Global Economy

The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws to a close. The unfolding […]

Transcript RADHIKA DESAI: Hi everyone, and welcome to this Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Every fortnight we are going to meet for an hour to discuss major development in the fast-changing geopolitical economy of our 21st-century world. We’ll discuss international developments. We’ll discuss their roots in […]

Sweden and Finland have jointly and together been seeking membership in NATO, but Turkiye is blocking Sweden’s bid unless and until Sweden will comply with Turkiye’s own national-security demands. Russia would be severely endangered if Finland joins NATO — much more than if Sweden does — but it’s a joint bid, and Finland has said they won’t […]

Few Americans understand that their society has been revolutionized. America is no longer what it was. Wherever you look everything has been overthrown. I will illustrate it with three articles from the City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute. Two are by Heather Mac Donald and one is by John O. McGinnis. Heather Mac Donald explains […]

Alessandro Fanetti A few days ago I happened to review the cartoon “Asterix and the Kingdom of the Gods”, based on the immortal writings and drawings of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The similarities with what we have experienced (and are experiencing) from the birth of the “unipolar moment” onwards are perfect and, in their […]

A Moscow-based IT company has presented SistemmaGPT, a competitor to OpenAI’s chatbot. The new AI tool is geared towards business and government projects, Sistemma has said Moscow-based company Sistemma has created its own competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which runs entirely on domestic servers and in the Russian language. The project was unveiled on Sunday on […]

Chinese ruler Xi Jinping says he si preparing China for a war. At the annual meeting of China’s parliament and its top political advisory body, Xi made the theme one of “war readiness” through four separate speeches. In one of those speeches, he rallied his troops and told his generals to “dare to fight.” According […]

Mention the term “deep state” in polite company and most likely no one will want to speak to you the rest of the evening. The deep state is what Wikipedia calls “discredited,” something reeking of conspiracies, false accusations, and the substitution of fantasy for the truth. After the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home in Florida, […]

Real “mea culpa”, ongoing and rapid revision of history, or further narrative management with regard ‘amnesty’ over what “the others” did to those who thought for themselves over the last few years… You decide… In no less a liberal rag than Newsweek, Kevin Bass (MS MD/PHD Student, Medical School) has penned a quite surprising (and ‘brave’) op-ed saying […]

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 with other nations’ military expenditures) be spending ‘only’ around 37% of the entire […]

During a COVID-19 EU hearing last October, Pfizer’s President of International Developed Markets, Janine Small, admitted that the vaccine had never been tested on its ability to prevent transmission, contrary to what was previously advertised. During the hearing, when asked by Dutch politician Ross if the Pfizer COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the […]

While European officials and individual members of the European political elite try, to the detriment of ordinary Europeans, to develop a mechanism that would allow EU members to block even Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies without imposing additional sanctions, Europe’s deepening gas and economic crisis has already begun to shift the balance of power. […]

In the West, there is almost nothing left of the classic division of political parties and movements into left-wing and right-wing ones. If we were to judge the political life of the countries of the collective West solely on the basis of the concrete activities of political parties that alternate for decades on the stage […]

Japan’s actions in a certain period of the past not only claimed numerous victims here in Japan but also left the peoples of neighboring Asia and elsewhere with scars that are painful even today. I am thus taking this opportunity to state my belief, based on my profound remorse for these acts of aggression, colonial […]

A Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit or SEEK II, purchased by German researchers on eBat. Credit: Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times After the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from transfer of power to the Taliban in Afghanistan, abandoned US military equipment which contain biometric data have been popping up on Ebay. Over the past year, German security researcher […]

Part 1. A Brief History of Chaos: from Ancient Greece to the Postmodern The Chaos factor in the Special Military Operation The most thoughtful observers of the Ukrainian front note the peculiar nature of this war: the chaos factor has increased enormously. This applies to all sides of the Special Military Operation, both to the […]

Days ago marked 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords which effectively ended American participation in the Vietnam war. One of the consequences, according to Georgetown University international affairs scholar Charles Kupchan, was that an “isolationist impulse” made a “significant comeback in response to the Vietnam War, which severely strained the liberal […]

A virtually unregulated investment firm today exercises more political and financial influence than the Federal Reserve and most governments on this planet. The firm, BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, invests a staggering $9 trillion in client funds worldwide, a sum more than double the annual GDP of the Federal Republic of Germany. This […]

After imposing an unpopular pension reform, Emmanuel Macron is in serious trouble. Governments make occasional faux-pas and get into trouble. But this time round, the French president has put himself in a very bad situation. The nation is deeply scarred, and the wounds will not heal easily. Why should raising the retirement age from 62 to […]

There’s a fault line permeating America’s criminal justice system—a built-in defect that the government can use to steal your property, even if you’re innocent. And many Americans don’t even know about it. Hardworking sisters Vera and Apollonia Ward didn’t either, until it happened to them. A California county government used a civil asset forfeiture law […]

Does cheap money and credit make us richer? Does more money and credit create more stuff, or better stuff? Do they make us happier and more productive? Or do these twin forces actually distort the economy, misallocate resources, and degrade us as people? These are fundamental questions in an age of monetary hedonism. It is […]

The resignation of Vietnam’s President Nguyen Xuan Phuc a fortnight ago had an inevitability about it. The media was rife with speculation for weeks implicating Phuc’s close family members in corruption scandals. Several dozen officials, including two deputy prime ministers, were earlier removed from their positions in major scandals of price fixing and kickbacks for Covid-19 […]

I am afraid the answer is a resounding, “No!” I hope and pray that I am wrong on this point, but I see no evidence that such a shift in opinion towards Putin and all things Russian is in the offing. The United States and Soviet troops shook hands over the waters of the Elbe […]

