May, 2023

• 10 May

  Russia Looks East To Trade – Analysis

  

  On 31 March 2023, Russia published its new Foreign Policy Concept. Rapid growth in Asia has fuelled Russia’s drift toward the East and the pivot has now been integrated into official policy. This is a tectonic shift for Russia domestically but the material effects in Asia will be felt gradually. …

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• 10 May

  Wagner Chief Again Slams Russian Defense Ministry; Accuses Soldiers Of Fleeing

  

  Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin again accused the Russian Defense Ministry of failing to supply his mercenary fighters with enough ammunition and accused Russian troops of fleeing fighting around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Prigozhin’s comments, made in one of several messages released by his press service on May 9, …

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• 10 May

  The Military-Industrial Complex Is Now Scarily Huge – Analysis

  

  The military-industrial complex (MIC) that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warnedAmericans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact, it’s consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in his 1961 …

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• 10 May

  Putin’s parade on the street, green men in a chest

  Hooray – to doom! Moscow has had “cool” celebrations and a military parade. She was joined by Putin with rich fairy tales and classic demagoguery. In short – a perfect picture of the mental world of today’s Russia, which is plunging headlong into decline. Celebrations of victory in the Great …

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• 9 May

  Palestinians: More Human Rights Violations No One Talks About

  

  The failure [to report the deaths of two men in Hamas custody] underscores what appears their total lack of concern for the human rights of Palestinians living under the rule of Hamas…. The media seem more worried about the human rights of Palestinian terrorists than the rights of victims of …

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• 9 May

  Malicious Attacks on Veterans’ Benefits

  

  There is something uniquely despicable about a Democratic strategy in Congress that would turn the urgent need to cut waste in President Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion dollar budget into a political weapon by accusing the Republicans of seeking to cut veterans’ benefits. Let us start with the premise that …

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• 9 May

  Iran Says Ready To Arm Syria With Advanced Weapons

  

  Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani said Tehran is prepared to equip the Syrian military forces with sophisticated weapons and open “strategic defense gear” factories in the Arab country. The Iranian defense minister, who was accompanying the Iranian president during a visit to Syria last week, held a …

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• 9 May

  US Banking Crisis In A New Stage Of Contagion? – OpEd

  

  In view of the Fed, American banking crisis is over. Yet, US and European banks face the most acute stress since 2008 and 2011, respectively. Global economy is exposed to new headwinds. Last week, as the Federal Reserve pushed ahead with its 10th rate hike since last March, its chairman …

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• 9 May

  Fighting Rages In Bakhmut As Momentum Builds For Ukraine’s Counteroffensive – Analysis

  

  Along the northern flank of Ukrainian-controlled territory on the outskirts of the eastern city of Bakhmut, tank crews from the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade are waiting for the ground to dry up so they can begin a long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces. The tank operators continue to support Ukrainian infantry …

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• 9 May

  We Must Speak Up Before The Propagandists Get Their War With China – OpEd

  

  In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric …

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