Grand Archive: The Energy Crisis: A Cold Winter Ahead for Europe and Syria

The Energy Crisis: A Cold Winter Ahead for Europe and Syria

By Steven Sahiounie, August 25, 2022

While the world has sympathy for the plight of E uropeans facing a cold winter because of their energy crisis, Syrians have been suffering a lack of energy since 2011. The European energy crisis is based partly on politics, but the Syrian energy crisis is caused exclusively by the US-NATO political attack on Syria for regime change.

Erdogan Repairs Syria Ties with Eye on Eurasianism

By M. K. Bhadrakumar, August 26, 2022

Erdogan has his finger on many pies — from the Balkans to North Africa and Persian Gulf to the Caucasus — but what concerns him most is the situation in Syria, which has serious implications as he prepares to seek a renewed mandate. For Erdogan, Syria is like a Matryoshka doll — a set of problems of decreasing size placed one inside another. Who else but Putin could understand a Matryoshka doll better?

“Economic Warfare” Directed Against China? The Shanghai “COVID Zero Tolerance Mandate”

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 25, 2022

Most analysts and historians fail to understand that starting in the early 1980s, China has become a full fledged capitalist country. There are powerful US business interests including Big Pharma, major hi-tech companies, banking institutions which are firmly entrenched inside China. The United States has faithful allies within China’s business establishment as well as among academics, scientists, medical doctors who tend to be “pro-American”.

How US and Allied News-media Deceive the Public, to Believe What the Government Wants Them to Believe

By Eric Zuesse, August 25, 2022

One prominent way that the U.S. regime and its allies (or vassal-nations) deceive the public is by false headlines that often don’t even represent the news-report fairly or at all. A good recent example of this was a 23 August 2022 Reuters report headlined “Analysis: As Ukraine war drags on, Europe’s economy succumbs to crisis”.

Africa Is Not For Sale: Sixteen SADC African Nations Reject “Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act” (H.R. 7311)

By Kester Kenn Klomegah, August 25, 2022

The Southern African Development Community (SADC), during its 42nd Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government held on 17 and 18 August at Palais du Peuple (Parliament Building), vehemently expressed their collective opposition to a proposed United States law on countering Russian influence and activities in Africa.

Global Economic Depression: U.K. “Sharpest Economic Contraction” Since 1709. European Economies in Straightjacket

By Drago Bosnic, August 25, 2022

The United Kingdom is currently going through the sharpest economic contraction in the last 313 years. According to Reuters, this is the country’s worst recorded fall in output in more than three centuries. Since 2020, the UK broke this unflattering record multiple times, first after it faced the severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, then after the fallout of the suicidal anti-Russian sanctions started to kick in.

European Central Bank (ECB) Says Cash ‘Not Fit’ for Digital Economy, Dismisses CBDC Privacy Concerns

By Andrew Moran, August 25, 2022

In the digital economy, cash is no longer a useful tool, and a central bank digital currency (CBDC) is the “only solution” to continue the existing monetary system, according to a new paper from the European Central Bank (ECB). The eurozone’s central bank recently published a paper titled “The Economics of Central Bank Digital Currency,” in which the authors assessed the implications for the financial system and examined data privacy and digital payments.