KEVIN MARTIN—Poor Rex Tillerson. Secretary of State must have sounded like an awesome job to the former Chairman and CEO of Exxon/Mobil, it certainly would to most people. The massive pay cut must have given him at least some pause, as he made more than $25 million in 2016.
VASSAL STATES
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Wherein Peter Koenig argues that nuclear war with Russia (or the Sino-Russian alliance) may not be in the cards for the US elites, but death by a thousand cuts of much of the world population might be the actual agenda.
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Russia responds to US program to deploy anti-missile system near its borders with a 100-megaton monster
13 minutes readALEX CHRISTOFOROU—Anyone who thinks a nuclear war can be waged without permanently polluting our planet should be put under psychiatric care. As crazy as this notion sounds, there are some senior US generals who share this view and, most likely, President Trump, the man with the big red button. Russia’s marshals are more cautious. They still see the scars of World War II, in which some 27 million Soviet civilians died, and know what war means.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The US oligarchs, the oligarch-owned media outlets, and the oligarch-aligned intelligence/defense agencies can’t just come right out and say “Hey America, we need to ensure our power structures remain unrivalled for the foreseeable future, so we’re going to have to try and shut down Russia’s influence using ever-tightening economic sanctions, NATO expansionism, proxy wars and troops along Russia’s border to squeeze them until they lose the capacity to interfere with our ability to crush China.
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The Saker: Uncle Sam dumps the Kurds (yet again)
21 minutes readTHE SAKER—The Trump Administration’s “strategy” (I am being very kind here) is to stir up as many conflicts in as many places of our planet as possible. The Empire thrives only on chaos and violence. The Russian response is the exact opposite: to try as best as can be to stop wars, defuse conflicts and create, if not peace, at least a situation of non-violence.