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Read More »John Helmer — We Are Back, Again – Just Two Years to Go Before the Profession of Journalism Disappears, but Will the Russian Oligarchs Go First?
Mostly on sanctioning Russian oligarchs that the US "advisers" in the Yeltsin years created the conditions for though speedy neoliberal privatization of state assets in the belief that "the market will sort it out." "The market" was assumed to be US control. When that blew up as the Russian economy collapsed and social unrest rose, the US decided on another tack to get back in the driver's seat.Dances with BearsWe Are Back, Again – Just Two Years to Go Before the Profession of Journalism...
Read More »Alexander — Russia defies Western expectations; ends 2017 with minimal budget deficit, bigger reserves
The US thinks it can "bankrupt" Russia with sanctions. Contrary to Western claims Russia in 2017 did not ‘run out of money’… What is extraordinary is not that Russia has not run out of money. It is that supposedly serious people in the West ever thought it would. The dismal truth is that no economic catastrophe in Russia is too farfetched to prevent some people in the West predicting it, whilst there is never any penalty for these people when regular as clockwork the predicted economic...
Read More »Sputnik — US Sanctions Continue to Backfire: China Opens $10 Billion Credit Line for Iran
Assisting Tehran with sidestepping an ongoing Washington sanctions regime against the country, China has opened a $10 billion line of credit intended to finance energy, transportation, water and other key Iranian infrastructure projects.… The significant credit line will primarily use euros and yuan to bypass the US sanctions.... Sputnik InternationalUS Sanctions Continue to Backfire: China Opens $10 Billion Credit Line for Iran
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