While China, keen to ward off US sanctions as long as possible, is lagging, its RIC partners Iran and Russia are doing the legwork to break the west’s global financial grip. By Pepe Escobar posted with permission of the author and cross-posted with The Cradle The first Eurasia Economic Forum, held last week in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, should be regarded as a milestone in setting the parameters for the geoeconomic integration
We encountered a technical issue on The Saker Blog. This necessitated a system restore back to yesterday morning. Herb informs me that it is the first time on our production system in seven years. While we catch up on all the articles posted yesterday, and the new ones for today, I leave you with an open thread. The serious Ukraine watchers, please sitrep for us the situation as of this
by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog If I am permitted only one word to describe the Yellow Vests it is this: civic-minded. They are always referring to the common good and not the individual – in Western Liberal Democracy, with its emphasis on individual rights, competition and elitism, that is a revolutionary idea. (This is the thirteenth chapter in a new book, France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the
By Mansoureh Tajik for the Saker Blog بسم الله . I shall try to make this critical essay reasonably short and to the point. Last week, during the annual visit by the members of Majlis, Ayatullah Khamenei, in parts of his speech, cautioned everyone about Iran’s and the Iranians’ vulnerabilities against the enemy. He said, “Anyone who has a role to play in this management [of the country] must realize
By Višeslav Simić for the Saker Blog – Official Belgrade and Belgradian cultural and ecclesiastical “elites” are not only “unfriendly”[1] but are your enemies! It is now over 100 years since the Belgradian false crème de la crème, after hijacking the public sphere, embraced ethical fading and moral disengagement so feverishly that its infection has slowly seeped into the psyche of every member of our people dependent on this ruling caste.
By Batko Milacic for the Saker Blog (Restored Post) There is a persistent belief in both Europe and the United States that the “Western” economies are the most developed around, just as the “Western” culture and democracy, with its culture of abolition and total tolerance, is the only correct and advanced system. Russia, which is a bridge connecting Europe with Asia since Tsar Peter, has apparently chosen the European path.
The Empire of Sanctions [and Lies] Takes Advantage Of Its Colony Japan To Militarize The Entire Pacific. By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog (Recovered Post) Part 1. Mental Servitude And Calling Colonial People. Top Gun’s “Danger Zone” soundtrack from 1986 is playing non stop at a FamilyMart Combini Store in Nogata, west of Shinjuku, Tokyo. It is the 24th of May 2022, and US Hollywood is finally going
By Fred Reed for the Saker Blog (Restored Post) As the sentient have presumably noticed, the United States is in crisis, the country’s problems are profound, intrinsic, without solution, and worsening. When a population reaches the point of despair, even desperation, when it sees a darkening future for itself and its children, people yearn for a strong man who will forcibly put things right. Yet it is unlikely that helicopters
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Use as an open thread for today for any topic discussed at the Saker Blog and not already being discussed in other threads. Comments: – This article by Andrei Maryanov is almost required reading: http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/plans-are-changing-for-us-larry-talks.html – And I do so like Maria Zakharova. She just told Olaf Scholz that he is a plagiarist. #Opinion by Maria Zakharova: 💬 Speaking at the Davos World Economic Forum, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said:
by James Rothenberg for the Saker Blog I read that we’ve entered a “post truth” age. I dislike the term because it seems too sure of itself, as if it encompasses all there is to encompass. As if it should come to mean the same thing to everyone. The worst is “holocaust”, a word I’ve forbidden myself to use for the reasons just mentioned. Sure, something’s been accelerating. It’s hard
Faina Savenkova, Lugansk, To Children of Europe on World Children’s Day Half of my childhood was spent in war. And for three years now I have been trying to get through to the adults. Politicians, religious and cultural figures… I try to tell them what is going on in our country, but the adults listen as usual, but are in no hurry to do something. The war goes on, adults
By Maria Gritsch for the Saker Blog Evidence shows that Russia’s special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine is a legally justified, critically necessary, and predictable response to the US’ recent escalation of its decades-long aggression against Russia in Ukraine–militarily, in the international corporate media, in cyberspace, and in the political-economic arena. The US’ hostile actions against Russia were summarized in a 2019 US-Army funded RAND Corporation blueprint for “Over Extending and
By Batiushka for the Saker Blog Religion is the key of history – Lord Acton Civilisation The word ‘Civilisation’ comes from the Latin word ‘civitas’, or city, and so ‘civilised’ simply means to live in cities. This word ‘civitas’ gives us words like civilian, civic and civil. Civilisation means that people no longer live as nomadic hunter-gatherers, but are settled. Although therefore they have organised agriculture, they are not dependent
The Eurasian Economic Forum has shown once again that this high-speed – economic integration – train has already left the station. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted. The first Eurasian Economic Forum, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, took place this week at a very sensitive geopolitical juncture, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov keeps stressing that, “the West has declared total war against us, against the entire Russian
by Jorge Vilches for the Saker Blog According to Ursula von der Leyen – President of the EU Commission – Europe today keeps buying Russian oil just to “deny Putin an even larger war chest” by preventing Moscow from offering such EU-purchased oil to the world market and “profiting from soaring prices” (?). Actually, the undisputable Law of Supply & Demand dictates the exact opposite So any stand-up comedian worth
By Batiushka for The Saker Blog Introduction: The Three Aims The three aims of the Russian Federation’s Special Military Operation in the Ukraine were clearly announced by President Putin at the outset on 24 February. They were very specific, very limited and deliberately excluded the occupation of the whole of the Ukraine, let alone attacks on any territories outside it. Moreover, any suggestion of the use of nuclear weapons was
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By Prof. Slobodan Antonic, Department of Sociology, University of Belgrade (Translated for the Saker Blog) “Vatican hatred” is not a quote from a publication on the Croatian genocide against Serbs between 1941−1945. It is a phrase used by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thornton Wilder in his novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” to describe a hatred that is strong, deep, persistent, and cruel. Of course, not everyone in
by Ramin Mazaheri and cross-posted with PressTV The clip of George W. Bush’s attempt to condemn Russia’s military operation in Ukraine but instead referring to his own autocratic warmongering in Iraq exploded across the internet. I saw the clip and, perhaps like many, watched it several times in succession. I even found myself returning to it several more times. There is so much to be said about it, and it
