Multipolarity is Back! The New World Order is Defeated
The Atlanticist Empire: “Let’s sanction Russia!” The Rest of the World: “Fuck off.” Even the Zionists and Wahhabis bailed on the Imperialists. Unipolarity is finished.
Ukraine in Vain: Fuck Putin but Let the Donbass Go
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley For all intents and purposes, in every way that counts, Ukraine has already defeated Russia. Hell, let’s face it, they kicked their fucking ass. Putin’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine has been a massive failure of unprecedented proportions. Never, […]
Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time
By Caitlin Johnstone Antiwar libertarian hero Scott Horton has a viral tweet going around which reads simply, “Biden’s refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history.” Kind of smacks you in the face, doesn’t it? I’ve […]
Lyceum Round-Table #58: China’s South Pacific Gambit
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss China’s gambit in the South Pacific broadly and the Solomon Islands more narrowly.
Pope Francis: NATO Was ‘Barking at Russia’s Door,’ Provoking Moscow to Invade
By SOFREP The holder of the highest seat in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, said that the West is partly to blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Pope said “that barking of NATO at the door […]
‘We Don’t Wanna Go!’: Russian Military Recruitment Offices Attacked With Molotov Cocktails
By SOFREP The Russians are at war on two fronts apparently, one in Ukraine and another in their own country against their own citizens. In multiple acts of defiance against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, six Russian military recruitment offices in different locations were attacked with Molotov cocktails, […]
Ukraine-Russia War: Europe may be the Economic Loser
The Herland Report Herland Report: Ukraine-Russia War: The strategy of imposing economic sanctions in order to hurt Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, may produce an economic fallout that is different from what the leadership in Europe currently expects. The question is who will the sanctions hurt the […]
How ‘The Future’ Died in Sweden
By Malcom Kyeyune Compact Rioting swept Sweden this Easter. Rasmus Paludan, a Danish far-right politician, had announced his intention to publicly burn the Quran in several Swedish cities. He successfully burned a copy of the Muslim holy book in the city of Jönköping, and intended to move on […]
Russians Banned From Buying Property in the EU
This is complete divorce. But Russia was a donor for the Western economy. How will they explain later losses because of impossibility to sell their cars in Russia, absence of Russian tourists with their money in their hotels and restaurants, losses because of significant reduction of export of […]
Pentagon says Russia’s attempts to hit Western weapons flowing into Ukraine having ‘no impact’
By Peter Weber, The Week Russia is concentrating most of its military efforts in Ukraine on trying to capture territory in the east and south of the country, but it continues to strike cities and towns across Ukraine. And on Tuesday and Wednesday those strikes targeted electrical substations, […]
Shut NATO’s door to Ukraine — permanently
By Andrew Day, The Week Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has sparked a heated debate about NATO that boiled over into the Senate last week. Some argue that NATO’s eastward expansion precipitated the conflict by threatening Russian security. Others retort that because the alliance is purely defensive, the […]
Trump wanted to ‘quietly’ bomb Mexico, seriously, ex-Defense Secretary Mark Esper recounts
By Peter Weber, The Week In the summer of 2020, unhappy about the flow of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, then-President Donald Trump asked his defense secretary, Mark Esper, if the U.S. military could “shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs,” Esper writes in his forthcoming […]
Today at 3 pm Eastern: Lyceum Round-Table #58: China’s South Pacific Gambit
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to discuss China’s gambit in the South Pacific broadly and the Solomon Islands more narrowly.
China Is Not Russia and Taiwan Is Not Ukraine | Peter Zeihan
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the most consequential military conflict Europe has witnessed since the Second World War — has riveted the attention of the world. Observers have grappled with the meaning of the act of aggression and scrambled to ponder the wider implications of the war. Almost […]
The Ukraine War, Assassinations, and Artillery
by Peter Zeihan on May 6, 2022 The Ukrainian military has enjoyed an outsized amount of success when it comes to successfully finding–and eliminating–a variety of high-value Russian targets. The Ukrainian military did not have a reputation of hitting above their weight before the Russians invaded this past […]
BREAKING: US Intel Helped Sink Russian Ship
About Richard Medhurst: #RichardMedhurst is an independent journalist and commentator born in Damascus. He is half British, half Syrian and speaks four languages: English, French, Arabic and German. His reporting focuses primarily on international relations, the Middle East and US politics, rooted in anti-imperialism. Medhurst is one of […]
Pope Francis Says NATO Instigated War By ‘Barking At Putin’s Door,’ Labeled CONSPIRACY THEORIST
Briahna Joy Gray, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on Pope Francis appearing to partially blame NATO for the war in Ukraine.
