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21WIRE | The US plan to ruin the Russian economy may have just backfired in the most extraordinary way.

Who, really, is the War Criminal? So what does President Joe Biden want the sanctions imposed on Russia to do? Think back to the 1990s and what the US-NATO imposed no-fly zone and sanctions did to the people of Iraq?  The results were almost 1 million Iraqis dead, according to the website GlobalIssues.org. Over at […]

Background Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi says the first priority of his administration during the Persian New Year is boosting employment and creating new jobs. He made the remarks in his New Year message aired live from the Grand Mosque of the southwestern Iranian port city of Khorramshahr on Sunday evening, March 20. “My first Nowruz […]

Now that Russia’s moves in Eastern Europe have re-ignited the ‘Great Game’ of a previous era, Venezuela, Cuba and others, though thousands of miles away, are finding themselves at the heart of the budding new Great Game
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Peter Ford | The real danger: in this atmosphere of hysteria, the most far-fetched claims can be made without a shred of media scrutiny.

Western officials say Russia is asking China for military help — denied by Beijing — in what is clearly an effort to build a case to include China in its economic war against Moscow, writes Joe Lauria.

Alastair Crooke | So what motivated Europe’s zeal to join in this ‘war’?

Omicron strains break out in China. China warns against further US sanctions. Majority of global South countries refuse to adopt sanctions against Russia. Poor sanitary conditions are cited in instant noodle factories. There is an increase in anti-imperialist views among Chinese youth.
The post News on China | No. 91 first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Gulf Arab regimes, and other developing countries, will adjust to a new world where power is shifting. It is no longer the world the U.S. shaped after the Cold War, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.

On Monday, 14 March, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine. Guterres said: Food, fuel and fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Supply chains are being disrupted. And the costs and delays of transportation of imported goods – when […]