The Ukrainian military has actually also now stated that they are not planning an intrusion of the breakaway Donbass area. Which in our unusual 21st century doublespeak means “yes we are going to get into” however more on that later on. It would seem that the specifying theme of the Ukrainian Crisis in 2022 up […]
By Melvin GOODMAN The Biden administration and the mainstream media are trumpeting a Russian effort to create allies in Latin America, America’s backyard. This becomes part of the U.S. propaganda campaign versus Moscow. Last week, journalism spokesman for the Department of State (DoS), Ned Rate, gratuitously invoked the Monroe Doctrine versus Russian involvement in Latin […]
Congratulations to China for hosting the XXIV Winter Olympics whose motto aptly is “Together for a Shared Future”. Congratulations, too, to the numerous nations that can commemorate common humankind and rise above the duplicity and hostility of geopolitical gaming. After weeks of alarmist claims that Russia is going to get into Ukraine, now the U.S. […]
Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis By John FOSTER Amid escalating stress in between US/NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine, but Nord Stream 2, a pipeline developed to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is an essential part of the story. US Under […]
How U.S. Meddling Split Sudan, Creating an Oil Republic Drowning in Poverty and Conflict Following decades of US soft power aid interventions to exploit South Sudan’s energy reserves and counter China’s influence, the republic is trapped in humanitarian crisis. TJ COLES Like most countries, the Republic of South Sudan is a complex nation of shifting […]
Meanwhile, back in the wintry real world, everyone facing a dime in higher costs is jacking up their price by a dollar. We’re constantly assured everything’s on the mend but this trying-too-hard marketing has the opposite effect: it confirms everything’s unraveling. We’re told inflation is transitory (you mean like terminal cancer is “transitory”?), the economy […]
So when the gambler winds up managing lit sticks of dynamite, he’s positive nothing bad can occur since nothing bad has actually ever occurred, no matter just how much danger he handles. The issue with constantly being saved from the consequences of our actions is this fatally distorts our sense of threat. The foundation of […]
China left the propaganda field broad open to their challengers and failed to make use of the political opportunities the Uyghur tribunal provided. As the opening of the Olympic video games in Beijing was approaching, a few of the propaganda projects started months and even years earlier entered into sharper focus. We are alluding in […]
Addiction is deadly, and no amount of artifice can obscure that this monetary addiction and collapse is the result of one Pusher: the Federal Reserve. To talk about the Federal Reserve raising rates and reducing “easing” as a policy error is like saying the fentanyl addict who reduces his daily dose is making a policy […]
When the state/ empire loses the capability to recognize and resolve core problems of security and fairness, it will be changed by another arrangement that is more adaptable and proficient at fixing issues. From a systems perspective, nation-states and empires occur when they are superior options to security compared to whatever arrangement they change: feudalism, […]