Maritime Insurance, Russia, and the Ukraine War
by Peter Zeihan on May 5, 2022 Europe is moving rapidly toward enacting an embargo against Russian crude oil. One of the main enforcement mechanisms will likely be denying maritime insurance coverage to ships carrying Russian crude to European ports. We’ve already seen many ship captains and crews […]
REPORT: Putin To Undergo Cancer Surgery
He wouldn’t be the first Russian leader to mysteriously disappear during a routine surgery. However that is not necessarily the case this time, nor necessarily a change for the better.
Putin’s Dreams: What did he hope to get out of the war?
The Signal What did he hope to get out of the war? Anatol Lieven on nationalist ambitions, historical narratives, and Moscow’s fraught relationship with the West. Envato Three days before invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin justified the impending attack as necessary for Russian security, saying that Moscow had spent […]
Pepe Escobar: “Mike Pompeo Was a Competent Gangster”
He was a proper gangster 😹😹😹 the burrrrnnnn
Brave US Soldiers Liberate Iraq from Its Gold
By the way that soldier on the top right that is stealing Iraqi gold is Tom Cotton, a member of the United States Senate.
Pepe Escobar: The Blowback of EU Sanctions Will Be Horrible
USA says to EU : ” Hit your head with the hammer” 😃 🔨 EU answers: “How hard?” 🤯 🔨
US EXPANSIONIST Goal To ‘Weaken Russia’ Mirrors DANGEROUS Tactics In Afghanistan: Dr. Trita Parsi
Dr. Trita Parsi makes the case that U.S. policy objectives in Eastern Europe have become expansive rather than defensive.
Tucker: This is why Democrats are taking us to war with Russia
Fox News host gives his take on the real motivation behind U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
Russia’s Military Strategy, and the Afya Foundation
by Peter Zeihan on May 3, 2022 The Russian military has abandoned any hope of local Ukrainians viewing them as welcome liberators or Slavic cousins. And so too has the Russian military abandoned any pretense of trying to limit civilian casualties. Russian military strategy in Ukraine–decried early on […]
Noam Chomsky PRAISES Trump?
Chomsky: “The only guy in the entire West who is trying to solve the Ukraine issue is Trump.” Kyle: “Yeah, but Chomsky doesn’t mean what he said.”
Chomsky: TRUMP Is The Only Western Politician Who’s Correct On Russia-Ukraine
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to a controversial interview from Leftist thinker Noam Chomsky.
Pelosi Meets Zelensky, Europe Worried US DRAGGING Allies Into Different War, $33B MORE For Ukraine?
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Ukraine, and question whether the U.S. aims to engage in a proxy war with Russia.
Chomsky Says TRUMP Only One Pushing Peace In Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by Noam Chomsky in a recent interview where he labeled Donald Trump as the only major western statesman pushing for peace in Ukraine
Neocon Pushes WAR AUTHORIZATION With Russia
Krystal and Saagar counter the neocons and congressional leaders pushing for war in Ukraine and tens of billions more in military aid to Ukraine
Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism: A Primer on International Relations Theory
By Scott Duryea Mises Institute University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer gave a lecture to a group of university alumni in 2014 entitled “Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault,” essentially predicting the Russo-Ukrainian war. The lecture has over 24 million views. Even though he’s been accused of pro-Putin […]
You Support Ukraine’s Independence? Then You Support Secession.
