By Tarik in the Vineyard Today I’ll spare you, I’ll keep it short, sweet… and sour. I want to talk about Bitcoin. Don’t worry I wont try to convert anyone either way. I mean, there’s no denying it was(is?) an exceptional opportunity to amass literally obscene fortunes, if you new what you were doing, or just lucky enough to have jumped in at the right time, even after the latest
Dear friends, I have not made a few things clear in my post about the changes to the comments section. So let me clarify that now: Signing up will NOT cost you a single penny. This is a 100% FREE signup, not a Patreon-like membership. Right now, please do NOT send me requests to sign up. I will inform you when we are ready to process your applications, until then,
President “Biden” (i.e. the “collective” Biden, not the actual Bradon) penned an interesting article for the NYT entitled “President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine“. The entire things is behind a paywall, and it is not really worth reposting it here. But I do want to comment on a few of “Biden’s” theses. First, I will ignore the obnoxious habit of calling the USA “America”, when
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted The SCO and other pan-Eurasian organizations play a completely different – respectful, consensual – ball game. And that’s why they are catching the full attention of most of the Global South. The meeting of the SCO Ministerial Council in Tashkent this past Friday involved some very serious business. That was the key preparatory reunion previous to the SCO summit
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted KONYA – Mystic poet, Sufi, theosophist, and thinker, Jalal al-Din Rumi remains one of the most beloved historical personalities in history, east and west. A wanderer in search of the light, he famously characterized himself thus: “I am nothing more than a humble lover of God.” The era of Rumi’s father – Sultan Bahaeddin Veled (1152-1231) and son (1207-1273)
Dear friends, While I am in the process of fully re-involving me with the fulltime work on the blog, I wanted to share a few things with you. First, now that I am fully back, I want to ask our guest authors to return to the practice of sending me their contributions to the usual email address: vineyardsaker@gmail.com and not to my assistant Amarynth as we have been doing over
by Jean-Pierre Voiret for the Saker blog A fact practically never mentioned in the Western mainstream media is the fact that the People’s Republic of China has recommended a few years ago that in the interest of peace and development, our humankind should feel as a ‘Community of common destiny’ (Ren lei ming.yun gong tong xiu: 人类命运共同休). This recommendation was not only stated as an essential foreign policy goal of
By Marwan Salamah for the Saker blog It has always been about the economy. What is the use of hegemony without economic gain? It is like throwing a party and no one comes. Or, going to war for purely egoistical or ideological reasons (aka shared values). What is even worse, is going to war and winning militarily, but discovering that the costs were horrendously too high, and the net results
By Batiushka for The Saker And they filled the whole land with these castles. They sorely burdened the unhappy people of the country with forced labour on the castles; and when the castles were built, they filled them with devils and wicked men. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1137 Introduction: The Three Aims of the SMO Revised It has now been officially admitted that the three aims of the Allied Special Operation in
2022/07/30 13:30:02Welcome 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
From RT Telegram channel and going viral very fast: https://t.me/rtnews/27457 Chinese Army Posts “Ready For War” Message The official account of the 80th Army of the People’s Liberation Army of China posted “备战!”, which means “Get ready for war” on its official Weibo account on Friday. The post received over 300,000 likes within 12 hours. It comes amidst heightened speculation that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may visit Taiwan despite
By Michael Hudson and posted with the author’s permission As in a Greek tragedy whose protagonist brings about precisely the fate that he has sought to avoid, the US/NATO confrontation with Russia in Ukraine is achieving just the opposite of America’s aim of preventing China, Russia and their allies from acting independently of U.S. control over their trade and investment policy. Naming China as America’s main long-term adversary, the Biden
By Thorsten J Pattberg for the Saker Blog In June 2022, I happened to attend a public lecture by the German Ambassador at the German House in Tokyo. What the good man was chatting out of the political box … that was foolish of him! I wanted to write about it right away, but then I felt sorry for this bungling oddball. It seemed he “is not needed in Tokyo.”
By Jorge Vilches for the Saker Blog Thirty two years ago Germans enthusiastically took down the Berlin wall. Now, captured by cunning Anglo-Saxon global elites, Germans are helping other European “useful idiots” to erect a much higher and thicker wall to cut themselves off from Russia leading them into a war economy. But as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned… “the approach has clearly failed — sanctions have backfired
Editorial Comment: Mr Lavrov’s visits to Arab states, the Arab League, and African states can only be described as a stunning victory and a complete triumph for diplomacy. A short overview is included in the second part of this Operation Z situation report: http://10.16.86.131/sitrep-operation-z-collapses-and-progress/ All of the various transcripts can be read at the MFA site: https://www.mid.ru/en/ Short comments and summaries can be found on the MFA Telegram Channel: https://t.me/MFARussia
Asking exactly the correct questions.
By Saker Translation Collective for the Saker Blog Original: https://youtu.be/mkjQh8BZZE0
By Amarynth for the Saker Blog The current hot war of words regarding Nancy Pelosi’s announced visit to Taiwan is reaching a dangerous nexus and threatening to spill over into military action. China considers this belligerent approach as a threat to their stated One Country, Two Systems policy as well as a threat to the 1992 consensus. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait reached the consensus in 1992 that
Andrei Martyanov translates the questions from PolitWera.
Original link: http://middleeastobserver.net/today-asia-feels-it-can-regain-its-civilizational-weight-lost-for-500-years-lebanese-academic/ Description: During a political talk on Al-Manar TV, Lebanese academic Dr. Hossam Matar said that the world was today at a historical turning point, in which Asian powers such as China, Russia, and Iran, feel that they can regain their “civilizational weight and influence” that had been absent for the last 500 years due to Western hegemony. Source: “Kalam Siyasi” (YouTube Channel), interview from Al-Manar TV Date: July 21,
