Media So Often ‘Independently Confirm’ Each Other’s Falsehoods – Glenn Greenwald

A Recent Case in Point of What anti-Chinese Sanctions Could Bring – Valery Kulikov New Eastern Outlook

“One gets an impression that the West has lost a culture of political dialogue. The partners have forgotten how to address problems in a civilized manner,” said Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Pankin on December 8. Pankin explained that the West most often responds to any decision that does not conform to […]

500 Million Russians Today if there was not the Communist Revolution of 1918 – Anatoly Karlin

Matt Yglesias might want a billion Americans. But there would have been 500 million Russians in the absence of the Bolshevik Revolution, as was predicted by Dmitry Mendeleev in a 1907 book. Putin, who it is now very clear reads my blog and Twitter, recently said as much himself in a meeting with schoolchildren in Vladivostok: In our country, the Russian […]

“Decoupling”: Washington’s Plan To Kneecap China’s Economy – Mike Whitney

The United States has settled on a multi-pronged strategy to thwart China’s development and preserve America’s premier position in the global order. The economic part of the plan is called “decoupling”, which refers to the selective blocking of China’s access to critical technology (particularly advanced semiconductors). The strategy has garnered nearly-universal support among America’s foreign policy elites […]