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Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis
Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis U.S. corporate media spent years dismissing the role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s 2014 coup but it is suddenly going through a conversion, as Daniel Lazare reports. Last month a freelance journalist named Joshua Cohen published an article in The Washington Post about the Ukraine’s growing neo-Nazi threat. Despite a gratuitous swipe at […]
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire
America First, Helsinki, and Trump’s Existential Threat to the Empire The major – perhaps only – redeeming virtue of the Donald’s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America’s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard “Regime Change” as the core tenant of foreign […]
Imperial Hubris Redefined
Imperial Hubris Redefined There have been two developments in the past month that illustrate clearly what is wrong with the White House’s perception of America’s place in the world. Going far beyond the oft-repeated nonsense that the United States is somehow the “leader of the free world,” the Trump Administration has taken several positions that […]
Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable”
Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of “Thucydides Trap” With US, “War Is Unavoidable” A series of leaked internal documents reveal that China’s military reforms are aimed at allowing Beijing to “manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war” and overtake the United States in military strength, according to the Express. The leaked documents were published by […]
This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like
This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like I’ve been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some with millions of views, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks, who aren’t traditionally the sort of […]
Russia Joins Global Trade War – Imposes Tariffs On US Energy, Mining Imports
Russia Joins Global Trade War – Imposes Tariffs On US Energy, Mining Imports Whether this is a coordinated response is unclear – and certainly on a much smaller scale – but Bloomberg reports that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree this morning imposing higher tariffs on U.S. products in retaliation for U.S. duties on metals […]
King Trump Shouts at the Ocean: Stop the Waves
King Trump Shouts at the Ocean: Stop the Waves Trump believes all he has to do to make things happen is to issue an ultimatum. One Tweet will explain. ✔ The OPEC Monopoly must remember that gas prices are up & they are doing little to help. If anything, they are driving prices higher as […]
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth
Social Media and Israel: Censorship of the Truth Photo by Susan Ruggles | CC BY 2.0 The growing desperation of Israel to avoid public knowledge of its many war crimes and crimes against humanity knows no bounds. The country that, with United States support, proclaims itself the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’, has, like […]
No Need For Nato
No Need For Nato A NATO summit approaches that brings Donald Trump to Europe and then on to these shores, and brings the usual clamour for more of the taxpayers’ money to be given to arms manufacturers. Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution. It’s largest ever active military deployment, for 12 years in Afghanistan, […]
US vs. China–Is it ‘Art of the Deal’ or Economic Warfare?
US VS CHINA – IS IT ‘ART OF THE DEAL’ OR ECONOMIC WARFARE? If monetary tightening remains the main risk for global stock markets, the threat of a trade war continues to dominate the headlines.THE DONALD’S DEALMAKING Some of those in Washington pushing this policy view China as some kind of strategic rival for global […]
US Dollar Hegemony Tripped Up by Chinese Renminbi?
US Dollar Hegemony Tripped Up by Chinese Renminbi? Um, no. Central banks not enthusiastic about the renminbi. Global central banks are not dumping US-dollar-denominated assets from their foreign exchange reserves. They’re not dumping euro-denominated assets either. And they remain leery of the Chinese renminbi – despite China’s place as the second largest economy in the […]
Many Trump Supporters Now Cheering For The Deep State Over WikiLeaks And Iran
Many Trump Supporters Now Cheering For The Deep State Over WikiLeaks And Iran I just want to briefly document some of the ways I’m seeing the 2015/2016 anti-establishment sentiment of Trump’s base being hijacked and re-routed into supporting some highly conspicuous pro-establishment interests this year. In 2016 and 2017, much of the anti-establishment sentiment on what […]
