Source – unz.com Understanding Money and the Dollar System By Michael Hudson Radhika Hello and welcome to this third Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai. Michael And I’m Michael Hudson. Radhika As many of you know, in this collaboration with Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report, Michael and I will present every fortnight a discussion of…
Source – journal-neo.org Corruption and Weakness, What’s Behind Washington’s Love of Nuclear Brinkmanship Gordon Duff It is a mystery for “educated Americans” as to why a “liberal” president would risk nuclear war. Biden’s domestic policies certainly oppose tyranny and Naziism, brought to America by Trump and his army of hillbilly miscreants. He has cut taxes…
Source – zerohedge.com NATO Chief Admits: “War Didn’t Start In February Last Year, The War Started In 2014” With the one-year anniversary of Russia’s Feb.24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine just around the corner, NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg this week issued some surprising words regarding the history and origin of the conflict. In essence he…
Source – paulcraigroberts.org The Chinese Spy Balloon Hoax Paul Craig Roberts After the Russiagate Hoax, the Covid hoax, and the Insurrection hoax, We now Have the Chinese Spy Balloon Hoax (Also Read: The balloon hysteria is about war preparations @ https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-02-16/balloon-hysteria-about-war-preparations) According to Washington and the whore media, China sent a balloon that the Pentagon…
Source – scheerpost.com There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power – By Chris Hedges If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine. On Sunday, February 19, I will…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…America had fallen into a Civil War by 1861, the British Empire which had done so much to keep the world subdued during the Crimean War, Opium Wars, and suppression of vast Indian uprisings was petrified that a Russian-American friendship would set into motion a great power alliance capable of undoing…
Source – journal-neo.org It’s Turkey vs NATO – once again Salman Rafi Sheikh Turkey’s decision to block Sweden’s NATO membership has sparked a new controversy in the alliance at a time when the alliance is desperately looking to expand. Tukey’s Erdogan thinks that Sweden has failed to take the action that it was supposed to…
Source – seymourhersh.substack.com How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now By Seymour Hersh (Also Read: Terrorism? Hersh’s Bombshell On Nord Stream Pipeline Ignored By Mainstream Media @ https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/terrorism-hershs-bombshell-on-nord-stream-pipeline-ignored-by-mainstream-media/) The U.S. Navy’s Diving…
Source – thecradle.co The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran dump the dollar and bust US sanctions By Pepe Escobar The agreement between the Central Banks of Russia and Iran formally signed on 29 January connecting their interbank transfer systems is a game-changer in more ways than one. Technically, from now on 52 Iranian banks already using SEPAM,…
Source – zerohedge.com Nord Stream Sabotage Was CIA, US Navy Covert Op: Seymour Hersh Bombshell Prompts White House Response Famed journalist and Pulitzer prize winner Seymour Hersh, who for decades was a star reporter writing for The New York Times and New Yorker, on Wednesday published a new bombshell as his first Substack post, prompting a quick White…
Source – veteranstoday.com Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report A CIA official told Newsweek that claims in the report from Swiss-German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) that Burns took a secret trip to Moscow in January were “completely false” but didn’t deny that there was a peace proposal…
Source – Why Shinzo Abe Was Assassinated: Towards a ‘United States of Europe’ and a League of Nations By Cynthia Chung As already discussed in my paper “Is Japan Willing to Cut its Own Throat in Sacrifice to the U.S. Pivot to Asia?”, to which this paper is a follow-up, Japan has become the ticking…
Source – strategic-culture.org Trials and Tribulations of the Collective West By Pepe Escobar Sit back, relax and enjoy a race to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The only question is who will get there first: the EU, NATO, or both. One may be excused to imagine all sorts of amusement games unrolling at the…
Source – scheerpost.com Nuclear War Imminent? Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore who served in the nuclear missile command fears the end of human life through nuclear war is more likely than in the Cold War era. War with China in two years, 90 seconds to midnight, fighter jets to Ukraine. The climate of war is brewing around…
Source – voltairenet.org Two perceptions of the war in Ukraine by Thierry Meyssan The military intervention in Ukraine is not at all interpreted in the same way in the West and in Russia. It is a school case. This difference of representation does not come from antagonistic material interests, but from different conceptions of what…
Source – canadianpatriot.org How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII was Bought and Paid for by the CIA – By Cynthia Chung [This is a chapter from my newly released book ‘The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set: the Birth of International Fascism and Anglo-American Foreign Policy. The Historical Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism The…
