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If you are searching for an excellent non-corporate media perspective on what led to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, I highly recommend Oliver Stone’s 2016 documentary Ukraine on Fire. You are simply not going to find this kind of historical information on the mainstream media outlets. It doesn’t fit inside the Overton Window. Curiously, Stone’s documentary sat […]
by Doug Casey via International Man International Man: Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we discussed the rising tensions between the US and Russia over Ukraine. What is your take on what has transpired since then? Doug Casey: I think it makes sense first to recount the genesis of this war. It started when an American-backed […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Is it Washington or the Kremlin which is the most confused about sanctions and their impact? Washington and Europe have made it very clear that sanctions do not apply to payments for Russian energy and minerals. Only the US has banned the import of Russian gas […]
via GEFIRA.org The collective post-West has been running amok for the last two weeks. The powers that be make believe that they did not expect that events would unfold the way they are unfolding now (though they did their best to make things happen as they are happening) and they make a show imposing sanctions […]
by Eric Margolis via Ron Paul Institute The brazenly biased western media is giving us the impression that the Ukraine fighting is some sort of sports competition. Russia’s media, now shamefully silenced in the west by the banning of Russia Today and Sputnik News, portrays the so far modest war in Ukraine as a renewed […]
by Nick Giambruno via International Man The escalation ladder is a concept to describe how the severity of a military conflict can increase. At the very top of the escalation ladder is all-out nuclear war. While there are numerous countries with nuclear weapons, Russia and China are the only ones with sophisticated enough arsenals to […]
by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves past its third week, there are slight hopes that negotiations between the two sides may soon produce a ceasefire. But with the shrill warmongering talk in Washington, it almost seems like the US government would hate to see that happen. Congress […]
by Tyler Durden via Zero Hedge A surprising op-ed in MSNBC arguing that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was likely “preventable” if the US and NATO had merely tried to take a path of muscular diplomacy and potential compromise appears to have slipped passed the mainstream media censors and gate-keepers. Since the start of the Thursday Feb.24 invasion, […]
by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org When several NATO nations revealed that they had dozens of Russian-made MiG-29s, the idea arose to fly them to Ukraine and turn them over to Ukrainian pilots familiar with the MiGs. America would provide F-16s to replace the MiGs. Poland had an even better idea. Warsaw would fly its 27 […]
by Lipton Matthews via Mises.org The decision of Western countries to punish Russia for invading Ukraine by lacing her with a wave of sanctions suggests that global leaders are failing to learn from history. Sanctions are an ineffective tool to curb the ambitions of rogue actors and they are unlikely to make autocrats think twice. Non-democratic regimes […]
by Tho Bishop via Mises.org Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nearing its second week. Vladimir Putin’s military continues its push west, with clear attempts to encircle Kyiv. To date, thankfully, America and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have held off pleas from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to enforce a no-fly zone, which would risk the eruption […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The Washington Post has a new article out titled “Intelligence points to heightened risk of Russian chemical attack in Ukraine, officials say,” and I challenge you to find me any Russian state media with two opening paragraphs that are more brazenly propagandistic and bereft of […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org The United States and its western European allies have in recent days repeatedly increased economic sanctions against not only the Russian regime, but against millions of ordinary Russians. It has done this by cutting much of Russian trade and Russian finance out of international markets. Moody’s and S&P global have both downgraded […]
by Pepe Escobar via Strategic Culture Foundation The non-government in Kiev is simply not allowed by the Empire to negotiate anything. By now what we may call a Triple Threat has been established as the catalyst anticipating the launch of Operation Z. Ukraine developing nuclear weapons. Zelensky himself hinted at it in the Munich Security […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed last Tuesday that Ukrainian authorities destroyed inventories of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly pathogens in illegal US biowarfare laboratories in Ukraine operated and funded by the US Department of Defense to prevent them from falling into Russian hands. US […]
by Daniel McAdams via Ron Paul Institute Anyone following social media’s “Community Standards” knows how selectively they are enforced. Your humble writer was permanently banned from Twitter in 2019 for using a word to describe Sean Hannity’s mental slowness that is otherwise used perhaps millions of times per day by others with full impunity. Likewise, […]
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr, via LewRockwell.com People are focused on the Ukraine. It’s important that we keep America out of this dangerous situation and end the immoral and futile sanctions against Russia. These have a real danger of provoking a nuclear war. But we shouldn’t forget another danger. This is a danger that actually has […]
by Walter E. Block via Ron Paul Institute Suppose that Brazil had invaded a relatively peaceful United States several times in the last century. The foreign policy of the latter country would surely be to arrange for a cordon sanitaire south of its border. That would pretty much be the be all and end all of […]
by Nick Giambruno via International Man “It’s possible to have more than one reserve currency.” These are the recent words of Jerome Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. It’s a stunning admission from the one person who has the most control over the US dollar, the current world reserve currency. It would be as ridiculous […]
by CJ Hopkins via Consent Factory And they’re back! It’s like one of those 1960s Hammer Film Productions horror-movie series with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee … Return of the Putin-Nazis! Revenge of the Putin-Nazis! Return of the Revenge of the Bride of the Putin-Nazis! And this time they are not horsing around with stealing elections from Hillary Clinton […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy In the past two years we have seen that the Western peoples are more badly and more corruptly led than any people in previous history. The peoples were deceived about a “Covid pandemic” that was entirely an orchestration. Yes, the virus existed, but the “pandemic” was […]
by Caitlin Johnstone (Warning: Graphic Language) Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We’re risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the “democracy” of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington due to a US-backed coup […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org Late last year, US secretary of state Anthony Blinken declared that “One country does not have the right to exert a sphere of influence. That notion should be relegated to the dustbin of history.” His words were directed at Russia after Moscow increasingly made it clear that it considers Ukraine to be part […]
by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute President Biden’s “maskless” State of the Union signifies the near-end of the COVID tyranny we have lived under for the past two years. Fortunately for Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is replacing COVID as a ready-made excuse for their failures and a justification […]
by Egon von Greyerz via Gold Switzerland In this timely MAMChat, Matterhorn Asset Management (MAM) principals Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg address the economic realism behind the recent outbreak of war in the Ukraine and Switzerland’s unprecedented, non-neutral decision to publicly support EU sanctions against Russia.As to the cold math behind heated and often […]