When the Soviet Union collapsed, in addition to economic factors, a new deadly virus of unipolar hegemony infected the Washington elites

The clear and present danger of nuclear escalation that once lurked over the civilised world’s head has dissipated into the ether, and the nonchalant manner that the world has adopted toward it raises many questions, Stewart Mackinnon writes.

The Israel-Hamas war has forced Russia into a delicate balancing act, with Moscow urging a quick end to the fighting without apportioning blame.

It is astonishing how quickly Western attention shifted from the war in Ukraine to the war in Israel. As I noted in some recent interviews, Ukraine’s Zelensky is frightened and stunned by this reversal and is trying desperately to stay relevant and attract Western attention. Good luck with that. The media prefers to focus on the new narrative of Arab hordes sweeping down on Israeli civilians rather than try to come up with excuses for Ukraine’s failure to even breach the first line of the Surovikin defense. One visible sign of Zelensky’s panic — he changed his wardrobe. Now, when he appears in public, instead of wearing his Fidel Castro costume (i.e., sporting an Army green t-shirt or sweatshirt and tactical pants) he is now outfitted like a younger, shorter version of Johnny Cash. Black is his new fashion choice.

We do live in a tragic world. Certain periods lift the curtain, that we throw over this fact and reveal it to us, until we decide to turn the other way again.

Until now Russia has never been so silent in the middle of a Middle Eastern war.

The Alt-Media Community is lying about the Kremlin’s balanced policy towards the latest conflict just as much as the Mainstream Media is, albeit from the diametrically opposite position of falsely disassociating Russia from Israel while their putative rivals seek to falsely associate it with terrorism.

Israeli military needs could compete with Kyiv for US supplies. Russia hopes Israel turmoil will distract allies from Ukraine

The current political and moral discourse is full of expressive vocabulary: enemies of freedom and democracy, fascists, aggressors, terrorists, extremists, racists, renegades, reactionaries, liars, villains, defectors, useful and useless idiots.

The arrest of US regime change operatives in Tbilisi suggests a coup against Georgia’s government could be in the works. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive fails, the West appears eager to open a new front in its proxy war.