Russia’s “Sanction-Proof” Trade Corridor to India Frustrates the Neocons
Russia, India, and Iran press ahead with new International North-South Transport Corridor. Will Adani crisis and Iran-Azerbaijan tension derail it?
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Oil Prices Rally As Confidence In A Global Economic Rebound Grows
Oil prices have perked up and oil price moves can lead market rallies. Is this a false positive or an early sign?
Read more...Sweden Won’t Meet Türkiye Demands to Win Its Vote on NATO Membership
Sweden reneged on its Türkiye NATO vote deal. This should be solvable except the West wants to punish Türkiye and Türkiye isn’t up for that.
Read more...US Heavy-Handedness Forges Russia-Iran-India Ties
This Asian north-south bloc grows stronger in response to Washington’s efforts to maintain hegemony, and as Sir Halford John Mackinder said, “Who rules the world island commands the world.”
Read more...Confronting Gitmo
Gitmo is still with us, and likely for bad reason.
Read more...Ukraine War: Turkey Is the Pivot Point Between Russia and the US – History Shows Us Why
A perhaps too glib and US-favoring read on Turkey-Russia relations.
Read more...Türkiye Losing Patience with the US
Washington’s relentless pressure on Türkiye and the Istanbul bombing lead to Turkish airstrikes hitting American positions in Syria.
Read more...Wilkerson on Militarism and Regrets About Iraq War
On the cost of war, particularly the kind the US has no business fighting.
Read more...Debunking the Petrodollar Myth: Pricing Oil in Dollars Is Just a Convention
The term petrodollar has come to have talismanic value. Time to instill some reality.
Read more...A Stunning Political Comeback for Israel’s Netanyahu May Give Way to Governing Nightmare Ahead
Has the wily Netanyahu backed himself into a corner?
Read more...Russia Accuses West of Trying to Replicate Ukraine Strategy in Armenia
Moscow accuses the West of using an Ukraine-style strategy in Armenia as more players enter the fold and the situation in the South Caucuses risks spiraling out of control.
Read more...The Growing Chorus for Peace in Ukraine
It has now become barely acceptable to say it might be a good idea to seek an end to the Ukraine war.
Read more...Wall Street Journal on “U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle” Focuses on Personalities Over End of Unipolar Era
Even though Biden as always is making a bad situation worse, the US-Saudi relationship looks destined to have gone off the rails.
Read more...NOPEC Bill Would Mean the End Of Aramco and OPEC as We Know Them
The US is seriously considering yet another self-destructive move: bringing the Saudis to heel via a frontal legal/sanctions attack on OPEC.
Read more...Whose Cat Caught the German Tongue? No Blame for Russia After German Train Sabotage on Sunday Morning, No Blame for Nord Stream Sabotage, Yet
Another apparent act of sabotage in Germany, yet the press is peculiarly refusing to play “whodunnit”.
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