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Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power
Craig Murray: The Decline of Western Power The really interesting thing about the G7 summit is that it wasn’t interesting. Nobody expected it to change the world, and it won’t. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other leaders of the G7 watch the Red Arrows fly over in Carbis Bay, June 12. (Simon Dawson, No […]
The End of Western Globalia?
The End of Western Globalia? Since the 1970’s, international trade has continuously been promoted by leaders of developed countries and economic agents. Several theoretical frameworks have been put forward to explain the benefits of a free trade environment, from Adam Smith’s concept of absolute advantages to more recent firm-based theories. However, the reality is much […]
The West Fades. The Center Quietly Returns: The New Silk Road
The West Fades. The Center Quietly Returns: The New Silk Road If you think about that, it is funny that we tend to define ourselves as “Westerners.” Most civilizations and cultures in history have tended to see themselves as the center of the world, just think of China: it is supposed to be “the Middle […]
How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings
How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, our government-funded media outlet, has published an article titled “Australian expat living in Hong Kong throws off business suit to join protest movement“. The entire story is in the headline: some random guy, who ABC keeps anonymous but for the name […]
West’s Moral Bankruptcy Exposed
West’s Moral Bankruptcy Exposed The moral bankruptcy of Western powers was exposed – inadvertently – with the recent publication of three separate news reports. Taken together the reports out last week illustrate the rank hypocrisy of Western governments. Also, the way that the reports were prioritized or left disconnected demonstrates how the Western mainstream media […]
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia
The Orientalism of Western Russophobia An illustration from a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Russia’s Turn to its Asian Past” depicting Vladimir Putin as Genghis Khan. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s pioneering book, Orientalism, as well as fifteen years since the Palestinian-American intellectual’s passing. To bid farewell to […]
Yes, Moscow Boosts Western Anti-Imperialist Voices. So What?
Yes, Moscow Boosts Western Anti-Imperialist Voices. So What? In an extremely weird article titled “Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials“, CNN reports that Facebook has suspended popular dissident media outlet In The Nowand its allied pages for failing to publicly “disclose” its financial ties to a subsidiary of RT. According to CNN, […]
The West Is in Disarray, and It Will Only Get Worse
The West Is in Disarray, and It Will Only Get Worse We are witnessing the withdrawal from Syria of the American military contingent, protests in France, the prospect of a British hard Brexit, the political decline of Angela Merkel in Germany, Netanyahu in crisis, and Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia suddenly becoming an international […]
The Self-Genocide of the West
The Self-Genocide of the West Stephen Cohen and I are branded “Russian dupes” and “Putin agents,” because we object to the highly orchestrated and false portrayal of Russia as a threat to the West, a portrayal that is leading to war. The purpose of this orchestration is to prevent President Trump or any future president […]
The US will become a neo-feudal nation
The US will become a neo-feudal nation The Western world is heading for the next big social and economic crisis. America’s hegemony is waning and its establishment is fighting among themselves. To uphold American supremacy, President Trump and his administration are trying to reshape the nation into a neo-feudal society with a new relationship between […]
The Myth of Western Democracy
The Myth of Western Democracy How does the West get away with its pretense of being an alliance of great democracies in which government is the servant of the people? Nowhere in the West, except possibly Hungary and Austria, does government serve the people. Who do the Western governments serve? Washington serves Israel, the military/security […]
The real reason Western media & CIA turned against Saudi MBS
The real reason Western media & CIA turned against Saudi MBS Mohammed bin Salman (r) and Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit Conference Centre in Buenos Aires © Global Look Press / Ralf Hirschberger Forces are aligning against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, lead by elements within the CIA and strong players in the mainstream media. […]
