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Stephen Cohen Has Died. Remember His Urgent Warnings Against The New Cold War.
Stephen Cohen Has Died. Remember His Urgent Warnings Against The New Cold War. Stephen F Cohen, the renowned American scholar on Russia and leading authority on US-Russian relations, has died of lung cancer at the age of 81. As one of the precious few western voices of sanity on the subject of Russia while everyone else has been frantically […]
Let’s Be Real: President Biden Would Probably Be More Hawkish Than Trump
Let’s Be Real: President Biden Would Probably Be More Hawkish Than Trump People who dislike Trump are often reluctant to talk about this, but it looks likely that a Biden administration would be more warlike than its predecessor. In a recent interview with US Department of Defense newspaper Stars and Stripes, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said it’s […]
The United States & Its Constitution Have Two Months Left
The United States & Its Constitution Have Two Months Left Bob Woodward writes that Trump’s Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis, and Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, spoke together about taking “collective action” to remove President Trump from office. General Mattis said Trump is “dangerous. He’s unfit.” https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/09/09/bob-woodward-general-james-mattis-plotted-overthrow-of-u-s-government/ This is the same thing […]
They Only Serve Themselves
They Only Serve Themselves Caspar David Friedrich The Monk by the Sea c1809“The Kremlin” poisoned their “fierce rival” Navalny with the infamous deadly agent novichok. That is the headline. Only, the German accusation in that direction doesn’t say novichok, its says a “cholinesterase inhibitor”, of which novichok is just one example, was used. The news outlets must […]
Maddow’s “Blowout”, Russian peak oil, corruption, fake news
Maddow’s “Blowout”, Russian peak oil, corruption, fake news Preface. Since this blog focuses on peak resources, I drastically rearranged my notes from this book in the order I found most interesting. I’m also interested in corruption, Putin, fake news, and more, as you’ll see below. Since the book is 405 pages, I’ve obviously left out […]
Popular Viral Video Firm Sues Facebook over Russian Propaganda Label
MODERN MCCARTHYISM? Popular Viral Video Firm Sues Facebook over Russian Propaganda Label The company behind In The Now, Soapbox and Waste-Ed is taking on media giant Facebook, who it claims is falsely labeling it as Russian state-controlled propaganda. An online media company is suing social media giant Facebook for falsely smearing it as a Russian […]
US Threatens European backers of Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, NATO in DC’s Crosshairs
US Threatens European backers of Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, NATO in DC’s Crosshairs The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is nearing completion despite all the best efforts by the U.S. to stop its construction, causing a rift between Washington and its largest European ally and the potential end of NATO. The U.S. is starting to fret […]
NordStream 2 splits the Western World
NordStream 2 splits the Western World If we were to paint the current situation with a broad brush, we would receive the following simplified picture. The European Union is split into two camps: the old and new member states. The West is split across the Atlantic: it is – roughly – Washington against Paris and […]
The UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China, So What are These Governments Trying to Hide?
The UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China, So What are These Governments Trying to Hide? Photograph Source: Jonathan Stonehouse – CC BY 2.0 The new Cold War launched by the West against China and Russia is escalating by the day. In a single week, the Kremlin has been unmasked […]
“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet
“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets! Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. “Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus […]
Intelligence
Intelligence Sometimes I think I can only do this work properly if I’m angry all the time 24/7. But I don’t want to be angry all the time; what kind of life is that? Still, there are days when I just can’t help it. The British intelligence services (please let find another word for that, […]
Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace
Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.) No, this is a […]
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany. As The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald notes, both parties advancing the amendment cited in […]
Russia Denies Causing Latest Radioactivity Over Europe; UN Agency Says Origin “Still Unclear”
Russia Denies Causing Latest Radioactivity Over Europe; UN Agency Says Origin “Still Unclear” Last Friday monitors with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) issued an alarming report that its radiation sensors based in Scandinavia picked up abnormal radioactivity levels in the air over the Baltics and Scandanavia. Its ultra-sensitive networked sensors set up across Europe and the world are capable of picking up nuclear weapons […]
Europe On Alert After Unknown Radioactivity Spike Detected Over Baltic Sea
Europe On Alert After Unknown Radioactivity Spike Detected Over Baltic Sea Almost a year ago Russia admitted to releasing significant amounts of radiation into the air that triggered warning alerts in the region of the far north Arctic Circle port cities of Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk, after a failed weapons test involving a “small-scale nuclear reactor” that killed Russian […]
