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How Stupid Do They Think We Are?
How Stupid Do They Think We Are? “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Consumers of the print or electronic output of the League of Copy Typists […]
Putin Warns Attack On Iran Would Be “Catastrophic” As US Navy Deploys To Drone Crash Site
Putin Warns Attack On Iran Would Be “Catastrophic” As US Navy Deploys To Drone Crash Site Following China’s warning this week that the United States is poised to open “Pandora’s Box” in the Middle East should it escalate military action against Iran, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has weighed in, on Thursday saying any American military […]
Trump – Israel – Putin – Middle East
Trump – Israel – Putin – Middle East The interesting aspect of our war models has been that this cycle turned up in 2014 and we really do not reach the point of a major peak before 2022/2023. Back in 2015, we published a segment on the rising tensions that would emerge in the Middle […]
Putin Now Thinks Western Elites Are ‘Swine’
Putin Now Thinks Western Elites Are ‘Swine’ An article I published close to five years ago, “Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over”, turned out to be the most popular thing I’ve written so far, having garnered over 200,000 reads over the intervening years. In it I wrote about Putin’s speech at the 2014 Valdai […]
Pence Urged Germany To Provoke Russian Navy
Pence Urged Germany To Provoke Russian Navy Bloomberg dropped a bombshell on Thursday, citing three high level sources familiar with US-German talks at last month’s Munich Security Conference who revealed US Vice President Mike Pence tried to persuade German Chancellor Angela Merkel to directly provoke Russia by sending German ships through the Kerch Strait, the two mile wide […]
Venezuela Orders PDVSA Offices Relocate To Moscow; Putin Affirms Support To “Friend” Maduro
Venezuela Orders PDVSA Offices Relocate To Moscow; Putin Affirms Support To “Friend” Maduro A top Venezuelan official has announced that President Nicolas Maduro has ordered national oil and gas company PDVSA to close its current European headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal and move it to Moscow. The announcement came from Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez during a press conference standing alongside Russian […]
The Kremlin’s Military Posture Reconsidered
The Kremlin’s Military Posture Reconsidered To the vast majority of Americans, including the foreign policy establishment, the question posed in the title may seem something of a joke. After all, absolute military superiority over Russia and other potential rivals for global influence has been the objective of US military policy for the last twenty-five years […]
Russia “Prepared For Another Cuban Missile Crisis”, Putin Warns US
Russia “Prepared For Another Cuban Missile Crisis”, Putin Warns US Russia is militarily ready for a “Cuban Missile-style crisis” President Putin said late on Wednesday, commenting on nuclear first strike capability amidst growing tensions with the US. The remarks were given to Russian media following a prior speech wherein he warned Moscow will match any attempt by the […]
Here is what experts say about Putin’s threat to aim missiles at US
Here is what experts say about Putin’s threat to aim missiles at US His fiery speech was more about creating headlines in Russia, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no reason to worry. “Russia will be forced to create and deploy types of weapons which can be used not only in respect of those territories […]
How Russia-gate Rationalized Censorship
How Russia-gate Rationalized Censorship At the end of October 2017, I wrote an article for Consortium News about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paying for unvetted opposition research that became the basis for much of the disputed story about Russia allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hillary Clinton speaking […]
‘The People’ Know What They Want and Just Might Get It – Good and Hard
‘The People’ Know What They Want and Just Might Get It – Good and Hard A survey of nations in what was once known quaintly as the Free World shows some of them engaged in what could best be described as a cold civil war. Such a condition is inherently unstable. One possible future is one […]
Trump Walks Back Syria Pullout As Noose Tightens
Trump Walks Back Syria Pullout As Noose Tightens If anyone still thinks that Donald Trump has some master plan to kill off his Deep State adversaries they should check themselves into therapy. I know withdrawal is hard, but admitting you have a problem is the first step to curing it. He doesn’t have a plan. […]
US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year
US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year Washington’s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival. At his annual marathon Q & A news conference last week, Vladimir Putin warned about possible nuclear war, a growing threat because of Washington’s reckless […]
The Curious Case of The Economist: How It Manipulates Its Readers with Slanted Comment on Russia
The Curious Case of The Economist: How It Manipulates Its Readers with Slanted Comment on Russia The Economist magazine is an admirable publication to which I have subscribed for over fifty years, with gaps now and then. While serving in Vietnam in 1970 its weekly arrival was a major event, as we were bereft of sensible reportage about […]
