Mike Norman Economics

IrrussianalityAnd They Complain About Russian Disinformation!Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawahttps://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2022/01/29/and-they-complain-about-russian-disinformation/The Vineyard of the SakerThe Great Western Wall vs Snow NiggersThe SakerThe Unz ReviewIs Washington Under Alien Control?Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director...

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Raytheon CEO on the prospect of war in Yemen, China and Eastern Europe. Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was a board member at Raytheon until last year. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that these people make foreign policy decisions based on how much money it will bring in -- not because of "global security" or "defense". [Medhurst] "I fully expect we're going to see some benefit from it." https://t.co/gwQWf9vzse

Energy Intelligence (good analysis of the moves on the board)Russia Moves Toward Checkmate on UkraineScott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, serving in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, on General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspectorhttps://www.energyintel.com/0000017e-a069-de39-a9ff-bbf980230000Defense One (strategy)Russia Is Teaching a Master Class in ‘Decision-Centric' WarfareDan Patt and Bryan...

 The Washington Post asked: “Why is there tension between Russia and Ukraine?” Its answer:In March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. A month later, war erupted between Russian-allied separatists and Ukraine’s military in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. The United Nations human rights office estimates that more than 13,000 people have been killed. But that account is highly misleading, because it leaves out the crucial role the US has played in escalating tensions in the...

Last week, Jon Stewart recorded a podcast with the former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Thomas Hoenig. The conversation drew a lot of attention on so-called “finance twitter” (#FinTwit), where lots of folks piled on to ridicule Hoenig for arguing that monetary policy has been a major driver of inequality over the last decade or so. But the part of the conversation that really went viral had to do with money—where it comes from—and government debt.…Stephanie Kelton...

 China signed an agreement with Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government to build thousands of homes for poor and working families, expanding the already existing Bismarck Martínez public housing program.Although Nicaragua is a small country of roughly 6.5 million people, with very few resources as the second-least rich country in the western hemisphere, its leftist Sandinista government has dedicated itself to creating ambitious social programs, including free universal healthcare and...

This would be an amazing development! It would be wonderful to bring the Russians back in from out of the cold. I do see them as European, although it's a vast country with a large non-European section. It would bring prosperity and peace, leaving us to spend our resources fighting climate change instead. I just hope such an alliance won't be used to isolate China, which was the Trump's administration plan. Once Russia is a NATO member, its fear of encirclement will dissipate. Moreover, it...

The SIT (Tajfel and Turner, 1979) provides a framework for understanding when members of disadvantaged groups will accept their current low status, take individual action to improve their personal position, or take collective action to improve the status of their entire group.It answers some of the dilemma that I pointed out in the comments under the Yanis Varoufakis post. Social Identity Theory

Russia ObserverTHE WEST LEAVES MUMMY’S BASEMENTPatrick Armstronghttps://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/01/28/the-west-leaves-mummys-basement/India PunchlineRussia’s ‘asymmetrical’ war over UkraineM. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Servicehttps://www.indianpunchline.com/russias-asymmetrical-war-over-ukraine/The Vineyard of the SakerPanic and chaos is clearly stetting in as the West fears peace above all elseThe...