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Let’s try to avoid the rhetoric of a war between the races – Myśl Polska
This article was originally published in Myśl Polska. Protests in the United States cause extreme emotions in Poland. One could say that it is natural: the inhabitants of the protectorate are interested in the situation in the metropolis. However, this interest is more and more often characterized by emotional commitment and support for specific forces… Continue reading
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Expect “experts” to come up with a Russia connection for the Minneapolis riots
Protests and riots in Minneapolis and in other US cities have been going for for days following the killing George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer. The national guard has been called in to bring the demonstrations under control, while much of the media appears to be siding with the protesters –… Continue reading
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Leaked Biden-Poroshenko tape: who cares about Ukraine?
The release of a tape containing conversations between then US Vice-President Joe Biden and ex-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko were the sensation of this past week in Ukraine – and rightly so. What many had suspected – that the post-Maidan Ukraine had in fact become a sort of protectorate of the United States, not formally included… Continue reading
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Tape of Biden, Kerry and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko released in Ukraine
Today Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach has made public leaked audio recordings of phone conversations between US Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State John Kerry and the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The most discussed subject of these calls appears to be US insistence of the dismissal of the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor… Continue reading
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Why do neocons support Joe Biden?
The American election is more than six months away and in these nervous pandemic times, it’s hard to see at the moment what could happen in the long battle between the Democratic candidate Biden and the current President Donald Trump. Arguably, much will depend on how the US deals with the coronavirus crisis. Crisis years… Continue reading
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Putin has been waging war on American science for 10 years, writes the New York Times
Putin has waged war on American science and has run a campaign of health disinformation for a decade, the New York Times has argued in an article published on 13 April. According to the New York Times, this is “part of a wider effort to discredit the West and destroy his [Putin’s] enemies from within.”… Continue reading
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US may impose new sanctions on Russia, says the Wall Street Journal
According to The Wall Street Journal, which cites White House officials, the US government is considering introducing new sanctions against Russia. This time the reason for such a measure could be Russia’s abrupt walkaway from the deal with OPEC, which provoked a trade war with Saudi Arabia and a collapse in oil prices. At the… Continue reading
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“We are going to have violence in the streets”, says economist Nouriel Roubini
In an interview with Yahoo Finance American economist Nouriel Roubini said the financial crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic could have severe consequences for many people: “We literally are going to have riots on the street and people going to the supermarkets and taking over everything and stealing it because people are going to start… Continue reading
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How many Americans have coronavirus? It’s impossible to know
After having been sick all week, German-American former supermodel and now TV presenter Heidi Klum decided she wanted to get tested for the coronavirus. “I hope its just a cold, I would love to do the corona test but there just isn’t one here. I’ve tried with two different doctors and I just can’t get… Continue reading
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Did Reagan plan to blow up the Soviet gas pipeline using a computer virus?
American media spread the sensation of a secret CIA operation against the USSR in the early eighties “BIGGEST NON-NUCLEAR EXPLOSION” 39 years ago, in January 1981, the new president, Republican Ronald Reagan, entered the White House. Holding the post for two terms, Reagan led the country out of the economic crisis, intensified foreign policy pressure… Continue reading
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A brain-dead Moloch called NATO – by Mathias Bröckers
Because current survey results should always be treated with caution, let’s take one from the past first. In 2015, 58 percent of Germans said that Germany should not provide military assistance to the ally in the event of a “serious military conflict” between Russia and a neighboring NATO country. In other countries, too, the willingness… Continue reading
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Want to know what’s in for the future of Ukraine? Look at Pakistan
At first glance there is little that two countries so far away as Ukraine and Pakistan may have in common. Ukraine is a continental European country at the gates of the European Union, one of the most prosperous areas of the world, ardently striving to become part of and share at least a bit of… Continue reading
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When will Ukraine join NATO?
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine since May and lately at the centre of American and international attention because of his instrumental but rather passive role in the case for impeachment against Donald Trump, was elected chiefly because of his promise to end the war in the Donbass, in the Eastern Ukraine. This week, the man… Continue reading
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Is the US opioid crisis going to spread to Europe too?
In the 1970s Europe succumbed to a wave of heroin misuse. Heroin addiction had hitherto been viewed as an American problem, hence the term “American disease” became a colloquialism. Now as we approach 2020 Europe is confronting a second strain of the American disease: this time one in which big pharma produced synthetic opioids are… Continue reading
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“Provoking Russia” – How the RAND Corporation shapes Poland’s foreign policy
This text is based on an article originally published in the Polish weekly Myśl Polska. You can find the original text (in Polish) here. There is no doubt that the US is pursuing a policy of interference in political choices and processes in all corners of the globe. It does not necessarily do it through… Continue reading
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Reagan also tried to block the pipeline – Myśl Polska
This article originally appeared in the Polish weekly magazine Myśl Polska. You can find the original text (in Polish) here. It is perfectly visible today that Polish energy policy (and not only) is the implementation of American strategy towards Europe and Russia. And this is why it ignores Polish true national interests so badly. Looking… Continue reading
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How humanitarian are humanitarian wars? Just look at the devastation they leave behind
An editorial in latest issue of The Economist this week accuses the United States “betraying the Kurds”, enabling Turkey, a NATO member and hence at least formally a US ally, to invade Northern Syria. Turkey’s alleged aim is to create a 30 km wide secure area across its border. A number of other experts and… Continue reading
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چهل سال جنگ بین ایالات متحده و ایران
English version روابط ناپایدار بین ایالات متحده و ایران بیش از چهل سال در آستانه جنگ بوده است ، اما هر از چند گاهی حوادث به نوبه خود متفاوت است. در ماه ژوئیه ، پس از اینکه ایران یک هواپیمای بدون سرنشین آمریکایی را شلیک کرد و آن چیزی که ادعا می کند فضای هوایی… Continue reading
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The forty-year war between the United States and Iran
In July, after Iran shot an American drone over what it claimed was its territorial airspace, the Unites States was minutes away from launching a strike on Iran. “How many people will be killed?”, asked President Trump to his military advisers. The answer was around one hundred. And so, Trump decided to call off a… Continue reading
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“There is no such thing as geopolitics in the West” and other delusions
The Ukraine crisis dating back to 2013 and its subsequent toppling of the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich underscored once more the validity of political realism within the domain of international relations. There had hitherto been some self-denial, particularly among mainstream Western commentators, as to the importance of issues pertaining to the so-called security dilemma… Continue reading
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