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The new cold war gets warmer, again

The big guns are out, and they are aiming towards Asia and the Pacific. Sure, the current hot proxy war between the US Empire and Russia happens to be in Europe but the big target is China, and the cold war to prevent its rise is warming by degrees with every day that passes. For Australia – America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” and its “deputy sheriff” in the Pacific Region – the signs are all very ominous. The commandant of the US Marine Corps, General David Berger, was in Australia this week, urging the government to ramp…

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Setting the scene for recession and World War 3

The world is in a mess, and it looks like getting a lot messier sometime soon. Faced with the potential rise of economic rivals and the existential threat of the loss of its currency's global reserve status, the US Empire has pulled out all the stops. In Europe, the risk of post-Soviet Russia integrating economically with Europe and forming a rival bloc has been met with an effective counter through the Ukraine provocation and the rapid expansion of the Empire's Cold War military apparatus. At the very least, Russia will be crushed and contained. At the…

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What happens next in Ukraine?

March 6, 2022 Opinion by Greg Ray What happens next in Ukraine? Will it escalate into a wider war that spreads death and destruction into other parts of Europe? Will it become a massive festering wound in Russia’s side through which the Putin dictatorship bleeds to death? Will somebody, by accident or in desperation, hit the nuclear button? What scenario would you like to see? Personally, I’d like to imagine a ceasefire, a negotiated settlement and a walk back from the abyss. And I honestly think it could happen. But only the US is powerful enough…

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