In my post five days ago, US Diplomacy as Greek Tragedy, I wrote that: Anyone taking the trouble – few do of course – to study the speeches and interviews of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Lavrov and Maria Zhakarova in Russia; … Read More »
Caitlin Johnstone today: The US Military Was Just Used To Help A Dementia Patient Try To Start WW3 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but diplomatically corrosive visit, the aftereffects from which may be felt for years … Read More »
I’ve become quite the fan of the Naked Capitalism blogsite, described on this wiki page as: … an American financial news and analysis blog that “chronicles the large scale, concerted campaign to reduce the bargaining power and pay of ordinary workers … Read More »
On her site today, Caitlin Johnstone writes: Warmongering Republicans Have Throbbing Hard-Ons For Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to spend her final years on this mortal coil trying to start World War Three, pushing the Biden administration to … Read More »
… More than a decade ago (though I didn’t know the half of it then) I was saying that history offers no precedent for a military and economic superpower peacefully submitting to being overtaken in the latter sphere. When that … Read More »
Instead of a real military threat from Russia and China, the problem for US strategists is the absence of such a threat … What worries them is NATO nations and countries along the Belt & Road seeing the benefits of … Read More »
. I take the relentless uniformity of Sinophobic output by every segment, ‘quality’ to tabloid, of mainstream corporate media as evidence not that China is terrible in every possible way … ONE nation is circling the planet with hundreds of … Read More »
. A threat hanging over Russia – of a first strike taking out most of her nuclear capacity, leaving star wars technologies to down the few remaining missiles she could fire back – has been nullified. The Pentagon has no … Read More »
China, understandably sensitive about encirclement, will be forced to act when a shift in the domestic policies of neighbouring countries represent an unacceptable risk to its own security. This mirrors how the US treats Latin America under the ‘Monroe Doctrine’. How … Read More »
And then it gets down to the level of farce, as the EU starts calling on Kazakh authorities to “respect the right to peaceful protests.” As in allowing total anarchy, robbery, looting, hundreds of vehicles destroyed, attacks with assault rifles, … Read More »