Natasha Wright

Davos annual meeting comes across as rather outdated and obsolete with its now heavily tarnished global image all the more so.

While geopolitics is threatening to deal a heavy blow and most probably demolish the world created in the cauldrons of Davos, as has the  Financial Times voiced their concerns, and surely not without a series of justifiable reasons, one of the unexpected leaders of the Global South, Indian PM  Narenda Modi, rebelliously self-confident, said in his address to the world: "Our time is yet to come.

Martin Jay

The latest media gimmick - tanks - will only place NATO on a higher elevation to fall from, that is of course if the tanks themselves even arrive in Ukraine and are not sold on the black market

The latest media gimmick - tanks - will only place NATO on a higher elevation to fall from, that is of course if the tanks themselves even arrive in Ukraine and are not sold on the black market

Pepe Escobar

Sit back, relax and enjoy a race to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The only question is who will get there first: the EU, NATO, or both.

One may be excused to imagine all sorts of amusement games unrolling at the HQ of the Russian General Staff as The Empire and NATO go literally bonkers. What crazy stunt will they come up with next - short of WWIII?

Here is a  delightful put down of NATO's dementia praecox.

I like Gonzalo Lira's videos A LOT, but today I am posting one without seeing it (I don't have the time), so I cannot say that I approve (or disapprove) of what he says. If you disagree with X he says, please don't blame me :-) That being said, I am pretty sure that he will be spot on. Andrei

 2023.01.31 The Ukraine Conflict ?" A Primer

 thesaker.is

By Batiushka for the Saker blog

Foreword: Stop Living in the Past

Since the historic Special Military Operation to liberate the peoples of the Ukraine from their US puppet tyrants in Kiev began on 24 February 2022, the post-1945 settlement has been over. In fact, it should have been over with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 or, at latest, at the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. However, the USA was blinded by its exceptionalist hubris as 'the only Superpower' and engaged in its latest fantasy of destroying Islam, which it mistakenly saw as a serious rival, arrogantly dismissing Russia, China and India as minor players.

Par  Yumna Patel

Au lendemain du  massacre de Jénine et des fusillades de Jérusalem, les responsables du gouvernement israélien appellent à la violence répressive et aux punitions collectives, alors que les tensions sur le terrain ne montrent aucun signe d'apaisement.

Par  Karine Bechet-Golovko

L'Eglise orthodoxe ukrainienne du Patriarcat de Moscou est, en toute logique et conformément à l'histoire commune du territoire ukrainien avec la Russie depuis un millénaire, l'Eglise historique orthodoxe sur ce territoire. Après le Maïdan, les exactions commises contre l'Eglise orthodoxe canonique se sont démultipliées pour arriver aujourd'hui à un projet de loi déposé devant entraîner sa suppression.

Par  Children's Health Defense

Children's Health Defense (CHD) a intenté aujourd'hui une action en justice devant  le tribunal fédéral de Washington contre la Food and Drug Administration (FDA) afin d'obtenir des documents relatifs à la surveillance de la sécurité des vaccins  COVID-19 par l'agence via la base de données  VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System).

Par  Suzanne Burdick

Mercredi, Project Veritas a publié une vidéo d'un cadre de Pfizer admettant que l'entreprise discute en interne d'un moyen de "faire muter" le virus COVID-19 par "évolution dirigée" dans le but de "développer de manière préventive de nouveaux vaccins".

Le cadre, Jordon Trishton Walker, est un "Directeur de la recherche et du développement de Pfizer, Opérations stratégiques - Planificateur scientifique ARNm",  selon Project Veritas.

Par  Olivier Renault

Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, a remercié les pays occidentaux pour les nombreux véhicules blindés de transport de troupes et pour les missiles de défense aérienne que leurs dirigeants ont promis de livrer lors d'une réunion à Ramstein en Allemagne. «Je peux vous remercier des centaines de fois mais les centaines de mercis ne sont pas des centaines de chars», a-t-il déclaré, appelant à une livraison rapide de chars modernes aux forces de son pays.

Par  Alexandre Lemoine

Les gisements de titane représentent beaucoup d'intérêt pour les États-Unis car ils sont très demandés. Le titane a une importance décisive pour l'élaboration des technologies militaires avancées. Les États-Unis comptent recevoir d'Ukraine du titane pour leur industrie militaire.

topoï

Pluriel de topos. Désigne un arsenal de thèmes et d'arguments en rhétorique antique dans lequel puisait l'orateur afin d'emporter l'adhésion de ses auditeurs.

Contrairement aux hommes d'affaires, ils seraient créatifs, rebelles et géniaux à la fois. Anthony Galluzzo, maître de conférences à l'université de Saint-Étienne, expose dans Le Mythe de l'entrepreneur (Zones éditions, 2023) la construction médiatique entourant Steve Jobs et ses homologues.

 Ramzy Baroud

On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh, near Al-Khalil (Hebron). This is just the latest of a staggering number of violations against Palestinian journalists and freedom of expression.

A few days earlier, the head of the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate (PJS), Naser Abu Baker,  shared some tragic numbers during a press conference in Ramallah.

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

The other day I stumbled across a 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian titled " It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war" by Seumas Milne, who the following year would go on to become the Labour Party's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications under Jeremy Corbyn.

I bring this up because the perspectives you'll find in that article are jarring in how severely they deviate from anything you'll see published in the mainstream press about Ukraine in 2023.

W.J. ASTORE

Who determines U.S. foreign policy? The question seems simple enough. According to my go-to source, the AI chatbot ChatGPT,

U.S. foreign policy is made by the President, with the assistance and advice of the National Security Council and the State Department, and with the approval of Congress. The President has the power to negotiate treaties and executive agreements, and to appoint ambassadors, while Congress has the power to approve or reject treaties and executive agreements, and to confirm ambassadors.

Declan Hayes

Russia's pending Ukrainian victory will reverberate globally as well as more locally, Declan Hayes writes.

Russia's pending Ukrainian victory will reverberate globally as well as more locally. First off, once Odessa is secured, Zelensky's landlocked rump Reich will become just another Bosnia, dependent upon NATO handouts and sordid criminal enterprises for its survival. Poland will be lumbered not only with the millions of Ukrainian welfare migrants who have already set up shop there but with tens of millions more Ukrainian free loaders, who view Poland as a gateway to richer pastures further west.

By  Ron Paul, MD

 Ron Paul Institute

January 31, 2023

Thanks to the latest release of the "Twitter Files," we now know without a doubt that the entire "Russia disinformation" racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push "regime change" inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

By  Ron Unz

 The Unz Review

January 31, 2023

Covid and the Rise of the Anti-Vaxxing Movement

Until the last year or two, I'd never paid any attention to the anti-vaxxing movement, which very occasionally  received some coverage in my newspapers.

By Caitlin Johnstone
 CaitlinJohnstone.com

January 31, 2023

If you say you oppose Russia because you're an anti-imperialist but you don't oppose the US empire for its role in  starting and  perpetuating this war, then you're a liar.

By Douglas Macgregor
 The American Conservative

January 31, 2023

Until it decided to confront Moscow with an existential military threat in Ukraine,  Washington confined the use of American military power to conflicts that Americans could afford to lose, wars with weak opponents in the developing world from Saigon to Baghdad that did not present an existential threat to U.S.