Author: karpodiem

Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, an Icelandic citizen and former WikiLeaks volunteer, has admitted to the Icelandic newspaper Stundin that he fabricated important parts of what became the main charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – after becoming an FBI informant! In its English language coverage, Stundin details several parts of Thordarson’s testimony that he now denies, admitting most notably that Assange […]

After the Stundin story broke, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted on June 27: this is the “end of the case against Assange”. Investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald posted Snowden’s tweet, adding that “It should be” (the end of the case). At the beginning of June, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer once again called on the U.K. government to release […]

After eight months of war in the federal state of Tigray, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a unilateral ceasefire, following a routing of government forces from the Tigray capital of Mekelle. While Abiy claimed this was not a defeat, he admitted that his government could not win given the popular support for Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the […]

The numerous celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party have highlighted, and understandably so, the tremendous progress China has achieved over the decades in multiple areas. President Xi Jinping has personally stressed that the Chinese people will never again allow “outside forces” to oppress them, or stop their development. Certainly, one of the country’s […]

In a military provocation which former British Ambassador Craig Murray described as “evidence of lunacy,” the HMS Defender, a British navy destroyer, entered Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea, near Cape Fiolent, at 11:52 AM on June 23. The Russian Black Sea fleet immediately radioed a warning. After waiting approximately 15 minutes for a response, and receiving none, a […]

In the early morning hours of June 25, the Franco-German proposal for an EU summit with Russian President Putin was shot down, mainly by Poland and the Baltic countries. The proposal had just been made public on June 23, apparently to the surprise of most of the other EU member states. Angela Merkel explained the next day, in a speech […]

The EU leaders’ statement is all the more regrettable as it came only three days after the German weekly Die Zeit published an article by President Putin on the 80th anniversary of the Nazi German attack against the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. In the article, the Russian President stressed that Russia is “open, despite the past”, for economic, […]

EIR Economics editor Paul Gallagher has drawn an efficient parallel between the strategies implemented by Hitler’s Finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht and the current scheme of central bankers known as the “Great Reset”. At the August 2019 yearly meeting of central bankers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that scheme was again discussed as a means of bringing about a “regime change” in […]

The month of July in China is devoted to celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Of course, the system of “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is very different from western systems, but it is terribly short-sighted to arrogantly dismiss its accomplishments, and terribly stupid to try and force it into the Anglo-American “rules-based order”. The […]

Political activists, together with scientists, economists, farmers, public health professionals, and retired military and intelligence officers came together in the June 26-27 International Schiller Institute Conference to analyze the existential crisis facing mankind today, and deliberate on the means required to mobilize the world behind a new paradigm, free of geopolitics and Malthusianism, and based on “peace through de velopment.” […]