Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 5:50 utc | 201
 
I see… I had a word myself with some young guys trying to get me to change everything I am eating.
 
I am quiet happy I didn’t study medecine as some in my family wanted me to. Here, it’s like some just lose their humanity by the time they finish.
 
I think they lack the minimal training in human relations and psychology even if they may be good at medecine.
 
Let’s say “Not to be the common man is different from being divorced from the common man”.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 6:02 utc | 203

I’m a kiwi —  you could knock me down with a feather.  That’s how we are down there.  No fanged critters domestically speaking,  no snakes,  one poisonous spider but I’d never seen one, just a huge cricket that hisses in a menacing way but is harmless.  Oh, and no poison ivy. Anyway, thanks for your input.
Posted by: juliania | Feb 9 2026 5:12 utc | 189
 
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A long time ago I cycled around and across the South Island. Wonderful. But the west coast sandflies!! and the possums and kia coming over Arthur’s Pass!! I was self-contained, camped in the bush, cooked my own tucker… One night after a hard days’ ride I almost cried. I had found a nice little spot to camp. Swat, swat, swat at the sandflies, find a tent peg, swat, swat swat… I turned my back and the bloody possums were into the nose-bag (food sack for those ‘foreigners’) swat, swat, swat, kick the bloody possums, swat, swat, swat – while my back was turned the kia’s came and took two of my tent pegs and flew off victorious (I carried no spares to reduce weight on my bike) swat, swat, swat find sticks and sharpen to use as pegs, swat, swat swat – the bloody possums in the nose bag again… eventually sit/hunch in my little tent/swag to cook and eat and sleep away from sandflies, kia, possums and dream of home where even goannas perish in the heat and dry. 
 
Give me snakes, dingoes, goannas, quolls…any day, but no more sandflies! But to be honest,  the people and the scenery made sandflies insignificant.

Posted by: General Factotum | Feb 9 2026 6:30 utc | 205

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 6:02 utc | 204
 
Sebgo, you are a quite interesting bloke but I don’t take kingly to academic bullshit. What I have watched around the world. To pull the people, the common man out of poverty.  The pefidious albion of the western world is about keeping other nations and peoples in poverty and ruling over them.
 
Going to the canton fair as an oz anglo. Those Chinese blokes checking credentiantials were real hard fuckers. One day there must of been some sort of security alert.A couple of blokes with rifles. A bit of a fence around them They had their eyes fixed on the road traffic. One always held the gun but to his shoulder ready to swing up and fire. Going out on the balcony for a smoke and I would look at the swat squad out in a carpark out the back.
 
It was not a feeling of oppression. It was a feeling of seeing hard men  that were willing to put themselves between international visitors and danger. It is an aspect of life that academics often have no comprehension of.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 6:36 utc | 207

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 6:45 utc | 209
 
There is much in the comment Sebgo. For better or worse I try to understand the person behind the user names that appear here.  Much of life is quite difficult.I am a bit blunt in my ways at times. If you are screwing with me, I will nail your nuts to the wall but although we disagree on certain things, you seem like an honest bloke.
 
Often I am foolish enough to give the benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 6:56 utc | 209

see the 40-second video at the second link
 
 
 
https://x.com/forza_inter99/status/2020686675836563781
Julio 🇬🇹🇵🇸  @forza_inter99 
 
I wanna see that same Latino unity to defend Cuba from US imperialism
 
—————–
 
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2020311390943342611
☀️👀  @zei_squirrel 
 
……as for why Cuba was targeted for destruction, Castro’s response to the question from a reporter on the same occasion of his 1960 trip to New York for the UN about what his politics are explains that. They refused to any longer be the slaves and mafia-casino of the US empire:
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Feb 9 2026 7:01 utc | 211

Chomsky: I dont claim to know but Chris Hedges claims that Chomsky knew about Epsteins child abuse. 
Chomsky having had a stroke may be unable to defend himself. In the interest of fairness it would be beneficial if somebody can confirm or deny this claim of Hedges. If he did know about it in a realistic way why would Chomsky look the other way?
I could only imagine reasons for that to have to do with concerns about some secret context relating to serious threats.
But my first guess is that Hedges is speculating and doesnt know.
I better explain that I have seen Chomsky as controlled opposition all along. And I agree with the term gate keeper. But the Epstein connection is beyond that. In addition to Chomsky being controlled opposition I also see Hedges as controlled opposition. His long career within the system is proof to me.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 9 2026 7:03 utc | 213

