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A Cold Dose of Reality in Ukraine: Straight from the Freezer Revisited

In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.
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What Changes There Will Be When China and Russia Become the World’s Two Leading Nations

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) China, the world’s leading nation in human resources, and Russia, the world’s leading nation in natural resources, border one-another, have no border-disputes, have the same ideology (win-win, which contrasts starkly against The West’s, which is win-lose or even — in America’s particular case — possibly lose-lose, which latter is the […]

Corporate Defaults Soar, Mainly in U.S.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Here are the 12 September 2023 numbers from S&P Global, for: U.S., Europe, Other developed, Emerging markets, and Global (total): “Corporate Defaults Record Highest August Total Since 2009“ 12 September 2023 August tally 2023YTD 2022YTD (corporate defaults) U.S. 9 69 25  +176% Europe 5 19 7 +171% Other dev. 0 […]

The Real Difference Between “The East” versus “The West”

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) According to the UBS “Global Wealth Report 2023”, which is the leading authority on the world’s wealth-distribution, the “Ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals [=] with net worth above USD 50 million at the end of 2022” were “243,060” (worldwide) (see p. 30). Out of the total world population in 2022 = 8 […]

The West’s decision to break away from The East has caused the worst recession since 2008.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The West’s economic sanctions — and especially the secondary sanctions which the U.S. Government threatened to apply to countries that violate the U.S. sanctions — radically changed international-trade patterns in 2022, and now appear to have caused a decline in the world’s total private wealth for the first time since […]

U.S.-&-Allies Want Ukraine to Remain Corrupt

U.S.-&-Allies Want Ukraine to Remain Corrupt Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On August 9th, Ukraine’s censor.net news site headlined “International partners are ready to accept that we may have corruption, it is impossible to overcome it quickly, – Marchenko”, and reported that Ukraine’s Minister of Finance, Serhii Marchenko, said that day in an interview on […]

The Fraud That’s Called ‘Democracy’ in The West

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The clearest example of this is today’s UK Government as described by a renegade former UK Ambassador, Craig Murray, headlining on July 19th about the next general election there between the conservative Keir Starmer who leads the Labour Party versus the conservative whomever will be leading the Conservative Party; he […]