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CAN INNOVATION OUTPACE GREED, WAR AND CORRUPTION?
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CAN INNOVATION OUTPACE GREED, WAR AND CORRUPTION?

Yes, the prognosis continues to look bleaker. The modern story of monetary manipulation by the government via the Fed, marked by spending increasingly unmoored from GDP, is known to TJ readers. The problem has fomented successive bubbles, from dot.com, to real estate, to derivatives. At the moment, the dollar itself is the bubble, as world...

TOP RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT SEES NO END IN SIGHT FOR UKRAINE WAR
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TOP RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT SEES NO END IN SIGHT FOR UKRAINE WAR

Russia’s permanent representative to the UN said in an interview published Monday that he does not believe an end to the war in Ukraine is in sight because the U.S. and NATO continue to influence Kyiv to avoid negotiating for a peaceful resolution.  “Now, I do not see any possibility for diplomatic contacts,” Gennady Gatilov,...

CHERNOBYL 2.0. RUSSIA ACCUSES UKRAINE ATTACKING NUKE PLANT
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CHERNOBYL 2.0. RUSSIA ACCUSES UKRAINE ATTACKING NUKE PLANT

The big Ukraine news this past week was the threat of ongoing missile attacks at a nuclear power plant the Russian military is occupying in Ukraine. Saying that they were occupying the plant and it was totally ludicrous to say that they were attacking it, Russia’s foreign ministry accused the European Union of “blatantly lying”...

ZELENSKY SAYS UKRAINE WAR WILL END WHEN RUSSIA LEAVES CRIMEA
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ZELENSKY SAYS UKRAINE WAR WILL END WHEN RUSSIA LEAVES CRIMEA

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that the conflict with Russia will only end after Kyiv liberates Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014. Zelensky’s comments came as mystery explosions occurred at a Russian air base in Crimea that raised the possibility that Kyiv was expanding its war effort with a focus on...

TOP UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR: HEIL HITLER
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TOP UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR: HEIL HITLER

The Ukrainian ambassador to Germany faced backlash last week after defending Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader who Wikipedia notes lead “the militant wing (OUN-B), served as head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, organization responsible for massacres and ethnic cleansings, also implicated in collaboration with Nazi Germany.” Notes from Poland reported that Melnyk made the...

VICTORIA “FUCK THE EU” NULAND WHO SPEARHEADED OVERTHROW OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE IN 2014, STILL IN POWER
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VICTORIA “FUCK THE EU” NULAND WHO SPEARHEADED OVERTHROW OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE IN 2014, STILL IN POWER

Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, is playing a key role in the U.S.’s response to the current crisis in Ukraine despite a controversial history that included orchestrating the overthrow of a democratically elected president in Ukraine that led to a civil war. Salon ran a profile on Nuland last year that...

PUTIN ACKNOWLEDGES BIDEN’S ANTI-RUSSIAN RHETORIC
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PUTIN ACKNOWLEDGES BIDEN’S ANTI-RUSSIAN RHETORIC

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised interview last week he has noticed Joe Biden’s “sharp, anti-Russian rhetoric” during his presidential campaign, while giving credit to President Trump for improving the two countries’ relationship. Putin has largely stayed quiet on the U.S. election. Democrats have been critical of what they see as a cozy...

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