Russia
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Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan
The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions. It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. Continue reading
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Beware the Ides of March… Russia Defeated and Putin Assassinated?
By the end of this month, as the Western media messaging goes, Russia will be defeated by the NATO-backed Ukrainian rag-tag of NeoNazi brigades. Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine takes war to a new level of information warfare. Over the past three weeks, Western mainstream media has unleashed a tsunami of false information and distortion… Continue reading
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US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine and the Whiteness of Empire
Since the turn of the century the US has marched steadily eastward across Europe with an occupation force called NATO. Supposedly a military alliance, NATO is really just the US plus its subordinate nations. It’s hostile to many peoples of the world in West Asia/Middle East, Africa and Latin America, but it’s especially preoccupied with… Continue reading
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Russian forces double down to complete operation
After substantially degrading Ukraine’s military capabilities, Russia is poised to escalate the special operation leading to the victory lap. Moscow has given signals in this direction. The most significant signal came from the Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Medvedev, who said on Monday, “Russia has a sufficient potential for conducting the special military operation in Ukraine. The… Continue reading
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Russia Has Just Cause Unlike a Legion of US/NATO Criminal Wars
Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, now in its third week, was a justified response to aggression based on self-defence. The threat from the NATO-backed Kiev regime is made all the more dangerous with the apparent discovery of bioweapons in Ukraine that were being developed covertly by the Pentagon. Continue reading
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Big Brave Keyboard Warriors: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The only real anti-war position on the Ukraine conflict is support for de-escalation, diplomacy, and detente. Yelling “PUTIN BAD” and calling for escalations that could lead to a very fast, very radioactive WWIII are not anti-war, and indeed such sentiments are being exploited to prolong this war. Continue reading
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Ukraine – Officials Announce False Flag Attack – Sanctions Hit Back
There is significant danger that the Ukraine, the UK or the U.S. will launch a false flag attack in Ukraine. Continue reading
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India Should Quit Quad Now!
Hedging between superpowers — United States, Russia and China — was never the smart thing to do. India should have known that the contradictions are simply irreconcilable. This is a moment of truth, therefore, as the US unsheathes the sword to bleed and dismember Russia, and gives an ultimatum to China to stay out of… Continue reading
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Holy wars have no timeline
A French presidency official said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “did not show a willingness” to end the special operation in Ukraine during a call with President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the weekend. The Russian readout said Putin informed the two European leaders of “the real situation on the ground” and the talks with Ukrainian representatives… Continue reading
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This Ain’t Putin’s Price Hike: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Let’s be clear: you’re not paying more for necessities to punish Putin and save Ukraine, you’re paying more for necessities to fund an economic war of unprecedented scale geared toward collapsing Russia to help secure US unipolar domination of this planet. Continue reading
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Breaking News from the All-Powerful Oligarchs of Oz
The crisis in Ukraine has spun the world backward on its axis. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s atypical military campaign, or denazification as some refer to it, has most western nations frantic for solutions. Unfortunately, the NATO and EU states don’t bother to ask the right questions, let alone propose the correct answers. Now, with Russia… Continue reading
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Business As Usual: Facebook, Russia And Hate Speech
Seedy, compromised and creepy, the surveillance machine of Facebook, now operating under the broader fold of its parent company Meta Platforms, is currently giving out the very signals that it was condemned for doing before: encourage discussions on hating a group and certain figures, while spreading the bad word to everyone else to do so. Continue reading
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‘This Is What Liberal War Fever Looks Like’
We all know that the western media’s Ukraine coverage has been highly charged, playing on western feelings of sympathy for (some) underdog ‘victims’, and directing feelings towards a moral outrage that insists – even demands – retribution and punishment for the perceived perpetrators. Continue reading
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Russia adjusts to “sanctions from hell”
Friday, 11 March 2022 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Russia’s Central Bank is under western sanctions The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks at his meeting with government ministers on Thursday constituted his first comments on the West’s “sanctions from hell.” They were focused almost entirely on “a set of measures to minimise the consequences of sanctions on the Russian economy… Continue reading
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Nostalgia?
Friday, 11 March 2022 — Investigating Imperialism By William Bowles The power of symbols Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (note the Flags of NATO and the Azov Battalion and of course, the Swastika) No, I don’t think it’s nostalgia and it’s not Andrei Tarkovsky’s stunning movie, ‘Nostalghia‘ either, it’s the image below, one of the 100s of Russian… Continue reading
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Cutting Through the Fog Masking ‘a New Page in the Art of War’
The non-government in Kiev is simply not allowed by the Empire to negotiate anything. By now what we may call a Triple Threat has been established as the catalyst anticipating the launch of Operation Z. Continue reading
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The opinion of a professional about the special operation in Ukraine (MUST READ!)
Note by the Saker: one of our readers today sent me a very interesting document in Russian. First, I thought “more of the same” (5th columnist stuff) but then I started reading it and I changed my mind. This was clearly written by a military professional, his name is Alexander Dubrovsky. It was posted here and here. So I… Continue reading
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Let’s Re-Learn The Word ‘Detente’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues. Continue reading
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Russia’s judo kick to the western financial gut
Washington’s sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia The battlefield is drawn. The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that ‘international community’ keeps shrinking. Continue reading
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The Sanction Backlash Will Push The ‘West’ To Accept Russia’s Demands
For years the U.S. committed policies that have left a lot of countries grumbling. Now, as the U.S. needs support to milden the consequences of ‘punishing’ Russia, those policies come back to bite. So will the secondary effects of sanctions the ‘west’ has imposed on Russia. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 