@Asian Frog | Feb 9 2026 7:13 utc | 215
I just like to remind you that three US ambassadors confirmed that the US helped put the four time Hollywood B-actor Fidel Castro in power despite Cuban Intel having handed over proof of Castro’s communist sympathies to Allen Dulles who did not hand this information to the president.
Another line of thought relating to Cuba is to point to Roy Cohn a previous ‘edition’ of Epstein.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 9 2026 7:23 utc | 215

@ arby 149 and 158 who suggests that the US has obtained nothing from Venezuela.
 
Perhaps you missed John Gilberts post @ 146 that provides some insight into the current US embargo. It describes imposed intermediaries and the exclusion of non-aligned firms.
 
I’m also guessing that the denomination of the currency that oil is traded in is also carefely controlled.

Posted by: robin | Feb 9 2026 8:05 utc | 217

Posted by: robin | Feb 9 2026 8:05 utc | 218
 
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Ask yourself how the currency of trade is controlled if the Bolivarian government is still sovereign…
 
Maybe it is, but in order for currency control to be true, other things must also have to occurred.
 
I have stopped following Venezuela closely. My interest is almost totally on West Asia.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 8:23 utc | 219

Posted by: Asian Frog | Feb 9 2026 7:13 utc | 215
 
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I think it is more banal than your take.
 
Everywhere Trump turns, he has been blocked and stymied.
 
Not a single win yet in his second term.
 
Now the courts are activated and the Israel Firsters are trying to bully him into a military catastrophe.
 
Cuba is the lowest of low hanging fruit. A “Yemen” within their reach.
 
Unfortunately, I do not believe the Cubans have the “teeth” that the Yemeni do.
 
Regardless, this blockade will backfire. It is already uniting Latin countries against the common Gringo enemy.
 
Every Imperial action creates an opposing reaction.
 
Trump, unintentionally, is bringing the Muslims together, the Asians together, the Latins together, and the Europeans together.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 8:37 utc | 221

203 Lavieja– Apology for way off misspelling of Klarenberg.

Posted by: Lavieja | Feb 9 2026 8:47 utc | 223

Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 8:50 utc | 225
 
I’m not sure what to make of you at the moment. The contradiction of your earlier posts to the current posts. For me, life has been a leaning curve. The school of life. There are m,any empire troll factories operating 24/7 and its often difficult to tell who is who. 
 
Forget races and cultures. If you are bullshitting me I will rip your nuts out. If not, there is likely much we could converse about. Thoughts and that sort of thing.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 9:05 utc | 225

@LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 8:37 utc | 222
About the common Gringo Enemy
I like to point out that the Gringo didnt want Latin America to have a successful market economy but prevented both Batista and Somosa to achieve it. Despite both of them admiring the american example as it seemed to them. This is complicated by the fact that most observers today dont even know there was a reasonable american example so what the exact american model they admired was isnt entirely clear. But the impression was positive and both Cuba and Nicaragua would have had a brighter future if the Gringos hadnt supported the rebels.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 9 2026 9:08 utc | 227

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 8:23 utc | 220

…Ask yourself how the currency of trade is controlled if the Bolivarian government is still sovereign… Maybe it is, but in order for currency control to be true, other things must also have to occurred…

I was in fact asking myself how the Bolivarian government was still sovereign if the currency of trade is controlled. But, as I wrote, this is just a guess on my part.
 
Segbo’s post @ 223 suggests that no oil will be exported. We’ll see how that turns out. But in any case, taking out a hostile, non-aligned, major oil producer from the global market seems like a significant gain from a zero-sum Great Game perspective.

Posted by: robin | Feb 9 2026 9:16 utc | 229

Posted by: Data | Feb 9 2026 9:17 utc | 231
 
Thank you for the explanation.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 9:37 utc | 231

https://sonar21.com/does-netanyahus-upcoming-visit-with-trump-signal-a-us-attack-on-iran/
 
Spoiler alert: Kinda looks that way. Must read anyhow. I really don’t know what I’d do without Larry.
 