Source – eurasiareview.com Why The End Of The Petrodollar Spells Trouble For The US Regime Why End Of Petrodollar Spells Trouble For US Regime – OpEd February 1, 2023 MISES 1 Comment By MISES By Ryan McMaken* On January 17, the Saudi minister of finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, announced that the Saudi state is open to…
Source – thecradle.co A panicked Empire tries to make Russia an ‘offer it can’t refuse’ By Pepe Escobar Realizing NATO’s war with Russia will likely end unfavorably, the US is test-driving an exit offer. But why should Moscow take indirect proposals seriously, especially on the eve of its new military advance and while it is…
Source – scheerpost.com Ukraine, The War That Went Wrong Authored by Chris Hedges NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help… Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to…
Source – moderndiplomacy.eu The Prolongation of BRICS: Impact on International World Order and Global Economy By Tamanna Islam BRIC, coined by an economist Jim O’Neil in 2001 as an acronym for the four countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China. South Africa joined in 2010 and this organization turned into BRICS. The prime goal of…
Source – theamericanconservative.com Macgregor: This Time It’s Different Authored by Douglas Macgregor Neither we nor our allies are prepared to fight all-out war with Russia, regionally or globally. Until it decided to confront Moscow with an existential military threat in Ukraine, Washington confined the use of American military power to conflicts that Americans could afford to lose,…
Source – strategic-culture.org The Most Egregious Mistake Authored by Alastair Crooke, The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood… It is the miscalculation of this era – one that may begin the collapse of dollar primacy, and therefore, global compliance with U.S. political demands, too. But its most grievous content…
Source – alt-market.us A Dollar Collapse Is Now In Motion, Saudi Arabia Signals The End Of ‘Petro’ Status Authored by Brandon Smith, The decline of a currency’s world reserve status is often a long process rife with denials. There are numerous economic “experts” out there that have been dismissing any and all warnings of dollar…
Source – original.antiwar.com Leopards vs. the Russian Bear by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPS)SUBJECT: Leopards vs. the Russian Bear Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum Dear President Biden: We are aware that the just-reported decision to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine responds to Berlin’s coy…
Source – journal-neo.org Bretton Woods Entities Have No Way Out Of The Woods By Henry Kamens I wonder just what per cent of the population even knows about Bretton Woods and its implications for the global system. What goes around comes around, and the US and its economic allies, under the guise of the IMF…
Source – onepeterfive.com The Irish Fight for the Latin Mass By Seán Dartraighe In the English speaking world, the story of Catholicism during and after the Reformation is dominated by the experience of England. The sad tale of an ancient Catholic kingdom subjected to the yoke of Protestantism, of a systematic persecution of the Faith,…
Source – thesaker.is Ukrainian Nationalism as a ‘Cold War Weapon’ By Cynthia Chung The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was founded in 1929 in East Galicia (located in Poland at the time) and called for an independent and ethnically homogenous Ukraine. From the beginning, the OUN had tensions between the young radical Galician students and…
Source – voltairenet.org The war in Ukraine to maintain the European Union under tutelage by Thierry Meyssan It is difficult to admit, but the Anglo-Saxons do not hide from it. To paraphrase a famous quote from the first Secretary General of the Alliance, Nato was designed to “keep Russia out, the Americans in and the…
Source – strategic-culture.org Donald Trump, the Most ‘Dangerous’ U.S. President Ever Natasha Wright If Trump were by any chance the thing of the past, why is the System so brutally after Trump again? The former U.S. president Donald Trump will be charged and he will spend the rest of his misanthropic life behind the bars…
Source – voltairenet.org The world order already changed in 2022 by Thierry Meyssan It is a constant of History: changes are rare, but sudden. Those who bear the brunt of them are generally the last to see them coming. They perceive them only too late. Contrary to the static image that prevails in the West,…
Source – unz.com The War in Ukraine Will End with a Bang — Soon Philip Kraske Amidst indignant reactions to ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s revelations about the Minsk accords, worry about Americans “advising” Ukrainians en situ, and the back-and-forth of battle lines, it’s easy to forget what the Ukraine War is all about: the struggle of…
Source – thecradle.co Gold-Backed Currencies To Replace US Dollar In Global South Authored by Pepe Escobar The adoption of commodity-backed currencies by the Global South could upend the US dollar’s dominance and level the playing field in international trade… Let’s start with three interconnected multipolar-driven facts. First: One of the key take-aways from the World…
Source – moderndiplomacy.eu Washington Gears Up to Take on China, Russia, and Iran at the Same Time By Hemant Adlakha Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz Calling President Biden a Cold War “warrior,” Chinese IR experts, by citing Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last August and the recent US decision to impose new export controls aimed at…
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