DEM CIVIL WAR: TOO CLOSE TO CALL In Cisneros-Cuellar Runoff
Krystal and Saagar provide the figures on the super close Dem primary fight between the establishment incumbent Rep. Cuellar and his progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros
Krystal and Saagar provide the figures on the super close Dem primary fight between the establishment incumbent Rep. Cuellar and his progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros
Saagar takes viewers through the agenda of the 2022 World Economic Forum held in Davos that made speech restriction and controls on free speech central to the agenda for the world to see
Krystal gives her analysis of the Australian elections that saw Aussies reject their two parties and the global elites at rates that have followed global trends in domestic elections in nations around the world
by Peter Zeihan on May 25, 2022 In the worlds of finance, trade, economies, currencies and energy there is a lot going on. We’ve a war in Ukraine that will likely generate the largest oil dislocation in modern history. The global Baby Boomer generation is retiring and taking […]
Hawley talks a good game in this but he’s just working what he thinks is his main chance. He is associated with the “national conservatives” which also include neocons like Marco Rubio and Yoram Hazony. By Senator Josh Hawley, Compact Not so long ago, Republicans said they had […]
For starters, the US should release the billions of dollars of Venezuelan gold reserves from the Bank of England
So, Russia can’t openly oppose Turkey, because Turkey holds the cards on the Finns’ and Swedes’ NATO membership. Smart move from the sultan. 🙂 Let us see how this works out in the long run.
Richard Medhurst: one of the few journalists who can pronounce “Beijing” without using a French accent.
Happens non-stop every year. Russian presence never helped to stop this.
It is very common for countries to send special forces to guard it’s embassy in an area of conflict, for example France did this earlier in the conflict when they sent GIGN special forces to guard the embassy.
By Caitlin Johnstone US Senator Joe Manchin said at the World Economic Forum on Monday that he opposes any kind of peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Manchin, who at the moment is one of the most powerful elected officials in Washington, added that only the complete forcible ejection of […]
And Israeli money and influence is allowed in our elections because why exactly?
Robby Soave and Ryan Grim detail Ukraine updates, like Senator Mitt Romney calling on the U.S. to get serious about nuclear war with Russia, and Ukrainian President Zelensky saying the West should have better supported Ukraine more in 2014.
Krystal and Saagar talk with foreign policy analyst Elbridge Colby about the Biden administration’s policies towards Taiwan that are in the spotlight after Biden called for the military to defend the island nation
By Jose Nino Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Europe has committed itself to sanctioning Russia to the last European with five Euros in his pocket in an effort to strangle its economy, thereby throwing a major wrench in its military campaign. So far, Russia […]
By Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs TOKYO — President Biden has enlisted a dozen Asia-Pacific nations to join a new loosely defined economic bloc meant to counter China’s dominance and reassert American influence in the region five years after his predecessor withdrew the United States from a sweeping […]
The Signal How did the son of the notoriously corrupt dictator Ferdinand Marcos win the Philippines’ presidential election in a landslide? Alvin Camba on anti-elite anger, disinformation, and rewritten history. Jose Aliling / The Signal Ferdinand Marcos Jr., known to all as Bongbong, won a sweeping victory in the […]
By Matt Taibbi George W. Bush returns to the news with a tad too much honesty, lifting a veil on Washington’s dirtiest open secret: the Biden Democrats have become the Bush Republicans. George W. Bush returned to the news last week. The man who once said, “Our enemies… […]
While I am against countries invading each other, I don’t know that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has not had positive side effects. The unipolar global order has largely been destroyed or at least severely disrupted. Throwing Russia off the SWFT system motivated the Asian powers to create […]
Only the cops and the Pentagon can say, “We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.”
Breaking Points collaborator Ryan Grim of The Intercept talks with journalists Sara Sirota and Ken Klippenstein about the military industrial complex’s demand for ‘hunter killer’ drones to be sent to Ukraine
Breaking Points collaborator Ryan Grim of The Intercept talks with journalists Sara Sirota and Ken Klippenstein about Dems demand for the FBI to probe the killing of a Palestinian American journalist in an IDF raid
By Caitlin Johnstone (This article contains reports about child rape which might be intense for some people.) Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything at all, about what’s happening on the ground there and […]
By Peter Zeihan on May 21, 2022 Several signs point to THE possibility of Chinese officials instituting at least a partial lockdown of the northern port city of Tianjin as early as this weekend. The largest northern Chinese port, Tianjin is also a city of over 12 million […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Twitter has published what it calls a “crisis misinformation policy” announcing that it will be actively reducing the visibility of content found to be false which pertains to “situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters.” If you’ve been paying attention to […]
By Jack Hobbs New York Post Ukraine’s hopes of a speedy entrance into the European Union were just as quickly dashed on Thursday after both France and Germany blocked the war-torn country’s bid to join. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed his government Thursday and said that while he […]
By Stratton J. Davis, The Societal Scope Whenever the Power Elite take interest in helping “develop” the third world, you can be sure the development is in their favor, and theirs only. From New American: “The Gates-led Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was supposed to […]
by Peter Zeihan on May 20, 2022 Most NATO members have met Finland and Sweden’s joint application for membership with open enthusiasm. The US, UK, France; even the Italians and Greeks are cheering, in a rare moment of pan-European positivity. But not the Turks. Long kept at arm’s […]
Well, that didn’t seem to last very long.