At my recent twice-yearly checkup, my dear dentist asked if I had any plans for 2026. I told her a global nuclear conflagration (aka the Samson option) looks reasonably likely to complicate my 2026 plans. Then we scheduled an appointment to patch a little spot this week. For what it’s worth! That was about a month ago, when I was feeling more optimistic than today.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 9 2026 9:41 utc | 233

I dont see any enthusiasts making comments about non-fossile origin of oil here

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 9 2026 9:51 utc | 235

What contradiction do you see, for example?
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 9:44 utc | 235
 
Similar to the contradiction I see in my sister.  On one side of the coin there was a direct honesty, on the other side was a total belief in the mass media. As I think I mentioned in an earlier in an earlier comment, we raised in different environments in our formative years. She was raised in an environment divorced from reality.I don’t say that with displacement. It was what it was. Hence my earlier comment of the commonality of the common man. I look back on life now, and those I most remember are men of substance regardless of culture. Those men of substance can be found in any level of education. I cannot abide by house niggers but men of substance from all cultures and skin colours and whatever – they are the men I can respect.
 
Your earlier posts, My sisters character would not survive in the Sahel. Small nations up against the greater powers of the western world which I am part of. Not by choice but by birth. This is now a fast changing world Sebgo.
 
I guess there is always the question in my mind as to if you are some bullshitter funded by the Ukraine black hole, but although I disagree with some of your opinions, you do appear to be genuine.
 
The commonality of the common man. Do keep that in mind.
 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 10:39 utc | 237

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 10:39 utc | 238
 
I understand what you mean. But it’s not so easy.
 
One part of my life and work is to be learning all my life long , stay up-to-date technology wise, and to try to find how to use STEM to make things better for my people.
 
To do that, you need to be a dreamer, so to “skip” reality from time to time.
 
But of course, you need to come back to reality and worry about everyday life with your people.
 
Everybody can’t do everything. That’s why I keep geopolitics as a interest but I leaves actual political action to others.
 
Even for protests, I discovered my health is not as it used to be, so I have to scale back.
 
But don’t mistaken: I am not a follower in my country, and I am not going to become a follower of foreigners, online or else, not about my own country.
 
We have chosen Russia and china long ago, at a moment when it was not so evident in our countries.
 
But it’s not a reason to follow people who pretend to speak for Russia but want to destroy my country for their sordid interest.
 
We are talking about geopolitics, but some smart ones are making millions of dollars out if it.
We have spoken about hasbara trolls, but we have the corresponding ones in the anti-imperialist side, who just want to make money, even with lies.
 
And yet they want us to follow their games of manipulation.
I won’t be a part of it.

Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 11:10 utc | 239

One of the challenges for well-intentioned people is ‘respectability’ politics. This is where group-think develops from assumed expectations of allowable speech: an artificial consensus based not on struggling with moral principle and ethical application in a complex material world, but from fear about keeping up appearances among one’s social status. And as we all know, once you believe the mask is the reality worth preserving and not so the person underneath, then you have the devil in the details to overlook being humane in favor instead for the guise of appearing humane.
 
When you live comfortable enough to avoid dealing with truth directly, but instead worry more about maintaining your comfort by dealing with truth in socially assumed politics correctly, then you forsake doing right for appearing polite. It’s quite the moral hazard because thereafter you must always be on guard of the outside contagion of presumed bad and wrong thinking. You finally get locked in a beseiged mentality, constantly policing your in-group looking for traitors while ever changing your sworn principles to keep up with your peer group’s revealing social marking shibboleths.
 
🙂 Ooh, a dropped popcorn!
/cheep cheep

Posted by: titmouse | Feb 9 2026 13:12 utc | 241

Let’s say “Not to be the common man is different from being divorced from the common man”.
Posted by: Sebgo | Feb 9 2026 6:02 utc | 204

There is much in this. There are many people who were raised in a working class environment but, through education and especially higher education (at least in the west), find themselves no longer of that class. Of that world but no longer in it.
Equally, they never quite join the middle or upper classes.
Whilst they retain their empathy for the common man, they share little in common emotionally or psychologically with the bourgeois classes. In that world, but not of it.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Feb 9 2026 14:04 utc | 243

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Feb 9 2026 7:03 utc | 214
 
Chomsky is unable to communicate to others than his wife. She has written this defense and I believe her.
 
