By Ian DeMartino – Sputnik – 26.01.2023 War has always been big business in the United States. According to the seminal anti-war essay “War is a Racket,” gunpowder manufacturer Du Ponts saw their profits increase by more than 950% during The Great War. US arms sales to other countries skyrocketed in 2022, providing a tidy […]
By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – 25.01.2023 German Economy Minister Robert Habeck pinned the blame for the nation’s energy crunch and shift to dirty fuels on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, according to the minister, “turned off the gas tap.” International observers dismissed Habeck’s remarks as utter nonsense while speaking to Sputnik. “What else is […]
By Felix Livshitz | RT | January 25, 2023 Foreign Affairs, a highly influential US magazine – effectively a US empire house journal – has published an article detailing how sanctions are quickly losing their efficiency as a weapon in Washington’s global arsenal. Published by the Council on Foreign Relations NGO, Foreign Affairs provides space for officials […]
What is the price of a Yale professor? If you wanted to buy one lock, stock, and barrel, depending on what you want to use one (or two) for, the cost could be pretty steep. More often than not, today’s Ivy League know-it-all types seem like soap salespeople. Whoever supplies the grant money gets the […]
By Jerome Hughes | Press TV | January 24, 2023 Brussels – Ukrainian officials took part in a meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers on Monday via video link. An additional €500m military aid package for Kiev was confirmed, but the EU is at pains to point out that’s just a drop in the ocean […]
Press TV – January 24, 2023 The US government has renewed a sanctions waiver for the Rhum gas field in the UK North Sea in which Iran has a 50% stake. Iran is heavily sanctioned by the United States, but Britain’s Serica Energy which owns another 50% of the field has repeatedly secured waivers to […]
By Don Dears | Power For USA | January 17, 2023 If battery-powered vehicle (BEV) sales are not mandated by the government, and the market for BEVs is much smaller than now predicted, will the battery factories being built become stranded assets? The earlier article resulted in comments questioning whether other applications would allow these […]
RT | January 23, 2023 Germany is a long way from fully substituting Russian pipeline gas supplies with liquefied natural gas (LNG), estimates by the country’s Economy Ministry show. According to a document published on the Bundestag website, Germany imported 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian natural gas in 2021. The document also shows that Germany’s […]
eugyppius: a plague chronicle | January 22, 2023 In 1952, Hastings Ismay famously remarked that the purpose of NATO is “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down,” and the war in Ukraine has made it very hard to doubt that he was wrong. From the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: The Ukraine needs […]
Vladimir Potanin. © Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin RT | January 23, 2023 Western countries are sawing off the branch they are sitting on by confiscating Russian assets, billionaire businessman Vladimir Potanin believes. Following the launch of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in February last year, multiple countries have frozen assets belonging both to the Russian state, and […]
