ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—As UN inspectors sought to avert a nuclear disaster on Ukraine’s frontline, the West and Russia wounded each other’s economies, with Moscow keeping its main gas pipeline to Germany shut on Saturday while threatened with price caps on oil exports. Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical fault in the Nord Stream 1 […]
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Russia, West Step Up Energy War as Risk of Nuclear Disaster Haunts Ukraine
Scheer Intelligence: What Democrats Did To Welfare Haunts Them
Above photo: Lawyer and former member of the Clinton administration, Peter Edelman. Georgetown University Law. On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” the former Clinton administration official examines how Americans are still tormented by the specter of President Bill Clinton’s worst domestic policy failure. A recent piece in the Washington Post titled “Welfare rolls decline during the […]
The risk that haunts the great powers: the ghost of rebellions
December 15, 2020 By Fabio Reis Vianna for the Saker Blog In a recent article published in the American magazine Foreign Affairs, Christorpher Layne, professor of international relations at the University of Texas, defends the thesis that a hegemonic war between the United States and China, if tensions escalate at the current pace, is not […]
Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too. Biden’s foreign policy team will also need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious […]
The Specter Of A Fascist Coup By Trump Haunts The US
By Roger Harris, Popular Resistance. August 18, 2020 | Educate! There’s Worse To Worry About. Spreading faster than COVID-19 among those on the portside, warnings of a fascist-style coup by Trump are rampant this presidential campaign season. Should Trump fail to carry the Electoral College, Noam Chomsky admonishes, “he could send Blackshirts out in the […]
Breaking: Syrian Army’s 100-hour ghost offensive haunts jihadists out of south Aleppo
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:20 P.M.) – In an avalanche of major advances throughout Aleppo province’s southern countryside over the last four days, the Syrian Arab Army and allied pro-government militias have chased armed Islamist groups from virtually the entire region. Syrian army-led forces have swept armed rebel factions from southern Aleppo like a specter, blitzing through […]
‘Who is in that plane?’ Bombing trauma haunts children brought home to Russia from Iraq
5 Russian-speaking children orphaned in Iraq brought back home to Russia There were joyous scenes earlier this week when five children, including the two sisters Khadija and Fatima, arrived on a plane to Grozny and were embraced by their families. But after witnessing terror, the deaths of their parents and spending time in a Baghdad […]
The Indefensible Hiroshima Revisionism That Haunts America To This Day
Above Photo: A Japanese soldier walks through a leveled area in Hiroshima, Japan in September of 1945, one month after the detonation of a nuclear bomb above the city. From a series of U.S. Navy photographs depicting the suffering and ruins that resulted from the blast. (U.S. Department of Navy) Seventy years ago this week we […]
“I Was Wrong”: Judge Admits Jailing People for Pot “Haunts” Him After Cannabis Saved His Life
June 29, 2017 By Matt Agorist Prior to this year, the state of Florida was regarded as one of the worst possible states to be caught in possession of cannabis. According to a 2009 analysis by former NORML Director, Jon Gettman, no state in this country punished people more severely for minor marijuana offenses […]
Virginia Issues Violation Notice To Dominion For Spill
Print Friendly Above Photo: We Are Cove Point RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Virginia environmental regulators are issuing a notice of violation to Dominion Virginia Power for a mineral oil spill that fouled a portion of the Potomac River in northern Virginia. The notice issued Friday by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality is a first step […]
“SAVE OUR SOULS. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AND WOMEN. LEAVE US SURVIVE IN PEACE.”-WORDS OF A TERRORIZED AL-ZAHRA’A RESIDENT
Eva Bartlett Saed Mutanus al-Khashoof, from the Christian village of Sadad but living in al-Zahra’a, killed in today’s terrorist explosions. (via Homs News Network) The terror-ravaged neighbourhood of al-Zahra’a, in Homs, has again mercilessly been hit by western&saudi-backed terrorists’ bombings. Local journalists put the number of murdered at 57 now, some hours after the double-vehicle […]
Why Alexander Litvinenko Assassination Haunts Anglo-Russian Relations
By Trowbridge H. Ford In explaining or assessing any intelligence operation or series of them, it is most important to determine not only what was being attempted, and also by whom, especially if they are suspected of having dubious reliability. Then the explanation may well be just another cover story, and its real outcome far […]