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by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. via LewRockwell.com Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to remember the basic principles […]
by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org Whatever we may think of Putin, he is no Stalin. He has not murdered millions or created a gulag archipelago. Nor is he “irrational,” as some pundits rail. He does not want a war with us, which would be worse than ruinous to us both. Putin is a Russian nationalist, […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly. I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation. Today I will update the military situation […]
by Bruno Venditti and Nick Routley via Visual Capitalist Map Explainer: Key Facts About Ukraine The modern state of Ukraine was formed nearly 30 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, the country has often made headlines due to political instability and the looming threat of a Russian invasion. […]
by Daniel McAdams via Ron Paul Institute The media and the war machine (or do I repeat myself?) want us to take sides in the Russo/Ukraine war. To those of us with long histories in military conflicts in which the US foreign policy establishment, media, and military have an interest, the terms are always framed […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe. Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in […]
by Daniel McAdams via Ron Paul Institute “Bad” Vlad Putin only “took over” part of Ukraine because of President Biden’s weakness. So says many in the US right wing. A “real man” president would have imposed costs so prohibitive that Putin would never have dreamed of recognizing what has been de facto reality since 2014: that […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy US President Biden claims Russian troops continue “encircling Ukraine” even as Moscow says they are withdrawing. The Russian soldiers were never there for the purpose of invading Ukraine. They were in Belarus as part of a training exercise akin to the ones NATO continually conducts on […]
by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute Over the weekend we heard that the US is evacuating its embassy in Kiev for fear of a Russian invasion. We also heard that Russia is evacuating its embassy in Kiev for fear of a US-backed provocation in eastern Ukraine that may lead to a Russian military response. […]
by Doug Casey via International Man International Man: Recently, the Biden administration threatened Russia over Ukraine. What’s really going on? Is the US government toying with the prospect of war with Russia over Ukraine? Doug Casey: Over thousands of years of history, governments have always threatened each other with war. It’s a good part of […]
Listen to a reading of this article ❖ It takes a touch of madness to take seriously the possibility that your entire society is insane. That’s why devoted critics of the oligarchic empire are often a bit odd; something in them was driven to wade into waters that most people aren’t psychologically prepared to enter. […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org Here we go again. Since the original Gulf War in 1991, a certain pattern has emerged. Every few years, the regime in Washington attempts to whip the American people into a frenzy so as to support the latest American invasion “necessary” for regime change, “spreading democracy,” or some other agenda […]
by Egon von Greyerz via Gold Switzerland It seems that 2022 will be the year when the US Empire disintegrates faster than anyone could have imagined. Empires need strong leadership but electing a weak octogenarian president certainly fits the picture of a collapsing empire. With the world on the verge of a major geopolitical conflict […]
by Robert Bridge via Strategic Culture Foundation Imagine for a moment if Hollywood, the mainstream media and the three-letter federal agencies spent as much time and cash in the war against pedophiles as they do in their perennial propaganda war against Russia. While the Western media hyperventilates over its own phony news of ‘Russian aggression’ […]
by David Stockman via International Man Washington’s hypocritical and tendentious accusations against Russia’s reabsorption of Crimea imply that the dead hand of the Soviet presidium must be defended at all costs — as if the security of North Dakota depended upon it! The allegedly “occupied” territory of Crimea, in fact, was actually purchased from the […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Biden on TV January 19 Threatening Russia with Disastrous Consequences and Being Held Accountable if She Invades Ukraine raises the question why Washington wasn’t held accountable when Washington invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and overthrew Ukraine with a color revolution? It is Washington that has invaded Ukraine, […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations of false flag operations as conspiratorial nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented imagination of Alex Jones, the US political/media class is proclaiming with one voice that Russia is currently orchestrating just such an operation to justify an […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Can Free Florida Survive? Florida has a large Cuban population, but it also has a large Jewish population, people who made their money and retired in a sunny land without freezing temperatures. Most of the Jews understand the benefits of Florida’s openness under Governor DeSantis, but, […]
The consequences could be dire by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy As Stephen Lendman reports, “Biden Regime Rejects Russia’s Security Demands.” The bad news is there cannot be normal, friendly relations between the US and Russia for two reasons. One reason is that the annual budget of the US military/security complex is $1,000 […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy I remember when 1984 was in the distant future. We wondered if our destiny was going to be Big Brother’s police state. But 1984 turned out to be the middle of the Reagan years. Liberals didn’t like Reagan’s rhetoric, but his policies worked. Supply-side economics cured […]
by David Stockman via International Man Are these people so abysmally ignorant of history, geography, economics and the wherewithal of a true national security threat that they think the map below is worth WWIII? Ukraine has never had stable borders, nor has it been a longstanding independent nation state. In fact, for hundreds of years […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy In 2022 two issues will come to a head: One is whether Western peoples can fight off the effort to destroy their civil liberty behind a smokescreen of an orchestrated “Covid pandemic.” If not, they will become residents of police states. The other is whether the […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy And thus under attack by the forces of Satan At his year-end press conference, Russian President Putin said that “a woman is a woman and a man is a man,” and he expressed his confidence that the religious denominations of the Russian Federation would have the […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article. A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack. “I would not rule […]
via Revolver If one takes the ideologues who rule over America at their word, then the governing principles of this country’s reigning regime are things like fairness, equality, diversity, or “anti-racism.” But of course, anybody with a brain today isn’t taking America’s rulers at their word. It is obvious, and has been for many years now, that […]