Reuters Nov 14 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that it could neither confirm nor deny a report that Russian and U.S. officials were holding talks in the Turkish capital Ankara. The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that delegations from the two countries were meeting on Monday in […]
Britain, US, Russia – we’re all post-Soviet now Michael Taylor With apologies, I return to Fiona Hill’s valuable book ‘There’s Nothing for You Here – Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century’. She has a breadth of understanding which I suspect can only have been developed by someone […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 14, 2022 Over the weekend, the Ukrainians recaptured the city of Kherson from the Russians. A huge strategic win for Ukraine and only the first of many humiliating retreats & defeats that the Russians will soon face. If there was one thing Russia’s military complex […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Westerners are taught that evil foreign “regimes” don’t let their people criticize their government, meanwhile westerners themselves are trained to never criticize their government. They’re trained instead to criticize decoy dichotomies — false partisan nonsense — not the […]
By Vijay Prashad, LA Progressive In early December 2021, Japan’s Self-Defense Force joined the U.S. Armed Forces for Resolute Dragon 2021, which the U.S. Marines called the “largest bilateral training exercise of the year.” Major General Jay Bargeron of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division said at the start of […]
Katja Hoyer The Spectator The far right in Germany isn’t all angry young men with shaved heads, baseball bats and black boots. There are those who appear respectable, even intellectual. The Reichsbürger movement includes accountants, teachers and academics; many members are middle-aged. It’s a fractured network with vastly […]
The Signal What happened to the historic turning point Germany announced back in February? Liana Fix on how a major transformation with global implications got sidetracked. Vitaly Rubtsov Three days after Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaimed the moment a Zeitenwende, or historic turning point, for […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: War criminal George W Bush and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be appearing at an event next week at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, in partnership with US government-funded narrative management operations Freedom House and National Endowment […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 11, 2022 Any time I attempt to plot out any data set of global scale, the result is going to be a splatter of clown vomit. This graphic – showcasing global life expectancy – is no exception. Unfocus your eyes and stare at it […]
By Jack Guy, CNN Published 7:25 AM EST, Wed November 9, 2022 Princess Märtha Louise and Durek Verrett, pictured in Oslo, Norway on June 16 Marius Gulliksrud/Stella Piuctures/Abaca/Sipa USA/AP CNN — Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise is withdrawing from official royal duties in order to concentrate on the alternative […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 10, 2022 Have you ever been stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway? How about trying to find a parking spot at a sold out event? That’s the exact position Russian troops are in as they follow orders to withdraw from Kherson. Oh […]
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Could the war in Ukraine signify the beginning of the end of Russia? Check out today’s epic new video to find out what is causing Russia to collapse and if it can regain its status as a world power!
By Laura Kelly, The Hill Democrats’ strong showing in the midterm elections is “very good for Ukraine,” a member of the Ukrainian parliament told The Hill on Wednesday. Oleksiy Goncharenko, who is part of the European Solidarity party in Ukraine, welcomed the early results from the midterm elections, […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 9, 2022 For my fellow backpackers, you know what day 4 of a trip means…fresh socks! So a discussion of chemical and biological warfare seems fitting. As the superpowers discovered during the Cold War, chemical warfare is hard, expensive and only makes sense […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 8, 2022 Why is the German system so stable…because they didn’t create it. The British, French and Americans did. No foreign strategic policy = no military = no war. A fool-proof plan…right? Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine has started to poke holes in […]
Caitlin Johnstone The fourth issue of our print-friendly zine is now available for download. Sixty pages of content from the past month using our unpatented capitalism-hacking WYRAFT (Whatever You Reckon’s A Fair Thing) economic model where you set whatever price you like in whatever currency you like — dollars, euros, pounds, […]
Caitlin Johnstone Image via Adobe Stock Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The commander of the US nuclear arsenal has stated unequivocally that the war in Ukraine is just a warmup exercise for a much larger conflict that’s already in the mail. Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp reports: […]
By Mike Whitney Washington’s animus towards Russia has a long history dating back to 1918 when Woodrow Wilson deployed over 7,000 troops to Siberia as part of an Allied effort to roll back the gains of the Bolshevik Revolution. The activities of the American Expeditionary Force, which remained […]
The ongoing war is held up as a battle between democracy and autocracy, but Ukraine’s political history since independence in 1991 reveals a country where democracy has been hard to sow. Cain Burdeau / October 29, 2022 Independence Monument in Kyiv, a victory column commemorating the independence of […]
The United States’ manifest and concrete interests of security, prosperity, and liberty are directly at stake, and its citizens deserve a serious strategy to safeguard these interests. by Austin Dahmer “Strategy,” wrote business guru Richard Rumelt, “involves focus and, therefore, choice. And choice means setting aside some goals […]
by Philip Pilkington 5 November 2022 9:00 AM On Thursday German Chancellor Olaf Scholz published a very interesting – and probably historic – essay in Politico. “We don’t want to decouple from China,” the headline ran, “but can’t be overreliant”. Yet this somewhat banal statement papered over some […]
This winter, Europe may be facing a crisis without any clear solution. Tooze-Adam-foreign-policy-columnist16Adam Tooze By Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University. A man swims in the frozen water of the Trocadero fountain in front Eiffel Tower, on January […]
gilbertdoctorow Uncategorized November 6, 2022 19 Minutes The single largest contingent of readers of my essays is in the United States, and it is for their particular benefit that I open today’s piece with some concrete facts on how Europe’s self-imposed energy crisis resulting from the ban on […]
