There is a certain desperation in the logic of those who argue that a depraved solution has merit because it’s only slightly less depraved than that of the opponent. Torture is bad but should still be used because your adversary feels free to resort to it. Only do so, however, via judicial warrant. Bombing hospitals […]
The dominance of the US dollar in the global economy continues to wane quietly but relentlessly as many countries actively seek other currencies. First and foremost, they are the BRICS nations of Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. Although it appeared to be only a few countries, the total population is over 3.23 billion, […]
Сообщение The Magic Skin of US dollar hegemony появились сначала на New Eastern Outlook.
Eric Zuesse On June 27th, an advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Professor Sergei A. Karaganov, of Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics, headlined at Russia’s RT News, “Here’s why Russia has to consider launching a nuclear strike on Western Europe” and argued that the time now has come for Russia to consider […]
Social psychosis is widespread. In the words of the British psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.” He was not referring to raving, drooling, hitting-your-head-against-the-wall lunacy but a taken-for-granted acceptance of a world long teetering […]
For fear of a negative US reaction, Hanoi stayed out from SPIEF 2023, one of the world’s largest business forums. The 26th annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum concluded on June 17 in Russia, with the goal of building commercial partnerships and expanding contacts with trading partners. Participants in SPIEF 2023 have begun to develop […]
As you are aware, current US-Iranian relations have been separated into two phases: collaboration from 1947 to February 1979, before Iran’s Islamic Revolution, and conflict from February 1979 to the present. Following the Islamic Revolution, the overthrow of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s rule and capturing the US Embassy officers in Tehran in 1980, the United States […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On June 30th, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting headlined “Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine” and well summarized a Quincy Institute study on June 1st, “Defense Contractor Funded Think Tanks Dominate Ukraine Debate”, which had found that the overwhelming majority of the people whom America’s […]
Riley Waggaman On June 22-23, 2023, Sochi (that’s in Russia for my fellow Americans) hosted the fourth international conference “Global Biosecurity Challenges: Problems and Solutions”, one of several global initiatives organized around the UN’s Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The summit was headed by Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being (Rospotrebnadzor), …
In the old West, there was a term for every person or entity. We’ve lost touch with some of the most effective ones in modern times. Take the word “dry-gulcher,” for instance. In the cowboy days, this kind of individual (or group of dry gulchers) was highly derogatory, the basic meaning being someone who betrays […]
Сообщение Gun Hand Putin Versus Them No-Good Bushwhackers All Around появились сначала на New Eastern Outlook.
We hope that the reader and viewer will find this video clip interesting. It is the resignation speech given by President Boris Yeltsin on December 31, 1999, just before the New Year celebrations in Russia. It was at this time that the first elected president of the Russian Federation ceded his authority to a young […]
