said.” Now, the official said, those forces must be replaced, but replaced…

The temporary lifting of Washington’s sanctions on earthquake-stricken and war-torn Syria is ‘misleading’ at best, and stands in the way of relief efforts. Four days after the devastating earthquake that struck southern Turkiye and northern Syria on 6 February, the US announced…

Many in the West have been predicting a downturn in the China-Russia alliance in the wake of the ongoing Russian Special Military Operations in Ukraine. A recent article in the Foreign Affairs magazine pointed out ‘key’ points of disagreement between Beijing and…

Beijing became one of the latest places in China to adopt the China-Europe freight train platform, as localities vie to participate in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing sent its first China-Europe freight train. The train is carrying 55 40-foot…

In the second week of March, thousands took to the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, to vent their fiery indignation over a draft law requiring any NGO operating in the country that receives over 20% of its revenue from overseas to register as a “foreign…

The case of Mexico is quite telling that no country can hope to feel safe, no matter how closely it worked with the US authorities. For decades, the country has been ravaged by drug cartels, themselves often deeply connected to the infamous…

America and the West have begun promoting the idea of a war against China over Taiwan. If China invades Taiwan, President Joe Biden has said, the U.S. would go further than it has in Ukraine, sending American ground troops as well as…

You’re likely thinking that a discussion of “sound banking” will be a bit boring. Well, banking should be boring. And we’re sure officials at central banks all over the world today—many of whom have trouble sleeping—wish it were. This brief article will…

“I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross…

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the George W. Bush administration’s illegal invasion of Iraq this weekend, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights on Wednesday renewed its call for reparations “for those harmed as a result of the U.S.’s unlawful act…

While evidence of antisemitism was only found for one of the journalists, the other three were expressing support for the Palestinian cause and resistance A 6 March report by the US-based, pro-Israel media monitoring organization, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting…

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” -Benjamin Franklin Arizona Senator Mark Kelly has called for the censoring of social media companies to prevent bank runs. The senator asked about censoring…

If you have ever wondered, “where do America’s spies come from?” the answer is quite possibly the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. It is only a modestly-seized institution, yet the school provides the backbone for the Central Intelligence…

Beijing accused the AUKUS alliance (US, UK, and Australia) of embarking on a “path of error and danger” when responding to the announcement that Australia will be supplied with nuclear-powered submarines. The multibillion-dollar deal, seen as a step to counter China’s rise in…

Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson asked Republican presidential hopefuls, those who have announced and those exploring a bid, about their policy on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Carlson reported the responses on Monday night’s show and posted the responses in…

From Aug. 7, 1789, when it was created, to September 18, 1947, the American people knew that their government had a Department of War and that it had an Army and a Navy for that purpose, both to defend the country against…

Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. There will come a time when the Ukrainians will become expendable to the U.S. They will disappear, as many others before them, from U.S. national discourse and popular consciousness. There are many ways…

The US drone, irrespective of whether it was armed and/or in international airspace, was obviously conducting reconnaissance on Crimea in preparation of Kiev attempting yet another attack there. Russia thus employed its UN-enshrined right to preeminently defend itself from this imminent US-facilitated…

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna demonstrates women can be as psychopathic as their male counterparts. Luna is Latin for Moon. Lunatic is an insane person, once thought to be governed by phases of the Moon. I am convinced Anna Paulina Luna, a republican representative…

It is obvious that, at least in The West, the U.S. side has already overwhelmingly won the propaganda-war part of the war against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine; however, what about the ultimate military and diplomatic sides of that war —…

The largest color revolution attempt in recent Iranian history is led by a woman on Washington’s payroll – and we have the facts. There are Iranian women, though a minority, who are not in favor of the mandatory veil – a legitimate…

Claims made by transatlantic politicians and their media partners turn reality upside down—and would baffle even George Orwell. U.S. President Joe Biden, Western politicians and their media partners agree that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” The president of the country notorious for…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that Russia’s war with Ukraine is a “territorial dispute” that the U.S. should not get itself further embroiled in – and the Republican knows exactly the message that he is sending to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  …

