By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world’s largest investment management firm will join Raytheon...
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Air Base Attacks Deep Inside Russia Point to CIA Covert Ops and a Planned War
Ukraine was put on a hair-trigger, set to go off as a cover for American aggression against Russia. An air base deep in Russian territory has been attacked twice with drones in less than one month. It is not some remote outlying facility either. The air base near the...
Can China Help Brazil Restart Its Global Soft Power?
By Pepe ESCOBAR Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social and environmental crises exacerbated by the...
South Caucasus: A Battle of Wills and Corridors
Azerbaijan and Turkiye are gunning to establish the “Zangezur corridor,” in direct conflict with Iran and Armenia’s interests as it entails the blockade of the Lachin corridor – a lifeline for the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. By Yeghia TASHJIAN On 12...
The Real Economy Seems to Be the Biggest Winner in 2022
“In a turbulent year marred by global monetary tightening, recession fears, and a war in Ukraine, a mining stock in Indonesia is proving to be the world’s best performer with a whopping 1,595% rally,” Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, the worst performing stocks include...
Can China Help Brazil Restart Its Global Soft Power?
By Pepe ESCOBAR Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social and environmental crises exacerbated by the...
General Armageddon’s March to the Sea
Once Russia liberates Odessa and lifts the siege of Transnistria, Borrell, von der Leyen and others will stand naked before truth’s eternal flame. Although total war has its modern roots in Sherman’s march to the sea, it is an American play-book that has now run its...
A Clash of Competing Nationalisms in Taiwan
A change of power in Taipei in 2024 could mean a “conservative” party that seeks better ties with the PRC. By Robert YORK Imagine if a high-profile American politician, such as the speaker of the House, traveled to Taipei, met with the political leaders of the island,...
Wait a Second! Merkel Did What?
Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, whom Merkel led along holding his ‘politically rickety’ hand as if he were her political lapdog in front of Putin’s eyes, carried out a secret operation and deceived everybody. Even if Merkel had not been accomplice to this grande feat of...
Declassified Intelligence Files Expose Inconvenient Truths of Bosnian War
A trove of intelligence files sent by Canadian peacekeepers expose CIA black ops, illegal weapon shipments, imported jihadist fighters, potential false flags, and stage-managed atrocities. By Kit KLARENBERG, Tom SECKER The established mythos of the Bosnian War is that...
2022… The Year That Marked the End of America’s Hegemony
The war in Ukraine has dominated the past year. Other global crises of soaring energy and food costs are collateral damage from the conflict in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has dominated the past year. Other global crises of soaring energy and food costs are collateral...
In 2023 the Lazy Analyst Won’t Keep Up With Geopolitics
By Tom LUONGO Before I took on my current persona as either a “Putin Stooge,” a “shill for the Fed,” or a naïve apologist for neoliberalism, I used to be a chemist specializing in process efficiency and root cause analysis. While I learned many things during those...