This reminds me of when he joked at the press core dinner and said “I’m sure those WMDs are around here somewhere.” And the entire press that had been complicit in his lies laughed.
Briahna Joy Gray, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to former President George W. Bush’s apparent ‘Freudian slip’ when denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kim Iversen criticizes the flow of information from Ukraine and quality of war reporting at ‘piss poor.’
Nicole Brener-Schmitz and Emily Jashinsky weigh in on Rand Paul’s attempted blockage of the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill.
Adam Weinstein discusses a U.S. government watchdog report released this week that reveals how the Afghan military lost power after America’s exit from the country.
Krystal and Saagar bring geopolitical analyst and author Peter Zeihan onto Breaking Points for his insight on the Ukraine war, demographic changes, and the end to globalization as we know it
Saagar takes aim at the disparity between the US and European NATO allies in terms of defense spending and aid to Ukraine to support their war against Russia
The Signal What’s at stake in Finland and Sweden joining NATO? Susan Colbourn on how the war in Ukraine has reset security calculations in Europe. Victor Jules Levasseur Finland and Sweden are “like guesthouses for terror organizations,” according to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On Wednesday, as Finland and […]
This is a neocon project. Some of the speakers are from the neocon elite and none of the speakers are from outside the neocon orbit. And notice the neocon/natcon overlap in particular. The Jewish Leadership Conference (JLC) aims to develop a new political and cultural vision for American […]
The Generals value their lives and families and relationships. They only grow brave enough to speak when they’re older and closer to natural death. Nobody wants to be the detonator.
Dr. Samar Al-Bulushi discusses President Biden’s secret signing of an order authorizing the redeployment of special forces to Somalia, in efforts to target al-Shabab leaders in the country. This move reverses former President Trump’s decision to withdraw there.
Saagar debates his co host of The Realignment podcast Marshall Kosloff about expanding NATO to include Sweden and Finland
by Peter Zeihan on May 18, 2022 My fourth book, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization is scheduled for release on June 14. In coming weeks we will be sharing graphics and excerpts, along with info on how to preorder. Former Soviet states […]
Somalia is colonized by NATO. Turkey and USA have a heavy presence there. Djibouti and Ethiopia are on team China, and Eritrea is on team Russia. The Horn of Africa is very weird geopolitically.
Able Archer, a US-NATO exercise in 1983. It was almost the end of the world. The USSR watched the exercise and their early warning system falsely reported incoming missiles during the exercise. – People in-the-know argue about how close we were. Everyone agrees that it was too close.
Here is the news coming out of Russia. 1) When the unconditional surrender was announced, there were more than 2500 people in Azovstal 2) 804 out of them are Azov fighters 3) Out of total, 404 are wounded, and 55 of them in a critical condition 4) More […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Georgetown professor and foreign policy expert Trita Parsi to discuss the risks of NATO expansion, internal debates in Sweden and Finland, and Turkey’s objections to the measure
Saagar dives into the state of the solar industry that is entirely outsourced to China and pressuring Democrats to fight tariffs designed to bolster US domestic capacity
Krystal and Saagar look at the Democratic Pennsylvania primary in an open Pittsburgh Congressional seat between a progressive state legislator and a moderate lawyer that is being shaped by outside money
The Signal What’s Vladimir Putin trying to accomplish by cutting off gas supplies to Europe? Samantha Gross on Moscow’s energy-blackmail scheme amid “the first global natural-gas crisis.” Scott Rodgerson Finland was prepared for Russia to cut off natural-gas exports to the country last week, cabinet ministers in Helsinki said, […]
By Michael Lind, Tablet Who benefited from the obvious nonsense that became post-Cold War America’s trade, foreign, and federal deficit policies? In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, there have been three great public policy debates in the United States—one about trade, another about […]
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