“Natural gas is the cleanest burning and fastest growing fossil fuel, now accounting for about a quarter of global electricity generation. But its longer-term use is uncertain in a transition to net zero energy systems” – iea.org. (Click on the image to enlarge)
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE How many journalists are capable of doing what Julian Assange did to expose the criminality of the powerful? Not many. How many are both capable and willing? Fewer still. How many of those are now willing after seeing what’s being done to Assange?...
By Ted Galen CARPENTER The onset of a belated bout of common sense in Joe Biden’s administration has reduced the danger that the United States would intervene with its own military forces if war broke out between Russia and Ukraine. At one time, Biden, Secretary of...
The world is realizing the price for American hegemony and vanity is criminally insane as the Ukraine debacle demonstrates amply. This is precisely what Washington fears most: cracks appearing in its presumed leadership of European allies. The U.S.-led pressure...
‘Encirclement’ and ‘containment’ effectively have become Biden’s default foreign policy, Alastair Crooke writes. The key to China’s security riposte to the U.S. is linked to two words that go unstated in U.S. formal policy documents, but whose silent presence...
Recently, the Eastern European nation of Lithuania began to fiercely criticize China on all fronts – from human rights to technology – and simultaneously engage with Taiwan. This behavior was readily supported by Washington and Brussels. What stands behind it? (Click...
By Rod DREHER This is fairly trivial, but it is such an excellent example of how wokeness has conquered the collective brain of the Left that I can’t pass it by. It was flagged on N.S. Lyons’s excellent Substack newsletter, The Upheaval. It’s a call for grant...
The fatal mistake committed by Brussels in 2014 was to force Kiev o make an impossible choice between Europe and Russia. A specter haunts the collective West: total zombification, courtesy of an across-the-board 24/7 psy ops imprinting the inevitability of “Russian...
From illegal lockdown parties to secret financial interests, the prime minister has a long history of sailing close to the wind. By Seth THÉVOZ Boris Johnson is facing calls to resign after he admitted attending a lockdown party in Downing Street during the pandemic....
As the west continues to slide inexorably towards a dystopian economic and societal abyss, its people still fail to recognise the true enemy, Eamon McKinney writes. The concept of Oligarchy is not new, it dates back to the days of Aristotle and before. Rule by a...
The absence of a persistent strategy to counter Israel’s human rights violations and to hold the settler colonial state accountable is of detriment to the Palestinian people, who remain shackled to humanitarian agendas. A seriously ill Palestinian teenage refugee boy,...
Boris Johnson attempting to start a war with Russia partly over an illicit birthday party is a descent into deplorable and gutless slapstick. The old dictum is truer than ever that stoking conflict in some distant land is an effective distraction from domestic...