Chomsky and his wife explains links to Epstein

Posted by: Avtonom | Feb 9 2026 14:17 utc | 245

Analysts claim that despite the fabrications in Washington and mainstream media regarding the US controlling Venezuela as a new colony, the chances of new US attacks are very probable, as Chavismo will not tolerate dealing with the US under duress for too long. They also argue that US imperialism is waiting for the right time to attempt to decapitate the Bolivarian Revolution, while the latter is managing tactical retreats to reorganize forces, correct the defense flaws evident during the Jan. 3 US military attacks, and prepare for a long military confrontation against US imperialism.
 
https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-national-assembly-president-denounces-us-diplomatic-blackmail-and-colonial-roadmap/

Posted by: arby | Feb 9 2026 14:27 utc | 247

@ Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Feb 9 2026 13:56 utc | 244
 
it is like 9/11 a ‘Controlled Demolition’
 
or a ‘fire break’.
 
Worse comes to worse they will just face it down and claim ‘proof’ not presented to an English Court , by definition doesn’t exist!
 
 
There must be an avalanche of Super Injunctions being printed line fiat money 😄
 
 
These are not a normal injunction, or even D-Notices, but SUPER. 
 
 
Which means they don’t have to be stated as existing! 
 
Fight Club Rule – ‘no one talks about it’ -‘LEGALLY’.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 9 2026 14:46 utc | 249

Naked Capitalism . com still works in Central America

Posted by: Samu | Feb 9 2026 14:58 utc | 251

@253
 
Right. That will buy absolution.

Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 9 2026 15:24 utc | 253

Epstein Isn’t an Aberration. He’s an Inevitable Outcome – Barry’s Economics

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 9 2026 15:35 utc | 255

The Epstein case has affected the Norwegian Foreign Ministry: the country’s Ambassador to Jordan has resigned (EADaily, February 9, 2026 — in Russian)

The Norwegian ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, Mona Juul, has resigned.
…
Evidence of the Norwegian diplomat’s ties to Epstein emerged after the U.S. Department of Justice released new documents on his case. Juul and her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen, not only maintained ties with Epstein but were also designated as heirs to a $5 million inheritance under his will. Juul herself said in an interview that she learned of the inheritance only after the Epstein case was published.
 
Norwegian media also specifically noted that Mona Juul and her husband, Rød-Larsen, were considered key Norwegian diplomats influencing Oslo’s official stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Posted by: S | Feb 9 2026 15:48 utc | 257

With respect to dichotomies that are black and white, Pannonica Rothschild was Thelonious Monk’s patroness.
 
Posted by: too scents | Feb 9 2026 15:17 utc | 253

 
I’m failing to see the relevance of that. Plenty of monsters in the Vatican, for example, were great patrons of the arts.

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 9 2026 15:54 utc | 259

Colonelcassad
It is reported that Epstein, during the beginning of the investigation on the pedophile-cannibalistic island, brought there more than 1200 liters of industrial sulfuric acid. A great way to destroy corpses and other evidence. As it has been said more than once, what was dumped into the public domain is only the tip of the iceberg. It is noteworthy that none of the defendants are currently being prosecuted by law, at most they themselves leave their posts.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 9 2026 16:04 utc | 261

Peter AU1:
 
“Canada like Australia…the vast majority of what I term neutral Ukroid like ordinary people believe the geo-political bullshit in the mass media…”
 
Yes, probably. And most are far too busy trying to earn a living and pay the rent or mortgage to look deeper I think.
 
 
james@197:
 
Thanks. Clearly Finkelstein was never an Epstein admirer.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 16:11 utc | 263

Patrick Boyle: ‘Careless People’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-tapKoT1K0
 
“The worst of the Epstein files.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Feb 9 2026 16:15 utc | 265

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 10:39 utc | 238
 
My early experience was similar.  I was born early in WW2,  my sibling five years later into a totally different environment.  I remember standing with my part-maori grandmother with our buckets, over our back fence above the railway line.  Shovellers on a passing train coal wagon would pitch a shovelful in our direction — that was our heating during the winters. 
 
After the war, with my father home from North Africa, beginning once again in government work he’d started before he enlisted, we moved away.  We would not be able to live where our house was now, — now it’s ritzier than Aspen or a NY highrise —  but even then everything was different from the place I had been born and lived in the first six years of my life.  So,  our outlooks growing up even at that young age were set for us by our different childhood environments.  
 