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute By now, it should be abundantly clear to all that the official US regime narrative on Ukraine is that one is supposed to be in favor of Ukrainian political independence. That is, we’re supposed to support the idea that Ukraine is a separate […]
EXCLUSIVE: Konstantin Yaroshenko Interview After Prisoner Swap with US
Thanks for this opportunity to hear the truth from the survived witness…💔😓
PEAK Hillary? Clinton WHITEWASHES War Crimes In Madeline Albright Eulogy
Katie Halper criticizes Hillary Clinton’s attempts to redeem Madeline Albright’s legacy.
Zero Covid And The POWER, INCENTIVES of the Chinese Regime
Krystal and Saagar have James Li of 51-49 break down the power and incentives around the Chinese Communist Party that have led them to pursue a zero covid policy in Shanghai and elsewhere
Why is the far right winning ground in France?
The Signal Why is the far right winning ground in France? Marc Weitzmann on how fear and national trauma are shaping the politics of the Fifth Republic. Rodrigo Kugnharski In a victory speech under the Eiffel Tower, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that many of the votes cast for him […]
For the Love of Olof Palme, Don’t Let Swedish Neutrality Die in Vain
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I get the feeling that Vladimir Putin finds himself quietly confessing this mantra a lot lately in his private moments away from whatever the fuck passes for a politburo in plutocratic […]
Russia’s Natural Gas Strategy
Moscow has begun limiting natural gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria as Russia seeks to increase energy pressure on Europe. Ostensibly these moves are to encourage European buyers of natural gas to pay their bills in rubles. But Russia has a longer-term goal in mind. Many private players […]
Yes! Climate-Friendly Imperialism
It’s like if a murderer wants his sentence lightened during trail by saying “But I used a sterilized knife and a condom during the act, I cared about the victim.” Unlike the former no one’s holding these mass murderers on trail.
Quds Day: Global Support for Palestinian Resistance
China is the only big country that keeps on putting forward in each UN Convention on No. 2234 Resolution that urges Israel to stop annexation of Palestine land and China always promotes the UN Resolution of Israel Palestine Two States Resolution, every year. China Most recent motions put […]
Are Sanctions on Russia Working?
Russia is a big country. You cannot compare sanctions in Russia and estimate that it will work the same in other small countries. Russia can survive sanctions because of how big it is. They can survive even if they are completely cut off from the rest of the […]
UKRAINE WAR UPDATE with PEPE ESCOBAR and RICHARD MEDHURST
This is a great interview with Pepe.
Saudi Arabia is STARVING Yemen with Western Backing
The UN secretary general has no time for Yemen …. never said a thing about the worst humanitarian crisis in that country.
Chris Hedges BREAKS DOWN Alice Walker CENSORSHIP
She’s been disinvited because of Palestine views before, this isn’t new just continued
If Elon Musk Is Serious About Freedom, Here’s The First Thing He Needs To Do With Twitter
Ryan Grim encourages Elon Musk to address weaknesses in how Twitter protects its users’ communications and data.
HOW BLOWBACK BY ARMED GROUPS IS TURNING CIVIL WARS INTO INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS
By Peter Krause and guest contributor Nils Hägerdal Political Violence at a Glance The crescendo of missile and drone strikes into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are just the latest in a growing trend turning civil wars into international ones: blowback, or violent retaliation at home in response to intervention abroad. Civil war is […]
What Solzhenitsyn Understood
By Gary Saul Morson, New York Review of Books Detecting the same incompetence and self-satisfaction among the liberals of the Provisional Government in 1917 and the reformers of the post-Soviet era in the 1990s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feared another descent into authoritarian rule. For Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, no literary form […]
Russia’s Challenges in the Ukraine War
By Peter Zeihan on April 29, 2022 Russia and its military have lagged considerably behind the Ukrainians in several categories: logistics, communications, and especially in metabolizing and deploying new technology, such as drones. It is especially in this latter instance where Kyiv has shown a remarkable nimbleness over Moscow. […]
Why aren’t non-Western countries joining the sanctions against Russia?
The Signal Why aren’t non-Western countries joining the sanctions against Russia? Richard Gowan on food, guns, and global risk management. Andy Art Renewing ties that had frayed since the Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has united the West against Moscow. This bond is the foundation for the unprecedented […]
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