Scott Ritter, RT, June 30, 2022 — The one-time trans-Atlantic defensive alliance has, over the past three decades, transformed itself from the guardian of Western Europe into global cop, seeking to project militarily a so-called values- and rules-based posture.

Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin’s Newsletter, June 28, 2022 — So the western empire will be expanding NATO again in response to a war that was predominantly caused by NATO expansion. Brilliant.

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, June 24, 202 — In April 2022, the United Nations established the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy, and Finance. This group is tracking the three major crises of food inflation, fuel inflation, and financial distress.

Eric Zuesse, Global Research, June 23, 2022 — The U.S. Government spends on its military, annually around $1.5 trillion dollars. (Much of that money is hidden in the Treasury Department in order to convey to the public the false idea that ‘only’ around 800 billion dollars …)

Mike Whitney, Information Clearing House, June 21, 2022 — Here’s your ‘reserve currency’ thought for the day: Every US dollar is a check written on an account that is overdrawn by 30 trillion dollars.

Gaius Baltar, The Saker, June 18, 2022 — Some knowledgeable people, apparently including the Pope, are beginning to suspect that there may be more going on in the world than just the war in the Ukraine. They say that World War 3 has already started and things will get worse from now on.

Alastair Crooke, New Cold War, June 16, 2022 — This radical alienation of Russia triggered its pivot to China. Europe and the U.S. however, declined to consider issues of due ‘balance’ within global structures, and simply glossed over the realities of a world order in momentous metamorphosis: with the steady decline of the U.S. already apparent …

Konstantin Asmolov, New Eastern Outlook, June 14, 2022 — May and early June 2022 saw the development of an aggravation trend, continuing the course described in a previous article on this topic.

M. K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline, June 15, 2022 — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at 73 is in “second childishness and mere oblivion / Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything” — to borrow from Jaques’ famous soliloquy in Shakespeare’s As you Like It.