Riley Waggaman A reader recently alerted me to an intriguing article published by Thomas Röper, the curator of Anti-Spiegel. In it, Röper argues that Ernst Wolff—an authoritative voice on Great Reset shenanigans—is wrong to list Russia as an active participant in the COVID-triggered New Normal. I would like to offer a different perspective on this subject, particularly …
Riley Waggaman What’s going on in Ukraine? In an attempt to (briefly) answer this question, I asked Marko Marjanović and Rolo Slavskiy to Zoom-chat with me for an hour. Marko is the editor of Anti-Empire.com (now available on Substack) and has written about the Ukraine conflict for this blog. Rolo is a writer, commentator and …
Riley Waggaman On March 25, the Bank of Russia announced it would buy gold at a fixed price of 5,000 rubles per gram. Less than two weeks later, on April 7, Russia’s central bank canceled its new gold-buying policy, opting instead for a negotiated price (at a discount). The logic behind this move, according to …
Part 2 of Riley Waggaman’s recent interview with Jesse Zurawell on Perspective, discussing his article “Resetting Without Schwab: Russia & the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (published on Unlimited Hangout). Part one of this interview is available here. TNT Radio is a 24/7 internet radio station, available here. You can also listen to back-episodes of Perspective here …
Riley Waggaman Your Still-Very-Stranded-In-Tbilisi Correspondent mused at the end of June that the West’s never-ending barrage of sanctions might disrupt digital cattle-tagging efforts in Russia. This is probably true in “backwards” regions that can’t boast a single Smart or Safe City—how embarrassing. But it is definitely not true in Moscow, which is lorded over by a dancing Boston Dynamics robot …
Riley Waggaman Is Vladimir Putin preparing to cleanse Russia of Big Pharma shills (his entire cabinet)? Some seem to think so and there is certainly evidence that some kind of anti-shill crackdown is coming. Let’s explore this intriguing news item together. Take the wheel, TASS: Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized foreign drug companies for pushing …
Riley Waggaman Audio Version New Feature! Citing the imposition of western sanctions, the Bank of Russia announced on Wednesday that it was accelerating the rollout of its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The first stage of testing for the digital ruble began in January and was originally supposed to finish in 2024. Under the newly …
Riley Waggaman On March 25, TASS reported Russian pharmaceutical company Pharmasyntez, which produces Sputnik Light, was applying to manufacture a COVID drug based on a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. At the end of 2021, Russia’s health ministry included this drug combo on its list of approved COVID treatments. “Nirmatrelvir and ritonavir” is an antiviral drug developed by Pfizer …
Riley Waggaman Alexander Gintsburg is the father of Sputnik V, Russia’s 500,000% effective COVID vaccine. He also recently won a trophy in recognition of his lifelong pursuit of total failure and creepy business dealings. He is the highest-rated scientist on Yelp and serves as director of “the world’s leading research institution,” which bears a striking resemblance to a homeless shelter. Gintsburg had it …
Riley Waggaman Audio Version New Feature! “Sputnik V is safe!”; “Putin is just ‘playing along’ with the COVID narrative until the petrodollar collapses!”; “Russia is the last bastion of freedom!” Alternative media has created an alternative reality about Russia. The Kremlin has embraced all the same soul-raping “public health measures” currently terrorizing the Western world—and …
