Putin, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photograph Kremlin Ru, Public Domain …unless NATO carries out a pre-emptive strike by Richard Steinhardt We can all agree that the political situation in the world today is grave. Has the geopolitical situation ever been more precarious? The German leader, Chancellor Mertz, says he…
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3I/ATLAS
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3I ATLAS: Along Comes a Black Swan
Cited from A. Loeb: 3I/ATLAS from the Two-meter Twin Telescope in the Canary Islands, August 2, 2025. It shows a faint jet pointed towards the Sun, extending out to a projected distance of about 6,000 kilometers from the nucleus, The direction away from the Sun (where a generic cometary tail…
Blitzkrieg
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IS TRUMP PREPARING FOR A BLITZKRIEG?
Hegseth with Army Rangers on June 6, 2025. Photograph by Alexander Kubitza The collapse of NATO in exchange for a Fortress Americas by PHIL HALL In the spring of 1939, the world saw the warning signs but dismissed the underlying logic. The world watched Hitler’s demands over Danzig, the relentless…
Oreshnik
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UKRAINE & ORWELL’S PROBLEM
Detail of the cover of ‘Scoop’ by Evelyn Waugh People who dare to call themselves anti-fascists are still supporting the Banderite regime by RICHARD STEINHARDT In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, a journalist is assigned to a foreign country where nothing much is happening of any geopolitical interest. Rather than report the…
Ernesto Cardenal
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THE TALE OF TWO MORE POPES
The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, photo Edgar Beltrán in The Pillar Wikimedia Commons BRICS will now view the Vatican as an arm of the US State Department by RICHARD STEINHARDT From the perspective of BRICS-aligned nations and their analytical institutions, the death of Pope Francis and the election of…
Foreign policy realism
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Is Keir Starmer really a foreign policy realist?
Firing British Stormshadow missiles into Russian Federation territory would be absolutely SUICIDAL! by Phil Hall I know that nearly all of us on the left have given up on Keir Starmer and remember his personal betrayal of Jeremy Corbyn with a deep bitterness. But we have to recognise that he…
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