Geopolitics

Escobar: US/NATO Versus Russia-China In A Hybrid War To The Finish Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The unipolar moment is six feet under, the hegemon will try to break Eurasian integration and there’s no grownup in the room to counsel restraint… Let’s start with comic relief: the “leader of the free world” […]

China And Russia Are Winning The New Space Race Authored by Brandon Weichert via RealClearPolitics.com, Conflict, not cooperation, is going to define international affairs for the foreseeable future. This will be true both on Earth and, more importantly, in the strategic high ground of space. Fact is, the second space race is on. The world’s […]

A Canadian man, involved in a legal battle over his right to object to hormone treatment for his teenage trans child, has reportedly been jailed and denied bail for violating a gag order banning him from discussing the story. Robert Hoogland was denied bail by the Vancouver Supreme Court on Friday and will remain in […]

Syria’s petroleum minister has condemned US forces for acting “like pirates” as Washington continues to plunder most of the oil wealth from the country’s resource-rich northeast, where the Pentagon backs Kurdish militia groups. “Americans and their allies are targeting the Syrian oil wealth and its tankers just like pirates,” Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Bassam […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has challenged his American counterpart, Joe Biden, to a livestreamed online discussion, without a delay, and suggested they debate bilateral relations and issues of importance to the wider world. The president named the fight against the pandemic, regional conflict resolution, and strategic stability issues as possible topics, noting that he would […]

Two hospital staffers in Denmark experienced blood clots and cerebral haemorrhaging after they were vaccinated against Covid-19 with AstraZeneca’s jab. One has since died. Denmark revealed on Saturday that both staffers experienced issues less than fourteen days after being vaccinated. However, details of the incidents are currently scarce. The new report comes amid increasing concerns […]

Michael Tracey: How The Censors Won Authored by Michael Tracey via mtracey.substack.com Thomas Rid testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 On March 30, 2017, the Senate Intelligence Committee convened one of what would become an endless series of exhaustive hearings on “Russian interference in the 2016 election.” Media, cultural, and political elites — […]

Schools Gone Woke: One America Educator Speaks Out Authored by ‘An American Educator’ via The Critic, In a warning to teachers around the world, one American teacher opens up about the invasion of woke orthodoxy in the education sector… I am an American educator who began teaching nearly two decades ago. During that time, I […]

Financial Capitalism: The Endgame Via Renegade Inc., Surely the biggest human failure is not learning from failure… In 2008, we had the opportunity, collectively, to reboot a broken financial system so it became fit for purpose. But instead of reconfiguring finance to serve the real economy politicians and central bankers used quantitative easing to buy […]

“Burn Your Masks!” Massive Anti-Lockdown Protests Rage Worldwide Thousands, and possibly tens-of-thousands of protesters across Europe marched on Saturday against continued government lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions based on questionable science – which have resulted in mass unemployment, destroyed small businesses, stoked widespread depression and mental illness, and cost taxpayers trillions to keep the whole […]

In Quest Of A Multipolar Economic World Order Professor Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar discuss the emerging economic world order which they define not so much as a conflict between nations, but a rivalry between two competing models of the economy. The finance capital driven model of the West with a domination of the FIRE […]

“A Threat To American Democracy” – Federal Judge Alleges Democrats Control Almost All Major News Outlets Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge this week said that the Democrat Party is close to controlling the press as he detailed what he described as shocking bias against Republicans. D.C. Circuit Court Judge […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sparked controversy after referring to the Easter holidays as a “long weekend,” with online commenters pointing out that the prime minister frequently mentions other religious events. “It’s the start of a long weekend, and I know that means you’d normally be getting together with your entire family for a […]

CBS News has deleted a tweet and given a new headline to what was supposed to be a straight news story on Georgia’s new voting law, after critics accused the network of blatant liberal activism. In a piece first titled, ‘3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law,’ the network broke down […]

Is China Calling For Civilizational War Against America & The West? Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, There was a “strong smell of gunpowder” when American and Chinese diplomats met in Anchorage beginning March 18. That’s according to Zhao Lijian of China’s foreign ministry, speaking just hours after the first day of U.S.-China […]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has dismissed accusations that Beijing is engaging in “intimidation” and “coercion” in Taiwan, and called on the US to recognize the one-China principle and refrain from coercive practices. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian blasted Washington’s history of intimidation and international aggression as he questioned why the USS John […]