I loved mine: it was founded in the simple joys of poverty, which I have never found fearful or to be avoided. But it made me ‘a different one’  even as my father’s  advancing prosperity brought us to the US and I was given the best education I could ever have had.  So I got the best of both worlds.   I was a lucky one.  
 
Dostoievski describes more talented ‘different ones’ thusly:
 

“…   not only is an eccentric man ‘not always’ an isolated and solitary example,  but rather,  it sometimes happens that it is exactly he who possibly contains deep within himself the heart of the whole,  from which others in the same era all —  for some reason —  have been carried away by a kind of hurricane wind   …”  [From the Author, the prologue to  The Brothers Karamazov, my translation]

 
He, Dostoievski, had himself had such experiences, with exile in a prison camp before he began his writing career.   The priest in my little Santa Fe church was at Dresden in a concentration camp during the firebombing.
 

Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies  …      

Posted by: juliania | Feb 9 2026 16:20 utc | 267

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 9 2026 16:04 utc | 262
how is it that people don’t understand this: 
 
the whole point of the way the DOJ is going about this is to render *criminal* liability an impossibility for the guilty. For multiple reasons, no prosecutor will bring a charge against anyone, or any prominent figures, in those files. maybe a few will be scapegoated. 
 
if you want justice, you must burn down the USG. 100% of the ruling class loves that Epstein island they all created called Israel. b/c in the US the ruling class is going to use the hysteria and deceit and moral panic over routine ruling class behavior (sic) to destroy what’s left of the legal system in the US.
 
honestly, if anyone is really surprised by the depravity of the western ruling class, just look at the church. look at the prison system.
 
will we ever know how many minors ICE agents have raped and tortured and killed? nothing arouses Greg Abbott, TX governor, like torturing Messican kids.

Posted by: duck n cover | Feb 9 2026 16:24 utc | 269

The Vatican Treasury is hardly public.  It is full of plunder.  Pannonica Rothschild naively gave Jazz to us by sponsoring its creators.
 
Posted by: too scents | Feb 9 2026 16:09 utc | 263

 
A distinction without a difference — after all, when you are the state, the state’s piggy bank is yours — but there’s no shortage of arts and culture patrons who don’t exactly rank with the best of humanity. We could start with, say, David Koch.

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 9 2026 16:30 utc | 271

 Sebgo, I seem to have blown a post. Disappeared into the winds of distraction
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 7:28 utc | 217
You are a desiccated little shrimp of a man, trying to evoke pity, many here were sending you the melodies and trying to pacify you.
You are the alcoholic imbecile trying to evoke mercy for yourself. when you do not do anything meaningful.
Your trial you try to make romantic is meaningless.
Leave the world posters alone, you are meaningless. PIZDO.
Just drop dead. 

Posted by: stranger | Feb 9 2026 16:33 utc | 273

Posted by: too scents | Feb 9 2026 16:33 utc | 273
 
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I didn’t encourage or desensitize anyone to violence, I only made FPS video games… 😂😂😂

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 16:36 utc | 275

PIZDO mean the cun…t, you stupid idiot.
Your life means nothing and you will die in your own shit, alone…Shriveled little racist.
No mercy for you. 

Posted by: stranger | Feb 9 2026 16:37 utc | 277

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 16:37 utc | 277
 
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I don’t see a comment from you at 270.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 16:39 utc | 279

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 9 2026 16:56 utc | 281
 
Sell? He doesn’t have to sell anything. He is ordering his blackmailed/owned “mark” to attack. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 9 2026 17:00 utc | 281

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 16:38 utc | 279
You complained about me?
Sorry, you are pathetic. 

Posted by: stranger | Feb 9 2026 17:09 utc | 283

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 9 2026 8:35 utc | 221
 
Good one, DunGroanin!!

Posted by: juliania | Feb 9 2026 17:14 utc | 285

DunGroanin | Feb 9 2026 8:35 utc | 221— Yes, as Pepe Escobar announced on his Telegram this morning: “Lavrov: The spirit of Anchorage is dead.” What you cited was a portion of Lavrov’s interview with BRICS TV. Of course, Lavrov spells out the details of why that is making it difficult to cite a sound bite. Here’s an important excerpt that conveys that message: 

