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German Chancellor Scholz initiated a telephone call with Russian President Putin on Dec. 2, for their first conversation since last September. Both leaders reportedly stressed their interest in talks to end the Ukrainian conflict. Vladimir Putin called on Germany to no longer take part in “flooding the Kiev regime with weapons and training Ukrainian troops”, noting that as a result […]

Reality is often more surrealistic than fiction. On Nov. 30, FTX chief fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was featured in the New York Times’ annual Dealbook Summit, a major “financial analytical” event, along with Volodymyr Zelensky, Mark Zuckerberg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. The composition of the panel is weird in itself, but then again we are used […]

Culminating a two-year investigation dubbed “Desert Light”, the EU’s Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has busted at least partially one of the “super cartels” inundating Europe with cocaine. Between Nov. 8 and 19, coordinated raids were carried out by the relevant authorities of Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, the Emirates and the United States. A breakthrough in the investigation […]

In an article titled “How Peter Thiel bets on cannabis” the French economic daily Les Echos wrote in 2018 that Peter Thiel, a U.S. libertarian billionaire, “was the first venture capitalist to invest in the legal cannabis market”. A co-founder of Paypal and an early investor in Facebook, Thiel is most known for creating, with CIA funding, the AI firm […]

As Russia delivers devastating attacks on Ukraine’s vital infrastructure and energy supplies, the government, presumably on orders from the West, is still refusing to negotiate and insists it will fight to the last man. NATO officials continue to bluster that “we will stay by your side until victory”. But weapons supplies are running out, faster than the military industrial complex […]

On Dec. 9-10, 2021, when Russian President Putin was demanding a response from NATO leaders to what French President Macron now admits were legitimate security concerns, the transatlantic governments ignored the Russian leader, instead gathering for what they ostentatiously called the “Summit for Democracy.” The online summit was used to divide the world into two blocs, of “democracies” squaring off […]

The weapons pipeline to Ukraine, fed extensively by the U.S. and its European allies, has at least one confirmed outflow in Africa. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told the 16th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) in Abuja on Nov. 29 that the Russia/Ukraine conflict and other violent situations in the Sahel region […]

Amid all the depressing talk of energy scarcity and soaring prices, it is refreshing to hear in China, at least, serious efforts are being made to develop a new, unlimited source for the not-so-distant future. China’s Science and Technology Daily reported Nov. 28 on the status of the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) now being built at the Hefei […]

Competent military strategists know that the ability to wage war ultimately depends on in-depth logistics and industrial capacities. The exact opposite policy – known as the utopian approach – has been taken by NATO and the Anglo-American “military-industrial complex”, that have launched war against Russia using Ukraine as a surrogate. Putting propaganda aside, NATO member countries have collapsed their own […]

General Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, created an uproar among NATO war hawks after mentioning a possible window for peace talks on Ukraine (cf. SAS 47, 48/22). The Biden Administration made its stance clear by preparing a package of close to $40 billion more in military aid from the United States, while the U.K. weapons […]