Almost one in every two people living in Moscow has developed antibodies to Covid-19, the city authorities have announced, with curfew rules, and restrictions on bars and clubs having already been scrapped as the caseload falls. Speaking as part of an interview with RIA Novosti published on Friday, Anastasia Rakova, the Russian capital’s Deputy Mayor […]

America’s Upside-Down Economy Just Took Another Bizarre Turn Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Is this a good economy or a bad economy?  Well, that all depends on who you are talking to.  For most Americans, economic conditions have been absolutely horrible ever since the COVID pandemic first arrived.  More than 100,000 […]

A ploy to encourage vaccinations by giving away donuts is weighing heavily on some Americans, already worried about unwanted weight gains during the lockdowns, even as obesity is recognized as a major risk factor for Covid-19. The chain Krispy Kreme announced on Monday that customers who bring in a valid vaccination card – showing they […]

Headed For A Collapsing Debt Bubble Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, A $1.9 trillion stimulus package was recently signed into law in the United States. Can such a stimulus bill, plus packages passed in other countries, really pull the world economy out of the downturn it has been in 2020? I […]

The price of bitcoin continues to rise as investors opt for crypto assets in an effort to find shelter from the decline of the US dollar’s purchasing power. The world’s most valuable cryptocurrency climbed 6% over the past 24 hours, trading at nearly $58,480 per token at 10:39 GMT. Another daily surge has been reportedly […]

10 Reasons Why Freedom Is Dangerous The number one thing that terrorizes us in this world and gets in the way of you having a better life… freedom! Here is JP Sears’ top ten “science-based” reasons why freedom is bad: 1. Freedom requires you to think for yourself (…think the thoughts they hand you… so […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has caught flak after he praised the legacy of Madeleine Albright, who once appeared to have justified the deaths of Iraqi children, saying that she made his country “more respected globally.” Blinken took to Twitter on Friday to hail Albright, former US ambassador to the UN and US Secretary […]

The Scottish government is to begin easing its strict Covid-19 lockdown rules in early April, with the ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions being replaced with ‘stay local’ advice, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday. From April 2, people will be advised to stay inside their local area instead of at home, Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament in […]

US prosecutors have escalated their case against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, alleging that she sexually trafficked a 14-year-old girl for pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse at his home in Florida. The new eight-count indictment, which was filed on Monday in US District Court in New York, expands the six-count case that was brought against […]

Avon and Somerset Police publicly responded to an incident caught on camera this week showing a reporter being violently shoved by an officer as he filmed a protest – and many Brits are not happy with the response. After a video of Daily Mirror journalist Matthew Dresch getting attacked by a policeman on Friday evening […]

In a shockingly bigoted spiritual plea, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, an associate theology professor at Mercer University, has urged “Dear God” to help her find the “hate” she thinks “nice White people” who aren’t her “allies” deserve. The academic, who teaches pastoral care and counseling, spiritual formation, and reconciliation studies at the Baptist college in Macon, Georgia, […]

The Consent Of The Governed Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, In Holland Sunday, a protest demonstration against government Covid policies provoked a emergency order from that same government against thousands of people gathering in a place to … protest. The police and government had only “allowed” 200 demonstrators. So the […]

Australia’s spy agency is shifting the focus on how it describes the enemies it hunts. From now on, the Australian Security Intelligence Agency (ASIO) will use the term ‘religiously motivated’ instead of ‘Islamic extremist.’ “We don’t investigate people because of their religious views – it’s violence that is relevant to our powers – but that’s […]

Despite an executive order in November mandating the withdrawal of all remaining troops in Afghanistan, Trump’s promise to end the US’ longest war collapsed – and was set up to fail, according to a senior Pentagon adviser. Former US president Donald Trump made one last effort to prove he was sincere about prying the US […]

Another round of American economic measures aimed against Russia could have the unintended effect of strengthening the country’s economy, officials in Moscow have warned as Washington considers introducing new embargoes this week. “Fresh US sanctions will only intensify the process of switching away from dependency on imports in our technological supply chains,” a spokesperson for […]

“It’s Time For The Truth” – One Year After Lockdowns Began Authored by Edward Peter Stringham via The American Institute for Economic Research, One year ago, between March 13 and 16, 2020, began what most of us would agree were the most difficult days of our lives. We thought our rights and liberties were more […]

