Chess board

Powers shaping our world

Zbigniew Brzezinski referred to it as the “grand chessboard”. If Alexander, Caesar, and Elizabeth I shaped the board and the pieces, the US currently writes the rules and issues the currency. The monied, mighty and privileged play in exclusive locales. We may study or ignore it or not even know of it, but no one, anywhere, lives or dies untouched by their game.

 

 

 


 

Finian Cunningham - 23 September 2023

The European Union, which has become a virtual clone of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, is erecting a new Iron Curtain across the continent – more than 30 years since the Cold War supposedly...

Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi - 21 September 2023

Addressing the 78th session of the UNGA, President Rayeesi stated that the world is irreversibly transitioning into a novel order and the Western domination equation does not work anymore. "The old...

Declan Hayes - 20 September 2023

NATO’s efforts to destroy Russia’s Black Sea fleet is a practice run to destroy China’s. Although some of the soldiers guiding those air and sea drones towards Crimea may be Ukrainians, most of them...

Alastair Crooke - 20 September 2023

A quiet ‘watershed’ moment has passed. It was nothing ‘splashy’; many perhaps barely noticed; yet significant it truly was. The G20 did not descend into the expected sordid confrontation, with the...

Caitlin Johnstone - 16 September 2023

The US won WW2 and then immediately plunged into the Cold War. The US won the Cold War and then immediately set to work destroying the Middle East. The US destroyed the Middle East and then...

Strategic Culture Foundation Editor - 16 September 2023

Western news media have become a parody of misreporting, misinformation and outright imperialist propaganda. Nobody of sound mind can take their claims seriously anymore. This week such media...

Graeme MacQueen - 11 September 2023

Redacted is proud to present “Peace, War and 9/11.” In this captivating documentary filmed six months before his passing, eminent scholar and lifelong peace activist Graeme MacQueen shares his final...

Strategic Culture Foundation Editor - 11 September 2023

By his own words, one can diagnose Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, as criminally insane. This week, America’s top diplomat was in Kiev for a two-day visit where he announced a new $ 1...

Strategic Culture Foundation Editor - 03 September 2023

This week saw widespread air strikes on the Russian Federation involving mass aerial drone attacks. Six regions were attacked including the capital, Moscow. Among the targets was the Kursk region...

Christopher Black - 31 August 2023

On Friday, August 18 th President Biden of the USA, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida met at Camp David, Maryland in the USA, to talk about concrete...

Veniamin Popov - 19 August 2023

The Western nations are currently concentrating their efforts on preserving their dwindling supremacy by primarily retaliating against the actions of their biggest rivals, Russia and China. At the...

Phil Butler - 13 August 2023

Recently, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the European Union should double its assistance to Ukraine. She went on to say the EU should create a support fund of...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 13 August 2023

I live in an Asia’s oldest democracy and right now we have a completely unelected President and a despised Parliament, and this is apparently democracy. Democracy™, a marketing exercise atop rank...

Declan Hayes - 07 August 2023

If you are thinking of using MI6 agent Volodymyr Zelensky’s name to manufacture or distribute “underwear, hats, video games, kitchen utensils and knives…. toilet brushes and loo roll holders”, don’t...

Roger Stoll - 06 August 2023

Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. China, we are told, spies on us...

James Howard Kunstler - 06 August 2023

“There is only one way to explain this shambles: Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party’s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its...

Strategic Culture Foundation Editor - 29 July 2023

The Russia-Africa summit this week could not have been held at a more timely juncture in international relations. The event symbolizes seminal global change, which ultimately heralds a better future...

Mike Adams with Dr. Chris Martenson - 21 July 2023

Dr. Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity talks with Mike Adams about currency, ENERGY, supply chains and how this chapter of history ends in catastrophe.

Michael Hudson - 20 July 2023

Michael Hudson [Intro/Music]: America cannot re-industrialize without reversing this whole philosophy of post-industrial society as a class war against labor. You can’t have both. You can’t have a...

Alastair Crooke - 18 July 2023

Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself , bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century.

Strategic Culture Foundation Editor - 15 July 2023

NATO statements of hostility towards Russia this week demonstrate beyond all doubt that a Cold War mindset among Western leaders is entrenched more than ever. There is a weird sense of going back in...

Edward Curtin - 10 July 2023

Social psychosis is widespread. In the words of the British psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the...

Indrajit Samarajiva - 28 June 2023

After COVID-19, US life expectancy has fallen and it can’t get up. Americans lost a full three years of life, on average, placing them well below China. Same level as Sri Lanka, actually. At the...

Declan Hayes - 20 June 2023

Russian President Putin recently wondered why the European Union no longer produces leaders of the calibre of former French President Jacques Chirac who, Putin recounted, had previously explained to...

Alastair Crooke - 20 June 2023

The Tragedy that besets the West today consists, on the one hand, of the sheer impossibility for it to continue doing what it has been doing – yet matched only by its impossibility to do anything...

Christopher Black - 18 June 2023

The United States of America is at war with Russia. There is not much point in using terms such as “proxy war” to describe the situation. If a belligerent in a war is acting as a proxy for another...

James Howard Kunstler - 13 June 2023

“You give me a piece of ground and a sword and I am going to take back this country with your help and the help of all the homeless Democrats and Republicans who are Americans first.” — Robert F....

Dimitri Simes Jr. & Michael Hudson - 11 June 2023

In this week’s episode of the New Rules podcast, host Dimitri Simes Jr. speaks with economist Michael Hudson about the Biden administration's 'class war' against working Americans, why US...

Charles Hugh Smith - 10 June 2023

Ours is a neofeudal economy of financial serfs in servitude to a Financial Aristocracy . The Financial Nobility / Aristocracy own all the debt and the serfs owe the debt to the Aristocracy.

Scott Ritter - 06 June 2023

At the end of April, my daughter Victoria and I departed New York City’s JFK airport, ultimately bound for the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, the first destination of what would be a 26-day, 12-city...

Christopher Black - 04 June 2023

n the 19 th of May, the Financial Times quoted the British Minister of Defense, Ben Wallace, stating that the West could face the threat of full-scale war with Russia and China by the end of the...

Daniel Kovalik - 04 June 2023

that the world is rebelling against the US, and Washington has nobody to blame but itself. In an interesting recent speech in Tallinn, Estonia, former White House official Fiona Hill showed that at...

Natasha Wright - 04 June 2023

The U.S. managed to establish dominance by resorting to soft power after attempting to destroy each and every country by use of hard power. We all sing multipolar world, multipolar world, multipolar...

Edward Curtin - 28 May 2023

We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti,...

Alastair Crooke - 21 May 2023

The economic forces – those post war strong tailwinds – that have shaped the last 35 years, and which accelerated gilded journeys through the western ‘plentiful era’, are no longer blowing in a...

Pepe Escobar - 16 May 2023

Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase...

Sputnik - 07 May 2023

In this episode of our fresh New Rules podcast we are joined by Pepe Escobar, Brazilian journalist, geopolitical analyst and author. Find out in the video: 🔹 how a multipolar world is established 🔹...

James Howard Kunstler - 07 May 2023

“Who would have thought in 2020 when they were voting for Joe, that they were voting for the most hardcore accelerationist collapsitarian candidate in history.” — Deep South SR on Twitter The...

Christopher Black - 06 May 2023

The Chinese ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, in a long and wide-ranging interview with a journalist on the French television news channel LCI, about world and Chinese affairs, stated, in response to...

John Pilger - 04 May 2023

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...