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The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People”
The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People” I find it sad and sickening that most Americans, and the corporate media that shapes them, are more concerned about the effects of Russian “meddling” on our “democracy” than they are about our own home-grown oligarchs, who are not only meddling, but have bought Congress and […]
Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever
Edward Snowden: 5 years in Russia and still relevant as ever Edward Snowden changed the practices of both the internal and external focused US and global intelligence agencies. TASS reported that August 1 was the five year anniversary of Edward Snowden’s being granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. This happened after his release of […]
Russia’s Foresight Stands It in Good Stead
Russia’s Foresight Stands It in Good Stead Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, the famous French diplomat who served as foreign minister for Napoleon, said “The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.” Moscow realized that the US would continue its efforts to strangle Russia economically to make countermeasures inevitable. The Russian government […]
The “Magnitsky Trio” Pushes For War With Russia with New Sanctions
The “Magnitsky Trio” Pushes For War With Russia with New Sanctions If half of what I have come to understand about the Curious Case of Bill Browder is true, then the “Magnitsky Trio” of Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Ben Cardin are guilty of espionage, at a minimum. Why? Because they know that Browder’s story […]
Light It Up?
Light It Up? The Guardians of the Galaxy at National Public Radio were beside themselves Wednesday night reporting that “the lights are blinking red for a 2018 election attack by Russia.” Well, isn’t that an interesting set-up? In effect, NPR is preparing its listeners in advance to reject and dispute the coming midterm election if […]
The Only Existential Threat To Russia Is Neoliberal Economics
The Only Existential Threat To Russia Is Neoliberal Economics This week I was interviewed on Russian TV about the possible new anti-Russian sanctions that Washington is considering that would prohibit anyone in the entirety of the world from holding Russian government bonds. Think about this for a moment. Washington thinks that Washington has the right […]
US Paranoia Ramps Up Infowar on Russia
US Paranoia Ramps Up Infowar on Russia This week saw renewed effort by US politicians and media to ramp up the information war against Russia. The impetus came from the US-based social media network, Facebook, declaring that it had identified “coordinated political influence campaigns”. Never mind that the internet giant admitted that it did not […]
Two Knockout Blows to US Imperialism: De-Dollarization and Hypersonic Weapons
Two Knockout Blows to US Imperialism: De-Dollarization and Hypersonic Weapons In the current multipolar world in which we live, economic and military factors are decisive in guaranteeing countries their sovereignty. Russia and China seem to be taking this very seriously, committed to the de-dollarization of their economies and the accelerated development of hypersonic weapons. The transition […]
NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex
NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex Photo source Parker Gyokeres | CC BY 2.0 Countries of the NATO military alliance have been ordered by President Trump to increase their spending on weapons, and the reasons for his insistence they do so are becoming clearer. It’s got nothing to do with any defense […]
A Deeper Exploration of the Supremacist Origin of Our Common Culture
A Deeper Exploration of the Supremacist Origin of Our Common Culture The AP headlined on July 27th “#MeToo reaches Vatican as nuns denounce abuse from priests” and reported that the Vatican has continued to tolerate rape by its priests, and: Revelations that a prominent US cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse […]
Western Collapse… Scapegoating Trump & Putin
Western Collapse… Scapegoating Trump & Putin Former US President Barack Obama was in South Africa last week for the centennial anniversary marking the birth of the late Nelson Mandela. Obama delivered a speech warning about encroaching authoritarianism among nations and the “rise of strongman politics”. Coming on the heels of the summit in Helsinki between […]
Tight Oil Markets Are Ignoring Supply Risk
Tight Oil Markets Are Ignoring Supply Risk The global oil market is once again in flux as geopolitics and regional conflicts take an increasingly heavy toll on oil supplies. Since the OPEC meeting in Vienna, warning signs that oil markets are heading for a shortage in supply, due to low spare production capacity and growing […]
When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
When Worse is the Enemy of Bad Photo source davitydave | CC BY 2.0 There comes a time in the decline of an empire when–in its hubris, its arrogance–it decouples from reason and blindly blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance of stupidity. To paraphrase Walter Cronkite–we are there. Trump makes his one positive, […]
Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’?
Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’? “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce,” a saying attributed to Karl Marx, comes to mind in this time of Trump. To those of us raised in the Truman era, when the Red Army was imposing its bloody Bolshevik rule on half of Europe, and NATO was […]
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame The summer of 2018 will go into history as the moment when a US president fundamentally and decisively changed the international world order which its predecessors worked hard on during the past decades. Within approximately a week from 11 July until 16 July, President Donald Trump achieved to insult its […]
