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Truth Has Become Un-American
Truth Has Become Un-American Those of us who have exited The Matrix are concerned that there are no checks on Washington’s use of nuclear weapons in the interest of US hegemony over the world. Washington and Israel are the threats to peace. Washington demands world hegemony, and Israel demands hegemony in the Middle East. There […]
The Deep State and the Dark Arts
The Deep State and the Dark Arts Photo by Nicolas Raymond | CC BY 2.0 Rejecting populism for hegemony There’s a superb scene in the movie Syriana where CIA bureaucrats distance themselves from one of their agents, Bob, played by George Clooney, who has become a troublesome asset for the agency. Terry, the pack leader, begins to extemporize […]
Et Tu, Brute? (How Empires Die)
Et Tu, Brute? (How Empires Die) (Image: The assassination of Julius Caesar, led by Brutus.) The state-owned Bank of China has been ordered by an American court to hand over customer information to the US. The bank has refused to comply, as to do so would violate China’s privacy law. The US court has […]
License to Kill
License to Kill Jakub Rozalski [This post is, once again, a rerun, but its subject seems quite timely. As you watch the political establishment in the US go through its usual antics, ask yourself: are they even capable of understanding the fact that they have already lost the empire?] The story is the same every […]
Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington’s New Approach To Russia
Guile Replaces The Stick: Washington’s New Approach To Russia Washington has learned that threats and coercion do not work against Russia. All the threats have done is to build Putin’s public support to astronomical levels and to unify Russia against the West’s assault. This is a failed policy that Washington is abandoning as Washington sees […]
Embracing The Dark Side: A Short History Of The Pathological Neocon Quest For Empire
Embracing The Dark Side: A Short History Of The Pathological Neocon Quest For Empire When Bill Kristol watches Star Wars movies, he roots for the Galactic Empire. The leading neocon recently caused a social media disturbance in the Force when he tweeted this predilection for the Dark Side following the debut of the final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Kristol […]
Insouciance Rules The West
Insouciance Rules The West Europe is being overrun by refugees from Washington’s, and Israel’s, hegemonic policies in the Middle East and North Africa that are resulting in the slaughter of massive numbers of civilians. The inflows are so heavy that European governments are squabbling among themselves about who is to take the refugees. Hungary is […]
Ron Paul: “All Wars Paid For Through Debasing the Currency”
Ron Paul: “All Wars Paid For Through Debasing the Currency” And at some point, all empires crumble on their own excess, stretched to the breaking point by over-extending a military industrial complex with sophisticated equipment, hundreds of bases in as many countries, and never-ending wars that wrack up mind boggling levels of debt. This cost […]
Greece’s Lesson For Russia
Greece’s Lesson For Russia “Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.” — International Monetary Fund Greece’s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot […]
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war The control of resources remains a core factor in US considerations for sustaining global US hegemony in the face of rising geopolitical influence of its major rivals Last week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff released the new National Military Strategy of the United States of America, 2015. The […]
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” For Ruling the World On Wednesday, the Pentagon released its 2015 National Military Strategy, a 24-page blueprint for ruling the world through military force. While the language in the report is subtler and less incendiary than similar documents in the past, the determination to unilaterally pursue US interests through extreme violence […]
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast Despite pretty talk about “democracy” and “human rights,” U.S. leaders have become the world’s chief purveyors of chaos and death – from Vietnam through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other unfortunate nations, a dangerous dilemma addressed by John Chuckman. When I think of America’s place in the world today, […]
Public Didn’t See Last Two World Wars Coming Either
Public Didn’t See Last Two World Wars Coming Either Books about how World War I started, and to a lesser degree how World War II started, have tended in recent years to explain that these wars didn’t actually come as a surprise, because top government officials saw them coming for years. But these revised histories […]
China’s Island Building Reveals the True Power in Asia
China’s Island Building Reveals the True Power in Asia China’s land reclamation moves in the South China Sea may be cause for reproach, but no one will do a thing about Beijing’s island-building program beyond the huff and puff of objection. While the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been […]
Paul Craig Roberts’ Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington
Paul Craig Roberts’ Address to the International Conference on the European/Russian Crisis Created by Washington Paul Craig Roberts’ address to the Conference on the European/Russian Crisis, Delphi, Greece, June 20-21, 2015 Paul Craig Roberts, formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy, Associate Editor, Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University, William […]
