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Read more about the article Setting the scene for recession and World War 3

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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US already a winner in the 2022 Ukraine crisis

Opinion by Greg Ray February 25, 2022 At first blush I'm inclined to suggest that the US has already "won" in the Ukraine in 2022. That's if my assessment of its goals in the conflict are correct. And of course I may be wrong. The dominant media narrative may be right: that the whole thing is just a case of yet another mad tyrant trying to crush democracy because he hates freedom. My problem with accepting that at face value as the whole story is that I've lived for more than 50 years and watched various…

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Read more about the article The Wellen: Soviet ship in Newcastle, NSW, 1942

The Wellen: Soviet ship in Newcastle, NSW, 1942

A slowly evolving story, with some plot holes remaining to be filled. Why was the Wellen in Australian waters? And what about the Minsk, whose officers apparently visited the damaged Wellen in Newcastle? Why is information about that ship so hard to find? In May 1942 Japan and Russia were not at war. And yet in the opening salvos of Japan's submarine war against merchant shipping in Australian waters, it carelessly managed to attack a Soviet ship. This was the freighter Wellen, an elderly vessel of 5000 tons. It was apparently built in Britain, taken over…

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