Lorenzo Maria Pacini

Quando il direttore della CIA si reca in segreto a Mosca, sotto la superficie del conflitto si sta preparando qualcosa di significativo.

Alla corte del Cremlino

Il 25 agosto 2026 un aereo governativo statunitense è partito da Joint Base Andrews, ha fatto scalo a Riga e da lì ha raggiunto Mosca. A bordo c'era John Ratcliffe, direttore della CIA. Nessun annuncio, nessun comunicato, la missione è emersa dai dati di tracciamento dei voli e da fonti che hanno parlato sotto anonimato.

Par Geopolitics Prime, le 27 août 2026

Présentés par Hollywood, la télévision et les livres comme des super-héros à la James Bond (ou des super-vilains, selon à qui l'on s'adresse) les services du renseignement israéliens sont tout sauf invincibles. Parfois, les frasques de leurs agents rappellent nettement moins John le Carré que la série "L'arme fatale".

Voici dix des plus grosses bourdes, des plus gros ratés et des plus grands fiascos impossible à dissimuler.

par Diego Llumá*

Feona ATWOOD (dir.), « Mainstreaming Sex  », Londres/New York, I.B.Tauris, 2009. « La sexualisation est associée à l'essor du néolibéralisme, dans lequel l'individu devient une unité autorégulatrice au sein de la société », affirme Simon Hardy dans le même ouvrage.

En 2017, les Argentins ont consommé de la pornographie en ligne en grande quantité. Cela n'a rien de nouveau. Ce qui est inédit, c'est le niveau de précision dans les détails.

par Gueorgui Manaïev

Comment Vladimir Poutine a offert de la glace à Xi Jinping, pourquoi il a refusé une invitation de Shinzo Abe dans des sources thermales et pourquoi il regrette Gandhi.

La Russie et les pays asiatiques ont une longue histoire de relations culturelles et politiques. Sous la présidence de Vladimir Poutine, le pays a accordé une attention particulière aux liens avec les pays d'Asie, rencontrant leurs dirigeants à de nombreuses reprises, si bien que les commentaires des médias se sont souvent écartés du domaine politique.

par China Beyond the Wall

China Beyond the Wall s'est récemment entretenu avec le journaliste et militant argentin Ramiro Poce au sujet des derniers développements politiques en Argentine et dans toute l'Amérique du Sud. Nous vous proposons ci-dessous l'intégralité de cet entretien.

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Lama El Horr : L'Argentine peut être considérée comme une pionnière en matière d'alignement inconditionnel de ses politiques étrangères et intérieures sur les objectifs hégémoniques de Washington.

par Global Times

Alors que l'UE s'inquiète de son déficit commercial, la Chine est tout aussi préoccupée par l'accès à son marché, les enquêtes discriminatoires et le nombre croissant d'instruments unilatéraux déployés à son encontre. Sous couvert d'"enquête", l'UE exige des entités chinoises, de manière transfrontalière, des informations nationales exhaustives et non essentielles, ce qui a déjà dévié du cadre normal de la régulation des marchés pour se transformer en une intrusion abusive dans les frontières de la souveraineté nationale.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com  

August 31, 2026

If there was a black market for systemic risk, we'd make a completely different set of decisions. Instead, we're each on our own, trying to peek beneath our blindfold to see a sliver of the real world.

Here in the 9th inning, the name of the game is artifice in service of the Big Con. Everywhere we turn, we're inundated with "information" designed to funnel us into passively compliant complicity, a constant flood of interventions, social engineering, gamed statistics and fake substitutions for what was once authentic: fake facsimiles, synthetic mimicries and an endless array of flimsy facades designed to hide the realities that might awaken us from our uneasy somnambulance.

The real reasons for the trip remain obscure  

By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review  

August 31, 2026

Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the four airports that serve the Russian capitol Moscow.

By James Anthony
Mises.org  

August 31, 2026

[The Information State, Jacob Siegel, March 24, 2026, Henry Holt and Co., 336 pages.]

Jacob Siegel visualizes that, in an information-state form of government, a republican form of government's ultimate control by voters would get replaced by the digital monopolization of voters' attention, adjustment of voters' perceptions, and conditioning of voters to see certain outcomes as inevitable.

So Why Is The Left So Silent About How They Are Being Used To Violate Our Constitutional Rights ?  

By Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse  

August 31, 2026

There is a growing national outcry to ban Flock cameras. We do not give up our constitutional rights when we get into our vehicles, and we do not want authoritarian control freaks watching us, monitoring us and tracking us everywhere that we go.

The reckless gamble with the existence of the American people and the peoples of Western Europe appears to be getting more dangerous by the day.  

By John Leake
The Focal Points  

August 31, 2026

In spring of 2008, I was living in Vienna, Austria and carefully followed the reporting on the NATO Bucharest Summit from April 2-4. For readers who don't remember this momentous occasion: it was during this summit that the NATO issued a declaration stating that Georgia and Ukraine would eventually become NATO members.

Moon of Alabama  

August 31, 2026

On Wednesday CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow for a few hours of talk with Russian security officials. The trip was no secret as the planes transporting Ratcliffe and his entourage were readily identified.

There was no official announcement from either side about the content of the talks. U.S. media though were splattered with 'leaks' of more or less laughable details.

By Veronika Kyrylenko
The New American  

August 31, 2026

America's data center backlash may have produced an irresistible solution for the government and tech tycoons pushing the buildout.

If communities do not want the giant facilities next door, put them in space, beyond local opposition, beyond public scrutiny and, conveniently, beyond the need to guard them from angry neighbors on the ground.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

August 31, 2026

Recently, there have been striking new developments that imply major changes in the correlation of forces. These developments have largely gone unacknowledged and their implications unexamined. I made the effort in online interviews on Dialogue Works and On Target. I will now attempt to do so in writing.

One of the developments is Iran's defeat of US President Trump's attack on Iran.

By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21  

August 31, 2026

My friend, Karl Miller, is out with a great piece that exposes Trump's claims about Venezuelan oil as a massive case of gaslighting. I am summarizing his piece, which is titled,"Venezuela Oil: The Physical Barrel and the Capital Bill," because it is not publicly available via a link.

On 27 August 2026, President Trump announced what he called the biggest oil deal in world history - a US-Venezuela agreement giving the United States majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves, which he said would "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans." The pitch landed with gasoline near $4.09 a gallon, about 27% higher than a year earlier and on track for the most expensive August on record, as a six-month Iran war and the Hormuz disruption kept a fifth of world supply under strain - and with the midterms two months away.

By Karen Kwiatkowski  

August 31, 2026

On the heels of the Leah File's expose of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's major skill-set, this time targeting us, we find a new 25-year "US government agreement" to take ownership of 65% of Venezuelan oil reserves, wherefrom Washington sends back to the government of Venezuela $19 from each barrel produced and sold. We don't know if the $19 is a proportional share based on barrel pricing over time, or a flat fee.