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Attack Against Nord Stream 2 Renewed with Vigor: Whose Interests Does It Meet?
Attack Against Nord Stream 2 Renewed with Vigor: Whose Interests Does It Meet? Economics dictate national interests. Foreign policy is the tool used to advance it. Moscow has to fight back on all fronts, but the truth is that Washington does not care much about chemical attacks in Eastern Ghouta, the Salisbury poisoning, election meddling, […]
The CBS Interview With Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman Was a Crime Against Journalism
Photo: Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto/Sipa USA/AP The CBS Interview With Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman Was a Crime Against Journalism “AT JUST 32, Mohammed bin Salman seems fearless and determined. He has quickly become the most dominant Arab leader in a generation.” That’s how “60 Minutes” began its interview with, and profile of, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed […]
Emperor Xi Delivers Stark Warning To Trump: Hands Off Taiwan
Emperor Xi Delivers Stark Warning To Trump: Hands Off Taiwan President Donald Trump may have kicked the hornet’s nest by signing on Friday the “Taiwanese Travel Act”, encouraging official visits to Taiwan by officials at all levels with an emphasis on “national security officials.” The signing angered the newly crowned Chinese President Emperor Xi Jinping, […]
Preparing For Nuclear War is Useless
Preparing For Nuclear War is Useless A recent news article outlined how Hawaii’s health care system is not able to handle the casualties from a nuclear attack. The scenario discussed was one in which a 150 kiloton (equivalent to 150,000 tons of TNT) blast over Waikiki causes 142,000 fatalities and 167,700 injuries. The scenario considered […]
Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout
Cancer, George Monbiot and Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout Photo by JK the Unwise | CC BY 2.0 George Monbiot, who has now been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the young age of 55, was therefore born in 1963, at the peak of the atmospheric test fallout. He is thus a peak exposed (at risk) member […]
How They Sold the Iraq War
How They Sold the Iraq War Photo by Taymaz Valley | CC BY 2.0 The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Vows New Military Operations Into Eastern Syria And Sinjar, Iraq
Turkey’s Erdogan Vows New Military Operations Into Eastern Syria And Sinjar, Iraq Following Turkey’s two-month long invasion of Northern Syria and subsequent takeover of the predominantly Kurdish town of Afrin, the logical question that remains is: what ‘s next for the ‘Mad Sultan’ Erdogan? President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Sunday victory speech didn’t lack for the […]
Can Nuclear War Be Avoided?
Can Nuclear War Be Avoided? Two factors are driving the world to nuclear war. One is the constant stream of insults, false accusations and broken agreements that the West has been dumping on Russia year after year. The other is Russia’s response, or, perhaps more correctly, the lack thereof. Articles documenting Washington’s betrayals and provocations […]
Russia’s Reaction to the Insults of the West is Political Suicide
Russia’s Reaction to the Insults of the West is Political Suicide The onslaught of western Russia bashing in the past days, since the alleged poison attack by a Soviet-era nerve agent, Novichok (the inventor of which, by the way, lives in the US), on a Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, has […]
The Strategy of Tension Towards Russia and the Push to Nuclear War
The Strategy of Tension Towards Russia and the Push to Nuclear War The United States has devised on ongoing strategy of tension towards Russia. It has initiated economic sanctions against Moscow, concocted a narrative about ‘Russian aggression’ for public consumption and has by various means attempted to undermine and weaken the energy-dependent Russian eeconomy. It has moreover instigated a coup on […]
US Empire on Decline
US Empire on Decline US empire is in decline. Reports of the end of the US being the unitary power in world affairs are common, as are predictions of the end of US empire. China surpassed the United States as the world economic leader, according to Purchasing Power Parity Gross National Product, and Russia announced new weapons that […]
Russia Claims US Deploys Warships For Imminent Attack On Syria, Trains Militants For False Flag Attack
Russia Claims US Training Syrian Militants For False Flag Chemical Attack To Justify Imminent Airstrikes Last April, in one of the Trump administration’s first “diplomatic” ventures, the US fired 59 Tomahawk missiles on Syria, in retaliation for the latest alleged chemical attack by the Assad regime, the same “false flag” excuse which was used by […]
Russia Did It!
Russia Did It! Or maybe not… This past week saw an enormous outpouring of respect and admiration for Stephen Hawking upon his passing. In contrast to his frail health in life, his contributions to our understanding of the universe were prodigious and robust. Hawking’s elevation of rational and intellectual truth above all else, even his […]
The UK Blames Russia for the Spy Poisoning: It’s Time to Set Our Emotions Aside and Look at the Facts
The UK Blames Russia for the Spy Poisoning: It’s Time to Set Our Emotions Aside and Look at the Facts The world held its breath watching the British government rant and rave. The threats were truly scary and the ultimatum was grim enough to give one goosebumps. Finally it all boiled down to the expulsion of […]
