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Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror Replaying the Roman Civil Wars in Reverse Since 9/11 L’incendie de Rome, Hubert Robert (c. 1785) That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on […]
US Opens 2018 with Fake-News Bang, Suggests Russia Plotting to Cut Trans-Atlantic Internet Cables
US Opens 2018 with Fake-News Bang, Suggests Russia Plotting to Cut Trans-Atlantic Internet Cables Well, that didn’t take long. Just five days into 2018, and the American fake news industry is already up and running, churning out tasteless whoppers faster than Burger King. Wired magazine has joined the greasy ranks of other Western mythmakers now fueling a […]
Dangerous Idiot Category: “It’s Time to Bomb North Korea”
Dangerous Idiot Category: “It’s Time to Bomb North Korea” Edward Luttwak, an armchair foreign policy idiot, proposes bombing North Korea. It’s Time to Bomb North Korea says Edward Luttwak, idiot of the day for Foreign Policy Magazine. Check out his rationale: It’s true that North Korea could retaliate for any attack by using its conventional […]
Fabricating a War on Iran
Fabricating a War on Iran Photo by futureatlas.com | CC BY 2.0 Secretary of State Colin Powell brandished a vial he claimed contained anthrax at the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003, and showed satellite photos of secret sites where chemical weapons were supposed to be manufactured. He later admitted the story was fabricated, […]
Russia Defends Syrian Military Bases From Massive Drone Attack
Russia Defends Syrian Military Bases From Massive Drone Attack Russian security forces of the Khmeimim air base and Russian Naval CSS point in the city of Tartus ,thwarted a terrorist attack “with massive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through the night of 5th – 6th January 2018,” according to the Russian Ministry of Defence. […]
The world in 2018 – Part One
The world in 2018 – Part One New Year predictions are getting more and more popular. In a world that is growing ever more complex and confusing, we seem to be increasingly eager to get some hints about what lies in the fog just ahead of us. Yet what we need is probably less to get […]
Iran Sanctions Will Help China’s Petro-Yuan
Iran Sanctions Will Help China’s Petro-Yuan In a few days, U.S. President Trump may try to re-impose sanctions on Iran, a dramatic step that could heighten tensions between the two countries. Some analysts believe the move could contribute to a much broader global economic power shift from the U.S. to China. The connection between the […]
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 “In the heart of appeasement there’s the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.” —Chris Jami As the world hurtles ever closer to war in Asia, there is an Alice-in-Wonderland media narrative […]
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’ Photo by The Official CTBTO Photo | CC BY 2.0 I want to say – and this is very important – in the end, we lucked out! It was luck that prevented nuclear war. Khrushchev was rational. Kennedy was rational. Castro was rational. [Holding up his thumb and […]
America Debating “Bloody Nose” Limited Military Strike On North Korea
America Debating “Bloody Nose” Limited Military Strike On North Korea With North and South Korea set to meet tomorrow amid a hopeful climate of de-escalation and renewed diplomatic relations, the US government has decided to remind Kim Jong-Un that he may well be a dead man walking. Confirming what the Telegraph reported on December 20, […]
Lies We Tell Ourselves
Lies We Tell Ourselves Pixabay Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. — A. E. Housman, 1859-1936 Seven of my soldiers are dead. Two committed suicide. Bombs got the others in Iraq and Afghanistan. One young man lost three limbs. Another is paralyzed. […]
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington Post competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government — the 100 top “federal contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon […]
Will England Break-Up Not Just the United Kingdom
Will England Break-Up Not Just the United Kingdom QUESTION: Hi Martin. In your recent blog posts, you talk about the possible timing of the break up of Britain but you talk about that in terms of the regionalisation or break up of England only. Have you not said before that Scotland is likely to become […]
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1 “Once you understand what people want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can find the same desires in your own heart” – concluded Andrew Wiggins in the novel Speaker for the Dead. When Americans […]
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests Friday’s UN Security Council meeting didn’t disappoint in terms of the anticipated level of inflammatory rhetoric and accusations. Also not unexpected is that the US finds itself isolated after a week of the Trump White House going on the offensive: first by essentially calling […]
