From the London {Guardian}: "A full-blown economic collapse is almost inevitable", due to the economic warfare against Russia. But who is to blame for this?
March 14, 2022 -- The inevitable is finally here. The global financial system is in a terminal phase of collapse, as the burden of debt far exceeds the ability of hollowed-out economies to service it. The question is, Who will pay the price...
March 13, 2022 -- A central feature of the anti-Russian propaganda drive from the defenders of the post-Cold War unipolar world order has been the relentless demonization of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the steady drumbeat of a war narrative from western media. Yet, as cracks in the official narrative deepen, the steady push for escalation continues..
March 11, 2022-A possible default of Russian debt; strikes by truckers in Italy and Germany, and by fishermen in Italy and Spain; inflation takes off in the U.S.; no-fly zones and a Shakespearean reference from Lindsey Graham (?); will it be up to U.S. and Russian military officials to stop the madness? And a humorous side to the war tensions!
Fears are surfacing among western financial networks that the sanctions policy against Russia could trigger a global debt default. Victoria Nuland admitted under oath, during Senate testimony, that the U.S. has bioweapon labs in Ukraine, despite continuing denials from other U.S. officials. And the Russians released a war plan, drafted by the Commander of Ukraine's National Guard, on January 22, which shows that Ukraine intended to launch a deadly, full-scale invasion against the Donbass republics later this month, had Putin not intervened. As the truth emerges, why would anyone believe the stories fed to the mainstream media by the War Hawks, given the ample evidence that they are serial liars when it comes to psychological warfare measures to promote wars and regime change?
The Trans-Atlantic so-called democracies have not just launched economic warfare against Russia -- they have declared economic war against their own populations! The sanctions against Russia, which are expanding daily, are already having a disastrous impact in the west, accelerating soaring prices for fuel, heating and food. But this has not been caused by Russia. The global financial system is bankrupt, due to the policies of the financial oligarchy; and they are trying to blame Russia for the consequences of their own decisions.
The refusal to negotiate with Putin, and accept his demand that reasonable security guarantees be extended to Russia, is what provoked his actions for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. This refusal to engage in serious negotiations, which has been U.S.-NATO policy for at least 15 years, is NOT based on a defense of Ukraine's sovereignty and freedom, but to provide an excuse for economic warfare against Russia. WHY? The economic annihilation of Russia is an essential precondition for the successful implementation of the Great Reset and Green New Deal, which Russia and China will not accept, as it requires that they surrender their sovereignty to a global central banker's dictatorship. To resolve this crisis, join us in mobilizing for a convention to establish a new security architecture -- sign and circulate this petition: Convoke an International Conference to Establish a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations.
Today, we take on the war-time propaganda coming from the U.S. and NATO forces, desperately attempting to defend their collapsing world order by deploying economic warfare against Russia, to prevent the consolidation of an economic alliance between sovereign nations of Eurasia and Europe. The economic integration of Europe and Eurasia is no threat to the people of the U.S. and western Europe. The Chinese have again invited the U.S. to join the Belt-and-Road Initiative. But it is a threat to the bankrupt financial system the oligarchs in the Trans-Atlantic countries are trying to protect, using war and austerity against the populations of their own countries, to prop up their collapsing post-Cold War Unipolar order.
When Putin said one of the goals of Russian military ops in Ukraine is "deNazification", there were howls of protest from U.S. and NATO officials, and the pro-war media ridiculed him, accusing him of being unbalanced and pushing false "conspiracy theories." But he is right, as proven by quotes from the leader of the C14 neoNazi group, who said they are being armed by NATO "because we perform the tasks set by the West, because we are the only ones who are ready to do them. Because we have fun, we have fun killing and we have fun fighting." The truth about the role of neoNazis in Ukraine's military, and the killings in Donbas they brag about, has been censored, so you won't protest the spending of U.S. taxpayers' dollars to arm and train them.
