Professor Kees van der Pijl: « NATO and the EU Will Dissolve! »

Mohsen Abdelmoumen Dutch professor Kees van der Pijl. D. R. How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries? Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You wrote the book translated into French: « Pandémie de la peur: projet totalitaire ou révolution? » (Pandemic of fear: totalitarian project or revolution?). In…

Russiagates Missing Pieces: What Was Not Said in the Durham Report?

Seymour Hersh Special Counsel John Durham in 2022. / Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images. The first thing to understand about John Durham is that he was a fearless prosecutor who went after organized crime and put in prison retired and active FBI agents who protected the mob for money or other enticements. One of the…

Fighting for the Russian World and All Humanity

Gennady Zyuganov The crisis of the liberal model of running the world was inevitable. I warned of its results and alarming challenges that would fill the new century twenty years ago. My book “Globalization and the Destiny of Humankind” which was published at the time has been translated into many languages. It provided a detailed…

Ukraine: The Moment of Truth – The West Refuses Peace

Thiery Meyssan You don’t know his face. But Li Hui is one of China’s most important diplomats. It was he who came to propose peace in Ukraine to the West. He was kindly received, but nobody listened to him. On behalf of China, Li Hui came to propose that the West make peace in Ukraine…

Ukraine: The Moment of Truth

Theiry Meyssan President Zelensky arrives in Japan on May 20, 2023, for the G7 summit. Since February 24, 2022, the eyes of the world have been on the Ukrainian conflict. The West is supporting Kiev financially, delivering incredible quantities of arms and ammunition, but is careful not to get directly involved in the theater of…

NATO is Creating Another Battlefield on the European Continent

Global Times Europe deeply split on warmongering NATO Illustration: Liu Rui/GT As the Russia-Ukraine crisis drags on, NATO has become the pronoun of destabilizer of regional security. The situation in the Balkans is now at an explosive point. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, clashed with Serb protesters on Monday. The tension arose after…

The G7, Economic Coercion and the Art of Projection

In this article for the Morning Star, Carlos Martinez addresses the “stunning hubris and hypocrisy of the imperialist powers” in accusing China of economic coercion. He points out that G7 states are all involved in multiple forms of economic coercion, and that the US is the world’s sanctions superpower, imposing unilateral economic sanctions on nearly 40…

Erdogan’s Mediatory Role on Ukraine Cannot Be Wished Away

M. K. Bhadrakumar Jubilant crowds outside the Presidential Complex to celebrate President Recep Erdogan’s election victory, Ankara, May 28, 2023 Among the host of implications for international security stemming out of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s election victory in the runoff on Sunday — be it in the Black Sea, Eastern Mediterranean, Transcaucasus, West Asia or Eurasian integration…

African Unity and the New Cold War

Abayomi Azikiwe Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent Note: These remarks were made by the author at the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (PASCF) Afrikan Liberation Day webinar held on Sat. May 27, 2023. The event was hosted by PASCF organizers in Britain under the theme of “Acknowledging Our Shared…

Post-Bakhmut Scenario in Ukraine War

M. K. Bhadrakumar Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (L) met US President Joe Biden at Hiroshima, Japan, on May 21, 2023 Ukraine President Zelensky and US President Biden met on the sideline of the G7 Summit at Hiroshima within hours of the statement  from the Kremlin at 1 am last Sunday, transmitting President Vladimir Putin’s greetings to the Russian…

American Elites Are Starting to Concede that the World is Rebelling Against the US

Dan Kovalik A demonstrator sets fire to a United States flag hanging on a paper statue, symbolizing that, US backed militarism during the massacre of students in 1975, El Salvador, 2021. © Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images In an interesting recent speech in Tallinn, Estonia, former White House official Fiona Hill showed that at least someone…

Britain at War: Provoking the Consequences

Christopher Black On the 19th of May, the Financial Times quoted the British Minister of Defense, Ben Wallace, stating that the West could face the threat of full-scale war with Russia and China by the end of the decade and proclaimed defence preparation a paramount task for Western countries. One has to wonder what universe Mr….

Eurasian Heartland Rises to Challenge the West

Pepe Escobar President Xi Jinping telling President Putin at the end of their summit last March in Moscow that we’re now facing “great changes not seen in a century” directly applies to the new spirit reigning across the Heartland. Cue to the China-Central Asia summit last week in Xian, the former imperial capital, where Xi…

The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Jeffrey Sachs A Ukrainian Army self-propelled 122mm Howlitzer fires on a Russian position on February 18, 2023 near Bakhmut, Ukraine. The army’s 93rd Brigade’s heavy artillery is a main element of the Ukrainian defense of the city, which is under heavy attack by Russian forces.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) By recognizing that the question…

Belgorod Raid: Why are Russian Neo-Nazis Fighting Putin?

Paul Robinson Pro-Ukrainian Russian fighters at a press conference after completing their Belgorod Oblast raid. Photo courtesy the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (UNIAN)/Wikimedia Commons. As so often, the reality is more complex than headlines would suggest The war between Russia and Ukraine escalated further this week when two armed groups crossed from Ukraine into the…

The Day After the Dollar

Emanuel Pietrobon In a growingly multipolar world, where the United States is slowly ceasing to be the primary pole of power, it is not strange, but absolutely normal and physiological, to witness a worldwide process of reserve currency diversification, writes Valdai Club expert Emanuel Pietrobon. Brazil and China have recently struck a multi-billion-dollar currency swap agreement…

De-dollarisation Clashes with India-China Border Dispute

Saheli Chowdhury The global de-dollarisation trend is not totally a bed of roses, or at least there are thorns in the roses that have to be taken into account. While de-dollarisation seems to be an irreversible trend on the global scale, at regional levels it is running into bilateral or regional political tensions. In this…