What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse. The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a “hidden danger”. But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows – as usual – it’s not really about what they say it’s about. Talk […]

Introduction After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people […]

The latest media gimmick – tanks – will only place NATO on a higher elevation to fall from, that is of course if the tanks themselves even arrive in Ukraine and are not sold on the black market The latest media gimmick – tanks – will only place NATO on a higher elevation to fall […]

52 Iranian and 106 Russian banks integrated their interbank communication and transfer systems for trade and financial operations A top Iranian official announced on 30 January that Iran and Russia had integrated their interbank communication and transfer systems to help enhance trade and financial operations in an effort to bypass strict economic sanctions on their […]

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 stands naked in its degeneracy. We avert our eyes, yet, it is a […]

A new year dawns bright, with the US hurtling over the fiscal cliff. The lame duck Congress voted for a pork-packed $1.7 trillion budget bill. As the saying goes, it’s only money! At a time of enormous domestic need, Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell pushed an extra $45 billion for Ukraine, declaring that Washington’s “number […]

Divide and rule is the eternal law of Empire.  Above all, don’t let other big guys get together. Keep them at each other’s throats.  Half a century ago, stuck in the unwinnable Vietnam war, President Richard M. Nixon heeded Henry Kissinger’s advice to open relations with Beijing in order to deepen the split between the […]

For all of the speculation about Brunson v Adams, we knew the Supreme Court would never take the case. Didn’t we? There is no end to the humiliation and degradation of those who believe we still live in a constitutional republic. We do not. The sooner folks understand that the United States of America of […]

Expectations should be tempered with respect to what CELAC will achieve in the coming future, but nobody should think that it won’t achieve anything at all either. Venezuelan President Maduro proposed during his yearly speech to parliament last week “to unite efforts and paths in Latin America and the Caribbean to advance in the formation of a […]

US mission creep in Ukraine follows in the fatal footsteps of ultimately failed war campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Estimates have put Ukrainian casualties at over 100,000.  Since the failures of the US military missions in places like Afghanistan and Iraq – and many other Muslim nations like Libya – critics of the US mission […]

Russia is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces. There is too much ‘noise’ in the system, and it is obscuring the view. Davos has always been ‘weird’. But this year, the kookier aspects were so obvious. The WEF is dying on […]

Now, it is abundantly clear that the United States’ dishonest and aggressive Middle East strategy, which is at odds with the aspirations of the Arab world, has utterly failed. The establishment of a multipolar world by Russia, China, and Iran was a significant milestone in this process. The convergence of these three nations and the […]

The Indonesian central bank has unveiled plans to introduce a domestic payment system, seeking to cut reliance on the West. Jakarta wants to reduce its dependence on foreign payment systems, citing sanctions on Russia. The Bank of Indonesia is preparing to phase out Visa and Mastercard while introducing its own domestic payment system, Antara news […]

Is Southern Nationalism the same thing as White Nationalism? The short answer is yes and no. This vexing topic is rarely if ever addressed, and the Southern cause is consequently reduced to a myopic, quaint subsidiary of a larger quest for a White ethnostate. Many racially conscious young Southrons, most of whom embrace their Southern identity, […]

All international political alliances (particularly military-political ones) are formed on the basis of shared interests and threats to two or more international relations subjects. In other words, there is something that unites and something against which the alliance is formed. NATO’s formation in 1949, led by the United States, signaled the beginning of a new […]

President Kennedy had a unique ability that Pentagon generals did not have. He was able to analyze an international crisis by placing himself in the shoes of his adversary in an attempt to understand his adversary’s motives. Doing that enabled him to figure a way out of the crisis that did not involve war. The […]

Fossil fuel giant Exxon Mobil announced record-smashing profits today, further underscoring the need for officials in Washington to rein in Big Oil’s runaway enrichment at the expense of consumers struggling with high energy bills. Exxon posted $57 billion in earnings for the full year 2022, breaking its 2008 record and setting a new high for […]

With organizers saying it’s entirely within the power of the United Kingdom’s Conservative government to ensure public sector employees are paid fairly, roughly half a million workers walked out on Wednesday in the country’s largest coordinated strike in more than a decade. About 300,000 of the striking employees are educators, and they were joined by civil […]

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has claimed that the Western bloc needs more friends in Asia amid Beijing’s rise China and Russia are leading an “authoritarian pushback” against the “international rules-based order,” and their expanding ties pose a security threat that Western powers and their Asian allies must address together, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has […]

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 of Russian soldiers suffering horrific deaths from canister of poison gas dropped from […]

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, does not acknowledge that court’s jurisdiction.  Nor, for that matter, does the United […]

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 accelerating in recent weeks. At this moment, we are in the midst of […]

China’s oil demand is expected to hit a record high 16 million bpd this year, an increase of 800,000 bpd. Having lifted its zero-Covid policy, China is currently suffering through an exit wave of Covid but should recover in the second quarter. China is preparing for its reopening already, with the government issuing a huge […]

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 level. That the current geopolitical changes present an opportunity to build on the […]

On August 20, a group of Kenyans filed a case against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights. They were seeking justice for the atrocities the British committed against them during the colonial era. They are seeking $200 billion in reparations for the crimes perpetrated in the tea-growing regions in the Kenyan Highlands. Unsurprisingly, Britain has failed to […]

The former US leader is a Florida resident, and is expected to be arraigned next week. Former President Donald Trump has issued a statement responding to the New York indictment against him on Thursday afternoon. The statement, posted to Truth Social, says that “this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. […]