This is pure Bidenism, which US President Donald Trump and his team reject. Nevertheless, they calmly “broke through”, the law and sanctions against Russia continue to operate. They imposed sanctions against Lukoil, Rosneft. Moreover, they did this in the autumn, a couple of weeks after a good meeting between President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United States Donald Trump in Anchorage.  We are told that we need to solve the Ukrainian problem. In Anchorage, we accepted the proposal of the United States. If we approach it “in a manly way”, then they proposed – we agreed, so the problem must be solved. President of Russia Vladimir Putin has said more than once that it does not matter to Russia what they say in Ukraine and Europe, we can clearly see the “cavernous” Russophobia of most regimes in the European Union, with the rarest exceptions. The position of the United States was important to us. By accepting their proposal, we seem to have fulfilled the task of resolving the Ukrainian issue and moving on to full-scale, broad, mutually beneficial cooperation.  So far, in practice, everything looks the other way around: new sanctions are being introduced, a “war” is being staged against tankers on the high seas in violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. They are trying to ban India and our other partners from buying cheap, affordable Russian energy resources (Europe has long been banned) and are forcing them to buy American liquefied natural gas at exorbitant prices.  In addition to what they seemed to propose about Ukraine and we were ready (now they are not ready), we also do not see any “rosy” future in the economic sphere. The Americans want to take over all the routes for providing all leading countries and all continents with energy. On the European continent, they are “looking” at the Nord Streams blown up three years ago, at the Ukrainian gas transportation system and at the Turkish Stream.  This is to say that the United States’ goal of dominating the global economy is being implemented through the use of a very large number of coercive measures that do not fit into fair competition. Tariffs, sanctions, outright bans, some are forbidden to communicate – we all have to take this into account. [My Emphasis]

 Lavrov displays all the things we have seen, or at least those of us watching closely, that the Trump Gang continues the Cold War against Russia and has escalated it to include the entire world. The entire interview is very concise, one of the best I’ve read from him.  On the Japanese elections, I read a rather hawkish Chinese analysis on Guancha I intend to translate and post. Now I have two projects for the day with the Lavrov interview and who knows what else I’ll encounter since I’ve only just begun my Monday. 
Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 16:23 utc | 270

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 17:18 utc | 287

291 is on the roster. I can view my comment at 270. Here it is again:
 
Yes, as Pepe Escobar announced on his Telegram this morning: “Lavrov: The spirit of Anchorage is dead.” What you cited was a portion of Lavrov’s interview with BRICS TV. Of course, Lavrov spells out the details of why that is making it difficult to cite a sound bite. Here’s an important excerpt that conveys that message: 

This is pure Bidenism, which US President Donald Trump and his team reject. Nevertheless, they calmly “broke through”, the law and sanctions against Russia continue to operate. They imposed sanctions against Lukoil, Rosneft. Moreover, they did this in the autumn, a couple of weeks after a good meeting between President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the United States Donald Trump in Anchorage.  We are told that we need to solve the Ukrainian problem. In Anchorage, we accepted the proposal of the United States. If we approach it “in a manly way”, then they proposed – we agreed, so the problem must be solved. President of Russia Vladimir Putin has said more than once that it does not matter to Russia what they say in Ukraine and Europe, we can clearly see the “cavernous” Russophobia of most regimes in the European Union, with the rarest exceptions. The position of the United States was important to us. By accepting their proposal, we seem to have fulfilled the task of resolving the Ukrainian issue and moving on to full-scale, broad, mutually beneficial cooperation.  So far, in practice, everything looks the other way around: new sanctions are being introduced, a “war” is being staged against tankers on the high seas in violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. They are trying to ban India and our other partners from buying cheap, affordable Russian energy resources (Europe has long been banned) and are forcing them to buy American liquefied natural gas at exorbitant prices.  In addition to what they seemed to propose about Ukraine and we were ready (now they are not ready), we also do not see any “rosy” future in the economic sphere. The Americans want to take over all the routes for providing all leading countries and all continents with energy. On the European continent, they are “looking” at the Nord Streams blown up three years ago, at the Ukrainian gas transportation system and at the Turkish Stream.  This is to say that the United States’ goal of dominating the global economy is being implemented through the use of a very large number of coercive measures that do not fit into fair competition. Tariffs, sanctions, outright bans, some are forbidden to communicate – we all have to take this into account. [My Emphasis]

 Lavrov displays all the things we have seen, or at least those of us watching closely, that the Trump Gang continues the Cold War against Russia and has escalated it to include the entire world. The entire interview is very concise, one of the best I’ve read from him.  On the Japanese elections, I read a rather hawkish Chinese analysis on Guancha I intend to translate and post. Now I have two projects for the day with the Lavrov interview and who knows what else I’ll encounter since I’ve only just begun my Monday. 
 
