As I write this post, Iran is experiencing its twelfth day of protests. This present cycle of unrest was ignited on December 28, 2025, by a group of merchants in Tehran expressing their dissatisfaction with the plummeting value of the country's currency. As a point of reference, Iran's currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar in 2015, and today it's hovering around 1,470,000 per dollar. That's a 4,494-percent increase in a decade. This sharp plunge has put particular pressure on (…)

- Iran / Cost of living crisis, Kurds, Azeri, Bourgeoisie / elites / oligarchy (Eng), Theocracy, Monarchy / Royalists, Crisis (socio-economic), Crisis (political/institutional/regime), PAHLAVI Reza, Human Rights Activists (HRA) (Iran)

We reproduce here a portion of the second chapter of Zbigniew M. Kowalewski's work, Révolutions ukrainiennes, 1917-1919 & 2014, which presents the historical characteristics of Russian imperialism. We have not reproduced its original footnotes. This fundamental book was released in Paris in September 2025. It is the product of several decades of research by the author on the missed encounter between the Russian and Ukrainian revolutions of the early twentieth century, as well as on the (…)

- History (Russian Empire, USSR)

1. Chronicle of an Announced Attack THE UNITED STATES' military intervention against Venezuela, culminating in Nicolás Maduro's kidnapping on January 3, 2026, has been in preparation for a long time. In an article published in February 2019, entitled “Donald Trump, the End of Globalism, and the Crisis in Venezuela,”(1) I argued that the then-president revealed with unprecedented candor the true objectives of U.S. imperialism: not the defense of democracy or human rights, nor the (…)

- Venezuela / Donroe Doctrine, Industry (oil and fossil fuel), Oil & gas / Fossil fuel, MACHADO María Corina, TRUMP Donald, USA (Eng), Land and property grabbing, Lithium, Copper, Rare Earth, Minerals / Minéraux, Latin America, Brazil, China, BRICS / BRICS+, Dedollarization, Colombia, Greenland