The concept of democracy revolves around self reliance. How much responsibility will you give away or allow to be taken before you resist?  The ruling class feels that you will not react to this loss and that independence is an abomination unless they get their cut.  This leaves a tiny minority to resist in the […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) will officially begin the estimated $62 million process of renaming or removing military assets seen as honoring the Confederacy, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Each service has until Jan. 1, 2024 to implement the changes recommended in a report compiled by the DOD’s Naming Commission, created after Congress instructed DOD to […]

China has now decided to enter into an entente with Russia aimed at forming a dual pole of influence amidst the impending trifurcation of International Relations in order for those two to more effectively compete with the US-led West’s Golden Billion. This of course also includes the ideational domain, thus explaining the precise timing behind […]

The alleged beheading threats come after a chorus of “guillotine the dictator” greeted the prime minister in Parliament. President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms have been followed by days of riots that police have struggled to control French politicians are being threatened with the guillotine if they attempt to protect President Emmanuel Macron’s government from a […]

The French government shouldn’t “preach” to Tehran when it’s “using force against its own people,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry stated. The Islamic Republic condemned Paris’ “crackdown on peaceful protests” The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned France’s harsh response to pension reform protests, calling on Paris to “talk to its people and listen to their voices.” With […]

Russia has dominant air power over the Ukraine because of its advanced fighter jets, Kiev regime admits. The Su-35 has given Moscow’s forces “increasing dominance” of the skies over Ukraine, a Kiev government source has told ABC. Russia is increasingly dominating the skies over eastern Ukraine in its conflict with the former Soviet republic because […]

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we’re going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government’s brand of […]

When events do not make sense or are such as sense cannot untie, an option is to forget all about them – the head-in-the-sand solution. Another is to remember that man is but a quintessence of dust and often, therefore, not even worth the dust that the rude wind blows in his face. Yet another […]

Preamble The present conflict between Russia and Ukraine is arguably the culmination of the foreign policy pursued by the United States of America since the ending of its ideological Cold War with the Soviet Union. Undergirded by a resolute belief in ‘American Exceptionalism’ and steered by neoconservative ideologues working in concert with the interests of […]

The West cannot relinquish the sense of itself at the centre of the Universe, albeit no longer in a racial sense, Alastair Crooke writes. A strategic aim would require a unitary purpose that could be succinctly outlined. It would require additionally a compelling clarity about the means by which the aim would be achieved and […]

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, Credit Suisse is a prime candidate to be one of the next dominoes […]

It is very clear that the Neocons have taken the US military most likely to DEFCON 3, which is generally seen as a standby level of alert, and it is the highest level of alert during peacetime. NATO has effectively declared war on Russia hiding behind Ukrainian surrogates. Ukraine launched new versions of their marine […]

Based on the combination bail-in / bail-out that just took place on an emergency basis in Switzerland yesterday, we now know that the entire western financial system is a grand con. They will change the rules at any moment and steal your money, just like they did to Russia in 2022 by seizing $300+ billion […]

A study conducted by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) has been well-hidden by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). All three agencies conspired in tandem to cover up the findings of a six-year, long-delayed review of fluoride’s toxicity. Assistant Secretary for […]

“There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.”Lawrence Lessig, Harvard law professor It is easy to be distracted right now by the bread and circus politics that have dominated the news headlines lately, but don’t be distracted. Don’t be fooled, not even a little. We’re being subjected to […]

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. breaks off ties with International Criminal Court. The Philippines has severed communications with the tribunal after clashing over an investigation of its drug war Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has broken off his government’s contact with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the tribunal rejected an appeal to halt an […]

NATO’s Ukrainian campaign is an abomination, as much an abomination as was Hitler’s destruction of Berlin and the hundreds of thousands of innocents he and his cronies threw on its pyre. Those Ukrainian generals in a position to overthrow Clown Prince Zelensky should read Hanz Guderian’s Achtung – Panzer! (Beware – the Tank!), which formed […]

Main target is China in dangerously provocative policy that faces no visible domestic opposition in the U.S. On December 16, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced a new defense strategy that doubled Japan’s military spending by 2027. Japan further agreed to acquire offensive weapons and reshape its military command structure for its expanded armed forces. […]

That hunger is an issue at all in a military so wildly well-funded by Congress should be a grim reminder of how little attention we pay to so many crucial issues, including how our troops are treated. By any standard, the money the United States government pours into its military is simply overwhelming. Take the […]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finds herself in a very dubious position. Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, the U.S. Treasury Secretary was given increased powers to oversee financial stability in the U.S. banking system. This increase in power came in response to the 2008 financial crisis – the worst financial collapse since […]

If you thought the dismantling of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “pandemic” sham by Republicans and the conservative media spells an end to all future potential false flag psy-op outbreaks and public health “emergencies,” think again. The vaccine industry, in conjunction with the powers that be, is right now planning the next plandemic, which some argue is already fully planned and just […]

The framework would form “new poles of power,” Venezuela’s president has said. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has proposed creating a powerful bloc of regional countries involving Latin American and Caribbean countries that would have close ties to Russia and China. During his annual speech at Venezuela’s parliament on Friday, Maduro said that he had recently […]

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr would be celebrating his 94th birthday on January 16, 2023 had agencies affiliated with the Federal Government not coordinated his assassination in 1968. Although my words may appear highly provocative to some, the fact remains that a 1999 Civil Court trial in Memphesis Tennessee ruled in favor of the King family against […]

Having once built a capitalist system of booming growth, the US is now throttling it with politics and bad fiscal decisions.  Yesterday, the United States Federal Reserve decided to yet again increase interest rates by 0.25% up to 5% despite the collapse of several US banks, including Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), as well as more […]