As the geniuses running the western financial bubble (sometimes called an “economy”) continue to double down on their obsession to pump a dead financial system with ever more trillions in stimulus spending, arguments are raging among brainwashed economists living in denial over…

As we witness the collapse of various mainstream narratives, especially those surrounding the U.S./NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, Americans should begin to reassess their understanding of U.S. national leadership. Most American citizens have no notion of the great disparity between what…

Since Fukushima in 2011 there has been a revolution in the scientific understanding of the relation between radiation exposures and subsequent cancer and leukemia. But you would be hard put to find anything about this on Google, which has, over the same…

The disinformation service, Bloomberg, takes the lead. Bloomberg points its finger at Donald Trump and “Trump era deregulation.” In Bloomberg’s rewriting of history,  Trump is responsible because he signed a bill passed by Democrats and Republicans that allowed mid-sized banks to “skirt some of…

When interest rates rise, bond prices fall (and stock prices tend to follow). However, banks don’t have to mark down the market price of their assets to reflect this declining valuation. They can simply hold on to their securities. They only have…

Yesterday, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced “with great pleasure” a joint project of the IPU Parliament and WHO, “which can guide parliamentarians along the path towards health for all, including on law-making, finance, taxation, and accountability.” A few days…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on 15 March, following his arrival in Russia a day earlier on his first visit outside of West Asia since last month’s earthquake devastated Syria. Assad, who headed a…

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed on Friday and was shut down by regulators. It was the second-largest failure in US history and the first since the global financial crisis. Almost immediately, the calls for bailouts started to come in. (Since Friday, First…

Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman says the kingdom would stop selling oil and cut output if a price cap is imposed. Western policies in relation to Russian crude risk major uncertainties when clarity is most needed, the Saudi oil minister…

The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates, which spiked last Thursday and Friday to close…

The United States is a human rights hypocrite.  No country has been more aggressive in lecturing others about human rights and no country has been less willing to take part in international efforts to halt crimes against the peace or even genocide. …

The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we…

The United States might survive another 10 years, but the crises will increase in both frequency and intensity until the end. And, as Steve Bannon has said since Friday night, this is not your fault. You did not drive the dot com…

Welcome to the era of state-sponsored thought police Yesterday, journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Their testimony, and the risible reactions of Democrats on the subcommittee, are well worth…

The Pakistani people can compel China into taking urgent action behind the scenes to de-escalate this crisis by publicly calling upon it to do so, which would also create the optics of their country’s US-backed fascist post-modern coup regime literally shooting at…

The Seymour Hersch revelations about the Biden regime’s bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines have apparently struck a nerve, as the deep state actors have produced a counter-narrative to try to undermine them. But it is so laughably flimsy that it is…

An unexpected announcement of an agreement shocked the world and above all the Zionist regime and its allies and the announcement shattered dreams of Israel for strengthening its footstep in the region and especially in the Persian Gulf. Yes. The sudden announcement…

Another major Twitter Files bombshell has dropped showing how a foreign dark money group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) oversees a “vast censorship enterprise” that, among other things, works behind the scenes to hide the deadly truth about vaccines from the…

Protests and Popular Sentiment growing for “Peace In Ukraine – No weapons, no money for the Ukraine War.” On March 18 protesters will gather at the White House to call for an end to Joe Biden’s cruel proxy war. “Cruel” is the…

It was a momentous event, the importance of which is not perceived outside the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran reconciled… in China. Three signatures at the bottom of a document reshuffle all the cards in this region. Since the 19th century,…

The Role of Bailouts and Speculative trade The elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act in November 1999 was essential to the process of dramatically cutting back the government’s role as a protector of the public interest on the financial services sector. The Glass-Steagall Act was…

Founder of Icahn Enterprises Carl Icahn said that the American economy had a “major problem” Tuesday following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. “Our system is breaking down and we absolutely have a major problem in our economy today. And I’m not…

The very public failure of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) is raising concerns of a renewed wave of bank failures that threatens Western economies. The subtext is residual fear that the earlier (mid-2000’s) bank crisis was never adequately addressed. The very bankers who…

In an ironic twist, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California received the first $1.1 billion nuclear bailout to keep operating, even though it was political leaders from California who had asked for a health study. If you thought the government…