Craig Willy Nov 5 This is a great little book for understanding how artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most consequential technology of this century, is rapidly developing in China, the world’s new scientific superpower and by some metrics already the largest economy. Kai-Fu Lee writes on his subject […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 7, 2022 Despite what you might be hearing, the United States is in the midst of its greatest period of industrialization since WWII… if not ever. How did we get here? For starters, the political environment of the last half decade or so […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: A new Bloomberg article titled “‘Sloppy’ US Talk on China’s Threat Worries Some Skeptical Experts” discusses the dangerous cycle in which pressures in the US political establishment to continually escalate hostilities with Beijing provokes responses that are then […]
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He reflects on his family’s history and world history, just in time for PM Sunak. Fareed is the host of the CNN show “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” which has been on the air since 2008. He’s also a columnist for the Washington Post and the author of several bestsellers, […]
Kyle doing a video about Putin being sick from a bed is the most unintentionally hilarious thing I’ve seen in a long time 😂
The shocking account of the only Pole who fought in Azovstal during the siege of Mariupol in Ukraine reveals the horrors faced by the defenders October 31, 2022 editor: Grzegorz Adamczyk author: Marcin Wyrwał via: onet.pl The only Pole who fought in the Azovstal steel plant provided his […]
Russia Business Today July 10, 2018 A delegation of 30 South African farming families has arrived in Russia’s Stavropol region, known for its agriculture, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The white farmers, descendants of Dutch colonizers in South Africa, are known as Afrikaners, and they have been facing violent attacks and death […]
Hey! Justus’ channel link is in the description. Some friends of mine told me Justus was in the city so I asked him for an interview. Some of the highlights: 0:45 Coming to Russia 2:22 Becoming famous after Channel 1 interview 5:40 Similarities between Russians & Americans 7:30 […]
American Justas Walker spent his childhood in Russia and it changed his life forever. Now he is successfully engaged in farming in Altai. His wife Rebecca, three daughters and several employees help him to run the farm, produce cheese and take care of animals. Justas believes that agriculture […]
By Marcus M. Gilban Times of Israel RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — When Brazilian soccer legend Neymar recently declared his support for far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection, he was bombarded with messages of both love and hate on social media. The same thing happened to pop star […]
(Jonathon Cook) — One of the biggest problems for the left, as it confronts what seems like humanity’s ever-more precarious relationship with the planet – from the climate emergency to a potential nuclear exchange – is that siren voices keep luring it towards the rocks of political confusion […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: A new article for The Irish Times by Virginia Tech professor Gerard Toal, titled “Ukraine risks being locked into endless war in bid for perfect peace,” contains a very interesting paragraph: Ordinary Ukrainians on the front lines are […]
Here are my most recent articles for you Finnish Authorities Claim that Weapons Being Sent to Ukraine are Ending Up in Criminal Hands Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) claims that weapons being sent to Ukraine are falling into criminal hands. According to a report by Finland’s national […]
That many working-age people leaving the country has to be devastating for the Russian economy
Now let’s see Joe take the same approach with the Israeli government.
Briahna Joy Gray discusses U.S. interventionism in Ukraine, a topic of debate on a recent episode of her podcast, “Bad Faith.” #Ukraine #Russia #war
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: 2022 is an insane year to be a critic of the empire. People are being censored for disputing official narratives about a war. Those who aren’t censored are being mobbed by astroturf trolling operations. A frenetic propaganda push is […]
by Peter Zeihan on November 2, 2022 The best way to understand Donald Trump is to compare him to his immediate predecessor, President Obama. Both were outside candidates who came with their own political support and ran on charisma, rather than policy. When President Trump came into office, […]
Aaron Kheriaty: Rise of the Biomedical Security State Dr. Aaron Kheriaty discusses his must-read book The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State and traces the roots of the medical tyranny we’ve been experiencing to the Anglosphere and eugenics movement which later was exported to Germany. […]
El Nino Speaks Are so-called “anti-war” conservatives and libertarians dropping the ball on foreign policy? George Szamuely, co-host of The Gaggle, believes that these two groups undermine effective anti-interventionist messaging by accepting many of the corporate media’s premises regarding the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. If we want to stop the […]
Zac & Gavin react to Tulsi Gabbard getting called out on Twitter by Kim Iversen (formerly of The Hill’s Rising)
By Keith Preston Virtually all political factions will be offended by this post. Walter Russell Meade pointed out four major traditions in US foreign policy: 1. Hamiltonian realist imperialists (Rockefeller types) 2. Wilsonian global interventionists (most Democrats) 3. Jacksonian xenophobic nationalists (like Trump) 4. Jeffersonian non-interventionists (like Ron […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray had a headed but productive conversation with former Ploughshares Fund — a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution — about the controversy surrounding the CPC letter pushing for peace in Ukraine. Every argument you’ve seen against the letter is […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss President Joe Biden apparently losing his temper with Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky in a phone call in June after Zelensky pressed for more aid.
by Peter Zeihan on November 1, 2022 The Brazilian elections took place over the weekend, resulting in a narrow win by center-left candidate and former president – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, over right-incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. As of now, Bolsonaro has remained silent on the election results and many of the world’s […]
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