Month: March 2022

A major fuss is being made over President Biden’s comment in Warsaw on March 26, where he said of Russian President Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power!” White House aides immediately tried walking it back, and Biden himself said the next day that he was not calling for regime change in Russia. Some commentators paired it […]

The fear of the Western “elites”, as described above, is that their propaganda is no longer convincing, and that a movement can coalesce in the West around a competent strategy which connects defeating the war plans with rejecting their neoliberal economic policies, and replacing their collapsing unipolar order with a new security and financial architecture. That is precisely the aim […]

A number of expert observers have refuted the big narrative that, firstly, Russia is wantonly bombing Ukrainian sights and killing civilians, is running out of ammunition and supplies, and has suffered heavy losses, and secondly, that this “proves” that the Kremlin will resort at any moment, to using chemical or biological weapons. The editor-in-chief of Consortium News Joe Lauria, however, […]

The same financial circles who forced the so-called “climate transition” on us, now tell us that war is needed to save the planet. “Defending the values of liberal democracies and creating a deterrent, which preserves peace and global stability,” is so important that weapons should be included in assets that carry an E.S.G., or “environmental, social and governance,” label, according […]

Measures taken by EU governments ostensibly to ameliorate the impact of high energy prices on consumers are not only insufficient, but wittingly criminal. Family rebates and tax reductions on gasoline prices just ensure handsome gains for financial speculators. When Italian Minister Roberto Cingolani speaks of a “colossal fraud”, he might be ignorant of how pricing mechanisms work, but the European […]

On March 23, Deutsche Bahn (DB) was forced to halt transport of rail freight for several hours, because the supply of electricity — the company manages its own power stations — had collapsed to such an extent that there was no capacity available to operate non-passenger trains. Logistics firms that manage rail freight had received no pre-warning, and their association […]

German Economy and Climate Protection minister Robert Habeck (of the Green Party) has put the national emergency plan on gas supplies in a pre-alarm stage. That plan includes three levels: pre-alarm, alarm and emergency. The first includes the establishment of a working group that monitors the situation and can decide to cut energy to some end-consumers. However, in order to […]

While Western leaders were involved in emergency discussions last week on imposing their “rules-based order” worldwide, spurred by the last-minute visit by U.S. President Biden to Europe (cf. above), intense diplomacy was also being carried out in Asia in a very different perspective, reflected in the packed agenda of China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. It confirms that […]

Liu Zhiqin, a noted Chinese economist at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, in an interview with CGTN’s Tian Wei on March 23, was asked to comment on the global economic effects of the U.S. sanctions regime on Russia. He noted that it “has already been estimated that the spread of COVID will lead to conditions of starvation for 200 […]

On March 23, one day before President Biden left for emergency discussions on war with NATO and EU leaders, followed by a trip to Poland, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told the press that while the United States has “not changed our nuclear posture to date,” President Biden “will be consulting with Allies and partners on that potential contingency”. […]