A review of events since the launch of the Great Reset in August 2019, shows that Russia's military operation in Ukraine provided the pretext for regime change against Russia, using economic and financial warfare measures to bring the nation to its knees. This has nothing to do with defending the freedom and sovereignty of Ukraine, as the globalists have shown no interest in defending the people of any nation. Instead, it is intended to destroy one of the leading opponents of the post-Cold War unipolar order, as an warning to any other nation which is inclined to resist the surrender of its sovereignty.
The economic/financial warfare unleashed by the U.S., NATO and the EU against Russia has been planned for months, a leading U.S. "senior" official admitted yesterday. This proves Putin's point, that the U.S. had no intent to address his demands that Russia be given legally-binding security guarantees. The Schiller Institute is calling for a commitment to such guarantees for all nations, in a petition linked below -- something which is not acceptable to the arrogant beneficiaries of the unipolar order, who demand that all nations submit to their Great Reset. They are now resorting to psychological warfare and censorship to blind you to the danger humanity faces if there is no move to a new security and financial architecture. Sign and circulate this petition: Convoke an International Conference to Establish A New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations.
Events have taken an ominous turn in the last 24 hours. The sanctions imposed against Russia and the accelerating flow of weapons into Ukraine have convinced Putin that it is necessary to put Russia's nuclear forces on alert. What happens next cannot be left to the corrupt leaders of the Trans-Atlantic nations, who are prepared to risk global nuclear war to protect their collapsing financial/economic system. Join our mobilization to demand the convening, immediately, of a conference to adopt a new strategic and financial architecture, rather than allowing a sleepwalk into war. Make sure to sign and spread the Schiller Institute petition "Convoke and International Conference to Establish A New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations."
February 25 -- As Russian troops moved into Ukraine on February 24 with a mission to degrade Kiev's military capabilities, which President Putin has described as posing an existential threat to Russia's security, and the U.S. and NATO nations responded with an unprecedented economic assault against Russia, it is evident that the increasingly shrill and hysterical anti-Putin narrative coming from the Trans-Atlantic world had little to do with Ukraine and the deployment of Russian troops on its border. Instead, it is a response to the collapse of their post-Cold War "unipolar order". Further, it is an effort directed from the City of London and Wall Street, acting through its "Military-Industrial Complex", to prevent the further economic development of those nations which are not part of their "club" -- and especially the possibility of the emergence of a new, just financial system, serving a multipolar order of sovereign nations, committed to peace and economic development. This most emphatically includes Russia and China, whose leaders consolidated a strategic agreement on February 4, which provoked a panicked response from leading members of the "club," focused on their concern that the strengthened alliance will gain more adherents from nations unwilling to surrender their sovereignty to the "Rules-Based Order" and the banker's "Great Reset."This was the theme of many official statements and commentaries about the Putin-Xi summit, typified by one of the more extreme versions coming from Britain's {Daily Telegraph}, under the headline "Russia and China Rise from Their Knees to Challenge U.S. Dominance." The author, Roland Oliphant, summarized the cause for the hysteria by writing that, with this agreement, "the dominance of the U.S.-led global West will no longer be taken for granted -- or even tolerated." This panic was openly displayed in comments from officials in the days leading up to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, in pronouncements of the intention to proceed with a brutal sanctions regime if Russia invades Ukraine, and their continued rejection of serious consideration of Putin's demand for security guarantees. Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Union Commission, told the Munich Security conference that the goal of sanctions would be to prevent Russia from diversifying its economy beyond oil and gas, by cutting off Russian access to modern technology. British PM Boris Johnson was even more explicit in comments on February 21, when he said that if Russia invades Ukraine, Russian companies will be prevented from trading in Pounds and Dollars. He added that they would cut off Russian firm's access to City of London financial markets. These threats are coherent with the open call for devastating economic warfare against Russia, outlined in a memo released following a White House meeting on January 25, which stated the intent of sanctions would be to conduct financial warfare to destroy the campaign Putin is directing to upgrade and modernize the Russian economy. In a briefing given on January 25, two anonymous senior White House officials said that with the sanctions they intend to impose, the "gradualism of the past is out, this time we'll start at the top of the escalation ladder and stay there." An example given was the use of "export controls", designed to deliver "a severe and immediate blow to Russia and over time