Russia
Rothschild: “We may well be in the eye of a storm”
As central bank policy-makers' forecasts have become more pessimistic (i.e. more realistic), Lord Rothschild is unsurprised at the current malaise: "not surprisingly, market conditions have...
The geopolitics of European football
Euro 2016 has just begun. Thousands of fans, despite unprecedented security measures, have already collided in real fights. This alone demonstrates that football for...
The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
From the Archive: In the 1980s, the Reagan team pioneered “perception management” to get Americans to “kick the Vietnam Syndrome,” an ongoing propaganda structure now justifying...
How “German logic” turns into irrationality
Germany, Greece and the Banks, in the context of the EU crisis
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
I remember the talk I had with the German ambassador in...
Why Russia Shut Down NED Fronts
The neocon-flagship Washington Post fired a propaganda broadside at President Putin for shutting down the Russian activities of the National Endowment for Democracy, but left out key facts like NED’s U.S. government funding, its quasi-CIA role, and its plans for regime change in Moscow, writes Robert Parry.
A Russian Warning
The current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China
NATO threatens Putin with war!
In advance of next month’s NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, the western military alliance has organised a massive military build-up in Eastern Europe, heightening the danger of a military conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.
The Tragedy of Syria and the Middle East at Large
By Peter Koenig and Amin Abadi, The Kayhan Institute
A few weeks ago, Amin Abadi from the The Kayhan Institute of Teheran asked me for...
Russia’s got a point: The U.S. broke a NATO promise
Moscow solidified its hold on Crimea in April, outlawing the Tatar legislature that had opposed Russia’s annexation of the region since 2014. Together with Russian military provocations against NATO forces in and around the Baltic, this move seems to validate the observations of Western analysts who argue that under Vladimir Putin, an increasingly aggressive Russia is determined to dominate its neighbors and menace Europe.
Russophobia by Giulietto Chiesa
Is Russia’s Vladimir Putin Enemy Number One of the West or the West’s Last Hope?
By Giulietto Chiesa
By now it is clear: the crisis in...