"A new Eurasia-led order encompassing the vast majority of the world’s population is a work in fast progress," says Pepe Escobar in this his latest article. 'Iran-Russia hit maximum strategy' - Pepe Escobar at The Cradle There is scant reference, other than in derisory terms, to the mostly dreamed up and supposedly current US-led world... Continue Reading →
Airing the Dirty Laundry in Public
This is a disguised element of the Russia-US 'High Noon' imbroglio series I have been doing. I waited until after midnight to post this as I wanted it to carry a date of Jan 23 as my first post of the new day. With the rate at which things are developing, there may be more.... Continue Reading →
Don’t Forget Syria
Rarely do I watch or listen to any online documentary interview (I think, showing my age, they are called 'podcasts' these days), even when accompanied by video, as this one is, but, released today by Aaron Maté, this interview with Australian academic Dr Tim Anderson, centred around the Syrian situation and probably prompted by the... Continue Reading →
Russia-US ‘High Noon’ Suffers Déjà Vu
Did last week actually exist? Are we now reliving it in a kind of surreal world where Catch 22 meets Groundhog Day(Week)? Is there any way out of this dilemma? Did not the US promise just over a week ago to provide Russia with written responses to its security proposals by next week (which is... Continue Reading →
United States Bull Shit Diplomacy (USBSD), or further abbreviated to USBS (since it is not limited to diplomacy)
Poor Sergei Lavrov and his colleagues in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They are obliged (sort of), by the rules of international diplomacy, to frequently sit and quietly listen to USBS - possibly several times a day, or at least several times a week - while trying to keep a serious face without smirking,... Continue Reading →
Interlude, Before Peace or War
Today, while we wait for the 'Afternoon Tea' to roll out and become history, I want to feature the latest post by Christopher Black, Canadian writer, who has just published an interesting piece on the same Russia-US imbroglio that has been my own focus for a while. And let's face it, what else is there... Continue Reading →
‘High Noon’ Devolves Into ‘Afternoon Tea’
I am going to continue what seems to be an emerging series of almost daily episodes of the Russia-US clash of wills - which yesterday a tired mind mistakenly termed a 'crash of wills'. I'm sure a crash will come eventually but, for now, the wills are simply clashing, or at least one side is... Continue Reading →
‘High Noon’ Defused – But What Awaits?
It is not really time for me to be writing about the situation brewing over the Russia vs West crash of wills. Events are moving too fast at the moment. Anything said could be out of date by the next day. And there you go, right after my previous post regarding Friday, Jan 21 'High... Continue Reading →
Is Friday, Jan 21, 2022, a US ‘High Noon’ Moment?
There has been plain talking - From Russia, and there has been Snake-oil Selling from three western 'used car dealers' [US, NATO, OSCE], but so far nothing material ...let's be more specific - no written response to Russia's plainly stated prerequisites ['demands' by any other name] for further dialog to take place, and to avoid... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 