Welcome to Whose Economy Is It, Anyway?, where the rules are made up and the dollars don’t matter. Or at least that seems to be the view of the Yellen regime. As Doug French noted last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was…

UPDATE: The Russian Defense Ministry reported: On the morning of March 14 this year, means of the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces detected an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle flying over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula in the…

Our faith in the wobbling world of hyper-financialization will soon be tested. It’s interesting, isn’t it, that amidst a tsunami of commentary about banks, nobody mentions the proverbial elephant in the room, which is the overwhelming dominance of finance in the economy and society,…

There is no shortage of activists, journalists, academics, and people of conscience who have some story to share about the impact of the “Collateral Murder” video. The U.S. military footage of an Apache helicopter crew shooting indiscriminately at a dozen Iraqi civilians…

The death of Ancient Rome wasn’t so much a collapse as a slow, interminable decay: between the second and sixth centuries AD, its population declined from a million people to just 30,000. Since then, 15 centuries have passed and thousands of cities…

The lockdowns and the stimulus required to keep the economy alive helped drive inflation. Then the Fed jacked up interest rates. And all hell broke loose. On Friday March 10th, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) died of Covid. Alright, it’s a little…

During his recent four-day African tour, French President Emmanuel Macron was forced to admit that the era of the “Françafrique” is over in Gabon. It existed for more than six decades, realizing Paris’ desire to imprison its former colonies in Africa in…

It’s the USA, not Russia, that needs new leadership amid the Ukraine crisis, former president has declared. Official and potential Republican presidential candidates have explained their positions on the Ukraine crisis to Tucker Carlson. Former US President Donald Trump has said he…

While it is A dozen years after four atomic reactors exploded at Fukushima, the plant STILL daily irradiates 150 tons of water which must be treated and stored forever. Thousands of tons more of such lethal liquid are still held in rotting…

Federal contracting documents reviewed by The Intercept show that U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is ramping up its efforts to unleash internet propaganda and other deception campaigns online using deepfake videos. The entity responsible for some of America’s most secretive military operations, SOCOM is also…

There’s no doubt that upcoming Saudi moves in support of the petroyuan that are taken in coordination with Iran and Russia would catalyze the next natural phase of de-dollarization. Russian-GCC real-sector trade that’ll be carried out via Iran across the North-South Transport…

Former US President Donald Trump has issued a dire warning, following a number of US bank failures. The former US president blames bank failures on Joe Biden’s economic policies Donald Trump blamed the incumbent, Joe Biden, for the economic problems of the…

In 1971 a second-year grad student at Yale named Alfred McCoy met the poet Allen Ginsberg at a demonstration for Bobby Seale in New Haven, Connecticut. Ginsberg found out that McCoy had studied up on the drug trade and also knew several…

  Alexander Dugin   In February 2023, Alexander Dugin gave a lecture to the Donetsk People’s Republic within the framework of the Russian People’s World Council Hall Thank you for the invitation to speak to the students of the Donetsk People’s Republic…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, in Moscow on 9 March to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation between the two countries. During the meeting, Lavrov stressed that all ministries concerned with enhancing cooperation are in…

The Kalibr missile family is made up of several variants, including long–range cruise missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes. In total, there will be up to 80 attack missiles on each vessel — a record number for the Russian surface fleet, according to the…

Former Defense Secretary Roberts Gates has famously said on more than one occasion that though he liked Joe Biden personally, Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy issue throughout his entire half-century political career. And he and his handlers are…

In my last column, I compared Fox News host Tucker Carlson to the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow, who used his reporting in the 1950s to change the course of history. For that comparison I apologize. It is now apparent that Carlson far…

The New York Times’ latest attack on New Delhi highlights a long-running feud over democracy and freedom of speech The New York Times has fired a fresh salvo at India’s right-wing government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for its muscular Hindutva…

A growing body of evidence suggests that the US would blow up the global economy to prevent China from laying claim to Taiwan’s semiconductor factories. Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien has hinted at a sinister US contingency plan…