The West is stuck between the public sentiment which it contrived and the reality on the ground, Alastair Crooke writes. Consequential Strategic Change – Upon leaving his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping said to Putin, “Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years – and we are driving this change together”. The ‘Entente’ […]

Moscow will finish building a storage for tactical arms in the neighboring country by July, the Russian president has said Russian tactical nuclear weapons might arrive in Belarus as early as this summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday. Moscow is completing construction of a specialized storage for such arms amid repeated calls by Minsk to deploy tactical […]

As the time-honored saying goes, ‘It ain’t what you know that gets you in trouble, it’s what you know that ain’t so.’ If Americans ‘know’ anything about Korea, it is that the North Koreans started the Korean War in 1950 when they invaded South Korea across the 38thParallel, and that after three years of fighting […]

Despite its aversion to Islamic fundamentalism, Beijing is being pragmatic in securing energy The Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has signed a deal with a Chinese company that will invest $540 million to develop oil and gas fields in the country. The deal is the first large-scale investment to be conducted in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over […]

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 negotiations to draft an agreement and went someway to suggest that the “common […]

The year 2022 has come to an end and it has become a symbol of universal “de-Westernization.” The criticism of the West is growing everywhere not only for its unwillingness to resolve the Middle East conflict between Palestine and Israel and to reach an agreement on the nuclear dossier with Iran, but also for the […]

On the cover image a US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle loaded with JASSM missiles Introduction by Gospa News Editorial Staff We relaunch an article published on the Defense One site, very close to the US Department of Defense (Pentagon), which wants to stimulate the American production of missiles as powerful JASSM according to a strategy so dear to […]

I asked the AI Chat Bot “What was the role of the DoD in covid-countermeasures?” Here is what it wrote: “The Department of Defense (DoD) played a significant role in the development of countermeasures against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The DoD worked closely with other federal agencies, such as the Department […]

On January 19, Spanish President Sanchez has called for a summit with French President Macron in Barcelona. Sanchez has stated that the summit can be held quietly in Barcelona “because he has managed to bring the Catalan independence process to an end.” The independence movement will prove him wrong. When the European nation-states were formed […]

The two powers share the same goal, but circumstance dictates they have to take different roads to make it happen. Russia and China don’t fit into the international system built under Western auspices after the Cold War. They are therefore in favor of replacing it. And it is easier to change it together.  “We hope […]

The global elites have shown great interest in insects as a source of food.  Not for themselves, mind you, but rather for the rest of us.  It is only incidental that using bugs as a food source would reserve fresh fruits and vegetables, beef, pork and chicken, and other current foodstuffs for those most deserving, […]

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 are theorizing that the erosion of religious beliefs portends negative consequences for society […]

Bringing the ongoing hostilities to a halt would only “ratify” Russia’s “conquest” of Ukrainian lands, John Kirby has said Washington is firmly opposed to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said, branding any peace initiatives “unacceptable” in the current situation. The senior White House official made the […]

On March 19-20 in Moscow, the Russian State Duma has initiated the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia – Africa in a Multipolar World,” in anticipation of the Second Economic Forum “Russia – Africa,” which will start on July 26 in St. Petersburg. Participants in this meeting included representatives of more than 40 African nations, members […]

China issued a substantial increase in its crude imports quotas for this year, the clearest sign yet that Chinese refiners are set for a material increase in output  – and a surge in demand for oil – as the nation finally moves away from its ridiculous Covid Zero policy. On Monday, China issued a second […]

“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American […]

On March 15, two days after the conclusion of China’s annual “Two Sessions”, Xinhua News Agency reported an equally remarkable event that was in fact a continuation of the previous one. The Chinese Communist Party officials hosted a video conference, which was titled “Path towards Modernization: The Responsibility of Political Parties,” in which the Chinese […]

In November 2022, the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (which already sounds like an oxymoron) released the Defense Support to Stabilization (DSS) Practice Guide: A Guide for Stabilization Practitioners. U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI), November 2022.) This document sheds light on how the Pentagon interacts with other U.S. authorities and how the U.S. military […]

Adrien Bocquet reported witnessing Kiev’s forces war crimes in the Ukraine.  A former French military serviceman Adrien Bocquet who came as a volunteer to help Kiev’s forces, has now requested asylum in Russia, the RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed “source familiar with the situation.” The Frenchman had previously repeatedly traveled to […]

In the first week of December, German officials told journalists that Berlin’s last year’s promise to raise their defence spending to 2 per cent of GDP will be missed not only this year (2023) but also the next year. This is a decision not just based on simple economics but on geopolitics. German decision also […]

The hard work starts now. Welcome to the New Great Game on crack, Pepe Escobar writes. 2023 starts with collective NATO in Absolutely Freak Out Mode as Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announces that Russian Navy frigate Admiral Gorshkov is now on tour – complete with a set of Mr. Zircon’s hypersonic business cards. The business tour will […]

The former US president has again argued that he could end the conflict in 24 hours. Former US President Donald Trump has explained his position on the Ukraine conflict in an interview with Fox News Donald Trump has once again claimed that he would need just 24 hours to negotiate peace in Ukraine. Speaking to […]

When will this hate-filled nonsense stop?  Surveillance balloons treated like evocations of Satan and his card-carrying followers; other innumerable unidentified phenomena that, nonetheless, remain attributable in origin, despite their designation; and then the issue of spying cranes.  In the meantime, there has been much finger pointing on the culprit of COVID-19 and the global pandemic.  Behold the […]

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 added that its recent decision was due to Moscow’s clients expressing interest in […]

