January, 2022

• 31 January

  The Return Of Inflation In US And Western Europe

  

  Inflation was one of the landmark economic stories of the late 20th century. Mounting macroeconomic challenges in the 1960s led to the 1971 US decision to abandon the Bretton Woods standard and, along with oil market disruptions after 1973, unleashed the Great Inflation — an unprecedented price-wage spiral by postwar …

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• 31 January

  The Usual Suspects Are Pushing War With Russia

  

  Here we go again. Since the original Gulf War in 1991, a certain pattern has emerged. Every few years, the regime in Washington attempts to whip the American people into a frenzy so as to support the latest American invasion “necessary” for regime change, “spreading democracy,” or some other agenda …

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• 31 January

  Moscow, Kyiv Differ Over Goals In Relaunching Normandy Process – Analysis

  

  On January 26, in Paris, senior political advisors to the Russian, Ukrainian, German and French heads of state and government convened to “reanimate” (such is the term in circulation) the quadrilateral “Normandy” process of consultations. The meeting, lasting eight and a half hours (almost twice longer than anticipated), marks a …

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• 31 January

  Ukraine’s Zelensky to West: War Talk Is Causing Panic

  

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United States and other countries from the West to stop creating panic among Ukrainian citizens as the reports of an imminent invasion were leading Ukraine’s economy to potentially decline. “There are signals even from respected leaders of states; they just say that tomorrow …

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• 31 January

  Ukraine, NATO Differ On Imminence Of Russian Attack

  

  Ukraine’s leader and his defense and security aides are assessing Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s intentions differently from many of their Western counterparts. Are they just more stoical after eight years of persistent Russian provocations and a long-running war in eastern Ukraine—or are they misreading their Russian adversary? Washington and London …

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• 31 January

  The Challenge Of The Anglo-Saxon World Order

  

  Strategic bottlenecks in US domestic and foreign policy over the last decade sounded the alarm about an imminent world order change in Obama and Trump’s Presidency. The AUKUS Pact seems to be the way out of Washington and London’s strategic impasse of the post-World War II order which should begin …

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• 31 January

  US pledges to put Russia on defensive at UN Security Council

  

  The U.S. worked Sunday to ramp up diplomatic and financial pressure on Russia over Ukraine, promising to put Moscow on the defensive at the U.N. Security Council as lawmakers on Capitol Hill said they were nearing agreement on “the mother of all sanctions.” The American ambassador to the United Nations …

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• 31 January

  Top Russian and US officials likely to meet next week amid escalating threat to Ukraine

  

  As Russia continues to mass forces on its border with Ukraine, top Russian and U.S. diplomats are likely to meet this week in an effort to defuse the crisis. Republicans and Democrats appeared increasingly united in their efforts to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his forces, with …

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• 31 January

  Pentagon says Putin still adding Russian troops around Ukraine

  

  Russia further boosted troop levels on the Ukrainian border this weekend, adding to President Vladimir Putin’s options should he decide on a military incursion, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. “He can execute some of those options imminently,” Kirby said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Imminent means it could happen really, honestly, …

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• 31 January

  Meet the IDF Intelligence unit of elite mapping troops

  

  “With [our] technology, we are able to transmit intelligence to ground forces, and that is revolutionary.” In the small, nondescript building in central Tel Aviv sits one of the IDF’s most classified Military Intelligence units. It’s so bland compared to its surroundings that even those who live next door have …

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