Does the US face a bottomless pit of military aid as Ukraine crisis drags on? - Global Times
▻https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1270260.shtml
Does the US face a bottomless pit of military aid as Ukraine crisis drags on? - Global Times
▻https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1270260.shtml
Centre Français de Recherche sur le RenseignementAnalyse de la crise ukrainienne » Centre Français de Recherche sur le Renseignement
▻https://cf2r.org/tribune/analyse-de-la-crise-ukrainienne
De l’effondrement allemand et des conséquences à en tirer pour la France – par Edouard Husson – Le Courrier des Stratèges
▻https://lecourrierdesstrateges.fr/2022/07/13/de-leffondrement-allemand-et-des-consequences-a-en-tirer-pour
Nous ne sommes plus en démocratie. Mais comment ça s’appelle ? – Le Courrier des Stratèges
▻https://lecourrierdesstrateges.fr/2021/09/01/nous-ne-sommes-plus-en-democratie-mais-comment-ca-sappelle
Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place | naked capitalism
▻https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/michael-hudson-the-end-of-western-civilization-why-it-lacks-resilie
From Junk Economics to a False View of History: Where Western Civilization Took a Wrong Turn | Michael Hudson
▻https://michael-hudson.com/2022/07/from-junk-economics-to-a-false-view-of-history-where-western-civiliz
The World Needs Russia to Win the Conflict in Ukraine. Here’s Why? | by John Wight | Statecraft and Global Affairs | Jun, 2022 | Medium
▻https://medium.com/statecraft-and-global-affairs/the-world-needs-russia-to-win-the-conflict-in-ukraine-heres-why-c4e8ec9c82e9
The key point is that all through history it has only been when the major powers have come to understand that none — whether alone or as part of a bloc or alliance — has the power and ability to attain domination over the other that there have been sustained periods of peace and stability. Today is no different.
Techno-fascisme : Big brother va se déplacer avec vous. – Le blog de Liliane Held-Khawam
▻https://lilianeheldkhawam.com/2022/07/10/techno-fascisme-big-brother-va-se-deplacer-avec-vous
Opinion | Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster | Jeffrey D. Sachs
▻https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/28/ukraine-latest-neocon-disaster
Woke Imperium : The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism - The Institute for Peace and Diplomacy - l’Institut pour la paix et la diplomatie
▻https://peacediplomacy.org/2022/06/27/woke-imperium-the-coming-confluence-between-social-justice-and-neoco
The ‘Wrong’ Turning Brings on the ‘Fourth Turning’ — Strategic Culture
▻https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/04/the-wrong-turning-brings-on-fourth-turning
▻https://www.strategic-culture.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Crooke-600x600.jpg
Are the Covid mRNA Vaccines Safe? ⋆ Brownstone Institute
▻https://brownstone.org/articles/are-the-covid-mrna-vaccines-safe
Fraiman and colleagues have produced the best evidence yet regarding the overall safety of the mRNA vaccines. The results are concerning. It is the responsibility of the manufacturers and FDA to ensure that benefits outweigh harms. They have failed to do so.
Big Tech isn’t Woke. It’s Totalitarian.
▻https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/big-tech-isnt-woke-its-totalitarian
Ukraine : des armes à gogo pour nourrir de nouveaux conflits dans le monde | FranceSoir
▻https://www.francesoir.fr/politique-monde/ukraine-des-armes-gogo-pour-nourrir-de-nouveaux-conflits-dans-le-monde
▻https://www.francesoir.fr/sites/default/files/2022-06/Armes+Ukraine.jpg
Ukraine : sortir de la guerre élaborée depuis 2014, ou l’opportunisme de Joe Biden | FranceSoir
▻https://www.francesoir.fr/opinions-tribunes/ukraine-sortir-de-la-guerre-elaboree-depuis-2014-ou-lopportunisme-de-joe-
SARS-2 Didn’t Care About DDR Borders Until the Vaccines
▻https://www.eugyppius.com/p/sars-2-didnt-care-about-ddr-borders
Lower vaccine uptake in the former DDR led to higher rates of natural immunity as infections surged in the Delta wave of Fall 2021. What is more, the first Omicron lineages already had a slight preference for the vaccinated, which seems to have only grown more pronounced with BA.5. No DDR Effect is visible anywhere in the German data prior to mass vaccination and Omicron. It is not an artefact of demographics or population density or anything else. If it were, we would’ve seen it before December 2021.
