How Shell and BP Financed Britain’s Cold War Propaganda Machine

How Shell and BP Financed Britain’s Cold War Propaganda Machine

Formerly top secret files show how the two oil corporations bankrolled UK covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 60s. The goal was to secure British access to key oil supplies across the developing world. “Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Britain’s Cold War propaganda…

From the Rapallo Treaty to War in Ukraine: The Western Policy Towards Moscow-Berlin Relations

From the Rapallo Treaty to War in Ukraine: The Western Policy Towards Moscow-Berlin Relations

The Biden Administration has been using the political, social, and ethnic contradictions inside Ukraine and the war itself to achieve many of his geopolitical objectives. A century ago, on April 16th, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Rapallo Treaty in Italy. After the First World War, in 1919, the Versailles Treaty had established a…

Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ Is a Vile Circus for New Cold War

Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ Is a Vile Circus for New Cold War

The biggest enemy of the basic democratic rights is the U.S. government – and yet we have this Biden conference declaring support for democracy. U.S. President Joe Biden’s two-day “summit for democracy” was a farce even before it began this week. Now it has turned into a vile circus for Cold War hostility that greatly…

The Summit for Democracy Presages Hybrid War Escalations in the New Cold War

The Summit for Democracy Presages Hybrid War Escalations in the New Cold War

By explicitly making the West’s conception of “democracy” the ideological fault line in the New Cold War, the US distracts from the economic and strategic motivations behind its global rivalry with China The US’ upcoming “Summit for Democracy” serves to ideologize the New Cold War in an attempt to rally America’s allies while at the…

Only Trilateralization, Not Triangulation, Is the Solution for Global Stability

Only Trilateralization, Not Triangulation, Is the Solution for Global Stability

The solution is trilateralization between China, Russia, and the US, not triangulation. To explain, this proposal implies that all three Great Powers would be treated as equals by one another and engage in dialogue through a single platform. The summit in mid-June between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden led to many…