A “whole-of-society manipulation” is the aim of advanced psychological warfare; China’s use of this strategy against Taiwan is a prime example.
Putin killed Navalny? Nyet!
Putin had much to lose from Navalny’s death. Biden and Ukraine had much to gain.
Russia’s Rise
Do not poke the bear. The West may soon face the consequences for rousing the economic and military might of Russia.
The coming dismemberment of Ukraine
A bailout of Ukraine would benefit Wall Street and China’s investors.
Ukraine is winning
This is what winning looks like.
China is the winner in the Russia-Ukraine war
The US must remember that communist China is its greatest threat, and to resume its ‘pivot to Asia’ policy.
A 2nd Chernobyl
Who knows where the fallout from Zaporizhzhia, a nuclear power complex 50 percent larger than Chernobyl, might land?
Europe’s electorate is shifting on the Russia-Ukraine war
Although the public in Europe generally demonizes Putin and sympathizes with Ukraine, it understands its interests are tied to Russia.
Russia is a natural friend; China is not
Yes, Russia during its communist aberration over most of the 20th century was a Cold War adversary of the West, but as President Barack Obama correctly observed, those fixed on the Russia […]
Carbon credit rort has to stop
Turns out New Zealanders have been buying carbon credits from the Ukraine. In the wake of the country’s Climate Cheats scandal, Andrew Dickens, for New Zealand’s Newstalk ZB, calls out the Emissions Trading Scheme as “rortable”.
Russia’s rise
Far from being marginalized, Russia is winning friends and trading partners around the world.
Ukraine’s odious debts
Ukraine’s national news agency, Ukrinform, asked Probe International’s Patricia Adams to weigh in on Ukraine’s multibillion-dollar debt to Russia and whether Ukraine could challenge the enforceability of the US$3 billion Eurobond using an odious debts argument.
A new cold war? Hardly
Talk of a new Cold War is not only overblown but counterproductive to the West’s security interests.
West not blameless in Flight 17 disaster over Ukraine
The EU and especially the U.S. gave Putin fertile ground with which to exploit the ensuing mayhem of months of orchestrated anarchy.
Ukraine’s Odious Debts
(April 9, 2014) U.S. economist and columnist Irwin Stelzer draws on the doctrine of odious debts for his most recent opinion piece to suggest Ukrainian citizens repudiate public debt incurred by former regimes that instead of benefiting the people went to fund the “fancies” of the country’s “now-deposed gang of public- and private-sector cronies”.