make its economy even more brittle." In the lead-up to the Russian military actions, Putin accused the west of using Ukraine as a tool to provoke an invasion by Russia, to justify their destruction of the Russian economy. He added, in a joint press conference with Belarus President Lukashenko, that he expects more sanctions against Russia and Belarus, even if there is no invasion. This was reaffirmed by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, who said on February 22 that the goal of the West is to "punish Russia", using "all kinds of 'crippling sanctions'....We know that they will impose sanctions in any case, with or without pretext." When the U.S. and NATO countries initiated sanctions as the first Russian troops entered Ukraine, a defiant Putin said, “...the sanctions pressure will not lessen our resolve to firmly stand up for our interests. We see that blackmail, intimidation, and threats are the only tools the American policy has in its arsenal, trapped as it is in the stereotypes of a unipolar world and a false certainty that the United States still has the right and can impose its own global rules on everyone. This does not work with global powers, primarily Russia and other key international actors. Let its satellites and client states which have completely lost their independence, follow the threatening shouts coming from the United States." Will Sanctions Trigger An Economic Collapse? Once Russian military forces launched their surgical actions against Ukraine's military, which had been bulked up by extensive deliveries of advanced weapons by the U.S., the U.K. and other NATO allies, the onslaught of new sanctions began. President Biden announced the U.S. will impose "sweeping financial sanctions and export controls." Such measures, he said, will "cripple" the Russian economy, severely affecting Russia's ability to do business in dollars, Euros and yen. He claimed that the export controls will cut off "more than half of Russia's high-tech imports" and restrict access to vital technology inputs, "atrophying its industrial base...." Officials in Russia have stated that the country can survive new, harsher sanctions, adding that the effects will be felt much more sharply by the Anglo-American's European allies, especially if it includes cancelling the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which many European countries are counting on to deal with energy shortages and soaring prices, caused mainly by the incompetent Green policies imposed by the European Union. Biden has not yet announced removing Russia's access to the SWIFT foreign exchange transaction system, as this would profoundly damage existing trade of U.S. allies trade with Russia, but has been bandied about as a "nuclear option." The threat to Trans-Atlantic allies' economies was acknowledged by one of the defenders of such sanctions, who said the pain such measures will cause may negatively affect the "unity" of the anti-Russian alliance, but that this is the price that must be paid to defeat Russian aggression. Several analysts have noted that this would also create a pretext to blame Russia for the financial crash which is coming, caused not by Russia but the systemic collapse of the western financial system due to adherence to neoliberal economic policies. This gets to the heart of the matter. It is becoming increasingly evident that such a crash cannot be avoided, given the volumes of uncollectible debt outstanding, and the inflation which has resulted from the attempt to cover the debt with central bank monetary expansion. As {Executive Intelligence Review} has reported, a nearly $2 quadrillion speculative bubble is already blowing apart. This began in September 2019, when the Federal Reserve had to step in to flood the overnight lending markets -- through the so-called Repo window -- with ever higher volumes of liquidity. This was necessary as the commercial banks, which had been the suppliers of Repo liquidity, bowed out, as the demands for liquidity exceeded their capacity, as they were scrambling to cover their own bloated debt obligations. This lending ballooned from several billion a night, to more than $120 to $150 billion in overnight lending, and the terms shifted from repayment within twenty-four hours to a virtual permanent roll-over. The demand had spiked in part due to one large derivative default, but was compounded by the need of debt-strapped corporations for liquidity to cover the interest on their debts. There is renewed concern from speculators that the threat of a tsunami of defaults has not been contained by unlimited creation of liquidity, which is the primary cause of hyperinflation, creating a no-win choice for central banks: either cut off the flow of cheap credit to stop inflation, which risks unleashing a chain reaction of defaults; or keep pumping in liquidity, which would guarantee the triggering of Weimar-style hyperinflation globally, with horrific consequences for every nation. There is another alternative to the neoliberal insanity which has produced this systemic crisis, and that is based on what is emerging in Eurasia, through integration of nations with China's Belt-and-Road Initiative, which could be extended into Europe. The Putin-Xi agreement, while attacked as a military threat, is more frightening to western bankers and financial manipulators as it represents a potential alternative to the imploding City of London/Wall Street dollar-based system. Addressing the inter-relationship between the financial collapse and the war danger, the Schiller Institute has issued a call for convening an international conference to establish both a "new security architecture" and a "development architecture" for all nations. End To Geopolitics The threat of an agreement to scrap the bankrupt system owned by the City of London and Wall Street, and replace it with one based on an alliance between European and Eurasian nations, is not a new concern for the defenders of the present unipolar empire. It was fear of a Eurasian integration with western European nations at the end of the 19th century, typified by such projects as the Trans-Siberian railroad and the Berlin-to-Baghdad railroad, that was behind the adoption of "geopolitics" as a theory of the empire. The theory of "geopolitics" was first formalized by Halford Mackinder, a member of the Royal Geographic Society, in 1904, and was adopted as a strategy to divide East against West, and to isolate Germany, to protect the near-monopoly control of the British empire over world trade and finance. Its application directly led to two world wars in the 20th century. The real aim of the geopoliticians then, was to prevent French-Russian-German cooperation, which would serve as a basis for European integration with Eurasian and Asian nations. And that is the same fear which underlies the vilification of, and war drive against, both Russia and China today, with the Anglo-American strategists, operating through war hawks in government, academic circles and think tanks, taking the lead in shaping the narrative. Among their greatest nightmares is the following: Might Germany, perhaps with support of France, break out from under the domination of the Anglo-American forces running NATO and the EU, and join with Russia and China in moving to a new financial system, of the type proposed by American statesman and economist Lyndon LaRouche, as a New Bretton Woods? The escalating provocations against Russia and China are an obvious attempt to prevent this from happening. This was a theme of the Schiller Institute Conference on February 19, which was elaborated by a distinguished panel of speakers from many nations. It was the explicit theme of Helga Zepp-LaRouche's keynote, in which she presented the urgent need for a new strategic architecture, based on providing security for all sovereign nations, as the basis for a New Paradigm of peace and development. It was also the theme of the other keynote, delivered by this author, who opened the first panel by declaring that the Unipolar Order has come to an end. Watch the conference HERE. It is this reality which has provoked the impotent hysteria behind the threats against Russia, which preceded the Russian military actions in Ukraine, and have been amplified since. What Putin has initiated was made inevitable by the unwillingness of Trans-Atlantic governments to address the legitimate concerns he raised regarding security guarantees for Russia, which he said must be extended to all nations. There will be no peace or economic security anywhere, unless the return to the principle of the Treaty of Westphalia, as promoted by the Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and at the center of its call for convening an international conference, is adopted by all.
While the mainstream media has proven to be nothing but a brainwashing tool run by Anglo-American financial oligarchs and their Military-Industrial-Complex, there is a way to know what's going on in Ukraine: Listen to what Putin is saying! He spelled out his goals yesterday -- a demilitarized Ukraine, and a de-Nazified Ukraine. While some, such as Blinken, scoff at that, there are Nazis in positions of influence in Ukraine, who have threatened Pres. Zelensky whenever he threatens to move away from a confrontation with Russia. Why do western nations cover up for the Nazis in Ukraine? Because they are key to the intent of the Trans-Atlantic powers, which is to destroy Russia, to remove them as an obstacle to their attempt to consolidate a global dictatorship under the guise of a "Great Reset" and a "Green New Deal."
Russian military moves into Ukraine are the inevitable result of the rejection by Trans-Atlantic leaders to seriously negotiate the draft treaties presented by President Putin, which would offer security guarantees to Russia. Putin has called the bluff of the Bidens, Blinkens and BoJos, knowing that they actually wanted him to launch an attack so they could unleash sanctions aimed at destroying Russia. It will not succeed, but could trigger a nuclear war. The Schiller Institute is circulating an emergency call for an international conference to negotiate a security and development architecture that advances the interests of all people in all sovereign nations. Read it, sign it, and circulate it. You can find it here: https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/02/23/petition-convoke-an-international-conference-to-establish-a-new-security-and-development-architecture-for-all-nations/
How much do you know about the reasons behind Putin's decision to recognize the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics? How much do you actually know about Ukraine, whose people are being used as cannon fodder in a war between Trans-Atlantic financial oligarchs, and Russia and China? The west has poured over $5 billion in new weapons into Ukraine, paid for by loans, when Ukraine already is facing default on $4 to 5 billion in debt. And did you know that "democratic" Ukraine has shut down opposition media, jailed and threatened opposition leaders, and placed hard-core Nazis is leading positions in its security and defense forces? To learn the truth, watch Ukrainian economist and political leader Natalia Vitrenko, in her Feb. 19 address to the Schiller Institute.
