Category: Geopolitics

Asking Questions With The Zapatistas

By Matthew Quest Greek Activists Think About the Future of Politics and Civilization Zapatista Poster Explaining Women’s Rights Theodore Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, and Yavor Tarinski. Asking Questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on Our Civilizational Impasse. Athens, Greece: Transnational Institute for Social Ecology (TRISE), 2022. Mexican culture is distinguished […]

Crimea Bridge Attack, Zelensky Calls for Nuclear Strike, and More

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War Crimes as Policy

by Peter Zeihan on October 10, 2022 I’m going to be discussing some disturbing aspects of the Ukraine War today. Consider this your parental advisory. In the aftermath of the Russia’s failed Kyiv offensive, the world became aware of the omnipresent nature of Russian war crimes. The Russian retreat […]

Biden Is Failing The World

The world desperately needs energy and yet President Joe Biden is preventing sufficient quantities of oil and gas from being produced. Michael Shellenberger Below is the written transcript of the above video. Additional slides and graphs are in the video. Many people in the U.S. are still unaware […]

Fanaticism of the Apocalypse

As Europeans burn garbage to stay warm, climate activists step up the war on natural gas Michael Shellenberger Members of Extinction Rebellion called on African leaders to end the production of natural gas in Cape Town, South Africa on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via […]

Once Upon A Time

Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article:   Once upon a time there was born a baby universe. Like most babies, it didn’t have a lot going on for itself at first. It existed as nothing but a plasmic ocean of energy roaring outward from its […]

How Ukraine Wins

by Peter Zeihan on October 8, 2022 A Ukrainian attack has severely damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge, the primary supply line for Russian food, fuel, ammunition and reinforcements into the Crimean Peninsula and southwestern Ukraine. It is, simply put, the single-most important piece of infrastructure in the war. […]

Holding Ground, Losing War

Douglas Macgregor Sep 22, 2022 12:05 AM The American Conservative At the end of 1942, when the Wehrmacht could advance no further east, Hitler switched German ground forces from an “enemy force-oriented” strategy to a “ground-holding” strategy. Hitler demanded that his armies defend vast, largely empty and irrelevant […]

A Massacre in Slow Motion

New York Review of Books Last month, the United Nations Security Council held a briefing on famine during war, pursuant to Resolution 2417, which it adopted in 2018 and which in part addresses “the need to break the vicious cycle between armed conflict and food insecurity.” Four days […]

Sedition #3 Of Treazine Is Here!

Caitlin Johnstone The third addition of my print-friendly zine is now ready for downloading, printing, sharing, distributing, republishing, burning, street sermonizing, leaving pages of on buses and laundromat tables, or just having a good read on your own. Click here to get a pay-as-you-feel PDF full of my […]

In Kherson, a Turning Point?

by Peter Zeihan on October 5, 2022 Ukrainian forces are poised to rout Russian defensive formations around the critical southern city of Kherson. This comes weeks after a planned counter offensive went into effect, but on the heels of significant gains made against Russian troops in Ukraine’s northeast, […]

Brazil’s Presidential Election Showdown

by Peter Zeihan on October 4, 2022 Brazilians will return to polls later this month to vote in a presidential run-off election between former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known popularly as Lula, and firebrand current president Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Run-offs aren’t usually this closely watched in Brazil, except […]

Kyle REACTS To Iran Uprising

Iran is having its George Floyd moment. Russia is having its Vietnam moment. Out of all the Muslim countries, Iran & Lebanon were the most liberal. I strongly believe that Iran should be America’s greatest ally (like it was before the revolution), rather than Saudi Arabia. Side note […]