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 favoring east-west interconnection is making it difficult for Moscow to fund its north-south […]

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 the despair I have always felt on hearing—and worse seeing, if only on […]

With the US distracted by its attempts to “contain” Moscow and Beijing, other players have a window of freedom.  We can argue all we like about how the new international order will look but one thing is clear: it will not resemble any previous incarnation. History does not tend to repeat itself, which always means […]

US weapons abroad are being relocated in line with Washington’s new strategic priorities. According to recent reports, the US will send old and outdated attack aircraft to the Middle East, replacing the modern and advanced aircraft that are currently stationed in the region. The goal is to transfer the most efficient military equipment to Europe […]

For decades, many geopolitical experts have been claiming the United States is in constant need of geopolitical adversaries. The view was challenged by those claiming that all the US wants is the spread of “peace, prosperity, democracy, freedom, human rights,” etc. And yet, the belligerent thalassocracy is consistent in its rejection of mutually beneficial relations […]

Relief is spreading among economic analysts and stock market experts. Energy prices are decreasing noticeably. The energy supply this winter seems secure; in Europe, government support for consumers and producers is available if needed. China is turning away from its zero-covid policy, and production is ramping up again. High goods price inflation is still a […]

My country is failing, falling into the same dismal slough all dying empires are swallowed by. The Senators and Caesars of America have one last hope of holding onto their gain. If they can sew hatred and bitterness between brothers on the Russian steppe, the old western world order can buy time. They can hang […]

Every man, woman, and child could be on the hook for $13,500, the news outlet has calculated Switzerland’s decision to rescue failing investment bank Credit Suisse could be a major burden for the nation’s taxpayers, according to Bloomberg calculations. The Swiss government has pledged to absorb 9 billion Swiss francs ($9.7 billion) of the bank’s […]

French President Emmanuel Macron told the Le Point news magazine that he doesn’t feel the need to apologize for his country’s violent colonization of Algeria. While Macron has recently mended relations with France’s former subject, his former ambassador warned that a soft touch with Algiers could spell doom for France itself. French President Emmanuel Macron […]

Russia’s SMO will put an end to the possibility of Ukrainian neo-Nazis acquiring a nuclear weapon. In October, Russia accused the post-coup government of Ukraine of developing a radiological dirty bomb that would be detonated somewhere in Ukraine and blamed on Russia. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) responded by announcing a visit to two […]

She maybe the highest ranking American official but most Americans do not even know her name. However, she is visiting Sri Lanka twice in one year & that should mean something. Why is she visiting Sri Lanka is however more important. She first visited Sri Lanka days before riots started resulted in the resignation of […]

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 army is concocting a plan to sow chaos in quake-struck Syria by training […]

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 reliance on the Turkic world and in maintaining its independence in relations with […]

Last summer, the Group of 7 (G7), a self-anointed forum of nations that view themselves as the most influential economies in the world, gathered at Schloss Elmau, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to hold their annual meeting. Their focus was punishing Russia through additional sanctions, further arming of Ukraine and the containment of China. At the same […]

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 at the court on Saturday to answer corruption charges. Khan, along with more […]

The EU is a Cold War Construct, a US imperial project formulated by the Washington Consensus. The growing movement against EU domination is an anti-imperial initiative of Worldwide significance. It is also a movement against neoliberalism Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky This interview with James Corbett on the history of the European Union was first published almost […]

Ukrainian President Zelensky ordered government officials to destroy all information on Hunter Biden’s Metabiota Company on the same day Russia invaded the country. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 22, 2022. Zelensky sent out this document on February 24, 2022. DC Draino reported on this development today. Remember when the Pentagon confirmed the US partnered w/46 […]

If Donald Trump is arrested or even indicted by this personally motivated prosecutor in New York City, this is not just un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals, the United States has fallen so far that there is no coming back. Ukraine routinely impressions political rivals because it […]

China’s President Xi Jinping has arrived back in Beijing after his two-day visit with President Vladimir Putin over the China-proposed Ukraine peace plan. On the Ukraine crisis, there was nothing that can be considered a breakthrough, but the talks did prompt swift reaction from Washington. More important are the broader implications of the two ‘dear […]

American presidential candidate and international relations expert Emanuel Pastreich discusses the events of 2020 and how it was really an attempted totalitarian takeover of local and central governments around the world by billionaires and bloodline families working through IT companies, and private intelligence firms. We talk about the perversion and marxification of academia and how […]

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 posting reflections of the war from authors this writer looked to to make […]

The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the US occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the US is reacting, but there are signs that it is likely being proactive to create new facts on the ground.  The US Central Command claims that following a drone attack on March 23 afternoon on […]

More than a million demonstrators against President Macron’s imposed pension reforms have clashed with heavy-handed police. Why is the media hiding the civil unrest? Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron’s pension reform French authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Over a million […]

On March 26, a convoy moving logistic supplies for the United States-led coalition came under attack in the southern Iraqi province of Babylon. The supply convoy was reportedly targeted with an improvised explosive device. No casualties were reported as a result of the attack. An armed group known as the International Resistance claimed responsibility for […]

On December 16, 2022, Japan’s Cabinet approved amendments to three key national security and defense documents. First, an increase in the military budget is envisaged.  The Japanese government has previously announced plans to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2027 (it is currently 1% of GDP). If Japan does so, its defense spending […]

Right at the end of 2022 the first of China’s COMAC (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) C919 airliner jets was delivered to a domestic Chinese airline company, China Eastern Airlines. Reuters in an article titled, “China Eastern takes delivery of the world’s first made-in-China C919 jet,” would report: The world’s first C919, a Chinese-made narrowbody […]

