By Peter R. Quiñones Your opinion on borders, guns or nationalism really isn’t relevant here. What is important is that all of you know at least one person to whom one of these is a vital issue. They ride or die with it. Some of you may be, […]
By Tyler Durden Winter Watch ZERO HEDGE — With Russia now officially cut off from both the USDollar and the euro, Russia’s VTB Bank is seeing a surge in Chinese Yuan deposits, attracted by the bank offering significantly higher interest rates as Putin shifts focus to ‘friendly’ nations. The state-owned […]
The Western supermajors have left. All of them. Just as the Ukraine War began, Exxon and BP and Shell have walked away from projects they’ve sunk tens of billions of dollars into, knowing full well they won’t get a cent of compensation. Halliburton and Schlumberger’s operations today are […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter’s upcoming book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an early warning to foreign powers at the outset of his invasion of Ukraine: Russia’s considerable nuclear arsenal was ready to deliver a crushing blow against anyone who would meddle in Moscow’s attempt to bring Kyiv back into […]
By Samo Burja, City-Journal Since Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Armed Forces to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Western countries and their close allies have hit Russia with a raft of sweeping and unprecedented sanctions. Several major Russian banks were cut off from the […]
Free Thought Project (Birch Gold Group) — In an article I published in April of 2018, titled World War III Will Be An Economic War, I outlined a number of factors that portend a large-scale conflict between East and West and why this war would be mainly economic in […]
LOL. What the hell do these harpies know about anything? I generally agree with Tucker Carlson and Tusli Gabbard (and Noam Chomsky) on foreign policy, though not necessarily on other things. Although Carlson and Gabbard are a little too deferent to Z-force for my tastes. I guess they […]
By Matt Taibbi Neoconservatives think they’ve been vindicated by Ukraine, and their new Democratic allies agree. On America’s most improbable and undeserved political comeback. Neoconservative intellectual, former Reagan speechwriter, and onetime Jeopardy champ John Podhoretz penned a triumphant column the other day. Titled, “Neoconservatism: A Vindication,” the Commentary […]
From 2018. On the various coalitions of nutters Donbass has inspired. By Aaron Lake Smith Harpers Magazine Birtherism and 9/11 Truth, it turned out, were merely the prelude to the apotheosis of American paranoia. Global conspiratorial thinking now touches all our lives. On the right, schizo-fantasies such as […]
Krystal and Saagar respond to the most striking case of retaliation against Russians for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as demands by made for world #1 tennis player Medvedev to explicitly denounce Putin or be banned from competing in tournaments
Krystal and Saagar look at the questions posed to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki by media reporters who are thirsting for a full-scale world war with Russia due to their invasion of Ukraine
Democratic Senate candidate for Missouri, Lucas Kunce, criticizes Big Oil for profiteering off of the war in Ukraine.
Krystal and Saagar cover the ongoing peace talks happening with Russia and Ukraine as the war between the two countries rages on and the world tries to stop the carnage
I generally hate the media worse than I hate the ruling class itself. You can have some respect for the Machiavellian cynics in the deep state and upper strata of the power elite, the Rockefeller-Kissinger-Brzenzski-Copeland types. But the sniveling dogs who constitute the “press corps” are beyond contempt. […]
Krystal and Saagar analyze the Saudi Arabian threats to Biden over moving away from the petrodollar and towards the Chinese Yuan as their regime refuses to produce more oil
Kim Iversen details the mounting pressure placed on Russians to denounce Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Jen could’ve done a better job explaining to these people the circumstances. Like, “Hey guys do you want the world to be destroyed? Because the questions you guys are asking almost make it seem like that’s what you want.”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s approval of an additional $800 million in aid for Ukraine.
By Andrew Korybko, One World Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine gives this civilization-state a chance to defend its independence and sovereignty that are under existential threat by the US-led West. In preserving his Great Power’s geostrategic existence, President Putin is actually attempting to retain some semblance of […]
By Laura He, CNN Business Hong Kong (CNN Business)China is quietly distancing itself from Russia’s sanction-hit economy. The two states proclaimed last month that their friendship had “no limits.” That was before Russia launched its war in Ukraine. Now, with Russia’s economy being slammed with sanctions from all […]
By Heather Mac Donald City Journal Compelled speech is becoming routine in academia. On campuses, faculty candidates for hiring and tenure increasingly must attest to their dedication to diversity to be considered for a job or a promotion. At least one university requires professors to post a “land […]
By Stephen Bartholomeusz Sydney Morning Herald Senior business columnist The power of the US dollar has been on full display as the core of the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Will the “weaponisation” of the dollar, however, sow the seeds for its eventual demise? The sanctions […]
By Shawna Masiello PopTopic Hundreds of members of the “Volunteers For Ukraine” subreddit who joined the “Reddit Legion” to defend the former Soviet republic after President Zelenskyy extended an open invitation were shelled and shot after the Kremlin warned they would be treated as mercenaries and war criminals. […]
After checkmating the powerful North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) through veiled threats of nuclear weapons, is Russia now losing the battle on the ground in Ukraine? Is President Vladimir Putin losing more popular support both abroad and in Russia, after hits on civilian facilities? Their initial analysis of […]
Censorship of free speech by corporations is as bad, if not worse, than by government.
