Ukraine: Is the Hammer About to Fall?
by Mike Whitney, Global Research [1-19-2023 published]. “Here’s something you must understand. We were not given any opportunity to act differently.” – Vladimir Putin The plan to engage Russia militarily is a tacit admission that the United States can no longer maintain its global dominance through economic or political means alone. After exhaustive analysis and debate,…
OPERATION SANDMAN now activated – Saudi Arabia announces END of dollar dominance in global oil trade … the dominoes begin to fall on the US empire
by Mike Adams [1-18-2023 published]. This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author. (Natural News) As we have consistently warned for more than a year, Operation Sandman has now been activated, with Saudi Minister of Finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, telling Bloomberg TV (during a WEF Davos interview) that the Saudis will gladly…
Saudi Arabia Is Open To Discuss Non-Dollar Oil Trade Settlements
by Charles Kennedy [1-17-2023 published]. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, is open to discussing oil trade settlements in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Saudi Minister of Finance Al-Jadaan: “I don’t think we are waving away or ruling out any discussion that will help improve the trade around the world,”. During a…
Energy Crisis – A Ticking Time Bomb
by Stewart Brennan, Global Research [1-17-2023 published]. In November of 2022, a Reuters report on yahoo stated that U.S. crude oil stocks in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 390.5 million barrels, the lowest level since March 1984 as told by the Energy Information Administration. The report also stated that U.S. East Coast gasoline stocks fell…
Kremlin explains boost in army strength
by rt.com [1-17-2023 published]. Russia’s Armed Forces need 1.5 million troops because the West is waging a proxy war against the country, a spokesman said. Russian plans to boost its standing army to some 1.5 million troops are necessary for its safety, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, accusing the US and its allies of…
The Key to Ending COVID-19 Is Buried in the WTC Wreckage
by Emanuel Pastreich, Global Research [9-11-2022]. As Americans flounder around, trying wrap their minds around the takeover of the Federal Government by unaccountable powers that now enforce the deadly rule of COVID-19, they struggle to find some solution, any solution. But efforts to inform friends and family of the truth about vaccines and face masks,…
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…
Will 2023 be Worse Than 2022? “Stepping into World War III”
by Philip Giraldi, Global Research [1-10-2023 published]. Even though one has become accustomed to seeing the United States government behaving irrationally on an epic scale with no concern for what happens to the average citizen who is not a member of one of the freak show constituencies of the Democratic Party, it is still possible…
Why China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Is Back with a Bang
by Pepe Escobar, Global Research [1-9-2023 published]. As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South. The year 2022 ended with a Zoom call to end all Zoom calls: Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussing all aspects of the Russia-China…
The Plan of “Breaking up the Country”. “The Decolonization” of Russia, Fomenting Separatism and “Ethnic Nationalism”
by Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin & Prof. Samir Saul, Global Research [1-15-2023 published]. The war in the Ukraine has revived Western plans of dismembering Russia and, in the words of the promoters of this idea, to complete the dismantlement of the Soviet Union. Active efforts, including ample funds, are being spent on fomenting ethnic nationalism among…
2023 Outlook for Ukraine – Scott Ritter
by Scott Ritter, Global Research [1-16-2023 published]. Given the duplicitous history of the Minsk Accords, it is unlikely Russia can be diplomatically dissuaded from its military offensive. As such, 2023 appears to be shaping up as a year of continued violent confrontation. After almost a year of dramatic action, where initial Russian advances were met with impressive…
Russia-Ukraine War: How the US Paved the Way to Moscow’s Invasion
by Jonathan Cook, Global Research [1-16-2023 published]. Hindsight is a particularly powerful tool for analysing the Ukraine war, nearly a year after Russia’s invasion. Last February, it sounded at least superficially plausible to characterise Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s decision to send troops and tanks into his neighbour as nothing less than an “unprovoked act of…