The NYT & WSJ’s Critical Articles About Kiev’s Counteroffensive Explain Why It Failed
It’s now in the open that US and Ukraine were at odds about the much vaunted counteroffensive, even when it was clear it would not get far
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Henry A. Kissinger at 100, Still a War Criminal
Some of the major entries in Kissinger’s rap sheet.
Read more...China And Russia Execute A Pincer Movement Around Iraq’s Biggest Oil Assets
China and Russia oil plays in and around Iraq provide further evidence that the US has lost its touch in the hegemony game.
Read more...Is Erdogan’s High-Wire Act Running Out of Rope?
Sweden’s NATO accession remains at a standstill as Turkiye confronts headaches in every direction.
Read more...A Russian Paper on New Currency/International Reserve Options Finds No Magic Bullets
A recent paper in a Russian economics journal confirms that there is no simple way out of the dollar hegemony box.
Read more...How German Foreign Minister’s Cancelled Trip Due to Plane Problems Is Symbolic of Country’s Decline
The fact FM Baerbock had to cancel trip and fly home commercial is a useful metaphor for Berlin’s recent rash of self-inflicted wounds.
Read more...Better Late Than Never? Spain’s El País Sounds Alarm Over Consequences of Ukraine “Proxy War” for EU’s Future
After enthusiastically selling the war since its inception, the mainstream media in Europe may be beginning to change its tune.
Read more...BRICS Officially Confirmed That It Doesn’t Want To De-Dollarize & Isn’t Anti-Western
Yet more evidence that the BRICS aren’t ready to launch a serious anti-dollar/new currency regime.
Read more...NAM 2.0+G77 vs G7+NATO+OECD+WEF
Jomo warns US policies are creating war and depression, pushing developing nations to strengthen democratic institutions of global governance
Read more...Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
ichael Hudson on topics old and new: the role of debt in rentier extraction and US hegemony, and the prosepcts for the dollar and BRICS.
Read more...The West and the War in Ukraine: Selling and Buying Hopium
Despite some press stories and orthodox pundits acknowledging that things are going badly for Ukraine, there is way too much delusion.
Read more...The Sahel Tug-of-War: U.S. And Russia Face Off For Influence In Niger
A US propaganda outlet frets over Niger.
Read more...The Polish President Said Kiev Isn’t Doing The West Any Favors & Its Counteroffensive Failed
Spats between Polish and Ukrainian officials reflect divergences in interests which they may no longer be able to paper over.
Read more...NATO Training Leaves Ukrainian Troops ‘Underprepared’ for War
The veneer of NATO superiority is cracking as the Ukraine and its sponsors engage in a blame game over why the war is going so badly.
Read more...America’s Supersized Military: “The Greatest Fighting Force in Human History”
William Astore provides a cold look at the gap between the cost and overly-ambitious aims of the US military versus results.
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