Trump’s decision to “escalate to de-escalate” with Russia is driven by the grand strategic goal of obtaining control over its state-owned natural resource (energy and minerals) companies. The ongoing Russian-US negotiations are known to include talks about cooperation in...
Trump advised during this week’s G7 Summit in France that Russia “should make a deal” with Ukraine otherwise he might wield his country’s sanctions stick once again if his advice isn’t heeded. He declared that he might “soon” reimpose...
Trump signed the “G7 leaders’ statement on geopolitical issues” agreeing “to increase the delivery of air defence capacities, additional systems and interceptors, and long-range capabilities. We are also ready to consider extending to Ukraine the benefit of licenses to...
The EU’s 21st sanctions package against Russia surprisingly targeted Russian-American travel blogger Alexandra Jost, more popularly known as “Sasha Meets Russia”, who they accuse of “spreading Russian propaganda and disinformation aimed at justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine.” While...
The Iranian-US memorandum of understanding (MoU) on ending the Third Gulf War – which was analyzed here, here, and here – wouldn’t have been possible without Pakistani mediation. For as many problems as that country has, including its de...
Here’s the English-language version of the interview that I gave to Forças Terrestres’ Alexandre Galante on recent events.
1. You have written for years about hybrid wars and regime change. In light of the war in Ukraine, does the concept...
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told the Sejm during a conference on “War for the Mind: Fear, Sabotage, Disinformation” that Russia is waging “cognitive warfare” on Poles and that it even already has a “fifth column” in the country....
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
The story at a glance
A 72-hour break from using mobile phones triggered an increased craving in the study participants; brain scans showed increased activity in the reward centers when they were shown pictures of...
Putin was asked in early June by an Indian journalist during his meeting with the heads of international news agencies on the sidelines of the latest St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) about Pakistan’s military dependence on China due...
By Jon Fleetwood
Using the “No See’m” technique, Baric and his colleagues succeeded in removing all visible traces of genome assembly in the laboratory from the finished coronavirus genome.
In a methods chapter published in 2008 from Ralph Baric's laboratory, the...