Cold Wars & Profit

Cold Wars & Profit

The Guardian carried a very strange piece yesterday under the heading “Stamps celebrating Ukrainian resistance in pictures”. This was the first image shown: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was, without any shadow of a doubt, responsible for the slaughter of at least 200,000 Polish civilians; they liquidated whole Polish communities in Volhynia and Galicia, including the women…

GloboCap Über Alles

GloboCap Über Alles

So, how are you enjoying the “New Normal” so far? Is it paranoid and totalitarian enough for you? If not … well, hold on, because it’s just getting started. There is plenty more totalitarianism and paranoia still to come. I know, it feels like forever already, but, in fact, it has only been a few…

Trump and His Stooges Prefer Aggression to Cooperation With the Wider World

Trump and His Stooges Prefer Aggression to Cooperation With the Wider World

At this time of all times, when the world is staggering from the shattering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, it would be sensible for nations to pull together in order to devise policies and practicalities to counter and defeat the devastation that is taking place and seems likely to increase. Now is the time for…

Washington’s Anti-Chinese “Pan-Asian Alliance”

Washington’s Anti-Chinese “Pan-Asian Alliance”

One of Washington’s reoccuring dreams is creating a “pan-Asian alliance” to encircle and contain China’s economic and political rise. Unable to do this through regime change, economic incentives, military alliances, or even coercion and terrorism, it has drawn deeper and deeper from its “soft power” toolkit. The US is also increasingly lumping its various regional…

Is the U.S. About to Move Its Strategic Naval Base from Spain to Morocco?

Is the U.S. About to Move Its Strategic Naval Base from Spain to Morocco?

Located near the point where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea, close to Morocco, is the Spanish Naval Station Rota that is co-tenanted with the U.S. Navy. The issue for Washington to renew its tenancy that allows the Americans to use the Andalusian military base has arisen. Although Rota has been a center for American…