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Inflation, recession, and declining US hegemony
Inflation, recession, and declining US hegemony In the distant future, we might look back on 2022 and 2023 as pivotal years. So far, we have seen the conflict between America and the two Asian hegemons emerge into the open, leading to a self-inflicted energy crisis on the western alliance. The forty-year trend of declining interest […]
US-Russia Relations In “Ice Age” & Risk Of Direct Clash “High”: Kremlin
US-Russia Relations In “Ice Age” & Risk Of Direct Clash “High”: Kremlin Russia’s ambassador to the United States issued a statement Friday assessing the state of Moscow-Washington relations as having entered an “ice age” – according to state-owned TASS. Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said that currently the risk of a direct clash between the US and Russia remains “high” – after […]
Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Just Getting Started
Europe’s Energy Crisis Is Just Getting Started While Europe managed to fill its gas storage ahead of winter this year, it will have to import huge amounts of LNG in a competitive market to survive next winter. The next 12 to 24 months will be critical in establishing whether Europe can stave off a long-term […]
5 Global Flashpoints Which Could Absolutely Explode During The Early Stages Of 2023
5 Global Flashpoints Which Could Absolutely Explode During The Early Stages Of 2023 Will 2023 be a year when extremely destructive conflicts erupt all over the world? We are certainly already living in a time of “wars and rumors of wars”, and tensions are approaching the boiling point in a number of key global flashpoints right […]
Central Asia’s ’Water Wars” Are Heating Up
Central Asia’s ’Water Wars” Are Heating Up Access to water has been a point of conflict in Central Asia for years. Environmental changes have raised temperatures in Central Asia faster than the global average. While the upstream Kyrgyzstanis and Tajikistanis have plenty of water, Uzbekistan wholly relies on a steady supply of water for its […]
Fresh Missile Barrage Leaves Cities Across Ukraine Without Power Or Water In Sub-Zero Temps
Fresh Missile Barrage Leaves Cities Across Ukraine Without Power Or Water In Sub-Zero Temps “Another wave of massive Russian attacks on energy infrastructure,” Ukraine’s Energy Minister German Galushchenko announced Friday, describing a large Russian barrage of dozens of missiles across major cities. “There will be emergency power outages,” he added. Air raid sirens have been blaring throughout […]
Kremlin Vows To Take Out Patriot Batteries If US Sends To Ukraine
Kremlin Vows To Take Out Patriot Batteries If US Sends To Ukraine Russia has responded Wednesday to the prior day report from Pentagon sources that the Biden administration is finalizing plans to send Patriot anti-air defense missiles to Ukraine, in what will constitute the longest range defense systems transferred from the West to date. “The […]
US Set To Send Ukraine Patriot Missiles In Huge Escalation
US Set To Send Ukraine Patriot Missiles In Huge Escalation CNN’s chief Pentagon correspondent is reporting the breaking news based on multiple anonymous US defense officials – including a senor Biden administration official – that the White House is currently finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine. “The Biden administration is finalizing plans to […]
The “Barbarous Relic” Helped Enable a World More Civilized than Today’s
The “Barbarous Relic” Helped Enable a World More Civilized than Today’s One of history’s greatest ironies is that gold detractors refer to the metal as the barbarous relic. In fact, the abandonment of gold has put civilization as we know it at risk of extinction. The gold coin standard that had served Western economies so […]
Pentagon Gives Tacit Support for Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia
Pentagon Gives Tacit Support for Ukrainian Drone Attacks Deep Inside Russia The Times reports that the US no longer has the same concerns about escalations and is likely to send longer-range weapons The Pentagon has given its tacit endorsement of Ukrainian attacks inside Russian territory and no longer fears such operations could lead to a “dramatic” Russian […]
EU’s Oil Price Cap Creates a Price Cap… on Stupidity
EU’s Oil Price Cap Creates a Price Cap… on Stupidity MOSCOW, RUSSIA DECEMBER 1, 2021: Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova gives a weekly press briefing. Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS The EU and the US went forward with their long-debated, long-telegraphed move to put a price cap on Russian oil at $60 per barrel. By […]
Americans Dumbed Down on Russia
Americans Dumbed Down on Russia Five years ago today, Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails showing how the DNC had stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination. I can almost hear readers new to this website […]
The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse
The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude towards the lives of others: an example other nations follow Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare There are two extraordinary facts about the convention on biological diversity, whose members are meeting in Montreal now to discuss the […]
