Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
After Ukraine, Is Kazakhstan Next in the Kremlin’s Sights?
A social media post by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warning that northern Kazakhstan could be next in line after Ukraine was quickly taken down, but it reflects the mindset of Russian hawks and is entirely in keeping with Russian political dialogue, where few taboos remain. …read more Source:: Carnegie Endowment for...
Flawed Amnesty report risks enabling more Russian war crimes in Ukraine
The post Flawed Amnesty report risks enabling more Russian war crimes in Ukraine appeared first on Atlantic Council. …read more Source:: Atlantic...
Police State? Armed Feds Raid Trump House
Armed Federal agents busted into former President Trump’s Florida house last night, ostensibly to seek classified documents that were to be turned in to the National Archives. What’s behind this unprecedented move? Also today: Biden sends Ukraine $4 billion…to help with their budget! And finally: media races to claim Biden...
NATO Learns Nothing and Forgets Nothing
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently addressed the Workers Youth League (AUF) summer camp in Utøya, Norway. The AUF is Norway’s largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labor Party. The AUF summer camp is of course famous for being the scene of the horrific terrorist attack perpetrated by...
Producing New Enemies for No Reason Whatsoever
A good friend of mine, learning of the impending visit of Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, recalled Homer’s description of Helen of Troy, “The face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the towers of Ilium.” Well, Nancy ain’t no Helen of Troy, but she might nevertheless be in the business of launching...
Armed Robbery: Anti-Inflation Bill To Unleash Massive IRS Army
The laughably-named “Inflation Reduction Act” will double the size of the IRS – making it larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol…combined! And that will save money? Also today: under (government?) pressure, CBS censors its own report on US weapons to Ukraine. And…is the end of...
‘Russian Propaganda’ Just Means Disobedience
You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imperialism to issue one brief criticism of the way Ukrainian forces have been endangering civilian...
World Wars’ Shadows: the US Current Clash with Russia and China
The reasoning behind the US government’s current confrontations with Russia and China is very much debated, with explanations including sheer incompetence, short-term opportunism from a Democratic Party hellbent on pursuing a destructive geopolitical agenda for its own domestic ends, a blind urge to preserve world domination driven by a...
Who controls the world’s minerals needed for green energy?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not simply exposed Europe’s dangerous dependence on Russian oil and gas. The war has also underscored a less appreciated but equally worrisome vulnerability in the industrial West to threats that could hamper access to minerals vital to the transition from fossil… …read more Source:: Peterson...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 165
In recent days, Russian troops have stepped up their assault in the Bakhmut area in an effort to obtain favourable positions to storm the city from the north-est and south-east. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
