Trump’s dollar threat against BRICS shows the US hasn’t learned anything
by Tarik Cyril Amar [12-4-2024 published]. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian from Germany working at Koc University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory. The president-elect’s crude attempt to scare away de-dollarization is based on an illusion of Washington’s…
United States Stated Objective: Total Military Dominance of the Entire Planet. Full Spectrum Dominance
by Richard C Cook [12-4-2024 published]. (After WW2, we were consistently told that the US was the “policeman” of the world as justification for the many military bases being set up around the world. The following article sheds an entirely different perspective on our activities. Many countries around the world have been waking up to…
Best Summary of Events that Led to the Special Military Operation in Ukraine
by Jeffrey Sachs, American economist, Professor, Columbia University [12-4-2024 published]. (This is an excellent brief summary by Professor Jeffrey Sachs about what led up to Russia entering Ukraine with their Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. Most of the media, politicians, & government officials in the US try to blame Russia as though Russia…
Pepe Escobar: How Russia and China Are Rewiring Greek Mythology
by Pepe Escobar [11-29-2024 published] Pepe Escobar(bio). (This is an excellent analysis by Pepe Escobar. His discussion in the last section about de-dollarization goes into some complex financial transactions. Although I don’t fully understand all of the technical details, I can see where this is going and it definitely won’t benefit the US. It looks…
Beijing vows to protect itself from US economic ‘bullying’
by RT [12-2-2024 published]. (Here we have more examples about how ‘stupid’ it is on the part of the United States to apply tariffs & try to restrict certain products to be used by nations that the US considers ‘unfriendly’. Yes, in the short term it can cause pain for the targeted countries. But in…
Putin praises pace of import substitution in scientific sector
by Tass [12-2-2024 published]. (The West should have considered this before imposing so many sanctions on Russia. As has been noted elsewhere, the sanctions actually benefited Russia and have hurt the West. Obviously, this is hurting the sales of previous suppliers of scientific equipment that Russia purchased from. This is a strategy that the US…
Belt & Road Initiative is unique example of equal, mutually beneficial cooperation, says Russian expert
by Xinhua [12-2-2024 published]. Amid the rising problem of global trade barriers and protectionism, “the BRI emerges as a unique project that promotes globalization and equal, mutually beneficial cooperation among all participants, which underscores the initiative’s special significance,” said a Russian expert. MOSCOW, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) serves…
Accords of undefined status cannot be subject of Ukraine talks — Russian senate speaker
by Tass [12-2-2024 published]. (For those of us following Russia & Ukraine, the West hasn’t proposed any serious resolutions of this conflict that would resolve the fundamental issues. Until that is done, Russia is unlikely to enter into negotiations and just keep fighting in Ukraine. – RAD) Valentina Matviyenko emphasized that the Russian president had…
China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline fully operational with key equipment made domestically
by Global Times [12-3-2024 published]. (Although this article didn’t explicitly mention sanctions imposed by the West, it implies that sanctions were a factor when saying that “key equipment made domestically”. I know that Russia is no longer dependent on Siemens & General Electric for high-capacity gas turbines, since they have developed their own because of…
Donald Trump threatens BRICS nations with 100 percent tariffs over dollar replacement plans
by ANI, St Petersburg News [12-1-2024 published]. (When we take a closer look at Trump’s high tariff plans, especially the 100% one, they could hurt the US much more than the BRICS nations. Keep in mind that the many thousands of sanctions placed on Russia and those supporting Russia have hurt the US & Europe…
Warning to Kiev and missile revelations: Key takeaways from Putin’s CSTO summit address
by RT [11-28-2024 published]. The Russian president used the military alliance’s annual meeting to clarify crucial points about the current standoff with Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed key military and political issues to allies during his speech at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday. The CSTO military alliance…
Putin compares Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic missile to a meteorite
by RT [11-28-2024 published]. The Oreshnik is capable of penetrating three or four fortified stories, the president has said. The strike power of Russia’s new state-of-the-art Oreshnik ballistic missile is similar to a meteorite impact, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. The hypersonic weapon is capable of successfully hitting heavily fortified targets, he added. Moscow…