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The Anti-Russia Cold War in the Arctic is Heating Up
The Anti-Russia Cold War in the Arctic is Heating Up Photo Source Official U.S. Navy Page | CC BY 2.0 Britain’s Daily Mail is a strident rag that is bought daily by over a million people who agree with its stance that most foreigners are inferior to Brits. Two years ago the European Commission against Racism and […]
Germany Admits it Needs More from Russia than Nordstream 2
Germany Admits it Needs More from Russia than Nordstream 2 During the years the U.S. and its satraps in Poland and the Baltics fought the Nordstream 2 pipeline it was always apparent Germany was in the driver’s seat. It was also apparent that this would be the wedge issue that would ultimately force Germany to […]
Two Stories from the Propaganda War
Two Stories from the Propaganda War Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National Rifle Association. Maria, a graduate student […]
Nation Transfixed In Horror By Toy Bombs While Destroying Lives With Real Ones
Nation Transfixed In Horror By Toy Bombs While Destroying Lives With Real Ones Media headlines have been dominated for the last two days by the news that pipe bombs are being sent to Democratic Party elites and their allies, a list of whom as of this writing consists of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle […]
“We Will Be At War With China In 15 Years” Predicts Former Commander Of U.S. Army In Europe
“We Will Be At War With China In 15 Years” Predicts Former Commander Of U.S. Army In Europe Days after U.S. warships made a provocative passage through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, further making already strained tensions between the Washington and Beijing — currently in the midst of a trade war — even hotter, the former top commander of the US […]
Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else
Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else It was intriguing that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 was apparently recorded in some fashion. The BBC reported that “A Turkish security source has confirmed to BBC Arabic the existence of an audio and a video recording. What […]
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism Trump is for nationalism. So the “Resistance” is predictably for . . . wait for it . . . the right kind of nationalism — or nationalism worn properly, as The Week advises. The problem isn’t nationalism, The Hill informs us, it’s phony nationalism and spurious nationalism, or […]
The Triumph of Evil
The Triumph of Evil The murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey is unprecedented in its audacity. The response from Washington and the Canadian government is to sell more weapons to Saudi Arabia, weapons that are being used by the Saudis in their destruction of the Yemeni population. The Russian response, […]
NATO Sends 50,000 Troops to Largest Exercise Since Cold War
NATO Sends 50,000 Troops to Largest Exercise Since Cold War Operations centered on Arctic and Scandinavia US Marines are landing in Iceland and warplanes are flying overhead in Scandinavia, just days ahead of the kickoff of Trident Juncture. The annual exercise, focused on the Arctic Circle and Scandinavia, is set to be the largest operation […]
CN VIDEO—Jill Stein Talks to Consortium News: ‘We Are Being Robbed Blind by the War Profiteers’
CN VIDEO—Jill Stein Talks to Consortium News: ‘We Are Being Robbed Blind by the War Profiteers’ During the Women’s March on the Pentagon, Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for president, told Consortium News Video that war is robbing us blind. 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke to Consortium News Video during the […]
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed Photo Source James N. Mattis | CC BY 2.0 Only recently a spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada made headlines as a result of the Saudi Government’s beheading of a Myanmar guest worker. After the public barbaric and gruesome decapitation, the corpse […]
China’s Oil Addiction Is Its Main Weakness As A Superpower
China’s Oil Addiction Is Its Main Weakness As A Superpower For decades, the U.S. was so reliant on foreign crude oil imports that it dictated much of the country’s foreign policy spanning numerous presidential administrations. As far back as the 1970s, especially after the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo that threatened economic survival, foreign policy decisions […]
“Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait
“Prospect Of U.S.-China War Rising” After US Warships Sail Through Taiwan Strait Just after U.S. warships again made a provocative passage through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, further making already strained tensions between the Washington and Beijing — currently in the midst of a trade war — even hotter, Steve LeVine at Axios poses the question long on the […]
Israel’s Defense Chief Says “No Choice But War” As Forces Build Along Gaza Border
Israel’s Defense Chief Says “No Choice But War” As Forces Build Along Gaza Border We reported over the weekend that Israel has mustered its largest build-up of tanks and armored personnel carriers since 2014 at a deployment area along the border with Gaza and that “all-out war” looks inevitable after weeks of heightened tensions with Hamas. […]
UK Readies Apocalyptic Flotilla Of Emergency Supplies In Case Of “No-Deal” Brexit
UK Readies Apocalyptic Flotilla Of Emergency Supplies In Case Of “No-Deal” Brexit UK authorities are drawing up plans to charter a flotilla of supply ships to ferry in emergency food and medicines in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit next March, according to FT, which reports that the move was “greeted with disbelief at a stormy […]
