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Russians Told To “Prepare For Worst Outcome” As US Prepares New Sanctions
Russians Told To “Prepare For Worst Outcome” As US Prepares New Sanctions A bipartisan team of US senators is preparing to hit Russia with additional sanctions over its 2016 US election interference and military operations in Syria and Ukraine. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are spearheading the measure, called the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act, which includes a wide range of financial […]
Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government
Understanding Why Iranians Bash the U.S. Government Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times’ journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, “For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the U.S.,” which was about Iran’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following sentence, “And like some evil doppelgänger, the […]
The Siege of Venezuela and the Travails of Empire
The Siege of Venezuela and the Travails of Empire Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair Here’s the bullet-point version: + It’s imperialism. + It’s American imperialism, a bipartisan national project. + American imperialism is the global management of capitalist class power. + It’s a binary situation in which one side or the other will win via […]
Cuba Warns US Moving Special Forces Closer to Venezuela Under Guise of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’
Cuba Warns US Moving Special Forces Closer to Venezuela Under Guise of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ “It is worth recalling that similar behaviors and pretexts were used to by the U.S. during the prelude to wars it launched against Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya.” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in May of 2018. (Photo: EFE/El […]
Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?
Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? Image source US National Security Advisor John Bolton has more or less admitted that the ongoing destabilisation of Venezuela is about grabbing its oil. He recently stated: We’re looking at the oil assets… We’re in conversation with major American companies now… It will make a big difference to […]
The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups
The Deep Hurt: Lessons From American Coups As the world watches aghast at another US and allies’ attempt to engineer a coup in Venezuela, I would like to offer a few insights from Stephen Kinzer’ provocative chapter, “The deep hurt,” (pp. 227-250) in his book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of […]
BBC Producer’s Syria Bombshell: Douma “Gas Attack” Footage “Was Staged”
BBC Producer’s Syria Bombshell: Douma “Gas Attack” Footage “Was Staged” Now approaching nearly a year after the April 7, 2018 alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria — which the White House used as a pretext to bomb Syrian government facilities and bases throughout Damascus — a BBC reporter who investigated the incident on the ground has issued public statements saying […]
Unhinged Mike Pence Warns of ‘New Holocaust’ as Team Trump Tries to Rally EU Leaders for War With Iran
Unhinged Mike Pence Warns of ‘New Holocaust’ as Team Trump Tries to Rally EU Leaders for War With Iran “Can someone remind me how things turned out the last time the U.S. pushed flimsy evidence of a nuclear weapons program in the Middle East and tried to bully its allies into supporting its policy?” Vice […]
Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown
Russia Readies Own Web To Survive Global Internet Shutdown Russian authorities and major telecom operators are preparing to disconnect the country from the world wide web as part of an exercise to prepare for future cyber attacks, Russian news agency RosBiznesKonsalting (RBK) reported last week. The purpose of the exercise is to develop a threat analysis and provide feedback to a proposed law […]
“Humanitarian Intervention” And The „New World Order“: Violation Of The International Law (I)
“Humanitarian Intervention” And The „New World Order“: Violation Of The International Law (I) The term „humanitarian intervention“ is the American political neologism (newly coined word) to morally cover a new format of Washington’s global imperialism at the time of the post-Cold War’s „New World Order“ in which the USA feel very comfortable to play a […]
U.S. Warns The World Against Buying Venezuelan Oil
U.S. Warns The World Against Buying Venezuelan Oil U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has warned countries and companies against buying crude oil from Venezuela, after the Latin American country’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo said during a surprise visit to India that Venezuela wants to sell more oil to the fast-growing Indian market. In a […]
Netanyanu Tweets Then Quickly Deletes He Is Seeking “War With Iran”
Netanyanu Tweets Then Quickly Deletes He Is Seeking “War With Iran” During the middle of the day Wednesday the official verified twitter account for the Prime Minister of Israel stated that PM Benjamin Netanyahu was in Warsaw attending the US-led Middle East summit with an aim to “advance the common interest of war with Iran.” It was tweeted in a thread focused […]
How Many Minutes to Midnight?
How Many Minutes to Midnight? Consider it a marriage made in hell. Start with the groom, Donald Trump, the man who once wondered why in the world we make nuclear weapons if we can’t use them; who wouldn’t rule out using nukes, even in Europe; who insisted that a president should be “unpredictable” on the subject; who suggested that […]
This Is Just The Beginning Of Europe’s Gas War
This Is Just The Beginning Of Europe’s Gas War In a move that should not surprise energy pundits nor even those that follow geopolitical news in Europe, on Thursday Russian gas giant Gazprom said it’s looking to gain an even larger gas market share in Europe following record-high 2018 exports, as it expects a decline […]
