Guest Analyses

By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog Have you ever sucked on plastic? Sure you have. It has no smell. Astroturfing is big corporations or the government replacing organic

By Dmitry Orlov and posted with permission Just yesterday Russia Foreign Ministry published a couple of documents that people have been struggling to interpret ever since, to little useful effect.

By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and cross-posted with The Cradle Vladimir Putin got straight to the point. At the opening of his one hour and fourteen minute video conversation

Washington hawks float expelling Russia from SWIFT but Moscow’s budding geo-economic alliance with Beijing will keep the money flowing By Pepe Escobar posted with permission and cross-posted with AsiaTimes Xi

By Chris Faure for the Saker Blog The ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on drugs’ and similar empirical processes have come and gone and left in their wake a

By Walt Garlington for the Saker Blog Though the idea has been ridiculed relentlessly, and for good reason, there really is something exceptional about the United States, and it lies

By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog 1989 A Red Pill moment is the ultimate reality check. 11-years old Egon Walther Pillard waited outside the two-level Virgin megastore just

By Tarik in the Vineyard for the Saker Blog If Russia shot down a NATO bomber or ship flying or sailing where it shouldn’t be (or even a US one),

An Algerian Jewish ‘demonizer’ of Arabs and Islam is the new political protagonist electrifying France’s 2022 presidential elections By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with The

After all the initial euphoria and hopes placed upon the original concept of a non-aligned, social-democratic Euro-bloc, the reality has turned out somewhat differently. By Francis Lee for the Saker