Month: March 2022

The renewed spike in energy prices, however, has no direct relationship to the new “economic Iron Curtain” (cf. previous item). Sanctions have hit neither oil nor natural gas. The hyperinflation of energy prices is a story entirely made in the West. As we have often explained, energy prices are determined by financial speculation on commodity markets. Reuters reports that the […]

On Feb. 28, the Swiss government (Federal Council) adopted all the sanctions the European Union has imposed on Russia, thus overturning the Federation’s long tradition of neutrality. The decision was a reversal of the government’s previous announcement that it would not support EU sanctions, but would nonetheless work to prevent Switzerland from being used to circumvent them, and it came […]

President Putin has repeatedly stressed that the “de-nazification” of Ukraine is a primary goal of the Russia’s “special operation”. But the importance of that statement has been consistently played down (or even denied) by Western propaganda. Nonetheless, there have been a few exceptions to that unspoken rule. For example: * The Gray Zone and Consortium News ran an article on […]

Given the tremendous influence of neo-Nazi forces in Ukraine, Germany’s support for Kiev is all the more shocking, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out in a March 2 interview with Al Jazeera. “My colleague Annalena Baerbock says that in view of its historical responsibility, Germany feels obliged to supply Ukraine with weapons, How is this to be understood? […]

China’s two legislative sessions opened on March 5 on the backdrop of a very chaotic and uncertain international environment. Nonetheless, Premier Li Keqiang expressed confidence in opening the discussions, that China would remain on a course of stable development. The Government Work Report he presented sets the growth target for the coming year at 5.5 %, a modest figure compared […]

On March 3, the heads of state and government of the “Quad” grouping — Australia, India, Japan, United States – held an emergency video meeting. While Washington expected a united front to be formed and a statement to be issued condemning Russia and its invasion of Ukraine, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to go along. He called instead for […]

Although we are bombarded here in Europe with reports that Russia has been completely isolated on a global scale, for violating the sovereignty of and “invading” another nation, that argument does not sound quite as credible to nations that have been subject to, of witnesses of, repeated such actions by NATO countries, and the United States in particular. Take the […]

The following international call was issued on Feb. 23 by the Schiller Institute. We strongly urge our readers to sign it and circulate it as much as possible through social media, among political and social organizations as well as all concerned citizens. The text is available in ten languages at the link below. In light of the escalating Ukraine crisis, […]

Western elites are ruthlessly using the Russia-Ukraine crisis to implement what they call the “mother” of all bailouts of the financial system. Since the collapse of that system has been proceeded apace over the past months (cf. SAS 2-6/22), central banks, despite hyperinflation on the march, were only looking for a pretext to justify a new, massive bailout. As if […]

By freezing assets associated with Russia’s central bank under their jurisdiction, EU countries, along with the UK, the U.S. and Canada, left Moscow in charge of only about one third of its $630 billion worth of reserves, through domestic gold and Chinese yuan. While this gives Russia a certain maneuvering room, such sanctions undeniably amount to an act of war. […]