By Unorthodox Black Sheep VN (aka A Vietnamese Reader) for The Saker Blog In my late article “What Wrong With Vietnam Today?”, I had underestimate the power of the pro-US faction in Vietnam. After my observing and investigating in the recent months, I found out they are in fact very powerful than I thought. Despite the fact that pro-China faction are very powerful because they are the corrupted officials
Dear friends, Music, arguable the most sublime form of art, is going through some truly horrible times. Not only did MTV pretty much kill real pop/rock music, but the new forms of pretend music (rap, techno, “screaming” metal and all the rest of the “auditory prolefeed” you hear on the radio) seem to suggest that real music is dead. And if we only look at commercial, high money, “music” it
Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog The readers at the international-news site South Front tend to be technologically far more knowledgeable about the internet than most people (including myself) are, and so their responses to a news-report that I did on December 17th, titled “Former NSA Tech Chief Says Mueller Report Was Based on CIA-Fabricated ‘Evidence’”, not only corrected a misspelling of a particular spoken acronym (my “PHAT” there should
2019/12/20 06:30:01Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day. The ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’ will have two new open threads each week. The Saker stated moderation policy will apply eg ‘no caps’, no obscenity … etc to all post. The Cafe is now open for
The version from RT on Twitter is the best one available currently: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZLQDDYDJB English Soundtrack: Transcript : http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/62366
Saker comment: I would have preferred a “Nay” from her, but her “Present” is at least more courageous than what the rest of the Dems did. I disagree with her vote, but at least I don’t feel that she has betrayed her oath to the US Constitution or that she betrayed her country – which is what I accuse the Dems of doing. I forced myself to listen to some
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] The recent Paris summit and the few days following the summit have brought a lot of clarity about the future of the Minsk Agreements. Short version: Kiev has officially rejected them (by rejecting both the sequence of steps and several crucial steps). For those interested, let’s look a little further. First, what just happened First, here are the key excerpts from the
By Ramin Mazaheri – for The Saker Blog Western economies have not colluded separately to devalue their currencies as in the past, but instead have collectively colluded in order devalue their economies. They have manipulated the Great Recession to devalue their economies in order to reduce labor costs back to 19th century standards – if it means reducing the quality of their infrastructure, commercial products and technological innovation to do
By Ramin Mazaheri – crossposted with PressTV with permission 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 upcoming
Saker commentary: this is not about picking sides, the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend. However, as Malcolm X once said, “I am for the truth no matter who tells it”. There are lies in this text, beginning with entire section about how great the US is doing. As for the segment about Israel, I just wonder what color Trump’s tongue is by now. Whatever color, it is
by Dean W. Arnold for The Saker Blog “No women allowed” was hand-painted on a small wooden sign as I approached the monastery in Axum, Ethiopia, just a few yards from the building that this African nation claims to contain the Ark of the Covenant. A diminutive monk, looking old but spry, helped me in the front door. The building was centuries-old, rather stark and plain. It resembled an old
by Scott Humor Kiev has falsified a communiqué of the Normandy summit on the Zelensk’s official website On December 11th, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin accused Kiev of falsifying the text of the communique of the “Normandy summit.” in his opinion, the Ukrainian authorities “have reached the extreme degree of lies.” A distorted version appeared on the website of the Ukrainian President, and one of the key elements
Hezbollah poses a considerable threat to the scenarios developed by the United States and the Israeli regime to be implemented in the Middle East, says the secretary general of Lebanon’s resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. “The US is doing its utmost to depict Hezbollah as a threat to Lebanon. Americans are actually vying for their own interests and those of Israel. The interests of the Lebanese nation are not a
2019/12/16 19:00:01Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of the issues of the day. The ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’ will have two new open threads each week. The Saker stated moderation policy will apply eg ‘no caps’, no obscenity … etc to all post. The Cafe is now open for
By Pepe Escobar, On the Pamir Highway, Tajikistan – Posted with permission A privileged microcosm of what is evolving as the intersection between the New Silk Roads and Greater Eurasia This is the second of 2 parts. See part 1 here. Traveling the Pamir Highway, we’re not only facing a geological marvel and a magic trip into ancient history and customs. It’s also a privileged window on a trade revival
By Pepe Escobar, Pamir Highway, Tajikistan – Posted with permission These are the ancient Silk Roads the Taliban will never be able to reach Part 1 of a 2-part series This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to appreciate it in full, in
By Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog 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 upcoming ‘Socialism’s Ignored
by Ruslan Ostashko Translated by Nikolai Subtitled by Scott Source The Balts with their typical sluggish thinking have started figuring out the consequences of losing the Russian transit. The horror of the realization forced the head of Latvia’s State Railway Administration to announce that the situation is close to critical. In September, when I posted a video on the Russian policy of removal of the last transit from the Tribaltic