Great-power competition has the potential to significantly impact the future of Israel. As a key player in West Asia, Israel is likely to be affected by the actions and strategies of major powers such as the US, China, and Russia. The US has historically been a strong ally of Israel, providing significant military and economic […]

Syria and Saudi Arabia have reached a breakthrough agreement to reopen their embassies, Reuters reported on March 23, citing three sources with knowledge of the matter. An unnamed regional source aligned with Damascus told the news agency that talks between Damascus and Riyadh had gained momentum after the recent China-brokered agreement that restored Saudi-Iranian relations. […]

The Urban Institute released a disturbing study this week showing that one out of every four Americans now has to go without food sometimes because it is just too expensive under fake president Joe Biden. When the Pedophile-in-Chief first assumed office in January 2021, only one in five Americans was occasionally having trouble buying enough food for […]

Clinics around the world follow guidelines from the Netherlands for gender treatments in children. The basis for this is, among other things, a much-criticized study sponsored by a German hormone manufacturer. More and more children and young people believe they have to question their gender identity. Some 60 minors were treated in the Netherlands in […]

The world is changing before our eyes. Western imperialist regimes are being exposed for the warmongers they are, and a new multipolar order of partnership and peace is emerging. The historic summit this week between the Russian and Chinese leaders provoked paroxysms of angst in the Western media. President Vladimir Putin’s hosting of China’s Xi […]

The morally bankrupt Western media lied to start the Iraq War as they did dutifully about starting other wars for their imperial masters. Twenty years after, the Western media are at it again. This week, March 20, saw the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-British war launched on Iraq. The war resulted in over one million […]

Wherever Jesus now dwells, His finger is not wrapped around the trigger of a Walther P38 or a M142 HIMARS. To mock Orthodox Christmas, the pro-NATO Irish Independent newspaper, taking their liturgical ignorance from NATO’s flagship BBC outlet, published an editorial, available here, in Ukrainian, for which the Ukrainian Embassy and the parasites of “the […]

If one cares to look, it’s not difficult to find numerous columns written for mainstream news outlets announcing that the US Constitution has failed. This ought to raise the question of “failed to do what?” The answer depends largely on the one claiming the constitution has failed. On the Left, claims of constitutional failure generally […]

The CIA was a step ahead of Richard Nixon.  Nixon was aware of the CIA’s involvement in the JFK assassination but he might not have known that the CIA was involved in the Watergate break-in. A stunning report by Roger Stone at Stone Cold Truth indicates that Nixon knew that the CIA was involved in […]

The struggle for the Arctic may not be as obvious as for other spheres of geopolitical influence. Nevertheless, it is taking place and, with the EWS in Ukraine, Russia’s confrontation with other countries bordering the Arctic is only increasing. In most cases, Moscow’s sovereign stance spurs Western countries to militarise the region, and there are […]

Syrian officials remain adamant about participating in the meeting without first receiving guarantees from Turkiye to end its occupation of northern Syria Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on 21 March that the Kremlin is coordinating with Syria, Iran, and Turkiye on a date for a four-way meeting of their deputy foreign ministers. Bogdanov also denied […]

Right now, more than 20 bulk carriers loaded with corn from the United States are en route to China, which continues to rely heavily and almost exclusively on our own Midwestern states for the crop. The first-ever carrier filled with Brazilian corn, however, also just arrived in Singapore for transfer into China – this potentially indicating a shift in […]

The delegation comprised of scholars from Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and a number of Gulf nations said China has ‘contributed to the stability of the region’ A group of Islamic figures and scholars visited China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on 8 January to get “a clear and better understanding” of the situation in the region, in contrast to […]

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 Health Ranger, on his Situation Update program this week to discuss the recent […]

According to Carmine Mino Pecorelli, a maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts, publisher and editor of OP an acronym for Political Observer but also ordre public or public policy doctrine, a weekly magazine, a sort of VT ante litteram in the Italian 1970s announced on the Ides of March 1978 a very serious event […]

The talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which took place in Moscow, were a great success.  The Russian leader emphasized that substantial progress in the Syrian Arab Republic’s battle against international terrorism has been made possible by the nations’ combined efforts and the vital role played by the Russian Federation Armed […]

Far-fetched as it sounds, this year’s winners are all connected to a CIA offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and parroted CIA / State Department / Pentagon talking points about Ukraine and Russia in their acceptance speeches The Nobel Prize Committee has five judges, appointed by the Norwegian parliament, who are tasked with choosing […]

The gathering of so many countries for apolitical and geo-economic purposes proves that the vast majority of humanity wants mutually beneficial development that unites the world instead of more geopolitical competition that’ll only tear it apart.   India announced on Friday that it’ll virtually host the Voice Of Global South Summit on 12-13 January, which aligns with Prime […]

We keep hearing that a vibrant news media is essential to a vibrant democracy, but we are not a democracy, and the regime media is trash. It is as useful as a thong on Chris Christie and as helpful to our society as a herpes chancre on your upper lip on a first date. Here’s […]

Across the Indo-Pacific, as well as in the escalating Ukraine War, humanity stands an accident or miscalculation away from the calamity of nuclear war. “Japan in December adopted a set of three security and defense strategy documents that break from its exclusively self-defense-only stance. Under the new strategies, Japan vows to build up its counterstrike […]

China and Russia will further expand their cooperation in areas such as information technologies and advanced AI, involving approximately 80 new projects assessed at over $165 billion. This includes aircraft and machine tools manufacturing, space research and strengthening of military cooperation, including further unification of Moscow’s and Beijing’s know-how. After the end of the (First) […]

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 to crash down into the Black Sea. Gen. Mark Milley: "We know that […]

