Leonid Savin   The use of foreign theories and models is unlikely to benefit our state and people. From the mid-2000s to the early 2020s, there was a vogue for “soft power” in the Russian community of political scientists and international scholars—numerous…

Reason and Rationality Have Little to Do with Them It is often hard to understand the reasons for America’s wars, especially since World War II, but they always have a rationale backed up by lies.  The rationale for Vietnam was the containment…

There were niceties.” That description by Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) of calls between President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and Hunter’s foreign business associates may, strangely, be the most accurate thing the freshman congressman has ever said. The almost-two-dozen calls — detailed…

A top Russian military expert explains why has the plan has failed and suggests what Kiev will do next This week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) began the main thrust of their counteroffensive and transferred thousands of additional troops for the…

Kiev sought to use the SpaceX satellite network to launch an attack on Russian ships in 2022, the US media outlet has reported The SpaceX co-founder, US billionaire Elon Musk, prevented Ukraine from using his company’s Starlink satellite communications system to strike…

Right-wing candidates won at the EU Parliament primary convention of the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, who will be critical of NATO and the United States. The AfD is currently polling at 22%, based on widespread dissatisfaction with the German government, making…

While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy and financially desperate women willing to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners. Surrogates “have to be from…

The NATO-Russia proxy war in the Ukraine has become a grinding mess. One reason is that this year, in contrast to most years, winter never really came. The result was only a two-to-three week window in which offensive operations could succeed due…

Enrico Vigna (EV): The situation in Kosovo Metohija is considered perhaps the most difficult since the bombings of 1999. What is your opinion/assessment. What concrete and realistic steps could be to find a “right” way out? Zivadin Jovanovic (ZJ): It is a month now…

Each country prioritizes its own national security; however, the USA is using it as an excuse to trick other countries into paying for U.S. hegemony, Chinese analyst Song Zhongping is quoted as writing in The Global Times. Therefore, NATO members such as Hungary,…

The Niger has announced the suspension of uranium and gold exports to France amid anti-French unrest The decision poses no immediate risk to power production in the European Union, the bloc’s nuclear agency has said Niger’s military authorities, which seized power from…

Ukraine is already a financial blackhole for the West, as seen by the vast resources poured into the country while recent drone attacks on Russia indicate Ukrainian desperation. John Sopko, Inspector General of the United States Reconstruction Service in Afghanistan, said that…

The ECB has a credibility problem.  It didn’t last year.  Last year it was the Fed with the credibility problem.  Today, it’s Christine Lagarde not Jerome Powell that needs to justify her policy. Powell needed nearly a year after he began raising…

The latest events don’t inspire confidence that a wider war in West Africa can be averted, which is why everyone should brace themselves for one breaking out sometime later this month. If NATO-backed and Nigerian-led ECOWAS doesn’t swiftly defeat the newly formed…

Paris has vowed to protect its interests in the country, which cut off supplies of the critical material after a coup French President Emmanuel Macron was quick to react to a domestic conflict happening 6,000km away from Paris, saying that France would…

Over 28,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in the second month in the failing Ukrainian “counter-offensive“ with no air or artillery support, Russian Ministry of Defence Sergei Shoigu claimed. Shoigu previously put Ukrainians losses from the first month of the “counter-offensive“ at 26,000,…

The three-day state visit on July 25-27 by Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, accompanied by a military delegation, to Pyongyang is the first-ever such high-level visit from Moscow in the post-Soviet era. Shoigu’s meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…

So, the quadrennial simulation of democracy in the USA is getting underway, and personally, I couldn’t be happier. It’s been a challenging few years for unincorporated political satirists like myself. The roll-out of the new global-capitalist totalitarianism hasn’t been particularly funny. In…

Last week’s event attracted thousands of guests and produced dozens of practical decisions, Roscongress has said Last week, Russia hosted a high-profile international event, which was attended by dozens of delegations from African nations. The gathering in St. Petersburg was the second…