Making a case for Washington, DC statehood by saying the US should also expand to Cuba “as soon as it’s free,” a notorious neoconservative architect of US global hegemony found himself derided by liberals and conservatives alike. On Monday, as House Democrats held a hearing promoting statehood for the US capital district, Bill Kristol argued […]

Peter Szijjarto has become the first European official to receive the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, as his nation prepares to receive another batch of hundreds of thousands of doses from Russia. The minister posted a picture of himself receiving the jab on his Facebook page on Friday, as he announced that he had finalized the […]

The graduation photo that made Kaitlin Bennett famous or notorious – depending on one’s politics – has been removed from Instagram. The Facebook-owned platform termed her defense of gun rights “violence and incitement.” Bennett made a splash on the political scene in May 2018, when she posted a photo of herself with a rifle slung […]

A crowd of supporters of a notorious Ukrainian far-right leader sentenced to seven years in prison for kidnapping of a politician has vandalized the presidential office in Kiev as they demanded his release. No one was detained. Some 3,000 radicals have gathered in front of the presidential office on Saturday to mark the birthday of […]

UK Government Minister Says People Should “Call Out” Others For Hugging Their Loved Ones Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A government minister appeared on morning television to urge Brits to “call out” others if they were seen engaging “in an odd way,” such as hugging their loved ones. Yes, really. Nigel Huddleston, […]

Father Arrested After Continuing To Call His Child “She” Following Court-Ordered Gender-Transition Treatments Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is an extraordinary case out of British Columbia where a father referenced as CD was arrested after he continued to refer to his biological 14-year-old daughter (known as AB) as “she” and his “daughter” after he transitioned […]

Iranian media outlet Press TV has condemned Facebook for “censorship” after its main page was banned on the site yet again, with the platform citing violations of its “community standards” and stating the move can’t be undone. “Without any prior warning, Facebook informed Press TV on Friday that its account had been shut down for […]

Sweden Scraps Bill Gates’ Geoengineering Plot To Block The Sun Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, An effort to dim the sun to stop global warming has been scrapped by the Swedish Space Agency, who announced that the program, funded by Bill Gates, has ‘divided the scientific community’ and will therefore not be carried […]

“We Don’t Have The Money”: Argentina Warns It Will Default Again There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and Argentina defaults. And while we have seen a lot of the first in the past year, Biden is making sure we will see much more of the second in coming years, it was Argentina’s president […]

At least 33 people have been arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ amid scuffles with riot police after thousands marched through central London in defiance of national lockdown and restrictions.  The anti-lockdown rally started as a peaceful march on Saturday afternoon, under the watchful eye of hundreds of police, but eventually turned ugly after the officers […]

The 4 Most Dangerous Distortions Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Demands are one thing, solutions quite another…” As vaccine wars hot up and markets worry about interest rates and central bank action, the theme of price distortion continues to unsettle valuations. One aspect of distortion is in the increasing weight being put on ESG […]

Newly-released “nightmare” body camera footage that shows two Maryland police officers handcuff a 5-year-old boy, call him a “little beast” and repeatedly threaten to beat him has prompted outrage and calls for their dismissal. The 50-minute video – of the January 2020 incident – released on Friday by the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland […]

Australian researchers have discovered the gene responsible for a particularly nasty form of hormone-sensitive breast cancer. They believe their work may also provide a genetic trail of breadcrumbs to hunt other cancers in future. Back in 2012, researchers created a breast cancer classification called Integrative Clustering (IntClust), under which they split the disease into 10 […]

Russian National Wealth Fund Turning To Gold, Dumping Dollars Via SchiffGold.com, The Russian Finance Ministry has given the green light for the Russian National Wealth fund to diversify and invest in gold and other precious metals. According to a report by RT, this is part of a broader move to de-dollarize the wealth fund. The National Wealth Fund falls under the […]

CNN has been blasted on Twitter for using the term “accident” while describing an attempted carjacking by two teen girls that led to the death of the victim, an Uber Eats driver. The crime in question happened on Tuesday in Washington, DC and was filmed by an eyewitness. The graphic video shows a scuffle at […]

Different nations have varied justice systems, but it is agreed unanimously that child rape is one of the most heinous crimes. In Kazakhstan, the punishment is castration – and, this year, 25 prisoners have had the injection. Chemical castration works by inserting anaphrodisiac drugs that reduce the libido by blocking testosterone. According to a Kazakh […]

Manatee County officials have expanded a mandatory evacuation area around a leaking wastewater pond at an old Piney Point phosphate mine, as governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency amid fears of an “imminent” collapse. Over 300 households received an emergency evacuation alert on Saturday afternoon, after the initial danger zone that included just […]

