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Russia Puts The Blame On Europe As Energy Crisis Worsens
Russia Puts The Blame On Europe As Energy Crisis Worsens The EU is reconsidering its position on extending long-term natural gas contracts. Russia has maintained that the contracts are beneficial for Europe and moving away from them would be a mistake. Russia even went as far as suggesting that Europe’s current energy crisis is its […]
Will America’s New Nuke Deter War, Or Bring It On?
Will America’s New Nuke Deter War, Or Bring It On? In a bit of irony, a Twitter comment by Jill Hruby Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) pointed to a new nuclear bomb as proof America is committed to nuclear deterrence. This is where it is important to remember that deterrence means, the action […]
How I Robbed the World Bank
How I Robbed the World Bank I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend a […]
European Gas Prices Hit Record High As Germany Blocks Nord Stream 2
European Gas Prices Hit Record High As Germany Blocks Nord Stream 2 European gas futures surged to a record high on Tuesday after Germany blocked Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline from launch because it did not comply with European law. German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said all three parties that make up the new government […]
Does Russia Threatens Us All By Simply Existing?
Does Russia Threatens Us All By Simply Existing? This article is focused on giving readers a better understanding of the Russian threat. Few of us have had the pleasure of visiting Russia so what we do know about it has generally been filtered through a national security apparatus so entrenched in a cold war mindset […]
G-7 Warns Russia of ‘Massive Consequences’ of Ukraine Incursion
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks at a press conference at the G-7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Liverpool, England, on Dec. 12, 2021. (Jon Super/AP Photo) G-7 Warns Russia of ‘Massive Consequences’ of Ukraine Incursion The Group of Seven (G-7) major industrialized countries warned Russia on Dec. 12 that any invasion of Ukraine would have “massive consequences” and would […]
Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity?
Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity? The highpoint in the Ukrainian crisis and the big visits by Nuland to Moscow and Austin to Kiev might actually be attempts by Washington to make lemons out of lemonade, Tim Kirby writes. The Mainstream Media Eye of Sauron has turned its horrid […]
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will Neocons and Republican hawks such as the late John McCain sought to bring Ukraine and two other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia and Moldova, into NATO. Putin, who served in the KGB in the late Soviet era and calls the breakup of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of […]
The Geopolitical Game That Could Transform Gas Markets
The Geopolitical Game That Could Transform Gas Markets An apparent detente between the UAE and Turkey could be one of the most significant geopolitical developments in the region for decades If Mohammed bin Zayed can succeed in exploiting Turkey’s economic crisis, the East Mediterranean natural gas fields could finally be exploited and sent to market […]
Warmongers Would Let Ukraine Become World War III
Warmongers Would Let Ukraine Become World War III They just won’t let it go. It seems many of the so-called “warmongers” are hellbent on turning Ukraine into a major war whether the countries involved want it or not. History shows what has become known as “proxy wars” create profits for companies manufacturing weapons. The cost, […]
The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Russian Civil War memorial on Unity Day, in Sevastopol, Crimea, on November 4, 2021. (Photo: Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images) The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine Americans should beware of romanticizing the “old” Cold War as a time […]
We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War
We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Every day there’s more propaganda banging the drums of war between nuclear-armed nations a little louder. Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to […]
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, […]
Pretty Please? US Trying To Persuade Russia To Lift Oil Output
Pretty Please? US Trying To Persuade Russia To Lift Oil Output Interfax is reporting Thursday that the United States is urging Russia to raise oil output in order to lower global prices, following the Biden administration’s Tuesday announcement it plans release 50 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, amid predictions of $100 oil. “The US […]
