by Chris Faure – for The Saker Blog The most telling US reactions to their killing of General Soleimani. The US, by the names of Pompeo, Trump and Mark Esper are in full damage control mode. If it was possible they would be bicycling backwards while trying to look forwards. First, Mr Trump: his role is to malign, disgrace and to vilify General Soleimani in order to convince his internal
By Aram Mirzaei for the Saker Blog On the night of January 3, Major General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the IRGC, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandi, the second in command of Iraq’s PMU were murdered by the US. Apparently, as the Major General and Al-Muhandis were traveling on a road near Baghdad’s international airport, the enemy was waiting for them to enter their cars, after which they
By Mansoureh Tajik – Translation of the full message by the Leader, Ayatullah Khamenei, regarding the martyrdom of Shahid Sardar Qasem Suleimani and his companions, on January 3, 2020. Original in Farsi from: http://farsi.khamenei.ir/ “In the Name of God the Most Graceful and the Most Merciful, Dear Iranian Nation! The great and honorable commander of Islam became heavenly. Last night, the pure spirits of martyrs collectively embraced the purified soul
By Ramin Mazaheri posted with permission and crossposted with PressTV Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of the books ‘I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China’ and the
By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog crossposted with PressTV But nobody is making a sound about it, and not even Macron. Maybe they will now: The first union has selfishly broken ranks – French pilots and cabin crews. It’s a “universal” pension system, sure… except for the groups who Macron has to buy off to break the strike. French President Emmanuel Macron has barely said two words about the
Andrónico Rodríguez could be the next president of Bolivia. The 30-year-old labor organizer spoke with Wyatt Reed about the far-right US-backed coup against President Evo Morales, repression of their leftist MAS party, and how the upcoming election may be rigged.
by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog U.S., UK, and French ‘news’-media hide the fact, but it is now incontestably a fact, that they committed an international war-crime on 14 April 2018. The OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) does everything they can to hide this fact. Therefore, starting with the latest, and then proceeding in chronological order, with the earliest and then the subsequent ones that had
By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog The Chinese economy is, according to the Western financial media, both a huge success and also a huge failure. It has become an economic rival and superpower, and yet it is also accused of being the cause of the global slowdown. Why such contradictory, nonsensical reporting? When the economic panic hit in 2008 Washington needed a scapegoat, as it was US citizens who
By Jimmy Moglia for The Saker Blog The godfathers of modern banking have a lively lexical imagination. They invented a brave new vocabulary that simultaneously informs and misinforms, leads and misleads, darkens and enlightens, depresses and amuses – while inevitably taxing and confusing the understanding of the uninitiated. Take ‘quantitative easing,’ for example. Scrambling for a meaning, the average mortal could possibly think of it as a sudden, massive, impetuous
by Aleksandar Sarovic for The Saker Blog Authorities have power over people, and they enjoy this power. They preserve their power in society primarily by imposing knowledge on people. Authorities have been teaching us everything we know. Nothing can come to us if it does not pass the filters of authorities. We are what the authorities made us become, and it is challenging to escape from it. If you love
By Paul Schmutz Schaller for The Saker Blog The world situation is changing very fast and one needs to make an effort in order to keep pace with the events. The end of a year is a welcome opportunity for an assessment of the current situation. I shall concentrate on two main subjects. 2019: The West has lost the supremacy in the Middle East I think that this was the
By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog It’s certainly not worth the paper it is printed on – any allegedly ground-breaking story which relies solely on anonymous sources. There was a time in Western journalism when this was the accepted moral standard; there was a time when Western readers were smart enough to demand it. In order to launch Gulf War II The New York Times resorted to anonymous sources
By Laurent Schiaparelli for The Saker Blog How to keep the Empire’s subjects asking for more submission Much has been written about how Hollywood has demonised Arab Muslims, Russians, French or Chinese people, depending on the geopolitical wars fought by the US abroad. Much less has been said about how the prospects of a successful career in Hollywood or Las Vegas have been used as a dog treat thrown to
Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog Craig Murray, a whistleblowing UK Ambassador who was then fired from UK’s Diplomatic Service and became instead a great independent investigative journalist specializing in foreign-policy issues, has one of the most-read blogs on the internet (if not the most-read of them) dealing with international relations, generally from a progressive political standpoint, but occasionally from a liberal standpoint (mixing progressivism with conservatism) instead. Even when
Mansoureh Tajik for The Saker Blog Humans are endowed with faculties for reason that enables them to learn through their own failures and successes, through others’ failures and successes; to learn the hard way and to learn the easy way; to learn in abstract and to learn by examples. How and what they learn are both important but what they do afterwards arbitrates their path to perdition or to liberation.
From Vesti news, starting with the Pipeline to the East, following up with the ‘agreement’ with the Ukraine and then at the 10:00 minute mark, quotes from the letter from the US authorities that went to Allseas.
From Paul Craig Roberts – response to The Saker’s posting The Saker has posted President Trump’s letter to Nancy Pelosi with his commentary https://10.16.86.131/very-important-letter-from-donald-trump-to-nancy-pelosi-must-read/ . I agree with Saker that Trump’s impression of the good condition of the US economy is largely a mirage produced by official statistics that have long been unreliable. The bad data fed to Trump is not his fault. I also agree with The Saker that
By Pepe Escobar, Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan – posted with permission This journey into the past also reaches the heart of 21st century China’s New Silk Roads strategy t the start of the Tang dynasty, in the early 7th century, a young wandering monk embarked on a 16-year long voyage from the imperial capital Chang’an (today’s Xian) to India to collect Buddhist manuscripts. At the time Chang’an was six times bigger
Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog Huffington Post headlined on December 21st “I Left Increasingly Right-Wing Britain And Now I Don’t Know If I Will Ever Return Home”, but the young woman who wrote it seems to have had no idea of the deep international forces that — as she sadly noted — are driving ever-larger numbers of young Brits, like herself, to relocate to continental Europe. This is part
