The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed
How the Carter Administration nudged the USSR into its Afghanistan mire.
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Waste Watch: Russia, UK Adopt Single Use Plastics Bans
Russia and the UK take limited steps to slow the plastics juggernaut.
Read more...Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger
A new Iran gas find has the potential to supply 20% of Europe’s needs. But its pricing and delivery will be coordinated with Russia.
Read more...Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.
Read more...Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The Threat of War (Nuclear) With China
Lawrence Wilkerson looks at the overly-casual talk in the US about nuclear war with China and does not like what he sees.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: America on the Downhill Slope
Musing on how America wound up where it is.
Read more...What President Biden and His Media Chorus Revealed about Their War-Fighting Capabilities
Putin and Biden, side by side.
Read more...West’s Selective Support for Press Freedom: Only in Countries We Don’t Like
Belarus is a bad actor in forcing a passenger jet to land so it could seize a prominent dissident/journalist. But who wrote this playbook?
Read more...Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization
Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
Read more...So Much For May Day
On the peculiar decline of May Day.
Read more...A Lifetime “at War”
Even for those comfortably ensconced in the US, war-making has been a constant backdrop for all but the oldest Americans.
Read more...Biden’s Appeasement of Hawks and Neocons Is Crippling His Diplomacy
Is Biden’s high testosterone foreign policy a feature or a bug?
Read more...Ilargi: Ukraine Warheads
The US seems to be back in its “Fuck the EU” and frankly the American people mode over Ukraine.
Read more...Competition Heats Up in the Melting Arctic, and the US Isn’t Prepared to Counter Russia
Shocker! Russia is end-running the US in the Arctic, even though Sarah Palin has been keeping an eye out. Where have the arm merchants been?
Read more...Russia and China Are Sending Biden a Message: Don’t Judge Us or Try to Change us. Those Days Are Over
The initial Biden foreign policy backfires are leading to even more cooperation betwen China and Russia.
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