The format pasted properly, so let’s see what happens after I press the post comment button.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 9 2026 17:24 utc | 289

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 9 2026 1:53 utc | 157  Russia is a capitalist country. The Trotskyite wrecker certainly doesn’t have anything good to say about the Soviet Union after about 1923, when Trotsky didn’t replace Lenin after his stroke. PRC is not resisting imperialism in easily detectable ways. Domestically it’s verbal commitment to the supremacy of so-called market allocation (which means bourgeoisie chooses) continues, at a pace that many people have convinced themselves PRC is already capitalist. That may be what attracts the wrecker, the belief PRC has found the cure for capitalism. As far as fighting imperialism directly goes, well, Deng invaded Vietnam. And PRC engages in many of the sanctions against DPRK. But again this sort of thing may be what the wrecker finds so attractive? The usual cover for this kind of politics mumbles something about multipolarity. The world was multipolar in 1914, so I’m not convinced this is sufficient. The intended insult of “faggot” is curious, as such an individual may offer a good time…but no one ever had a good time with Trotskyites. 
 
The funny part is that the weakness of Chavismo, Bolivarian revolution, can probably be epitomized as anti-Stalinist. It rejects the need for the dictatorship of the proletariat even when the circumstances require a severe partisan dictatorship to protect class rule. That’s why instead of purging the military, the officer corps was expanded and given privileges (paid for by funds from PdVSA.) That’s why select members of the bourgeoisie were favored, to split their class, creating a so-called boliburguesia. That’s why their was a mass media still largely owned by the bourgeoisie. That’s why Maria Corina Machado was merely barred from running in her own name for president, rather than being tried and possibly executed for her role in organizing violent protests. I’m pretty sure that if Chavismo had instead been Stalinist, then our unprincipled Trotskyite wrecker would have been first to condemn that Venezuela as a mockery of revolution, even a counter-revolutionary plot to disenchant the international working class by discrediting socialism. I think the wrecker would have been appalled at something so like the Cultural Revolution, which was absolutely the worst thing to happen in the world since Stalin. I will concede that our Trotskyite wrecker sees no profit in raving against Robespierre. He just gets warm and fuzzy thinking about Charlotte Corday?

Posted by: steven t johnson | Feb 9 2026 17:31 utc | 291

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 9 2026 17:19 utc | 289
I am warning you.
Your brain has gone to mush as you are an alcoholic. Little desiccated man, trying to connect with many here, and they appease you.
This does not give you the right to insult the others. From the world, like Africa. Be careful as you are allowing your self too much.
Sad little man. Try to better yourself, you have a lot to work… Before you go. Soon.
And do not try to threaten me, little shrimp.
PS, b, sorry
 
 

Posted by: stranger | Feb 9 2026 17:38 utc | 293

@ 293
Steve, plenty of Trotskyists were “critical defencists” of the USSR and the “deformed workers’ state”. As far as I know, the only people with nothing good to say about the USSR post-1922 were the Anglo-French libertarian socialists (Castoriadis, Chris Pallis, the Situationists) and the council communists (Paul Mattick especially).
 
I think there’s a good Stalinist word for the multipolaristas: revisionists. They’ve abandoned the class struggle (which the aforementioned groups did not!) in favor of geopolitics, a nazi ideological invention.
 
Maybe you’re taking the piss and I’m too autistic to tell.

Posted by: fnord | Feb 9 2026 17:41 utc | 295

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Feb 9 2026 16:28 utc | 271
 
As a former musician from a family of musicians, I can see how encouraging music could be quite subversive
 
“…As you can see, music can get you pretty fucked up. Take a tip from Joe, do like he did. Hock your imaginary guitar and get a good job. Joe did, and he’s a happy guy now on the day shift at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen…”
 
credits
 
 

Posted by: john | Feb 9 2026 17:45 utc | 297

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Feb 9 2026 17:35 utc | 294
It is easy to distinguish between normal Americans  and the zio bustard Americans who walk around like they own the world.
You are safe, they are not.
We recognize the difference.

Posted by: stranger | Feb 9 2026 17:47 utc | 299