Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss the impact of US sanctions against Russia on inflation, and react to the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
If we can get the Big Sort and sanctuary cities/counties going on a global scale then we’ve got something. By Bobby Duffy and Gideon Skinner, King’s College London When asked to rate their feelings about political correctness on a scale, the British public emerge as joint–most likely of […]
The domestic US culture war is being exported to the rest of the world. I’ve been thinking for a while that the Red/Blue tribal civil war is eventually going to be a global conflict. It’s already taking root in a lot of places. By N.S. Lyons The New […]
Krystal and Saagar provide viewers an update about the Ukraine war against Russia in the Donbas region and how US intel has no idea what Ukraine is doing with American weapons and funding
By Caitlin Johnstone The White House has officially confirmed reports that President Biden will indeed be visiting Saudi Arabia in contradiction of his campaign vows to make the nation a “pariah” for its human rights violations, and everyone’s acting like visiting a murderous tyrant is somehow beneath the […]
This is a pretty balanced discussion. The core questions Lyons asks are good. This is similar to my own view of the international system. There is an overarching global ruling class that Hardt and Negri referred to as the “Empire.” The US is the senior partner in the […]
Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, joins The Realignment to discuss why 2019 may have been the world’s economic peak, which nations will rise and fall as globalization collapses, and why America’s lost […]
By Caitlin Johnstone White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre came very close to committing the cardinal sin of referring to a US-aligned nation as a “regime” on Monday. In the official White House transcript of Jean-Pierre’s interaction with a reporter inquiring about Biden’s upcoming meeting with Saudi Crown […]
By Caitlin Johnstone My enemies are not in Moscow or Beijing. My enemies are in Washington, Arlington, Langley, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. And so are yours. The only question is whether or not you realize it yet. There’s a massive narrative management campaign geared toward convincing […]
by Peter Zeihan on June 13, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin has given another of his…heavy-on-the-revisionist-history speeches. This time, he categorized the Great Northern War–the 18th century conflict that saw the Tsardom of Russia successfully challenge Sweden for Baltic superiority–as one where Russia “reclaimed” such territories as Estonia […]
It’s literally torturing and locking up someone for life slowly killing them for reporting a crime, its blocking up the guy who reported the murder not the murderer!
Can we send $40 billion to Syria to help them defend against the aggressors?
The United States pays for 20% of Israel’s military budget while Israel has a space program, universal health care, and still runs a budget surplus for six of the last ten years….
After suffering losses on their own soil, Iran is showing great restraint and patience by not striking back and escalating with Israel. When U$A inevitably comes to Iran begging for oil in the future, I hope Iran responds appropriately. And this coming from an American!
It’s amazing how Israel can get away with these international crimes and nobody in the media has the courage to bring it up
Krystal and Kyle discuss the coming global food crisis with climate journalist David Wallace-Wells and how it could lead to wars over resources
Host of The Katie Halper Show Podcast, Katie Halper, discusses reporters’ grilling of Antony Blinken over the United States’ response to hypocrisy over Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Haiti.
by Peter Zeihan on June 12, 2022 In light of recent moves by the US to lift some targeted energy sanctions on Venezuela to help bolster energy sanctions against Russia, we are sharing an earlier video on the difficulty the Biden administration would face in trying to rely […]
Geopolitics and Empire “What we are seeing is an empire which is losing its power. And I think that this century will be a century in which we will see the decay of U.S. imperialism.” Sacha Llorenti Vítězslav Kremlík: Climate Apocalypticism is Being Used as an Excuse for […]
By Caitlin Johnstone One of the great sources of distress in people’s lives is that we don’t get to be the narrator of other people’s stories about us. That we don’t get to control what other people are thinking and saying about how we are, what we do, […]
by Peter Zeihan on June 11, 2022 In case you haven’t heard, my upcoming book The End of the World is Just the Beginning gets released this Tuesday, June 14. You can pre-order it here. A lot of my work, and my books up to this point, have […]
By Caitlin Johnstone President Biden used the phrase “Putin’s price hike” again in a reaction to Friday’s Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation, showing once again that the US government believes Americans are idiots. “Make no mistake about it: I understand inflation is a real challenge to […]
Russia’s version of McDonald’s unveils new logo after the fast-food giant quit the country over Ukraine McDonald’s left Russia to protest the invasion of Ukraine, and a local businessman took over the restaurants. READ MORE Facebook users can get caught buying or selling guns on the platform up […]
Best reader comment: “Monday was Memorial Day In Korea. These missile tests used to be the norm under previous presidents. The last president halted them. There’s a new president, a conservative, who started them up again. There’s no tit for tat. There are no tensions on the peninsula. […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: None of the world’s worst people are in prison. Most of them are fabulously wealthy and widely esteemed. Our systems are not set up to reward beneficial action and punish wrongdoing; at the scale that really matters, they […]
Krystal and Saagar scrutinize the former top general under investigation for illegal lobbying for the Qatar government during his time as President of influential DC think tank Brookings Institution