The scene of Israeli Ambassador, Sharon Bar-Li, along with other Israeli delegates, being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, was historic. The very moment that was meant to crown twenty years of Israeli diplomacy on the African continent, in a few seconds, turned […]

The recent conference on international security policy focused extensively on the significance of the Global South to the west’s security. As power competition with China and Russia intensifies, the west is compelled to reassess its approach to relations with these countries. “I am struck by how much we are losing the trust of the Global […]

American ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) capabilities are undeniable. The United States has been using the aforementioned capabilities to enhance its underhanded tactics, particularly in regard to stoking tensions between global powers such as China and India. With the Asian giants being the pillars of both Greater Eurasia and the multipolar world led by BRICS nations, it’s adamant […]

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 PCR tests, which were never designed to detect viruses. “Some of the [test] […]

In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation. How sharp was good ol’ Lenin, prime modernist, when he mused, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. This global nomad now addressing you has enjoyed the privilege of […]

Building on millennia of learning how to structure and manage an economy to accumulate and consolidate control and wealth in particular hands, as explained in Part 1 of this investigation, the Global Elite launched its final coup in January 2020 under cover of the fake Covid-19 ‘pandemic’. Using the health threat supposedly implied by the […]

1. THREAD: Twitter Files #14THE RUSSIAGATE LIESOne: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag  2.At a crucial moment in a years-long furor, Democrats denounced a report about flaws in the Trump-Russia investigation, saying it was boosted by Russian “bots” and “trolls.” http://2.At 3.Twitter officials were aghast, finding no evidence of Russian influence: “We are feeding […]

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 Xi Jinping has set the tone for his visit this week to Moscow […]

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 Soros. He allows violent criminals to walk the streets of New York City, […]

The following text was presented to the Kuala Lumpur International Conference to Criminalise War, Putra World Trade Centre, 28-31 October 2009. For more than three decades [since 1991], the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been waging continuous wars on Iraq to occupy this oil rich country. The armed forces of those two countries […]

The head of Germany‘s right-wing opposition party Alternative for Germany Tino Chrupalla has called for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign if charges Scholz and Joe Biden conspired to cover up the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage are true, as investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has charged in his latest bombshell. In yesterday’s Substack report, Hersh quotes anonymous […]

“Finally, we will get down to the people’s business of stealing all their money for our pet projects, making backroom deals, and holding meaningless investigations where we yell and point angrily at people to get some sweet sound bytes for our reelections,” said McCarthy to the assembled warmongers, rapists, and half-dead geriatrics in the room. […]

A clash between the U.S.-led NATO alliance and Russia appears even more inevitable this week based on new moves by both sides. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a warship carrying new Zircon hypersonic missiles on a mission that will take it into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in what is a clear warning […]

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 Hersh reported that the Biden administration was responsible, US officials have unveiled their defense. According […]

It’s the weekend, but our fresh Financial Crisis does not sleep. And a recent study says we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg. The Washington Post yesterday wrote: “If banks were suddenly forced to liquidate their bond and loan portfolios, the losses would erase up to 91 percent of their combined capital cushion.” In […]

A few recent headlines reveal the painfully inhumane, dangerously volatile state of U.S. relations with its own home region, the continent of North America. A record-breaking 2.76 million border crossings from Mexico filled homeless shelters to the bursting point in cities nationwide in 2022. This year, the possible cessation of Covid restrictions could allow tens of thousands more […]

James Reinl, the social affairs correspondent for the Daily Mail published an exposé on March 19, 2023 concerning the possible expansion of euthanasia to children in Canada. Reinl writes: When Canada changed its laws in 2016 to permit euthanasia, voters were assured the lethal injections would only be available for seriously ill adults who needed […]

Alexander Dugin   We are the Empire, both as heirs of the monarchy and as successors of the USSR. There is not and cannot be a neutral position in this war, there are only two camps. That is all. Anyone who hesitates or is undecided, sooner or later (I think much sooner than it seems) […]

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 never once called for violence. Quite the opposite. Fast forward to today: JUST […]

Let’s not go into a great detail about 2022. It was a bad, horrible and simply disastrous year in all aspects for the freedom and wellbeing of the humanity, as it was the one before and the one before too. Further listing, compiling and documenting all infringements is waste of precious time and resources, if […]

Bill Gates should be ashamed of himself. Or so says the ADL referring to Hitler’s invention of “The Final Solution” term. The Anti-Defecation (…Defamation, excuse our French) League has demanded that Bill Gates apologize for calling COVID vaccines “the Final Solution.” At a press conference in Basel, Switzerland, ADL chief Jonathan Greenbutt read a prepared […]

Let me tell you something. I am an Air Force Veteran, I just want to know why do we have to vote for somebody who voted for war, killing our brothers and sisters as well thousands of Iraqi civilians.    You are Disqualified, Sir. My friends are dead,  You have Blood on Your Hands We […]

West Jerusalem’s new national security chief has ordered the removal of “terror flags” from public places Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has banned the flying of Palestinian flags, claiming that they “encourage terrorism” and should no longer be allowed in public places. “It is inconceivable that lawbreakers will wave terror flags, incite and encourage […]

In early March, Syria’s foreign ministry condemned a surprise visit by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley to an army base in northeast Syria, with Syrian media dubbing it “illegal” and a “flagrant violation of the sovereignty and integrity” of Syrian territory, adding that the US ought to “immediately” cease support for “separatist […]

The fact that American living standards have broadly stagnated, and for some segments of the population have declined, should be cause for real concern to the ruling class… America ran out of frontier when we hit the Pacific Ocean. And that changed things. Alaska and Hawaii were too far away to figure in most people’s […]

