By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South. One of the key underlying themes of the Russia/Ukraine/NATO matrix is ...

Dear friends It’s day 10 of the Russian special operation and in this commentary I will try to sum up some of the most critical developments.  So here we go: First, the now obligatory map of the situation as of ...

Good evening, friends, First let’s begin with a map of how the situation was yesterday evening: The main news missing from here is that the Russian Black Sea Fleet conducted strikes on the Ukrainian coast southwest of Odessa.  The other big ...

This video may not stay up long.   Following is an alternative link that is not opening at all because of continual DDoS attacks on the Russia Foreign Ministry, but perhaps later in the day.  https://www.mid.ru/ru/press_service/video/ Link: https://odysee.com/@Unspin:f/2022-03-03—Russia’s-Foreign-Minister-Sergey-Lavrov-holds-press-conference-in-Moscow:5 Foreign Minister Lavrov ...

Dear friends, Here is a quick update.  First, a (provisional) map (which is typically 6 hours late or so): I think that this map is self-explanatory, especially since the only major change is in that pink box.  What we see ...

Israel and the US had conducted a joint aerial exercise over the Red Sea meant to improve their capabilities to intercept hostile drones, the Makan 33 TV reported on March 1 citing the Israeli Army Radio. The radio station, which ...

The Ukrainian border guards initially presumed to have been killed in action on Snake Island, a small Black Sea outpost off the Ukrainian coast, are now believed to have been captured by Russian forces. An exchange between the Ukrainians stationed ...

By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with The Cradle The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide. So a congregation ...

By Michael Hudson and posted with the author’s permission My old boss Herman Kahn, with whom I worked at the Hudson Institute in the 1970s, had a set speech that he would give at public meetings. He said that back ...

by Batko Milacic for the Saker Blog Just as Russia continues its peace operation in Ukraine, Warsaw is consulting with London. The EU is confident that the Russian blitzkrieg has fallen through and that Ukrainian troops will hold out in ...