Is Zelensky In Charge?
Turns out that Russia offered to withdraw to its pre-invasion position in exchange for Ukraine promising to remain neutral and not join NATO (Foreign Affairs).
Political Economy
The Tellurocratic Impulse
Should anti-imperialist US socialists at the heart of the Anglo-American empire appropriate their national flag? Yes.
Nikolai Patrushev: “Washington Will Default”
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, met with leaders of ASEAN recently – that’s the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – and warned that the US may default on its external debt, which many countries hold in US Treasury bonds.
Hostility To Russia is Geopolitical, Not Ideological
No matter what political ideology Russia chooses for itself, the Anglo-American empire, driven by the hegemony of the US Dollar, will ALWAYS see the Eurasian heartland as a space to be broken up, divided, destabilised, and contained.
Indian-Americans Lecturing India
In the latest episode of Indian-Americans selling out the interests of their ancestral homeland to serve the interests of the US and NATO, we have Indian-American Congressman Ami Bera who is upset that India is getting cheap oil.
Stop Being Brzezinski’s Emotional Tool
Westerners who want to go around saving people in non-Western countries from “evil dictators” are just well-meaning tools of far more cynical offensive realists like Zbigniev Brzezinski, who wrote the following in The Grand Chessboard (1997):
Indo-Russian Relations
Now that Russia is being heavily sanctioned, they may be forced to trade more in Indian Rupees, thereby pushing strongly in the direction of Soviet-era trade-relations. The Rupee trade came to an end with the collapse of the USSR (see ‘Requiem for Rupee Trade’ by R. G. Gidadhubli, 1992), following which, both countries effectively subordinated their economies
The Western Left Has ALWAYS Betrayed The Russian Anti-War Movement
The Russian anti-war movement succeeded in ending their government’s role in WW1, paving the way for the Bolshevik revolution, and how were they repaid? With endless Western aggression in the form of foreign intervention, the Axis invasion that killed 27 million Soviet people, and NATO expansion to their borders over the past three decades.
Ukraine: What Does It Mean To Join NATO?
Ukraine is being punished for wanting to join the most aggressive and destructive military alliance on earth, led by a country that has inflicted an endless holocaust against the third world since the end of WW2. The third world needs Russia’s geopolitical weight to counter US warmongering, sanctions…
Russian Imperialism?
In 1920 Lenin redefined imperialism to mean the division of the world into “oppressor” and “oppressed” nations, with the former exploiting the latter, which comprises 70 percent of the world’s population – a clear reference to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This raises the question of how nations exploit nations, which was largely by taxation, indemnity…