Dmitry Trenin On September 8, RT (formerly Russia Today) published a piece by Dmitry Trenin, whose wiki page lists him as: A member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He was the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a … Read More »
Poacher turned gamekeeper Paul Mason boasted, in a March 12 email featured in my post on the persecution of Tim Hayward, of having “debunked” gamekeeper turned poacher Jacques Baud’s analyses of the conflict in Ukraine. Jacques Baud (left) and Paul … Read More »
I’m a huge fan of Caitlin Johnstone’s wittily penetrative and deceptively simple ways of showing how insane a world run by and for a tiny elite truly is, when what she is up against are systems of opinion manufacture controlled … Read More »
Good question. And while we’re asking it, what about the steel mills too? What worries American diplomats is that Germany, other NATO nations and countries along the Belt and Road route understand the gains that can be made by opening … Read More »
Not that long ago I read Jan Oberg, Transnational Foundation for Peace co-founder, expanding Eisenhower’s MIC (military industrial complex) to MIMAC (military industrial media academia complex). Bear that in mind when reading what follows. Bear in mind too that the … Read More »
To the hundreds of millions of credulous westerners who still buy the simplistic “Putin’s war” narrative – a narrative dependent, as Caitlin Johnstone recently reminded us, on believing the US Empire does not exist – that the whole ghastly business … Read More »
If NATO encirclement of Russia was a betrayal of promises made by a string of senior Western politicians commencing with Bush Senior’s Secretary of State, James Baker, who promised that, following German reunification, NATO would advance “not an inch eastwards” … Read More »
Under the actual circumstances we are living through, determined opposition to NATO’s war against Russia, China and anyone else considered a “threat” to the interests of the Western ruling classes becomes synonymous with the struggle for the salvation and survival … Read More »
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 »
Our European Values’: 1.21 Euro Minimum Wage in Ukraine Meet Ukraine, a country with Europe’s poorest and sickest population, the hub of cigarette smuggling, the world leader in female body trafficking. When a statutory minimum wage was first introduced in … Read More »