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What passes for expertise on Russia in the US today is corrupted by partisan politics, which distorts fact-based analysis The US used to produce experts on Soviet and Russian affairs like Jack Matlock. Today we get the likes of Michael McFaul. The decline of popular interest in Russian-area studies, combined with intellectual laziness on the […]
“Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era,” George Kennan said The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion. The tragedy of our times is that those views are […]
A government official confirmed the shots were from the US, which is an “unauthorized source” Iran returned 820,000 doses of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine to Poland because it was made in the US, a health ministry official told Iranian state TV on Monday. The shots had been donated by Warsaw. “When the vaccines arrived in […]
We are encouraged to believe that different experiences mean that some groups can never unite. The Freedom Convoy shows us the opposite is true. Since a movement dubbing itself the ‘Freedom Convoy’ emerged at the end of January and headed to Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates for border crossings, labour leaders, the media and online […]
Israeli strikes on Damascus may have been more about Hezbollah than Syria Israeli airstrikes reportedly targeted southern Damascus on Wednesday, causing material damage and reflecting a larger trend of what Syria considers “Israeli aggression” against it. But what does Israel seek to achieve with these strikes? At around 11:35pm (local time) Israel launched surface-to-surface missiles […]
Russia has wanted to ally itself with Europeans since the 90s. What has led to today’s hostility? “I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and the so-called civilized world, so it’s hard for me to view NATO as an enemy,” Vladimir Putin said in 2000, when announcing his presidential priorities on the […]
Trump hailed his 2020 deal with Beijing as “transformative” for the US. He was right – it’s made ordinary US citizens much poorer At the end of January, the US-China ‘phase one’ trade deal made under Donald Trump expired. The agreement, struck in January 2020 at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and before […]
Durham document exposes extent of operation involving a tech company, Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and DNC lawyers The fascinating thing about special counsel John Durham’s investigation is that it keeps revealing things about “Russiagate” almost incidentally, in seemingly unrelated procedural filings concerning prosecutions of process crimes. For example, a simple conflict-of-interest statement in the case of […]
After WWII was over, Tokyo decided to prosecute wartime elites, but never really went through with it In Tokyo or any other big city in Japan, there is always a store selling military uniforms and paraphernalia – both authentic and replica – belonging to a variety of armies. The most popular among them are the […]
The CIA essentially sets its own rules over what data it collects, and politicians know it. Here’s how it is allowed to do so The recent efforts by two US Senators to get more transparency over intelligence harvesting by the Central Intelligence Agency, which involves the “incidental” collection of US citizens’ personal information, opens the […]
The US’ status as the global financial hub is under threat due to brazen corporate greed and self-harming government policy Holdings of Chinese government bonds rose in January, according to a February 12 report by Reuters citing official data, despite the fact that yield premiums have substantially narrowed between US and Chinese government debt. These […]
By praising CRT, the World Economic Forum is apparently seeking to aggravate tensions between races The World Economic Forum, the exclusive talk shop that meets yearly in Davos, is at it again, this time looking to drive a wedge between the races. This begs the question: Why are capitalists so gung-ho about ‘Marxist’ ideology? Once […]
The use of a hanbok, the traditional Korean dress, at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics has revealed a faultline that runs much deeper than clothes At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic games, China featured a representative from all of its 56 official ethnic minorities, clad in their traditional clothing. Amongst the […]
The fact that it’s ordinary people behind the Freedom Convoy, rather than professional activists, has caused alarm among the ruling class In the two weeks since the Freedom Convoy of Canadian truckers and their supporters began rallying in Ottawa to demand an end to all pandemic-related mandates and restrictions nationwide, it has become clear that […]
More photos of Boris Johnson at lockdown events could be leaked ‘tomorrow, the next day, or the day after’ Leaked images of Boris Johnson allegedly breaking lockdown rules are being released by someone seeking to oust the UK leader, and more leaks could be imminent, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said. “The constant leaking is […]