US Intelligence: If Trump Wins Russia Did It, If Biden Wins It Was China & Iran

US Intelligence: If Trump Wins Russia Did It, If Biden Wins It Was China & Iran

Back in April I said “China’s gonna be so surprised when it finds out it interfered in the November election.” Now three months ahead of schedule China is already getting its surprise, alongside fellow unabsorbed governments Iran and Russia. Mass media throughout the Western world are uncritically passing along a press release from the U.S. intelligence community,…

Media Literacy, Not Intimidation and Censorship, Is the Best Way to Fight So-Called Propaganda

Media Literacy, Not Intimidation and Censorship, Is the Best Way to Fight So-Called Propaganda

The heated debate within Western governments about the best way to fight what they regard as “propaganda” has recently taken a disturbing turn towards intimidation of the outlets accused of peddling such information products and even discussions about their possible censorship, but if they were really sincere in combating this menace while staying true to…

Cyprus Is No Longer a Tax Haven for Russia’s Oligarchs

Cyprus Is No Longer a Tax Haven for Russia’s Oligarchs

Moscow announced the unilateral termination of the transnational agreement with Cyprus on the avoidance of double taxation. Effectively, Cyprus will no longer be a tax haven for Russia’s rich. Russia seems to be moving in this direction without compromise so it can settle the taxation of its citizens and companies abroad, but this has angered many…

Poland’s Lublin Triangle Will Create Lots of Trouble for Russian-Belarusian Relations

Poland’s Lublin Triangle Will Create Lots of Trouble for Russian-Belarusian Relations

Poland’s ambitions to restore its long-lost Great Power status in Europe received a fresh impetus following the establishment of the so-called “Lublin Triangle” between itself, Lithuania, and Ukraine that de-facto aims to revive the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as the core of the Warsaw-led Three Seas Initiative, which is poised to create lots of trouble for Russia…

Armenia’s Risky Tovuz Strategy Dramatically Backfired

Armenia’s Risky Tovuz Strategy Dramatically Backfired

OneWorld is publishing the original English-language version of Andrew Korybko’s analysis about the latest Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes that was first released in Russian at the Moscow-Baku information portal. The latest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan occurred along their shared border in Tovuz, north of Nagorno-Karabakh. Both sides blame one another but a compelling argument can be…

5 August 2019 Was A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations

5 August 2019 Was A Defining Moment In Indo-Sino Relations

Most observers at the time regarded India’s de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either India’s internal affairs or Indian-Pakistani relations, but in reality it was a defining one for Indo-Sino relations since it directly led to the recent Galwan Incident, the geopolitical reverberations of which…