By Rachel Treisman, NPR First Eurovision, then the Paralympics and now … cat exhibitions. Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe), an international cat federation with members in about 40 countries, is banning Russian cats from its competitions for the next three months, joining the growing global backlash to Russia’s invasion […]
By Ron Paul As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves past its third week, there are slight hopes that negotiations between the two sides may soon produce a ceasefire. But with the shrill warmongering talk in Washington, it almost seems like the US government would hate to see […]
By Don Surber It looks like retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor was right a week ago when he told a disbelieving Stuart Varney that Russia would take Ukraine. Macgregor said, “The first five days, Russian forces I think, frankly, were too gentle. They’ve now corrected that. So I would […]
The third week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is covered in the fog of war and that can be confusing. In this episode we investigate some of the Russian claims of victories and advances around the country to avoid falling into a cognitive bias trap. I suggest […]
By Peter Zeihan on March 17, 2022 Apologies to all for having not written much in the past three weeks. The Ukraine War has been unfolding with such unforgiving speed and complexity that I’ve just not had time. While the pace hasn’t exactly slowed, the conflict is setting into […]
Yep. Huge oceans to the East and West, weak nations to the North and South, continent-wide regime, world’s third-largest population, and no other major powers in the hemisphere. Plus unprecedented wealth and technology, and nuclear weapons. The best possible defenses imaginable. By Blake Stilwell Military.Com Real estate is […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week The invasion of Ukraine is only in its third week and far from resolution. But it’s already launched thousands of essays, podcasts, and tweets. While the inhabitants of Mariupol, Kyiv, and other cities face bombardment, writers and scholars in the peaceful capitals of […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week For most of the post-World War II era, the Republican Party has seemed most fully itself when America had an external enemy to confront. For all the neo-isolationism of figures like former President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, there are still a few […]
By Damon Linker, The Week In his address to Congress Wednesday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made a powerful, heartrending appeal for additional aid, including a no-fly zone and additional weaponry, to help his country defend itself against Russia’s invasion. The U.S. government should keep imposing painful […]
2019 interview with Oleksiy #Arestovych, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of #Ukraine: ‘Our price for joining #NATO is a big #war with #Russia‘.
This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor, Matt Duss, about the escalating conflict in Ukraine. The left has split in its approach to this issue, with difference sides accusing one another of imperialism or being Putin-puppets respectively. Briahna attempts to get to the […]
Is this just another oil war? This week, Briahna Joy Gray interviews Intercept national security reporter Ken Klippenstein & Daily Poster founder David Sirota about how energy and climate policy play a role in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Brie asks Ken about his recent piece titled “Saudi-Russia Collusion is […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks to Tribune staff writer and author Grace Blakeley about whether war in Ukraine, and the resulting sanctions, might mark the beginning of the end of the US dollar’s supremacy as the global reserve currency.
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks with Washington Editor of Harper’s Andrew Cockburn about his book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Cockburn is an expert on nuclear risk, war profiteering, and the pernicious reach of the military industrial complex, and he brings […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the existence of biological research facilities in Ukraine.
Maxim Lott, writer of the Maximum Truth newsletter, discusses what he witnessed while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine while living in Russia.
Ryan Grim details the hawkish instincts of the White House press corp.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the killing of two Fox News journalists in Ukraine this week.
Man, Grimes dating Chelsea Manning has done some weird things to Elon. Granted, he was always kind of a weird dude, but challenging Putin to a fistfight is weird even for him.
“The war in Yemen.” As Bill Hicks would say, “a war is when two armies are fighting.”
Joining nato as a full member also requires meeting a bunch of interoperability and security standards for their military(this typically takes around a decade), and the prospective member country isn’t supposed to have any ongoing border disputes etc that would immediately pull NATO into a conflict.
For Day 10 of The Realignment’s daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with retired U.S. Army Lt. Col John Nagl, counterinsurgency expert and visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College. John is the author of Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, Learning to […]
For day 9 of The Realignment’s daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall and Saagar speak with Christian Brose, Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries, former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and author of The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, joins The Realignment […]
Krystal and Saagar bring a clip from Kyle Kulinski who breaks down the recently passed ban in Israel of Palestinian spouses under the pretext that interracial marriage threatens national security
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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