Saagar takes a deeper look at the Biden administration’s executive order bailing out the Chinese solar panel industry as gas prices hit $5/gallon nationwide and Summer blackouts loom
An intra-NATO conflict emerges? ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday warned Greece to demilitarize islands in the Aegean Sea, saying he was “not joking” and posting tweets in Greek and English, in a marked harshening of rhetoric against Turkey’s neighbor and historic regional […]
Publisher of Nonzero Newsletter, Robert Wright, breaks down the cultural and policy impacts of hawkish lobbying by the profit-driven defense industry.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by executive editor of The American Prospect David Dayen to better understand the gift provided by Biden to the solar industry lobby by halting China tariffs
Anarchist News From Militant Wire by The WannabeWonk Exclusive Interview with an Anarchist Fighter of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine Militant Wire’s Tom Lord Speaks with a Member of The Resistance Committee One of the defining aspects of the current war in Ukraine is the presence of […]
More or less my perspective as well. NATO was originally created after WW2 to prevent further Soviet expansion into Western Europe. The Soviets and their satellites already controlled most of the Eurasian landmass at the time, and the remaining Western European countries had been laid to waste by […]
By Jose Alberto Nino Crisis moments in politics tend to be moments of clarity. They demonstrate who are our friends and who are our enemies. Those who hate the color red today will scoff at the same color once their opponents start to wear it. Whether the topic […]
by Peter Zeihan on June 8, 2022 Americans are currently struggling with inflation and certain categories, like fuel prices, get an outsized amount of attention. It makes sense. There are few products people buy as frequently that have as volatile a pricing scheme. It’s also universal. In a […]
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, has announced that if Venezuela and Nicargua are excluded from the upcoming Americas Summit taking place in Miami he will not attend either. Previous summits outside of the United States have not restricted nations’ participation based on politics, […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to new developments in Colombia’s presidential election.
This is important because Pakistan is a nuclear-armed power. Journalist and former editor at The Daily Pakistan, Waqas Ahmed, discusses the crackdown on peaceful protests that is happening in Pakistan.
Legislative director of Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Hassan El-Tayyab, discusses Congress’ new bipartisan effort to end U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen.
They’re trying to make a comeback in 2024. It is the most immediate danger we face. Politics editor at the Washington Examiner, Jim Antle, makes the case that GOP opposition to U.S. intervention in the war in Ukraine demonstrates the anti-war future of the ‘New Right.’
Krystal and Saagar examine the reversal by Joe Biden on engagement with the Saudis due to a desperate need for more oil supply from OPEC in the global markets
Krystal and Saagar have commentator James Li break down the tyrannical intentions of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum masked by thinly veiled rhetoric
The Times of Israel Israel and Saudi Arabia have been holding US-brokered talks on a number of agreements that could help clear the path to eventual diplomatic ties between the countries, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the report, one such agreement would allow greater rights for […]
By Larry Elliott, The Guardian The perverse effects of sanctions means rising fuel and food costs for the rest of the world – and fears are growing of a humanitarian catastrophe. Sooner or later, a deal must be made. It is now three months since the west launched […]
Von Tilo Gräser Mit dem Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Finanzexperten Michael Hudson hat der Journalist Alexander Boos für die “ViER.” ein Interview über die aktuelle Lage in Folge des Krieges in der Ukraine und die damit verbundenen Zusammenhänge geführt. Es erscheint in deutscher Übersetzung Anfang August in der Ausgabe 4/2022. […]
When most people think of Sweden, or more broadly, the Scandinavian countries, they imagine a more egalitarian and advanced model to which we should aspire. Some assume without investigating that Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Norway, have figured out how to be prosperous “socialist” countries. […]
By Gordon G. Chang Telos “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades,” wrote Larry Fink in his March 24 letter to BlackRock shareholders. “We had already seen connectivity between nations, companies, and even people strained by […]
The Signal Why is democracy eroding more among America’s allies than in other countries? Moises Naím on how massive social change is affecting the way citizens feel, and the nature of politics, around the world. Tbel Abuseridze (Originally published 2021 | 11.23) Democracy is in retreat. It’s been one […]
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish Bob is a journalist, public intellectual, and the author of many books, including The Moral Animal, Nonzero, The Evolution of God, and Why Buddhism Is True. He’s written for countless magazines, including The New Republic, where he co-wrote the TRB column with Mickey […]
Thanks for joining us for another week of KK&F — this one centering on the Colombian presidential elections, drug wars, and more. A left-wing candidate has taken the lead in the first round of voting; his right-wing opponent, who has styled himself as anti-establishment and anti-corruption, has his […]
Below is an old article from the Los Angeles Times in 1986 discussing how the majority of both parties in Congress opposed Reagan’s Central America policy, arming of the Saudi regime, and efforts to undermine detente with the USSR. Nowadays, no one in Congress would oppose any of […]
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