US dirty hands have been all over a near-decade of war on Russia by use of expendable Ukrainian Nazified and conscript foot soldiers. Biden regime dirty hands were responsible for attacks on Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline for supplying low-cost natural gas to…

The widespread panic that we just witnessed is definitely not what the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve were anticipating.  Following the second largest bank collapse in U.S. history on Friday and the third largest bank collapse in U.S. history on Sunday, the…

Beijing has repeatedly called on the White House to end its illegal practices inside Syria; the nation was also among the first to send aid to Syria following last month’s earthquake China has repeated calls for the US to end its illegal…

Two bloody events have enraged the entire country, raising the painful question of whether the negative effects of the brazen, unjustified invasion of Iraq by hordes of US troops 20 years ago are still wreaking havoc on all Iraqis today. When Jassim…

Shaban Syed   Pakistanis who want free fair elections and a democratic system that has accountability may have to pay with their blood it appears, after the recent incident of a PTI rally in Zaman Park where a party worker Ali Bilal known affectionately…

In recent years, the energy partnership has played a crucial role in Sino-Russian trade and economic cooperation. The partnership between China and Russia in the oil and gas industry is one of the most significant developments in the global energy market. This…

WARNING: China Threatens to make Peace around the world. Only the US can make peace. Or war. Not China!! China-brokered Iran-Saudi deal raises red flags for US. While advocates of peace and a multipolar world order welcomed Friday’s China-brokered agreement reestablishing diplomatic…

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (16th largest bank in US) last Friday resulted from depositors withdrawing their funds in response to a drop in value of the bank’s bond portfolios caused by the Federal Reserve’s ill-considered hikes in interest rates. The…

Journalistic Dumpster Diving A recent WSJ article “The U.S. Is Not Ready for the Era of ‘Great Power’ Conflict” by Michael R. Gordon has caught the attention of the Internet, perhaps because it is behind a paywall and has a catchy title, which…

Five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) while the Pentagon and NATO escalates its war drive on the continent The following lecture was delivered at the Africa & U.S. Imperialism Conference held in Detroit on May 18,…

On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not…

The BrahMos weapons system was jointly developed by Russia and India. The Indian naval arsenal is set to be bolstered by the purchase of “more than 200” extended-range BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles. A deal to purchase in excess of 200 extended-range BrahMos…

The inevitable outcome was clear for a decade at least, but in the run up to the Covid lockdowns there were many economists in the corporate media that outright denied the reality of an inflationary or stagflationary crisis. Joe Biden, Janet Yellen,…

By QTR: For the last year, among my friends, I’ve been saying about the market that something was “eventually going to break”. My readers over the last year won’t be surprised: they have heard me – and the content I aggregate – drone…

PRAGUE – Tens of thousands in the Czech Republic rallied against the government Saturday, protesting high inflation and demanding an end to the country’s military support for Ukraine.  The people took to the streets of Prague demanding the resignation of Prime Minister…

Beijing says the Philippines is jeopardizing its national security by forging closer military ties with the US. Strengthening military ties with the US will bind the Philippines to the “chariot of geopolitical strife,” Beijing has claimed. The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday…

On March 4, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, made a surprise visit to U.S. troops stationed in northeast Syria to the chagrin of the Syrian government, which said the visit was “illegal” and a “flagrant violation of the country’s…

The new currency should be able to become an “external money” storage of capital and reserves down the road, not just a settlement unit. Ah, the joys of the Big Circle Line (BKL, in Cyrillic): circumnavigating the whole of Moscow for 71…

Georgian Legislative Showdown Reveals Murky Waters of Foreign Agents, NGOs and Media Outlets What is now attracting all the media hype these days in Georgia is a proposed law most people should care less about, at least at first impression? However, when…

The Pentagon has awarded the defense giant Raytheon Technologies, the second largest weapons-maker in the world, over $30 billion in government contracts since Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III’s confirmation on January 22nd, 2021. Austin was on Raytheon’s board of directors prior…

On Friday geopolitical plates of tectonic scale may have visibly shifted as Iran and Saudi Arabia, two of the most important countries in the Middle East and erstwhile bitter adversaries, announced that they had reestablished diplomatic relations after a lengthy round of negotiations held…