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Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds The US Treasury Department report for April published on June 15 revealed that Russia sold $47.4 billion out of the $96.1 it had held in Treasury bonds (T-bonds). In March, Moscow cut its Treasury holdings by $1.6 billion. In February, Russia reduced its bond portfolio by $9.3 billion. Other holders […]
Chrystia Freeland Fails to See the Emerging Multipolar World
Chrystia Freeland Fails to See the Emerging Multipolar World In a strange case of reversed roles Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, tried to convince US president Donald Trump to return to his lost path of globalization and international trade agreements in an impassionate speech she gave at the Foreign Policy Forum last June […]
Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria
Unprecedented Israeli Strikes Target Iraqi Shia Militias In Syria A day after a mysterious airstrike close to the Iraq-Syria border reportedly killed over 30 Syrian government soldiers and Iraqi paramilitary forces backed by Iran, a US official has told CNN the attack was carried out by Israel and not by the US coalition. Syrian state […]
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds
Russia Sells Off Record Amount of US Treasury Bonds The US Treasury Department report for April published on June 15 revealed that Russia sold $47.4 billion out of the $96.1 it had held in Treasury bonds (T-bonds). In March, Moscow cut its Treasury holdings by $1.6 billion. In February, Russia reduced its bond portfolio by $9.3 billion. Other holders […]
US To Double Number Of Marines In Norway To Counter Russia, Before Massive Military Exercise
US To Double Number Of Marines In Norway To Counter Russia, Before Massive Military Exercise The Norwegian government intends to add another 400 U.S. Marines to Norway before the most significant military exercise since the Cold War this fall, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense. Currently, about 330 Marines from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines (1/6), an […]
Yellow Journalism and the New Cold War
Yellow Journalism and the New Cold War Like Saddam Hussein a decade and a half ago, Russia and its President Vladimir Putin have been repeatedly vilified in the Western media over the last five years, helping to mobilize popular support for the reemergence of a new Cold War. Best-selling author Dan Talbot has called it […]
The Russians are Coming!
The Russians are Coming! Photo by Tom Hilton | CC BY 2.0 These days we see a seemingly odd project taking place in the realms of American liberalism: ferocious insistence that the truly outrageous Donald J. Trump is at his worst when….making peace with our enemies! Has he been brainwashed by Russian and/or North Korean […]
Is Russia Bailing On The OPEC Deal?
Is Russia Bailing On The OPEC Deal? For the first week of June, Russia, the world’s largest oil producer, exceeded the amount it agreed to produce as part of the January 2017, OPEC/non-OPEC supply cut deal. For the first week of June, Russia produced some 11.1 million barrels per day (bpd), far exceeding production limits […]
Trump Says Russia Should Be Back In The G7; Italy Backs Trump
Trump Says Russia Should Be Back In The G7; Italy Backs Trump Update: and just like that, G6+1 became G5+2 ITALY PREMIER CONTE BACKS TRUMP ON RUSSIA’S G-8 READMISSION CONTE: RUSSIA’S G8 READMISSION WOULD BE IN EVERYBODY’S INTEREST And when Germany and France, which have already been making moves to get back in Putin’s good […]
Putin quotes Einstein: ‘WW3 would be the end of civilization’ (Video)
Putin quotes Einstein: ‘WW3 would be the end of civilization’ (Video) Putin: WWIII may be end of civilization, and that should restrain conflicts Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual televised question-and-answer session, with over two million questions submitted from Russian citizens. This year’s event is Putin’s 16th Q&A. One question Putin received referenced the […]
NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale
NATO Sabre Strike Exercise: Scaring Russia with Multiple War Games of Unparalleled Scale This year, NATO has already organized about 100 exercises, 20 percent more compared to the same period in 2017. Saber Strike-2018, a large-scale US-led exercise involving 18,000 soldiers from 19 NATO members and partner nations, kicked off on June 3 to last […]
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War Now that the United States (with the cooperation of its NATO partners) has turned the former Soviet Union’s states other than Russia into NATO allies, and has likewise turned the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact allies into America’s own military allies in NATO, the United States is finally turning the screws […]
How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the US and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had […]
OPEC And Russia Prepare For Long-Term Control Over Oil Market
OPEC And Russia Prepare For Long-Term Control Over Oil Market In a tight oil market reacting with price gains to concerns about supply shortages, the leaders of the OPEC and non-OPEC nations part of the production cut deal—Saudi Arabia and Russia—hinted last week that easing the cuts was an option that they had discussed and […]
