I thought the Green Party “Defence” Minister of Germany’s ruling coalition a singularly stupid warmonger till I discovered Smirnoff vodka. It turns out she’s all the while been playing a brilliant 5-D chess game, only now delivering fool’s mate in … Read More »
While genning up for a future post, on whether the pace of dollar decline is being overstated by worthy but wishful thinkers, I found this, posted today on the substack of Simplicius. To the backdrop of the three day G7 … Read More »
Reuters headlines of June 10 (above) and June 9 Alexander Mercouris is too well informed on Ukraine and Middle East, and too lucidly nuanced in his reasoning, to be ignored on so trifling a ground as his fondness for the … Read More »
With exceptions the Marxist Left has been hardly less hostile than the mainstream to the rise of the Russian Federation after Vladimir Putin replaced the drunken but pliant Boris Yeltsin at its helm. I get it. For one thing Marxists, … Read More »
If you’re pushed for time and just want his answer, go to 46:05 of this 52:34 interview of Dimitry Orlov – last featured on New Year’s Eve, when I called him “this highly intelligent man” – but you’ll be cheating … Read More »
French President Emmanuel Macron with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I’ve written little on how France is affected by Europe’s economic suicide over Ukraine to please its leaders’ masters in Washington. Rather, when not speaking of that self-inflicted head shot … Read More »
Setting aside for now the dismal failure to check neoliberalism’s ongoing and profit-driven war on the natural environment, 2023 will surely be remembered for three things. First, as the year Russia shone a terawatt beam on the limits to US … Read More »
Thinking it less a gamble than what salesfolk call a kick-in, first Angela Merkel then Olaf Scholz rolled the dice and lost. Calculating that Russia would swiftly be defeated, followed by regime change in Moscow, Germany obediently committed to the … Read More »
We always have to remember that it’s not just the conflict in Ukraine, it’s not just Gaza, it’s not just Taiwan or the Philippines; all of this is interconnected. Please look at a map. Look at how the US is … Read More »
Mercifully there are those stubborn souls who, in the face of a propaganda blitz as intense as it is fact-defiant on America’s war against Russia (and ordinary Europeans) in Ukraine, insist on prioritising evidence over narrative. They need no help … Read More »