On August 22-24, the BRICS organization (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held its 15th Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. BRICS Chairman Cyril Ramaphosa, who is president of South Africa, made concluding remarks about the Summit in a media briefing: “Leading up to the Summit, there was a wide-ranging BRICS business program aimed at attracting investment, […]
We cover some of the latest in No-Go Zone this Odin's Day, September 20, 2023.
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A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power. Knowledge that sheds light on how the world operates politically and economically is kept to a minimum by the ‘mainstream’ media. George Orwell’s famous ‘memory hole’ from ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ signifies the phenomenon brilliantly. Winston Smith’s work […]
[Prefatory Note: The post below is the stylistically revised text of an interview conducted on Sept 5, 2023 by Mike Billington, who is a senior leader of the Schiller Institute. It addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of Feb. 5, 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Here will be explained many mysteries regarding public opinion, including (but not restricted to) this very important one: Whereas Russia is widely condemned for having invaded on 24 February 2022 an adjoining country, Ukraine, a country which has clear importance to Russian national security (as being a potential staging-base for […]
Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators - and supposed 'democrats' - who squander their country's wealth to remain in power.
The post What the Media Is Not Telling Us About West Africa appeared first on MintPress News.
That would be Orthodox Christmas January 6, 2024. This would be the most advantageous date for Putin. Everyone in Russia with a surviving son, husband, brother or father would at least get a phone call giving them the best possible … Continue reading →
The importance of Russia´s influence in the world in the arena of global politics is based on the fundamental fact that Russia is one of the strongest international actors that is determining the global political agenda.
Today, the Western policymakers made a crucial mistake with Russia as thinking this is the same state as it was in the 1990s during the wars of the Yugoslav succession. Unfortunately for them, today’s Russian Federation is not a Western puppet state from the Yeltzin’s period – it is today at least equal with the Western great powers including NATO as well.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) According to calculations by Bloomberg News, “the total value of assets that have been re-domiciled [AWAY from The West, toward The East — including especially Russia] by the wealthiest Russians since February 2022” now amounts “to at least $50 billion.” The reason for this is the sanctions that the U.S. […]
