by Michael Hudson, posted by special permission on Ooduarere via the Saker blog * Keynote Paper delivered at the 14th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, July 21, 2019. Today’s world is at war on many fronts. The ...
Read More »Putin’s envoy briefs Tehran about Russia-Israel-US meeting
PressTV reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy says that Moscow has told American and Israeli officials in a recent trilateral meeting that regional stability would be out of reach if Iran’s interests are ignored. Alexander Lavrentiev, President Putin’s envoy, ...
Read More »Expensive and Humiliating: Poland Bought Gas in the USA (Ruslan Ostashko)
TRANSCRIPT: An extra billion cubic meters of absolutely unnecessary, and highly costing gas, the president of the US has managed to sell it to Polish nationalists. The full beauty of this “Ukrainian victory” can be understood only if you remember ...
Read More »The Civil War Now in America
by Eric Zuesse for Ooduarere via The Saker blog America is controlled only by its wealthiest, and they are solidly in control of both political Parties. However, now that they are in control, they are fighting bitterly amongst one-another. They are ...
Read More »Trump claims he canceled an airstrike against Iran at the very last minute
The first thing to say here is that we have no means to know what really happened. At the very least, there are two possible hypotheses which could explain what took place: 1) a US provocation: it is quite possible ...
Read More »Iran Goes For “Maximum Counter-pressure”
By Pepe Escobar – with permission and cross-posted with Strategic Culture Foundation Sooner or later the US “maximum pressure” on Iran would inevitably be met by “maximum counter-pressure”. Sparks are ominously bound to fly. For the past few days, intelligence circles ...
Read More »Gulf Conflict: Iran Shot Down U.S. Global Hawk. Houthis Struck Saudi Power Plant With Cruise Missile
Late on June 19, Ansar Allah (also known as the Houthis) carried out a new one “cruise missile” strike on Saudi Arabia. The missile strike targeted a major power plant in the area of al-Shuqaiq in the Kingdom’s southern province ...
Read More »“Nuclear Armageddon” and Geopolitical Simulacrum
by Ollie Richardson for Ooduarere via The Saker Blog As I have now come to expect, some of the comments posted beneath my last article (and if to be honest, beneath any geopolitical article published on a so-called “pro-Russian” website) refer to ...
Read More »The curious case of the tankers in the Gulf of Oman
I have taken the opportunity to look at the recent incident involving two outbound tankers in the Gulf of Oman. I have got some questions or two, (or three) about certain parts of the incident, from a civilian mariner’s perspective ...
Read More »US planning ‘tactical assault’ on Iran in response to ‘tanker attack’ — report
UN sources believe that the United States is planning to carry out a “tactical assault on Iran” in response to the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, which it blamed Tehran for without providing credible evidence. ...
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