LARRY ROMANOFF  Courtesy The Unz Review You may be surprised to learn that the city of London and the City of London are two very different things, related to each other mostly by historical accident and geographical proximity, and co-existing today in a rather complicated power system in which the City of London appears gloriously […]

Lanka Lead News යුක්රේන නායක වැලැදිමිර් සෙලෙන්ස්කි මහතාට මොස්කව් පාලනය සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කිරීමට ඉඩ දීම එක්සත් රාජධානිය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කළ බව විශ්‍රාමික කර්නල් ඩග්ලස් මැක්ග්‍රෙගර් චෝදනා කරයි.පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා(10) ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද මිලිටරි ඉතිහාසඥ මයිකල් ව්ලහෝස් සමඟ සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් සාමය සඳහා මොස්කව්හි කොන්දේසි කිහිපයක් සපුරාලීමට යුක්රේන ජනාධිපති ව්ලැඩිමීර් සෙලෙන්ස්කි පසුගිය මාර්තු මාසයේදී සූදානම්ව සිටි […]

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PHILIP GIRALDI  Courtesy The Unz Review In history books as well as in politics every story is shaped by where one chooses to begin the tale. The current fighting in Ukraine, which many observers believe to already be what might be considered the opening phase of World War 3, is just such a development. Did […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review Why do Americans hate Putin? Tucker Carlson thinks he knows. Here’s what he said: … Democrats in Washington have told you it’s your patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It’s not a suggestion. It’s a mandate. Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason. Many Americans have obeyed this […]

PEPE ESCOBAR  Courtesy The Unz Review Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage – later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII – unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review The Ukrainians are in bad shape… It won’t be long before the Ukrainians run out of food. It won’t be long before they freeze… They have done all that we can reasonably expect them to do. It’s time to negotiate…. before the offensive begins, because once it begins, there will be […]

LARRY ROMANOFF  Courtesy The Unz Review The purpose of this essay is threefold: (1) to bring to the attention of readers the existence of a long-standing conspiracy about the identification of The Richest Man in the World”, (2) to dismiss from contention the current list of candidates, and (3) to document that a small number […]

Kamal Uddin Mazumder Dhaka Bangladesh On February 10, 2022, marked 50 years of diplomatic ties between Bangladesh and Japan. The recognition of Bangladesh on February 10, 1972, marked the beginning of Japan’s cordial state relations with Bangladesh, but they actually started almost a century before. Before Bangladesh became an independent nation, Japan maintained excellent relations […]

Kamal Uddin Mazumder Dhaka Bangladesh In early 2022, the general people of Bangladesh suddenly began to notice a political articulation of an armed political organization named Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF). Members of the organization maintain a Facebook page titled: Kuki-Chin National Front-KNF, through which they are seen making the photographs and military training videos of […]

RAJAN MENON / TOMDISPATCH Courtesy Truthdig.com What Climate Change Should Have Taught Us Washington’s vaunted rules-based international order” has undergone a stress test following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and here’s the news so far: it hasn’t held up well. In fact, the disparate reactions to Vladimir Putin’s war have only highlighted stark global divisions, which reflect […]

Sufian Siddique New Horizons for Profitable Investments Manufacturing an essential adjunct to healthcare is important in any case. Because people’s lives are directly related to this wonderful product. Medicines play a direct or indirect role in ensuring the well-being and well-being of people by getting rid of human diseases and alleviating anxiety and restlessness. Therefore, […]

Democracy At Work In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff talks about a new Congress report on huge US wealth inequality; Angela Merkel on relying on Russian oil and gas, the irrationality of 20,000 immigrants dumped on NYC, and Harvard exploiting its tax-exempt status. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Dr. Nomi Prins, […]

Anup Sinha The transit issue between India and Bangladesh has long been debated. An agreement was made in 2010 to carry products to India’s northeastern states through the Bangladesh route. Since then, several arguments and complaints have centered on the transit problem, which climax in 2016 when Bangladesh agreed to allow India to use its road in […]

By Richard Tanter Asia-Pacific Research, November 17, 2022 The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15 November 2022 Abstract In recent years, successive Australian governments, in coordination with the United States, have responded to the dramatic rise of China with military and economic policies that directly challenge the possibility of accommodation with China. * In an arc of militarization across northern […]

BY DIMITRI LASCARIS Courtesy The Real News Reports of Ukrainian triumph and imminent Russian defeat have flooded the West since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February. Yet how much merit is there to this narrative? Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector William Scott Ritter Jr. speaks with Dimitri Lascaris in a […]

worldbeyondwar.org The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world. How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ […]

Courtesy Venezuelanalysis Caracas stated that it would continue “to defend the truth” and move forward with legal proceedings in cases of possible human rights violations. Caracas, November 7, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government rejected the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s announcement to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses committed […]

Empire Files Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl Marx, remains extremely relevant today. […]

Courtesy The Real News Network  In the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky explore the links between militarism, rising fascism, and climate catastrophe. World-renowned linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, essayist, and political activist Noam Chomsky joins The Chris Hedges Report for the first of a two-part interview. Chomsky has been a vocal critic of […]

Written by Mihir Mishra  Courtesy The Indian Express The Reserve Bank of India had announced guidelines on overseas trade in Indian Rupee in July. In part, this is also aimed at curtailing India’s dollar dependence for trade, and indirectly strengthen the domestic currency. On the lines of an arrangement being worked out with Russia, India is […]

Empire Files Abby’s speech at the People’s Summit for Democracy, the progressive counter to Biden’s imperialist ‘Summit of the Americas’ on June 9 2022

MICHAEL HUDSON  Courtesy The Unz Review Germany’s position in America’s New World Order Germany has become an economic satellite of America’s New Cold War with Russia, China and the rest of Eurasia. Germany and other NATO countries have been told to impose trade and investment sanctions upon themselves that will outlast today’s proxy war in […]

Courtesy Naval News According to information published by the Russian MoD on November 3, 2022, a detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship missile cruiser Varyag has entered the TOF area of responsibility south of Sri Lanka. A detachment of Pacific Fleet ships led by the flagship of the Nakhimov Guards missile cruiser […]

By John Perkins Why is Saudi Arabia suddenly defying the United States, after five decades of a strong alliance? It’s a question I’ve been asked frequently in recent days. Here’s the answer. I describe in my books the deal that I helped forge in the early 1970s that created this alliance. Known as the Saudi Arabian […]

MIKE WHITNEY  Courtesy The Unz Review Every dead Russian and Ukrainian in this war, every family anywhere in the world that suffers the consequences of this war, every business that shuts down because of the economic damage this war is causing and the increased risk of nuclear annihilation, it’s all US Govt made.” Twitter @KimDotcom […]

Sufian Siddique  Bangladesh has bagged a historic win in the election for the membership of the UNHRC for the term 2023-25, by securing 160 votes among 189 casted votes in the United Nations General Assembly. This prestigious win is indeed significant as this was the most competitive international election of all candidatures Bangladesh floated since […]

PEPE ESCOBAR  Courtesy The Unz Review Everything that matters in the complex process of Eurasia integration was once again at play in Astana, as the – renamed – Kazakh capital hosted the 6th Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA). The roll call was a Eurasian thing of beauty – featuring the leaders of […]

MICHAEL HUDSON  Courtesy The Unz Review The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has […]