Ten Years Ago: The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria. Who Was Behind the 2011 “Protest Movement”? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 16 2021 It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli … The post Selected Articles: Ten Years Ago: The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria appeared […]

Woke-a-Cola: How To Destroy A World-Leading Brand In 60 Seconds Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “Get Woke, Go Broke.”    In the curious case of Coca-Cola, going woke may be the single biggest branding mistake in the history of marketing. In late February a […]

“Isn’t It Just Theater?” Rand Paul Pummels Fauci Over Science Behind Multi-Mask Mayhem National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky testified Thursday with other federal officials on the COVID-19 response. In a heated exchange at the hearing on the nation’s coronavirus response, SaraACarter.com’s Annaliese Levy reports […]

More than 14,000 migrant children are currently held in US custody, a senior administration official said, insisting there’s no “crisis” at the border soon after Biden’s press secretary invoked the very same term. The official said the number of youths detained after attempting to cross the border had soared to 14,000 during a Thursday press […]

A crucial decision by Moscow not to impose further anti-Covid restrictions has reportedly helped Russia’s economy to continue rebounding from the recession it saw in the fourth quarter of last year. Lighter Covid-19 restrictions following the initial total lockdown secured the necessary support for the economy of the world’s biggest energy exporter, which managed to […]

The European Parliament’s decision to pave the way for the extradition of Catalan pro-independence politicians to Spain is a threat to European democracy, Catalonia’s former leader, Carles Puigdemont, told RT. Puigdemont fled Spain in 2017, after Madrid charged him with rebellion, sedition, and misuse of public funds for organizing the Catalan independence vote that year […]

Supreme Court Judge Rules New York Times Used ‘Deceptive Disinformation’ To Smear Project Veritas A New York Supreme Court Judge last week excoriated the New York Times used “reckless disregard” and “acted with actual malice” when two of their reporters deceptively presented opinions as fact in several articles denigrating whistleblower organization Project Veritas. What the […]

A Decade Ago: US-NATO Invasion of Libya and Its Consequences By Shane Quinn, March 19 2021 Ten years ago, on 19 March 2011, the United States and its military arm NATO unleashed a sustained bombardment against Libya, where Colonel … The post Selected Articles: Permanent Warfare and the “War On Terror”, US-NATO Invasion of Libya, The […]

A UK professor investigating a Western-funded group gathering evidence against Syrian officials was contacted by his target’s staff posing as a Russian agent. The communications were framed as potentially traitorous by the media. The BBC wrote a lengthy piece blasting Edinburgh University Professor Paul McKeigue, a member of a group of academics called the Working […]

Church In Indonesia Rocked By Twin Suicide Bombing On Palm Sunday Coming a week before Christians around the world celebrate Easter, a packed Roman Catholic church in Indonesia has been targeted by two suicide bombers during a Palm Sunday service.  It happened on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island and the blast injured at least 20 people. The explosives were reportedly […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken part in the opening ceremony of a gold processing plant at the Jerooy mine in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. The project was developed by Russia’s Alliance Group in cooperation with VTB bank. “The Talassky mining complex is one of the largest joint projects that has been successfully implemented,” Putin said via […]

COVID Cases Are Spiking In A Dozen States With High Vaccination Rates As Europe struggles with a “third wave” of COVID infections that’s forcing more governments to reimpose at least some lockdown measures, the US is finding that the number of newly confirmed cases is climbing again, with some of the biggest week-over-week increases seen […]

Owned: A Tale of Two Americas If you’ve been searching for a documentary that breaks down the housing market historically – well, we might have found one on Amazon Prime Video titled “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.”  The 83-minute documentary unearths the complex and often troubling history of house policies in the US in a […]

Here Comes Bitcoin’s Big Test: The Empire Strikes Back Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, One of the flaws in the revolutionary mindset is a tendency towards overconfidence. Combine absolute belief in a new idea with a couple of early wins and you get an absurd level of cockiness. This leads the would-be revolutionary to […]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has taken aim at Washington, labeling it ‘hypocritical’ and claiming it spies on its own allies, after the US designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law. “The US government has generalized the concept of national security, abused national power and unscrupulously suppressed Chinese […]

