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Moscow terror attack: A suspect list
PARIS — As I sat in Moscow, exactly two weeks before the March 22 terror attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in northwest Moscow that has, reportedly, killed more than 130 people and wounded at least 150 others, a U.S. embassy warning caught my attention.
“The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to ...Read more
A Westerner’s view from Moscow of Russia’s presidential election
MOSCOW – It just so happens that s pring hit on Election Day in Moscow. Massive mounds of piled-up snow lining the sidewalks, and any patches of ice that managed to dodge the permanent wintertime layer of rock salt, morphed into puddles as the temperature jumped from a windy -15C up to 6C in what seemed like the blink of an eye. It would ...Read more
Biden’s State of the Union viewed from Russia
MOSCOW — Unlike most folks here in Russia, who follow domestic American politics about as much as Americans care about the price of parking in Moscow, I subjected myself to U.S. President Joe Biden’s assessment of the current state of America. Which apparently also now includes Ukraine, Europe, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin...Read more
Ukraine’s Running Out of Troops, but the Solution is Obvious
MOSCOW — Western media has been sounding the alarm on the desperate shortage of Ukrainian manpower to fight Russia. Sounds like it’s time for those who keep insisting on continued war over negotiated peace to head over there themselves — starting with our own Western establishment warmongers, who have been pratfalling toward even more ...Read more
Tear-gassed cows and a president fleeing irate farmers mark agriculture show marred by globalism
PARIS — The Paris International Agricultural Fair is historically a convenient photo op for French presidents. They get to walk around and sample the Made in France delicacies while petting livestock and promoting France’s entrepreneurial farming. But this year, we’re a long way from the days of former President Jacques Chirac smiling down...Read more
Intelligence Assessment Targeting the Freedom Movement Gets it Wrong
PARIS — The Freedom Movement that took shape during the Covid-19 circus risks being spun off into other kinds of activism targeting “perceived tyranny” and “overreach” by governments. That’s the assessment of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) in a report dated April 2023, recently obtained by the Canadian Press ...Read more
Trump’s idea of using Putin to shakedown allies isn't shocking – it's already reality
PARIS — Former US President Donald Trump just suggested that he’d use Russian President Vladimir Putin as a shakedown artist against allies in a sort of protection racket. Those criticizing the remarks, and even Trump himself, may be surprised to learn that this is already effectively happening.
Speaking at a campaign rally in South ...Read more
Biden is bombing the Middle East using the same excuses for which Trump was lambasted
PARIS — Does anyone recall the U.S. Congress voting on behalf of the American people to bomb three different Middle Eastern countries this month? Of course not. Because that’s never how things are done. Instead, what ends up happening is that an American president — Joe Biden, most recently — just unilaterally lobs some missiles onto ...Read more
French Farmers Wield Tractors Against a Dystopian Nightmare
BUCHELAY, France — Even when desperate to get protesting farmers and their tractors off the highways, globalist Western “elites” can’t overcome their tone-deafness.
About 100 tractors from the Normandy and Greater Paris regions blockaded a major highway leading to and from the capital, about 50 km northwest of Paris, last Friday, ...Read more
A New Conflict is Brewing Between Russia and a Top U.S. Ally
PARIS — As approval for any further billions of American taxpayer cash to Ukraine stalls in Congress, one of Washington’s top allies sees an opportunity for its own military industrial complex to cash in on the racket.
“The war economy is an opportunity for our industrialists. They have every interest in these tensions, because the ...Read more
A Top Western Democracy is Failing the Free Speech Test Over Gaza
BERLIN — Protesters seeking to draw attention to the plight of Palestinian civilians caught in the crossfire, as Israel continues to hammer Gaza under the pretext of targeting Hamas, gathered around the world for a day of action, including here in Germany where free speech appears to be a highly relative concept.
What’s particularly ...Read more
German Farmers Have Discovered Western Elites’ Kryptonite
BERLIN — Few things seem to strike fear into the heart of the Western establishment like big vehicles. Covid mandates suddenly disappeared in Canada when Freedom Convoy truckers and their rigs converged on the nation’s capital almost exactly two years ago. Now, ripping a page from the same playbook, German farmers have started congregating ...Read more
The Surprising Unsung Heroes of 2023
PARIS — It’s that time of year again to reminisce about the people who shaped the world. And it’s not who you might think.
Time Magazine named Taylor Swift its Person of the Year. Understandable, since she was the literal incarnation of capitalist meritocracy, having single-handedly injected an estimated $5.7 billion into the U.S. economy...Read more