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Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace
Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace This is not a column defending Donald Trump. Across my career I have said more positive words about the scolex family of intestinal tapeworms than I have said about Donald Trump. (Scolex have been shown to read more.) No, this is a […]
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany. As The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald notes, both parties advancing the amendment cited in […]
Why The US Empire Works So Hard To Control The International Narrative About Russia
Why The US Empire Works So Hard To Control The International Narrative About Russia On a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ Freedom Watch, John Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks publications, and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up. “Now I want to make the case for secrecy in […]
This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile
This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and its allies […]
The War That Time Forgot
The War That Time Forgot Drone targeting footage, Afghanistan. Photo: USAF. I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It’s meant to serve as a political line of demarcation, a sure-fire way to determine which politicians, celebrities and news personalities you […]
Mentally Replace Everything Before “U.S. Intelligence Says” With “Blah Blah We’re Probably Lying”
Mentally Replace Everything Before “U.S. Intelligence Says” With “Blah Blah We’re Probably Lying” “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, U.S. Intelligence Says”, blares the latest viral headline from The New York Times. NYT’s unnamed sources allege that the GRU “secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops”, and that […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iranian Tankers & the Age of Interdiction
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iranian Tankers & the Age of Interdiction Two forms of interdiction — the steady expansion of U.S. sanctions and our stunning drift toward unmasked censorship — have begun to intersect. Over the weekend, a sixth Iranian cargo ship entered Venezuelan waters and is due to dock shortly. It follows a convoy of five Iranian tankers […]
American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh
American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh From the border wall rhetoric to trade wars, Trump is effectively setting up the implosion of the dollar and couching it as pseudo nationalistic populism. The pressure on the global economy imposed by the measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic threatens […]
On Maintaining Perspective In The Year 20 Fucking 20
On Maintaining Perspective In The Year 20 Fucking 20 “As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn’t quite articulate it, except with the words: if only I was here. This little beachside cafe was so exquisite she longed to really be there, […]
Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle
Turkey’s Big Bet Has Put Libya in Center of a Global Power Struggle Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. Haftar’s dream of capturing Tripoli from […]
United States: An Obituary
United States: An Obituary The United States of America was problematic from the start. It was founded on genocide and slavery, and, while frequently congratulating itself on the rights and freedoms it granted its citizens, never managed to confront the demons in its past. The question would arise repeatedly, generation after generation: rights and freedoms […]
NYT Finally Gets Around to Reporting OAS Fraud Election Claims in Bolivia Were Bogus
NYT Finally Gets Around to Reporting OAS Fraud Election Claims in Bolivia Were Bogus The Times only covered the problems with the OAS analysis after a study from three independent researchers found flawed data and analysis. Bolivia’s Evo Morales in 2008. (Joel Alvarez, Wikimedia Commons) More than seven months after claims of fraudulent elections sparked an undemocratic coup that led […]
21 Years Ago: The end of the Bombing of Serbia. And the Start of the Decline of the Western Empire
21 Years Ago: The end of the Bombing of Serbia. And the Start of the Decline of the Western Empire Nato Bombing of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia, 1999 (image from Wikipedia) 21 years ago, on June 10, 1999, the NATO campaign against Serbia ended after 78 days of bombing. We still don’t know […]
Facebook Singles Out State Media of US Adversaries for a Warning
Facebook Singles Out State Media of US Adversaries for a Warning Ignoring state-owned media in nations allied with the U.S., Facebook is attaching a warning label to state media from countries the U.S. doesn’t like. Facebook has begun adding labels to news articles it publishes from “state media” to warn readers about where their news […]
China v USA
China v USA QUESTION: Obviously, China is not Hitler or Napoleon with dreams of conquering the world. The days of empire building are gone. China has always been the one who is invaded from the Mongols and Japanese to the Europeans. Do you see China becoming more dominant in empire building retaking Taiwan? JN ANSWER: I am […]