Putin just called the bluff of the War Hawks who are trying to prop up their collapsing unipolar order. By recognizing the independence of the "breakaway republics" of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk, he is offering to protect them from the escalating shelling and shooting coming from the Ukraine side of the Line of Contact. He said no matter what Russia did, the West would respond with sanctions, because their goal is not peace, but the destruction of Russia's economy, to force a regime change there, which he will not allow. The alternative is to organize a new security architecture -- is anyone in the West listening?
The Schiller Institute conference of Feb. 19 intervened in the midst of a continuing war drive to make two vital points. 1.) The war danger is driven by the ongoing systemic collapse of the authority of the Unipolar world, led by the economic collapse; 2.) The solution is a shift to a multi-polar world built upon a new security architecture, which recognizes the right to sovereignty of all nations, and promotes mutually beneficial economic policies, centered on making scientific and technological progress available to all. The efforts by war hawks in the Trans-Atlantic to provoke a Russian invasion of Ukraine will serve as an excuse to impose sanctions designed to destroy Russia's economy, as various western spokesmen have confirmed -- and to divert attention away from the failed economic, social and cultural policies harming all nations, produced by the Unipolarists! Also, make sure to watch my interview with Alexander Rahr.
Blinken's difficulty with truthful dialogue was again on display yesterday, in an interview with ABC-News, and in a speech before the U.N. Security Council (UNSC). At the UNSC, he presented lie after lie, asserting that Russia will invade Ukraine, Russia has violated the Minsk Agreement, is preparing a false flag event in the Donbas as an excuse to invade, etc., etc. Expect more of the same today from him and NATO spokesmen at the annual Munich Security Conference. To hear the full, actual truth, be sure to register for the online Schiller Institute Conference on Saturday.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, President Biden seemed to be facing reality. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which his intelligence team had predicted for February 16, did not happen. While not acknowledging the error, he said he will address the security concerns raised by President Putin, and engage in continuing dialogue. But one of the major factors behind the war drive -- the collapse of the Trans-Atlantic economic/financial system continues, with investment guru Jeremy Grantham saying he believes we are at "the beginning of the burst." The Schiller Institute will address the interconnection between economic collapse and the war drive this Saturday, Feb. 19 at 10 AM EST -- register for the online conference here: https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/100_seconds_to_midnight_02192022
Today is the day we were told by U.S. and NATO intelligence officials that Russia would invade Ukraine. This narrative was built on an escalating cascade of lies, designed to scare you into silent submission to the cabal of liars who created the narrative. Every day, more voices are speaking out against the narrative. Today we report comments from former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Matlock, and former French Foreign Minister Dumas, debunking the Trans-Atlantic war hawk drumbeat. But a word of warning -- the war threat has not ended, as the danger exists of a provocation by NATO-backed and trained crazies in Kiev, which could trigger a Russian response. Matlock's statement is available here: https://original.antiwar.com/Jack_Matlock/2022/02/14/todays-crisis-over-ukraine-was-avoidable-and-predictable/
The issue at the heart of the present U.S.-Russia showdown is not Ukraine, but the need to move to a new security architecture, one which not only guarantees Russia's security, but that of every nation. The Russians have been clear on this. It's the response from the War Hawks in the West that has deliberately muddied things, putting the world into a moment of tension not experienced since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Will war begin tomorrow, as some in U.S. intelligence are insisting? Or is this a bluff, another fake narrative, which will allow the war hawks to proclaim victory if there is no war?
