Russia

In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington’s spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain. During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization’s push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine.  “We are involved […]

The rapprochement between China and Russia in the last few decades has been a very significant development for the entire system of international relations. The partnership between these two major countries is developing at a rapid pace and without let up, in many different areas and taking many different forms, and it is also managing […]

In his bestselling book of 1987, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy chronicles the rise of western power and its world dominance from 1500 to the present. He reports that the rise was not due to any particular event, nor even an unusual series of events. It was, in fact, neither […]

Rolo Slavisky joins James to discuss the crazy events in Russia this past weekend. Did Yevgeny Prigozhin just lead a mutiny? A coup attempt? Was this a psyop? A false flag? A "special military operation" (to use the Kremlin's lingo)? Or something else entirely? And, is it really over? If so, who won? Buckle up and get your notebook ready, folks. This is going to be a data dump.

Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility. When Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a supposed revolt against Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23, sending his forces on a march toward Moscow following a series of tirades against the country’s defense establishment, Washington’s expert class overflowed with an orgy of regime change […]

by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker: If you’re one of the fools cheering on the internal unrest in Russia please raise your hand. I want to know who you are if the very-possible outcome of that occurs and so will a lot of other people who are going to be extremely hungry and since there will […]

Scott Ritter is, without a doubt, one of the true experts on Russia and the geopolitical scene in which Russia and the West are at such grievous odds with one another. Mr. Ritter is one of my go-to sources, and as such I would not presume to editorialize on the piece that follows, which is […]

This was quite a find. CCTV Video News Agency published a video of its presentation of its J-20 fighter jet at an airshow in Paris, France. One of the most interesting comments here is that, unlike the US F-22, which is its premier stealth fighter, and which is not for sale even to NATO allies, […]

Biden Not Getting Pre-Election Battlefield Victory He Was Hoping For In a song that he wrote about the Korean War, the great American folk singer Woody Guthrie mocked General Douglas MacArthur and Defense Secretary Robert Lovett for promising that U.S. troops would be home by Christmas, emphasizing that MacArthur and Lovett had not actually specified […]

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