“The East is East, and the West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” Rudyard Kipling was basically right. That being said, as they complete their task, the countries which are setting up the urgently needed international Tribunal to look into the war crimes committed in the Ukraine and the environs by the Kiev neo-Nazi regime and its foreign sponsors should make sure not to prove Kipling right once again. In this case, that would work to the immense detriment of justice. These reflections are prompted by the urgency to analytically reconsider, once more, the modalities of the international…
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The following are the opening remarks of Ambassador Chas W. Freeman during a one-on-one discussion hosted by the Institute of Peace & Diplomacy. The dialogue, moderated by IPD Advisor Dr. Wenran Jiang, featured the Ambassador’s perspectives on mistaken assumptions in the US-China rivalry amid Washington’s efforts to maintain its vision of the global order. Ambassador Freeman’s remarks are worth pondering. The United States and China are no longer on speaking terms. Having put diplomacy aside, these two great powers are engaged in diatribe accompanied by military posturing and preparations for a war in which the only certain outcome is the devastation of…
These disclosures by patent attorney Dr. David Martin in his recent address at the European Parliament in Brussels are not merely a blockbuster but rather the rhetorical equivalent of a nuclear bomb. The fact that after three years of global torture inflicted purely for profit few people are aware of this public data that bears directly on their lives is a sad commentary on how thoroughly powerful special interests are able to interdict the flow of information that could endanger their corrupt schemes. https://youtu.be/GaD8qEWJglY
The recent attempted mutiny in Russia left many in the West in a quandary how to position themselves vis-a-vis Evegeni Prigozhin and his organization. The resulting flip flops were hilarious and recalled the obligation to conform to the frequently changing party line in the Soviet Union. Hence, in a single day that the commotion lasted, Prigozhin went from terrorist to “freedom fighter” (when it was expected that he would be successful in disrupting the Russian government) and then back to terrorist again, when it became apparent that he had failed.
Andrew Korybko is an expatriate American scholar living in Moscow and working on an advanced degree there. We consider it a privilege to have a highly perspicacious observer of his calibre on the spot to inform us about the complex events taking place there. As the Wagner-Prigozhin affair unfolds, Mr. Korybko has written another opinion piece on that topic. His offer of amnesty and exile to Belarus wasn’t a sign of weakness like the Mainstream Media and some in the Alt-Media Community claimed, but proof that the Russian leader was in full control of the situation and powerful enough to…
The latest news from Russia points to a perfidious replay of the 1917 scenario when Russia was poised to win World War I but was sabotaged by the Bolshevik coup induced from the West. It also has all over it the fingerprints of British Intelligence. We shall soon find out whether Prigozhin was recruited or duped to stab his country in the back in a situation remarkably analogous to that which prevailed in 1917. One should hope that not just the Russian political and military leadership but all Russians — across the social spectrum — have learned their historical lesson.…
Another atrocity. Yesterday, the dam holding back the waters for the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was destroyed releasing a massive flood surge, imperilling people and places below the dam on the Dnieper River. Both sides blamed each other. From the Russian standpoint, it makes no sense to blow up the dam. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, it was a desperate attempt to improve the defensive positions of Ukrainian forces. It is the latest atrocity in this war. On 26 September 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up. Ukraine and western monopoly media blamed Russia. Again, it makes…
Those of his supporters in the Alt-Media Community who convinced themselves that the special operation won’t stop until Russian forces reach the Polish border are bound to be infuriated by this assessment, but it’s based on his own words as proven by the official Kremlin website. Putin’s Three Latest Appearances President Putin strongly suggested in a series of appearances last week that a political solution to the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine is still possible. Those of his supporters in the Alt-Media Community who convinced themselves that the special operation won’t stop until Russian forces reach the Polish border are bound to be infuriated by this assessment, but…
The political naiveté of the Serbian people and the manipulative professionalism of its adversaries are on full display in the weekly mass protests “against violence” in Belgrade. The protests are now entering a phase of heightened tension and increasing demands served upon the fully dismayed authorities. That means that the warm-up phase is nearly over and that gradual transition is being made to the decisive stage of the operation. At that stage, the point will come when a crisis situation will be provoked. Depending on how the crisis will come to be resolved, a new personnel configuration of Serbia’s next…
NATO’s war in Ukraine is turning into a disaster and a catastrophy for the Ukrainian people it is decimating. American Moscow-based commentator Andrew Korybko explains. It’s impossible to achieve anything from further escalating this conflict. Kiev’s NATO-backed counteroffensive has been disastrous, which even the Mainstream Media was forced to acknowledge after it became impossible to deny. CNN revealed that it already lost around 15% of its Bradley infantry fighting vehicles during the first week, while Forbes reported that about the same percentage of German Leopard tanks were destroyed as well as half of its “unique” breaching vehicles. Meanwhile, President Putin claimed that 25-30% of all their total foreign equipment was…