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Wall Street Journal suggests Americans ‘to skip breakfast to save money’

10:11 25.02.2023

Wall Street Journal suggests Americans ‘to skip breakfast to save money’

No, this is not satire. Wall Street Journal even listed out increase in amount of essentials for breakfast and said how one can save money by simply not eating breakfast. The Wall Street banker's newspaper advises Americans to skip breakfast. I wonder if the bankers themselves will follow this advice? …

James Rickards: “Biden administration has turned the war in Ukraine into an existential crisis for the U.S. and NATO”

9:32 24.02.2023

James Rickards: “Biden administration has turned the war in Ukraine into an existential crisis for the U.S. and NATO”

“The Biden administration has essentially turned the war in Ukraine into an existential crisis for the U.S. and NATO, when it never should have been. Ukraine has never been a vital U.S. interest. But the war is existential for Russia, and won’t give up,” writes James G. Rickards, the editor …

Douglas Macgregor: “People from the West want to rape Russia and steal everything they possibly could”

9:29 24.02.2023

Douglas Macgregor: “People from the West want to rape Russia and steal everything they possibly could”

In a programme “Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor” colonel Macgregor, a decorated combat veteran, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration presents his assessments of the ongoing events around Ukraine and, most importantly, the relations between the ruling elite of the United States and Russia. …

Jeffrey Sachs: Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

9:27 24.02.2023

Jeffrey Sachs: Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?

On the 26th of September last year, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was sabotaged. Despite months of investigations from multiple countries involving deep-sea diving expeditions and sonar detection, no culprit has been found. Suspicions about the US were first raised when former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski tweeted a message …

Pentagon during basic audit couldn’t even account for about 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets

10:01 23.02.2023

Pentagon during basic audit couldn’t even account for about 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets

The purpose of a Pentagon budget now rising toward the trillion-dollar mark annually, a sum that would undermine the very concept of defense, notes ‘Counterpunch’. It’s early in the new Congress, but lawmakers are already hotly debating spending and debt levels. As they do so, they risk losing track of …

China calls Russia ties ‘Solid as Rock’

9:58 23.02.2023

China calls Russia ties ‘Solid as Rock’

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi said relations with Russia were “solid as rock” even as Beijing moves to portray itself as a neutral actor that can broker peace in Ukraine, writes Bloomberg. In a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Wang said China sought to “promote mutually beneficial …

An open letter from a USA citizen to President Biden on optimism of the State of Union 2023

9:57 23.02.2023

An open letter from a USA citizen to President Biden on optimism of the State of Union 2023

This is an Open Letter to President Biden from Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, published by ‘Counterpunch’. There are a lot of full of vital problems for the population, but the government does not solve them. But the president is full of feigned optimism - …

Vladimir Putin: “The Truth is on our side”

15:52 22.02.2023

Vladimir Putin: “The Truth is on our side”

Vladimir Putin delivered his Address to the Federal Assembly. The ceremony took place in Gostiny Dvor, Moscow. The President of Russia said in particurar: - One year ago, to protect the people in our historical lands, to ensure the security of our country and to eliminate the threat coming from …

Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC: “Maybe, it presages a new era, in which trans-continental infrastructure will become a target for operations aimed at weakening other states”

11:22 22.02.2023

Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC: “Maybe, it presages a new era, in which trans-continental infrastructure will become a target for operations aimed at weakening other states”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on threats to international peace and security (sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipeline). Main points: - Today we have gathered here for a very remarkable meeting. It is somewhat assonant with the previous meeting regarding the act of sabotage …

“For the last time I raise a glass in memory of Europe”

9:57 22.02.2023

“For the last time I raise a glass in memory of Europe”

A single peaceful space, social democracy, the protection of languages – this is what Europe looked like at the end of the 90s, when the USSR collapsed. But today, another reality has won, writes columnist Benoît Duteurtre on the ‘Marianne’ website. America played an important role in this. “…I raise …

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