The choice of St. Petersburg to host last weeks Russia-Africa summit was no accident. It was a symbolic move. Last week’s Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg was a landmark event in Moscow’s foreign policy concept and practice. Not so much because it…

Most western leaders know that the time is up. They know that three key elections are going to play a huge role in putting the brakes on the campaign to continuously supply the Kiev cabal. Apparently it wasn’t Abert Einstein who said…

With the Supreme Court now sidelined from dissent, the government led by the extremist parties can transform Israel into an authoritarian regime. Despite massive street protests since January, and international pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to throw out the bill, the…

The fragmentation, simplification and localization of the post-Imperial era offers us lessons we ignore at our peril. There is an entire industry devoted to “why the Roman Empire collapsed,” but the post-collapse era may be offer us higher value lessons. The post-collapse era,…

From August 22 through 24th, an extended coalition of over 40 nations which has become known as BRICS+ will meet in Johannesburg, South Africa. Among the likely topics of discussion is the feasibility of setting up a jointly-owned international financial institution. It…

We look at the growing crisis in Niger, where the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, was overthrown last week by his own presidential guard. One of the coup’s leaders, Brigadier General Moussa Salaou Barmou, was trained by the U.S., making the…

There can be little question that the grim prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which still shows no sign of closing anytime soon, is a key legacy — in the worst sense imaginable — of America’s post-9/11 forever wars.  I’ve been covering the…

Late last week, the Kansas Office of the State Bank Commissioner shut down Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart, Kan., prompting the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to enter into a purchase and assumption agreement with Dream First Bank, National Association, of Syracuse, Kan. The…

Alexander Dugin Absolutely necessary changes are urgently needed in our society. Only they can lead us to Victory. And without Victory, there will be no Russia. Everyone understands this today. To save the people and the state, we must change. And radically…

The BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), which includes the world’s largest emerging economies, has been a driving force in restructuring the global economic landscape. Recent talk of BRICS expansion raises serious questions about its impact on the balance…

One of the biggest problems with the urgent push for “media literacy” we’ve been seeing in the west these last few years is that everyone’s being taught about liberal bias and conservative bias in media, but they’re not being taught about US…

This NATO circus is running out of road on both sides of the Atlantic, Declan Hayes writes. First off, congratulations to all the participants in the Women’s World Cup for bringing such joy to so many. And a very special hat tip…

Under the right circumstances, even an unsuccessful Presidential campaign can serve as a powerful lens for focusing public attention upon issues normally avoided by the mainstream media. I think that the success or failure of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s longshot Democratic Party…

Beijing says Washington’s weapons on the island ‘will not shake our resolve’ regarding the breakaway territory Washington’s recent approval of a $345 million military aid package for Taipei only serves to transform the island into an “ammunition depot,” China said on Saturday….

Violence in the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal) has increased in recent years, and several countries in the region have fallen victim to military coups. Now, there is a possibility that US forces…

On his weekly Friday interview on Kossuth Radio, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said “only Western money keeps Ukraine alive and the Ukrainian army operational” and Europe “is at the limit of its capacity” to support Ukraine any further. Therefore, it is…

RADHIKA DESAI: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 15th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: And today we propose to discuss NATO…

The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work hard on the long and winding road leading to a…

After the most recent FOMC meeting, Chairman Powell issued an official statement explaining the decision to raise interest rates another quarter-point. That brings the Federal target funding rate to 5.25-5.5%, the highest rate in over two decades. (Granted, those were two decades…

Late on July 29, heavy clashes broke out in Ein el-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, after a failed assassination attempt.  Palestinian officials told The Associated Press that the fighting started in the camp, which is located near the southern…

The famed director said that voting for the aging Democrat was “a mistake” US President Joe Biden is following a “suicidal” course in Ukraine and may drag the US “stupidly into a confrontation” with Russia, acclaimed director Oliver Stone said during a…