Commentary
2020: America’s Wake-Up Call
by Patrick J. Buchanan Unable to stand up to a China in which they invested so many hopes, the American establishment turns to Russia — a nation with one-tenth China’s population and one-tenth of […]
USA
World Affairs
Why Is Europe Courting Revolution?
Alastair CROOKE All eyes remain on the U.S. election, and on fathoming its consequences. But in the shadow of ‘The Election’, there are other ‘moving parts’: Germany just offered Washington ‘a sweetheart deal’ in which, Europe […]
World Affairs
Win-Win vs Lose-Lose: The Time Has Come for the World to Choose
Matthew EHRET It is a tragedy of our age that society has been locked in a zero-sum operating system for so long that many people living in the west cannot even imagine a world order designed […]
World Affairs
What’s at Stake in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Chessboard
By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times Few geopolitical hot spots across the planet may rival the Caucasus: that intractable, tribal Tower of Babel, throughout History a contentious crossroads of empires […]
Military
Has World War 3 Begun? The entry of superpowers almost certain in the ongoing Azerbaijan-Armenia war
Has World War III started amidst the CoronaVirus pandemic? The fear is being raised after Armenia and Azerbaijan came face to face. India China border standoff has already kept the world on the edge. Tension […]
Freedom
Two Paradigms Clash: Offers for U.S.-China-Russia Partnership That Won WWII or Hellish Plunge Into WWIII
Matthew EHRET The Pentagon’s new military report on China released on September 1st has demonstrated that the outdated and deadly Cold War mentality which has wrought such destruction upon the world since the end of WWII has not […]
Commentary
America’s enemy is England, not Russia. Historically, Russia has been perhaps America’s main Ally; England remains America’s top enemy, just as during the American Revolution
by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog America’s sole enemy during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was England. Ever since being defeated in that war, England (controlled by the British aristocracy) has tried various ways to […]
Wealth Abuse
Trump Says “No” to World Money
BY JAMES RICKARDS Over the course of 13 years as a media commentator and nine years as a bestselling author, I’ve had frequent occasion to state the following: “In 1998, Wall Street came together to bail […]
World Affairs
Strategic Remix for the Middle East
Alastair CROOKE The End of an Era. When the first World War came to its end, intimations of an end to the European Era were already evident in symptoms: aching diplomatic joints, straitened perceptual political vision […]
Military
The Curious Case of the Tankers
by Nat South for The Saker Blog 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 […]