October 2022
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China: Xi’s third term – part two: property, debt and common prosperity
In part one of my analysis of China’s economic future, I dealt with the claims that China would slow towards stagnation because its investment rate was too high, the working population was falling fast and the economy needed to become like mature Western capitalist economies based on consumption-led growth. I argued that the Western capitalist model… Continue reading
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Germany´s failing ´stored´ nat-gas & LNG experiment
The sitting US Secretary of State very recently declared in an official press conference that the NS1 and NS2 pipeline sabotage will have “no impact on European energy resilience”… Continue reading
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Watch: Russian Gains in Bakhmut, Ukraine Overextended, & US Lectures India
Russian forces are closing in on Bakhmut city – with even the Western media noting the inevitability of Russia’s victory there Continue reading
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A war Russia set to win
Two massive terrorist strikes misfired spectacularly and a terrible beauty is born in the Ukraine war. These two carefully planned attacks in quick succession — on Nord Stream gas pipelines and Crimean Bridge — were intended as a knockout blow to Russia. According to President Vladimir Putin, people ‘who want to finally sever ties between… Continue reading
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China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption
China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not only for China, but globally. The Western media have concentrated on the fact that current party leader Xi Jinping will be confirmed for an unprecedented third term as party leader and thus also continue as President of China when… Continue reading
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Getting to Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers
Washington, D.C., October 14, 2022 – Today the National Security Archive publishes for the first time in any language a translation of the first meeting between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro on July 18, 1960. The newly available transcript helps explain Khrushchev’s 1962 determination that defending Cuba from U.S. intervention would… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Issue 17/22: Change needed at Frontex; EU seeks deportation increase; Activity report 2021
Friday, 14 October 2022 — Statewatch News 14 October (Issue 17/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Demands for change at Frontex EU still adamant on increasing deportations Our annual activity report for 2021 And reports on the externalisation of migration controls, police exploitation of software vulnerabilities, and Continue reading
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The wasteland of British politics
When an ugly power play marks the end of the career of a phenomenally successful politician, it presents a painful sight. From all accounts in the British press in the most recent weeks, it was clear that the night of the long knives was approaching for the most photogenic prime minister Great Britain and Northern… Continue reading
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Behind The Iranian Riots
Over the last weeks there were some riots in Iran. At first there were protest about the falsely reported death of a young women, Mahsa Amini, who had suddenly collapsed (video) while waiting in a police station. She died a few days later. Mahsa Amini had previously had brain surgery and her collapse and death were related to that,… Continue reading
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Watch: Regime change plot in UK. Dark times ahead
Saturday, 15 October 2022 — Youtube Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia calls out US bluster
Saudi Arabia has politely but firmly rebutted the threats and calumnies levelled by the US political elites in the past week since the OPEC decided to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day. On Thursday, a Foreign Ministry official in Riyadh forcefully pushed back the allegation that the OPEC decision was at Saudi… Continue reading
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Western Media Rely on Dubious Sources in Smears Directed Against China
By now, everyone in the West should know that there is mass slave labor in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uyghurs live. The slaves have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and without pay. Worse, they are not even Uyghurs, but foreigners, and Americans at that. The inhumane owners… Continue reading
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Two potentates meet up at St. Petersburg
There was something profoundly meaningful that the President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan undertook a visit to Russia amidst the gathering storms in Ukraine. Conscious of the symbolism, Russian President Vladimir Putin received Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday in a grand setting befitting a monarch — at the gorgeous Konstantinovksy Palace in… Continue reading
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When Will the Stars Shine Again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 13 October 2022 — The Tricontinental Wilfried Balima (Burkina Faso), Les Trois Camarades (‘The Three Comrades’), 2018. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in Continue reading
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A perfect storm in US foreign policy
The old adage is that a good foreign policy is the reflection of the national policy. A perfect storm is brewing on the foreign policy front in America triggered by the OPEC decision on Thursday to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, which will on the one hand drive up the gas… Continue reading
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Is the Death of an Innocent Woman Being Exploited to Advance the Goal of Regime Change in Iran?
In an era increasingly awash with political instability, the latest protests in Iran are yet another manifestation of the plague of Western imperialism. The sudden death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini and the unclear circumstances surrounding her death have precipitated a remarkable global response condemning the Iranian government as well as purporting to champion… Continue reading
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Ukraine – War Propaganda And News Items
Today Russia’s missile and drone onslaught on Ukrainian infrastructure continues. I yesterday posted 25 headlines which over the last 7 month predicted that Russia would soon ‘run out of missiles’. Continue reading
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The U.S, is leading the World into the Abyss
A few years after WW I, the poet T.S. Eliot opened his famous poem “The Wasteland” with these words: “April is the cruelest month … “ I think he may be wrong, for this October may be the cruelest month of all, followed by November. Unprecedented. You can hear the clicking and grating of spades… Continue reading
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The call heard around the world: Free Julian Assange Now!
On Saturday, October 8, thousands of people in the UK gathered for a massive act of solidarity with political prisoner and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Protestors formed a human chain around the Parliament in London to demand that the government cancel Assange’s looming extradition to the US, and for him to finally be freed. Continue reading
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Tory Party conference confirms draconian Public Order Bill will go ahead
Home Secretary Suella Braverman confirmed that she will be pursuing Priti Patel’s crackdown on dissent at the Conservative Party Conference. Braverman continued the recent rhetoric of calling protesters “a mob” and threatened campaigners that “you cross a line when you break the law. And that’s why we’ll keep putting you behind bars.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 