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Jun 10 2025 
How to fact-check Techno-Feudalism?
There are auspicious signs on the other side of dystopia. And right here in Russia.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Global Digital Forum last week in delightful Nizhny Novgorod represented a landmark in the quest for a more equitable media landscape across the whole Global South.
Pride of place was taken by a new… Continue reading
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Jun 10 2025 
Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Security Council via videoconference.
[Ed Note: President Putin started with Russian values and zeitgeist. Reading this, one cannot help but inadvertently compare with the flat, dead, and blasted utter low-level harshness and hatred decorated with unalloyed extreme insults that we have seen coming out of the West. It is a comparison of barbarism vs cultured sovereign civilization. Russia does… Continue reading
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Jun 09 2025 
Larry Johnson : Live from Moscow: What the Russians Are Thinking
This is important referencing a discussion with Mr Lavrov with journalists and commentators. Larry Johnson in this conversation confirms that the Special Military Operation (SMO) is changing to a Counter Terrorism Operation (CTO). This message is now slowly sinking in among the commentators. Senior Ukrainian officials are targeted. https://sovereignista.com/2025/06/07/russia-ukraine-nato-west/
The Judge is… Continue reading
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Jun 09 2025 
Alastair Crooke : Moscow’s Silence/Moscow’s Threats
Alastair with the Judge.
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Jun 09 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s comments: Forum of the Future 2050
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Forum of the Future 2050.
The best diplomats in the Ukrainian conflict are Russian soldiers on the front line, they are fighting for the truth and honor of people;
There is new information and context in Lavov’s remarks and I encourage you to take a listen. Plan B did… Continue reading -
Jun 09 2025 
Siberianisation and the Pursuit of a New Civilisational Platform
A Third Interview with Prof. Sergey A. Karaganov
– Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan – Al Mayadeen English
Introduction
Following our first two interviews here and here, we wish to turn once again to esteemed luminary, political scientist and senior political advisor, Professor Sergey A. Karaganov* to discuss the topics of Russia’s historic civilisations, Siberia and the process… Continue reading
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Jun 08 2025 
Caption This
(Mine) Metropolitan Kirill: “Lord have Mercy. Did he really ask, “…why were the Oreshniks not released as the US & Tel Aviv saw this move as weak. Why did it not happen and will it happen?” Son, this venue ain’t the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). And no worldly weapon is gonna win this War”
Background:
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Jun 07 2025 
Russia / Ukraine, NATO, West
Comments drawing together the events of the past week. What is real and what is not.
Shortly before a meeting between Russia and Ukraine negotiators in Istanbul on June 2, Ukraine carried out an overnight terrorism attack on May 31. An automotive bridge collapsed in the Bryansk Region. The bridge and a truck driving across… Continue reading
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Jun 05 2025 
Does Russia ride a Paper Tiger?
“weak leaderships bring calamities on nations”
Amb. Bhadrakumar explores the deeper psycho-geopolitical questions we all ponder. The western assessment is that “Putin shies away from taking tough decisions.” Russia was bearded in their own den, shown by the perpetrators of the strategic bomber bases attack to be perhaps riding a paper tiger, and are now under… Continue reading
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Jun 04 2025 
Trump says he spoke to Putin about Ukrainian attacks
The US president has described the phone call as “a good conversation”
https://www.rt.com/news/618661-trump-putin-phone-call/
US President Donald Trump has said he held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to discuss the Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian airbases.
Ukrainian drones hit multiple Russian airbases on Monday in a coordinated assault. Targets ranged from Murmansk in… Continue reading
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Jun 03 2025 
Release the Oreshniks
Russian public opinion is becoming seriously fed up with being the target of serial terror attacks. The hour of fateful decision is getting late.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was the mood in informed Moscow – only a few hours before the renewed Istanbul kabuki on Russia-Ukraine “negotiations”. Three key points.
The attack… Continue reading
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Jun 02 2025 
Lavrov: Creation of independent foreign trade mechanisms becoming dominant
MOSCOW, June 2. /TASS/. The task of strengthening Russia’s economic and technological sovereignty, including through the creation of independent foreign trade mechanisms, is becoming dominant now, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“The tasks of further strengthening of Russia’s economic and technological sovereignty, including through the creation of mechanisms for servicing foreign trade independent of external pressure,… Continue reading
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Jun 01 2025 
Russia’s goodwill is exhausted
This is a quote from an article by Kirill Strelnikov at Ria Novosti. This is not particularly special or marvellous commentary, but it is typical of Russian commentary in their major media outlets. Underneath, though, Russians are growling and beginning to bay for blood after the latest strikes. I cannot see that there will be… Continue reading
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May 31 2025 
The USSR can only be restored by reviving socialism
Featured Image: Ilya Repin’s painting “Barge Haulers on the Volga” (1870-73)
We know from other sources that Russia has been seeking for a deep representation of what they are. There is a new search for an identity that is expressed in a shorter slogan. The best way to explain it is to point… Continue reading
