by Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog Introduction: The Story So Far So far the US has carried out regime changes and created military conflicts in countries friendly to or important to Russia: Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq (again), Georgia, ...

by Pepe Escobar for PressTV, cross-posted with the author’s permission The self-appointed Davos “elites” are afraid. So afraid. At this week’s World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab – displaying his trademark Bond villain act – carped over and over again about a ...

Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog Shadows are falling / And I’ve been here all day / It’s too hot to sleep / And time is running away / Feel like my soul / has turned into steel /I’ve still ...

There is no doubt that NATO is trying hard to escalate the war in the Ukraine. Just before the end of the year there were two drones strikes against a major Aerospace Forces base in Engels. The attacks were not very ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog Foreword It is often said that the systemic Western European superiority complex, a disease that consists of the self-justified domination and exploitation of the surrounding world, began with the First ‘Crusade’ (1096-1099).  ...

As I have mentioned recently, the situation in NATO-occupied Kosovo is quickly deteriorating (see here and here). NATO’s humiliation in Ukraine is pushing NATO leaders to try to prove their “martial valor” and “manhood” by, quote, “now and again the United States has to ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog There always have been and always will be clashes and tensions between different civilisations. In the words of an old Tom Lehrer song, National Brotherhood Week: The Protestants hate the Catholics, The Catholics ...

By Eric Arthur Blair for Ooduarere via the Saker blog During this current relative reduction of hostilities in Ukraine, the calm before the storm so to speak, it may be useful to reflect upon the goals of the various geopolitical ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog Introduction Thirty years ago George Bush Senior, the blood of untold numbers of dead Iraqi civilians and children on his conscience, was the first to popularise the term ‘the New World Order. ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog Introduction When last week Allied troops quit the right (= western, or in this case northern (1)) bank of the Dnieper and so the regional city of Kherson (original population 283,000), confusion ...