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 di Combattimento. We know them as Fascists. Yet, our increasingly digitalized world has the […]

Hungary just took another action to support mothers and save unborn babies from abortion. The Irish news outlet Gript reports the European country enacted a new family-friendly tax policy this January that exempts mothers under 30 and mothers with at least four children from paying income taxes for the rest of their lives. Balázs Orbán, political director for Prime […]

The emergence of money is a market phenomenon. By surrendering fewer marketable goods for more marketable goods, individuals move closer to the goods they ultimately wish to consume but cannot acquire through direct exchange. The most marketable goods become common media of exchange (i.e., money). With money on one side of every transaction, the number of relevant […]

Polls last year showed that close to 90 percent of Turkish citizens blamed the US and NATO for the war in Ukraine An opinion poll carried out last month by Turkish firm Gezici found that 72.8 percent of respondents favor good relations with Russia. In comparison, nearly 90 percent see the US as an adversarial nation. The poll, conducted […]

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 Wednesday, which showed the holdings slid to $859.4 billion in January from $867.1 […]

In mid-December, Turkish President R.T. Erdoğan, returning from a trip to Turkmenistan, sent a clear signal that the Syrian conflict could be resolved within the Syria-Turkey-Russia trio. For this, the Turkish leader suggested, representatives of the intelligence organizations of the three countries and the defense ministers should meet first, and then the foreign ministers. The […]

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 poll released this week. While two-thirds of Americans approved of military action in […]

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 invasion instead put forth its 12-point peace plan to end the conflict. These […]

Big Tech mogul Bill Gates is now targeting global food supply. Specifically, he wants to take control of the world’s farm animals. The multibillionaire has been reported to have partnered with UKAid, a challenge fund designed to support the United Kingdom’s commitment to reducing poverty and control food sources for the world’s poorest. He reportedly donated […]

On the night of 19-20 March, 2003, the US air force began bombing the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The EU and NATO were deeply divided on whether to join the aggression: While newer NATO members from Central and Eastern Europe were in favor of the war, European heavyweights Paris and Berlin opposed it. The Iraq war […]

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 both counts. Western officials might point out that 141 of 193 countries supported […]

Beijing and Brasilia have agreed to use own currencies instead of the US dollar in economic cooperation, media report. The two BRICS nations will now reportedly trade in their own currencies Beijing and Brasilia have signed an agreement on trade in mutual currencies, abandoning the US dollar as an intermediary, and are also planning to […]

…Yet There is Almost No Opposition or Outcry—Even When Sanctions are Increasingly Having a Boomerang Effect The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations. On November 14, the Biden administration announced […]

As a teenager in the 1970s, I recall talking to my dad about fears of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. My dad took a broad view, suggesting that if U.S. and Soviet leaders were stupid enough to blow each other to smithereens, a billion Chinese people would be left to […]

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 the UN chose as “top rural tourism destinations … for their cultural and […]

The China-Russia axis are lighting the fires of a structural insurrection against the West across much of the Rest of World. Its fires are aimed at ‘boiling the frog slowly’ A top US Marine General, James Bierman, in a recent interview with the Financial Times, explained in a moment of candour how the US is […]

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, a dominance which raises the big question: is the dominance of finance healthy for […]

“It should not be forgotten that this debacle of death and destruction was not only a profound error of policymaking; it was the result of a carefully executed crusade of disinformation and lies,” said one prominent critic. As the world this week mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, journalism experts weighed […]

Galeano Names the Problem In the Open Veins of Latin America Eduardo Galeano described an 1870 genocidal war of regime change waged on Paraguay by a Triple Alliance of its neighbors, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, on behalf of British imperialism. The target, nationalist president Solano Lopez, died in battle. The country lost 56,000 square miles […]

In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama met privately in the White House with the democratically elected (in 2010) new President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, to get him to end Ukraine’s neutralist position ever since 1991 and join the U.S. Government’s EU and NATO alliances against Ukraine’s next-door neighbor Russia, but Yanukovych said no. And, then, Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary […]

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 of the United States, the country with the most nuclear power reactors in […]

In Moscow this week, the Chinese and Russian leaders revealed their joint commitment to redesign the global order, an undertaking that has ‘not been seen in 100 years.’ What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta, which, incidentally, is in Crimea. But unlike the momentous meeting of US President […]

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” So screamed the character Howard Beale in the 1976 movie “Network,” a prescient commentary on the corporate capture and slow suffocation of America. Howard was a prime-time news anchor who’d had enough. To some of his viewers, he was having a mental breakdown […]

The defining moment in US President Joe Biden’s press conference at the White House on December 21, during President Zelensky’s visit, was his virtual admission that he is constrained in the proxy war in Ukraine, as European allies don’t want a war with Russia. To quote Biden, “Now, you say, ‘Why don’t we just give Ukraine everything […]

The United States’ “vested” interest in Ukraine “winning” the “war” with Russia could be because of the biolabs that were set up in Ukraine before the “invasion” occurred. Russia claims bioweapons research facilities are now being relocated to other countries in Asia and eastern Europe. According to a report by Russia Today, Russian state officials: Washington has been […]

The governing structures of the United States seem to be on the verge of some sort of national nervous breakdown. The symptoms are in our face. The inability of the House Republican majority to elect a speaker, in its 13th round of voting as of this writing, is the latest, most visible sign. A group […]

On December 20, the Second Baghdad Conference was held in Amman, Jordan, attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, foreign ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Turkey, Bahrain and Oman. As for other regions, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell were […]

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 has written a book arguing that the United States is already waging World […]