UEFA will not impose any sanctions on a team of officials, led by Russian referee Sergey Karasev, who decided not to kneel in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign before Tuesday’s Champions League game at Manchester City. All of the players from both squads took the knee at the Etihad Stadium, where the English Premier […]

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter That Mumford & Sons banjo guy is a pathetic weenie who the left hates and who we despise, and who now has to live forever as a groveling coward nobody likes. Yeah, he was in Mumford & Sons and managed to find a way to make people like him less. […]

In a breakthrough that will be welcomed across the globe, University of Surrey researchers claim to have developed a highly accurate Covid-19 test using non-invasive skin swab samples. Much of the world population who have undergone Covid-19 tests have likely experienced the rather unpleasant polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which, as many recipients attest, feels […]

By Pepe ESCOBAR Stoicism, in Ancient Greece, was pop culture —reaching out in a way that the sophisticated Platonic and Aristotelian schools could only dream of. Like the Epicureans and the Skeptics, the Stoics owed a lot to Socrates — who always stressed that philosophy had to be practical, capable of changing our priorities in […]

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong I get emails from friends in Britain who envy the US, saying if they had the right to have guns, they would be protecting their liberty. The Biden Administration has moved to force everyone to register guns. The next step is to just bust into your house and confiscate them. […]

“Don’t Lecture Us”: Alaska Summit Opens With Dueling Barbs & Epic Anti-US Tirade As predicted things are icier than ever by the end of day one of the Alaska summit in which for the first time in the Biden administration high-level in-person talks were held between China and the US, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, China’s […]

More “COVID Suicides” Than COVID Deaths In Kids Authored by Micha Gartz via The American Institute for Economic Research, Before Covid, an American youth died by suicide every six hours. Suicide is a major public health threat and a leading cause of death for those aged under 25 — one far bigger than Covid. And it is something […]

Germany Orders Most Restrictive COVID Lockdown Yet Over Easter Weekend We noted yesterday that Chancellor Angela Merkel had succeeded in persuading the leaders of Germany’s 16 states to agree to another extension of the federal lockdown. And while initial reports about Merkel’s proposal noted that Germans would receive a reprieve allowing them to spend the […]

With Biden barely aware of his surroundings, it is mere child’s play to foist Harris into the leadership role In what may become the most unexpected and, perhaps, unwanted political comebacks in American political history, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who never inspired much confidence on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, may soon find herself, […]

Eight years after moving to Moscow to escape charges of treason for leaking information about secret American surveillance operations, former US intelligence consultant Edward Snowden is ready to apply to become a Russian citizen. On Thursday, Snowden’s attorney Anatoly Kucherena revealed that he had completed all the necessary documentation, which would soon be sent off […]

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The number of unaccompanied migrant children in US custody is growing by roughly 500 per day, with some 5,000 minors currently housed in “temporary facilities” at the border, many of them well beyond the legal 72-hour limit. Roughly 10,500 unaccompanied children are held in “licensed” migrant shelters, suitable for longer-term care for minors, the Department of Health […]

Why HR1 Threatens Election Integrity Authored by Justin Riemer via RealClearPolitics.com, Much ink has been spilled warning of the ramifications should Democrats pass their election “reform” package, HR1 — and for good reason, given how the bill would upend our nation’s electoral system. Democrats claim HR1 is aimed at maximizing voter participation and ending corruption […]

Dutch news crews were attacked in two towns on Sunday while interviewing members of protestant churches that defy the Covid-19 restrictions. One man was arrested on suspicion of driving a car into a journalist. A news crew from broadcaster RTV Rijnmond was assaulted in the town of Krimpen aan den IJssel, where they arrived to […]

Newt Gingrich Locked Out Of Twitter For Criticizing Biden’s Immigration Policy Authored by Annaliese Levy via SaraACarter.com, Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich was locked out of his Twitter account for over a week after he published a tweet that criticized the Biden administration’s approach to the southern border and raised concern […]

An anti-lockdown group staged a protest in Denmark’s capital to express their solidarity with an activist who was sentenced to two years behind bars for allegedly inciting violence at an earlier demonstration. Several hundred members of the ‘Men in Black’ anti-lockdown group took to the streets in Copenhagen on Saturday night, lighting red flares and […]

Perhaps we have collectively “lost our mind.” Perhaps what we need is not a new technology but a new way of living that uses existing technologies to echo “old ways” that worked rather well on much lower energy consumption. The Great Reset is much in the news–the proposed top-down plan for combating climate change designed […]