Ukraine Air Force Commander Says Pilots Are Training to Fly F-16s in US
by Kurt Nimmo, Global Research [1-29-2023 published]. Following a commitment to send battle tanks, the USG is now preparing to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Well, that didn’t take long. On Friday, January 27, The Hill reported that a “breakthrough” has been reached on sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine following an agreement on…
This Time It’s Different. Neither We Nor Our Allies Are Prepared to Fight All-out War with Russia, Regionally or Globally.
by Douglas Macgregor, Global Research [1-30-2023 published]. 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, wars with weak opponents in the developing world from Saigon to Baghdad that did not present an existential threat…
Pesticide, Seed, and Digital Agriculture Industry Concentrates Wealth and Power, Threatens Health
by Beyond Pesticides, Global Research [1-27-2023 published]. The pastoral image that “farming” may still conjure for many will suffer a shock as Beyond Pesticides reports, in this Daily News Blog, about developments in the agricultural universe, including massive consolidation in the industries that supply seeds and agrochemicals to conventional farmers. A January 2023 report from…
Why We Shouldn’t Underestimate China’s Petro-Yuan Ambitions
by Alex Kimani, Global Research [1-27-2023 published]. The de-dollarization of the global oil industry is in a treacherous mission creep phase. Things like this don’t happen quickly, but determinedly and gradually, not exactly fitting into today’s media headline game that only considers instant developments. But it is happening and the tide will not be turned…
Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Are Considering Using Gold for Pan-Asian Trade
by Alasdair Macleod, Global Research [1-27-2023 published]. We have confirmation from the highest sources that Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) are considering using gold for pan-Asian trade settlements, fully replacing dollars and euros. In an article written for Vedomosti, a Moscow-based Russian newspaper published on 27 December, Sergey Glazyev, a prominent economic adviser…
Unspoken Divisions within NATO. “Sleeping with the Enemy”
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research [1-26-2023 published part 2]. Part 1: Ukraine Had Lost the War Before It Even Started It should be obvious to the White House, the Pentagon not to mention NATO headquarters in Brussels that: You cannot win a war against Russia when the second largest military power member state of…
German Leopards: More Killing, Collaterals, No End in Sight. With a Historic Perspective on Germany’s Repeated Role in Attempting at Conquering Russia
by Peter Koenig, Global Research [1-26-2023 published]. German Leopards are sent to Kiev – so “Der Spiegel” (24.1.2023) – Chancellor Scholz has decided for more killing against all odds. Against the vast majority of the German people. Against the will of the vast majority of the people of the west. Against the vast majority of…
What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies [1-26-2023 published]. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just issued its 2023 Doomsday Clock statement, calling this “a time of unprecedented danger.” It has advanced the hands of the clock to 90 seconds to midnight, meaning that the world is closer to global catastrophe than ever…
Ukraine Had Lost the War Before It Even Started
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky [1-25-2023 published part 1]. Introduction In the course of the last 11 months, I have been reviewing on a daily basis numerous carefully documented articles on the unfolding war in Ukraine, The evolving consensus – after eleven months which emanates from the senior ranks of the US military and intelligence establishment – is that Ukraine “has…
US Never Ending Wars: 32 Years Ago, America’s “First War” against Iraq
by Prof Michael Chossudovsky, Global Research [1-12-2023 published]. The War on Iraq was launched 20 years ago on March 20, 2003. (Baghdad time). The US-NATO led invasion of Iraq started on 20 March 2003 on the pretext that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The 1991 Gulf War on Iraq began on the 17th…
The Whole of Europe Turned Into a Battlefield
by Manlio Dinucci, Global Research [1-22-2023 published]. The Federation of American Scientists confirms in January the news given by Grandangolo in December 2022 based on a U.S. Air Force document: the C-17A Globemaster aircraft has been authorized to carry the U.S. B61-12 nuclear bomb to Italy and other European countries. Since Biden Administration officials had…
China tightens grip as dominant LNG buyer with long-term deals
by RYOSUKE HANAFUSA & SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writers [1-24-2023 published]. Sinopec leads way with Chinese companies locking in 40% of recent contracts. HOUSTON, U.S./BEIJING — China is quickly becoming the dominant force in liquefied natural gas, with Chinese buyers accounting for 40% of recent long-term LNG contracts among global players. Chinese energy major Sinopec…