Pause for Thought: Money without Value in a Rapidly Disintegrating World - The Philosophical Salon
▻https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/pause-for-thought-money-without-value-in-a-rapidly-disintegra
The elementary reason for this course of events is that the closer the system gets to collapse, the more it requires exogenous crises to distract and manipulate populations, while deferring its downfall and laying the ground for its authoritarian changeover.
The current grotesque overvaluation of all risk assets (stocks, bonds and property) suggests that the elites will continue to use their political playbook to buy more time and postpone the bursting of a debt bubble they began to inflate years before Covid and Putin became favourite scapegoats.
This perverse situation must be developed into its proper dialectical conclusion: the only way to put an end to the destructive succession of emergencies is to put an end to the self-destructive capitalist logic that feeds them.
Joining the dots means understanding that the purpose of the Ukrainian emergency is to keep the money printer switched on while blaming Putin for worldwide economic downturn.
Crucially, they know what to most of us appears counterintuitive: that the breakdown of our obsolete mode of production can only be delayed through 1) A steady stream of global emergencies, 2) The controlled inflationary demolition of the increasingly unproductive real economy, and 3) The authoritarian makeover of liberal democracy.
The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages | Michael Hudson
▻https://michael-hudson.com/2022/06/the-feds-austerity-program-to-reduce-wages
To Wall Street and its backers, the solution to any price inflation is to reduce wages and public social spending. The orthodox way to do this is to push the economy into recession in order to reduce hiring. Rising unemployment will oblige labor to compete for jobs that pay less and less as the economy slows.
Biden’s cabinet depicts this New Cold War as a fight of the “democratic” United States privatizing economic planning in the hands of the largest banks “too big to fail” and other members of the neo-rentier class, in opposition to “autocratic” China and even Russia treating banking and money creation as a public utility to finance tangible economic growth, not financialization.
Omicron BA.5 Prefers Hypervaccinated Masking West Germans, Avoids the Former DDR
▻https://www.eugyppius.com/p/omicron-ba5-prefers-hypervaccinated
East Germans have direct experience with government propaganda, and have proven more resistent to the vaccination campaign than Westerners. Their reward, after being much maligned by state media, is now higher levels of natural immunity and lower rates of BA.5 infection, which appears to prefer vaccinated populations.
Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over - Project Syndicate op-ed - Yanis Varoufakis
▻https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2021/07/05/techno-feudalism-is-taking-over-project-syndicate-op-ed
Today, the global economy is powered by the constant generation of central bank money, not by private profit. Meanwhile, value extraction has increasingly shifted away from markets and onto digital platforms, like Facebook and Amazon, which no longer operate like oligopolistic firms, but rather like private fiefdoms or estates.
Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7, by Pepe Escobar - The Unz Review
▻https://www.unz.com/pescobar/behind-the-tin-curtain-brics-vs-nato-g7
The EC is totally outside of any sort of control. That’s how a stunning mediocrity like Ursula von der Leyen – previously the worst Minister of Defense of modern Germany – was catapulted upwards to become the current EC Fuhrer, dictating their foreign, energy and even economic policy.
Facebook, other tech giants censor facts about climate change
▻https://nypost.com/2022/02/07/facebook-other-tech-giants-censor-facts-about-climate-change
Tellingly, all this censorship is focused on one side: Activists can claim climate-change effects are far worse than they really are, with little or no suppression. In other words: Inconvenient facts get blocked, but convenient mistruths and exaggerations thrive.
Thread by culturaltutor: How to be a Stoic: (and why you can’t actually be... - PingThread
▻https://pingthread.com/thread/1541587978249797635
And this is why you cannot be a Stoic. You’ve got do it.
Le sabordage de la paix en Europe, par Thierry Meyssan
▻https://www.voltairenet.org/article217442.html
The wind blows eastwards, the Saudis know it | Al Mayadeen English
▻https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/the-wind-blows-eastwards-the-saudis-know-it
▻https://media-en.almayadeen.net/archive/image/2022/6/26/f72ef639-8e7a-4499-a8e4-643f9f767829.png?v=2&width=600
So Biden’s trip is to ask the Saudis to keep buying US Treasuries with their accrued profits arising from high oil prices. For, should the US lose the power of the dollar as global collateral - to commodities as collateral - then its [the American] economy and markets would soon follow.