EU leaders have stepped back from imposing an immediate embargo on Russian crude and petroleum product imports as the impracticality of the policy has become clear.
A day after Biden and his pals in Brussels discussed ways to stop Russia utilizing its gold reserves to maintain some stability in an increasingly chaotic economy, the Bank of Russia has just announced plans to begin buying gold from its banks at a f
• https://www.paulcraigroberts.orgPaul Craig Roberts
Yesterday I reported that Anatoly Chubais, who created the Russian oligarch system during the Yeltsin years, the system in which wealth and capital flowed out of Russia, has fled Russia.
Update(15:55ET): Nothing to see here... only the President of the United States speaking at an emergency summit of NATO heads making somewhat overly casual sounding references regarding likely massive energy and food shortages...
Now that Russia has come right out and said it will only transact in Rubles when selling oil to "unfriendly" nations, I'm expecting gold to be the next safe haven for the nation to fall back on, as it desperately tries to backstop both its curr
WARNING - ADULT LANGUAGE. This started out as a letter to a personal friend, then I decided to broadcast it to save time. Pardon my language. Sometimes words like these are the only ones that will work in wartime.
After almost four decades of a Cold War from the mid-1950s to 1991, and another 2 decades of Cold War 2.0, since the beginning of the year 2000, when Mr. Putin took over the Presidency of Russia...
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Matthew J.L. Ehret
Yesterday, I was invited by my friend Hrvoje Morik onto his new show on TNT Radio to discuss a short response to a new viral video that has been produced by James Corbett earlier this week.
Dear friends,
First, a small announcement: I am working with a few friends to try to get a daily "Operation Z SITREP" posted in our SITREP section. This would contain the latest news and the maps that so many like so much.
Noted military analyst and retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas MacGregor said in an interview posted online this week that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has already won the war in Ukraine in an assessment that differs widely from what is be
Noted military analyst and retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas MacGregor said in an interview posted online this week that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin has already won the war in Ukraine in an assessment that differs widely from what is be
Russia -- In February 2021, longtime CIA asset Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 2.8 years imprisonment for multiple breaches of his suspended sentence for embezzling millions of dollars for self-enrichment.
In this short clip from an interview with Donna Fiducia and Doug Neuen of CowboyLogic.us, Lara Logan outlines her brutally honest perspective on why Ukraine is so important to people in power within the DC system.
Centuries ago, whenever Kings and Queens wanted to quietly wage an unofficial war against their enemies, they issued something called a "Letter of Marque" to private sailors known as Privateers.
A Russian court on Tuesday convicted top opposition leader Alexei Navalny of fraud and contempt of court, sentencing him to nine more years in prison in a move that was seen as an attempt to keep President Vladimir Putin's biggest foe behind bars f
"Zelensky's move back from his demand that all Ukrainian territory be given back to the country; specifically, Zelensky seems ready to cede claims on Crimea and Donbas to Russia."