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All roads lead to Rome for Xi
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times ) by special agreement with the author) All (silk) roads do lead to Rome, as this Saturday Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will sign a memorandum to adhere to the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Afterward, Xi becomes a magnanimous version of The Sicilian, visiting the port of Palermo, with Beijing intent on investing
A message from Roger Waters to Venezuela from Switzerland via Chile
CHILE A message to VENEZUELA from SWITZERLAND via CHILE#HANDSOFFVENEZUELA, We were right about #RUSSIAGATE we’re right about VENEZUELA.LoveR. Posted by Roger Waters on Sunday, March 24, 2019
ABC of Modern Empire
by Naresh Jotwani for The Saker Blog This post attempts to dig a little deeper into the dynamics of ‘the empire’ and ‘the resistance’. In particular, we examine the specific psychological drives at work. Surely the Saker community understands these issues very well, but another honest perspective can still add value. Then there is the somewhat distracting effect of naming specific individuals or groups, when our interest is in specific
Yellow Vests Act 19 (Paris): Report
by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog March 23rd in France marked the 19th consecutive weekend of nationwide Yellow Vests protests, the most noteworthy of which happened in Nice, Lille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Caen, and Paris. An estimated 127,000 Yellow Vests took to the streets of France on this day to protest against the Macron regime. Firstly, let’s state some facts: there was NOT military troops everywhere in Paris. Near
The NY Times new ‘Sidenote’ feature: What you missed by reading the paper copy
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog There I was, back on the “Job Creators Red-Eye” from Silicon Valley to New York City, reading The New York Times. I was reading it the way God intended – in an actual newspaper. But when I logged onto my computer, I noticed The Times has a new feature: they now are writing footnotes to articles, putting them on the right side of
Tulsi Gabbard now and then
Tulsi Gabbard now: Tulsi Gabbard then (2015): People change. Maybe she changed. Maybe not. I am deeply skeptical and simultaneously deeply sympathetic, but I reserve judgement. The Saker
Why 2019 Ukraine Imports Terrorists and Exports Terror 1933-1991
by GH Eliason for The Saker Blog For the last 5 years, the world has gotten a glimpse of what Ukrainian nationalism is. “The Ukrainians” are never shy about claiming the right to murder their enemies. Since 2014, we’ve watched the entire government of Ukraine publically call for the murder of civilians in Donbass and Crimea as easily as the neo-nazi jackboots working for them murdered all those people in
Hassan Nasrallah: US Sanctions against Hezbollah are Last Resort, Resistance Axis Triumphs
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, on March 8, 2019, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Foundation to Support the Islamic Resistance. Translation: unz.com/sayedhasan source: http://resistancenewsunfiltered.blogspot.com/2019/03/hassan-nasrallah-us-sanctions-against.html <br> Transcript: […] The US sanctions and financial siege that we currently experience, along with being added to the list of terrorist organizations, and lately, the British decision to add Hezbollah’s political wing to their own list of terrorist
POLL: Crimeans Still Strongly Prefer Russia Over Ukraine
by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog Whereas the U.S. regime and its allies demand that Crimea be returned to being ruled by the Ukrainian Government, as it had been during 1954-2014 (but Russian at all other times), all polls, ever since at least 2013 (when the U.S. Government started polling this) have shown that approximately 90% of Crimeans want to be ruled instead by Russia’s Government, and the latest
Why Nazarbayev’s legacy will remain intact
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times ) by special agreement with the author) The exit of Kazakhstan’s strongman after 28 years at the helm won’t end its pivotal regional role At first, it sounded like a geopolitical bombshell: Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, 78, in power since 1991, dramatically announced his resignation. In a “special” address, significantly delivered in both Kazakh and Russian, Nazarbayev said: “As the founder of
The great fraud of National Zionism
[This article was written for the Unz Review] The Defining Event for the USA There is no doubt that the 9/11 false flag (now even admitted (by direct implication) by NIST!) was a watershed, a seminal event in our history. While millions (or even billions) watched in horror as the twin towers burned, a small group of Mossad agents stood nearby and danced in overwhelming joy. Why exactly were these
The Cold War Ides of March
US Cold Warriors escalate toward actual war with Russia. By Stephen F. Cohen for The Nation Magazine Heedless of the consequences, or perhaps welcoming them, America’s Cold Warriors and their media platforms have recently escalated their rhetoric against Russia, especially in March. Anyone who has lived through or studied the preceding 40-year Cold War will recognize the ominous echoes of its most dangerous periods, when actual war was on the
March 20th Gilets jaunes SITREP
By Le Saker Francophone for The Saker blog The balance of power between the Gilets Jaunes (Gj) and the government/media couple is becoming tenser, while remaining, for the moment, in a kind of status quo where neither side wants to give in. The last three weeks have therefore been punctuated by Saturday demonstrations, government repression and media attacks, without anything really moving on. Here are the main news of those
Tracing The Con(Tours) Of The Inverted Narratives That Bedevil ‘THE West’
by Denis A. Conroy for The Saker Blog Those who allow seriousness to get in the way of imagination, fail to discover what they need to free themselves from. For many decades I have been aware of knocking on the door of Western Imperialism from the inside in search of a universal perspective. Maybe it started 80 years ago when I first experienced authority (de jour) in the person of
Champs-Élysées war zone reporting & the coming Yellow Vest crackdown
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog What war zone? Because if Saturday March 16 was a “war zone”, then France has been at war since 2010 – I didn’t see a single thing out of the norm for France. A young woman who freaked out after getting tear gassed and lying on the ground quivering? Seen it. Me taking a breath which contained zero grams of oxygen and only
Police and political protests: a different look
by A. Michael for The Saker Blog The Saker was kind enough to offer me an opportunity to write a rebuttal to Mr. Mazaheri’s article about the French police and their interactions with the protesters/rioters in France. I felt the need to do so given the fact that I have been in law enforcement for 26 years now and I wanted to give the Saker’s audience a different point of
Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media will not report
by Ollie Richardson for The Saker Blog Disclaimer: if you think that Soros/Russia/America/Illuminati is behind the Yellow Vests or some other batsh*t nonsense, then please stop here. This article isn’t for you. Cat videos on YouTube are maybe more appropriate. While the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) protests actually began on 17.11.18, I think most are aware that frustration with the government has been building for many, many years. Sarkozy certainly
EU dilemma: how to deal with China
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times ) by special agreement with the author) Facing China’s irresistible rise all across the chessboard, and under relentless US pressure, the not exactly democratic EU leadership is on a backbreaking exercise to position itself between a geopolitical/geoeconomic rock and a hard place. The 28-member EU holds a crucial meeting next week in Brussels where it may adopt a 10-point action plan detailing,
USAF B-52 SITREP
The USAF temporarily forward deployed B-52s tempo stands at: (From RAF Fairford, UK) 1xB-52 in Estonia, 1 B-52 in Romania 1 B-52 over Barents Sea (From Guam) 2 B-52 off Far East Russia. This is rare. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is part of the backbone of the US strategic bombing force. https://airman.dodlive.mil/2018/04/16/b-52h-stratofortress/ They are capable of carrying cruise missiles and bombs including nuclear ordnance. A group of 6 B-52s came
