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It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement—the INF Treaty that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987. The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified by the US Senate […]
Time Out for Nukes!
Time Out for Nukes! With 122 nations having voted last summer to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, its seems that the world is locked in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times. We were warned last week […]
Washington’s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF
Washington’s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF Photo Source White House Photographic Office | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the most comprehensive disarmament treaty ever negotiated between Washington and Moscow. National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time opponent of arms […]
“Putin’s Puppet” Advances Nuclear Missile Escalations Against Putin
“Putin’s Puppet” Advances Nuclear Missile Escalations Against Putin Yesterday the news broke that Swamp Monster-In-Chief John Bolton has been pushing President Trump to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the 1988 arms control agreement between the US and the Soviet Union eliminating all missiles of a specified range from the arsenals of the two nuclear […]
The Perfect Storm Bringing China And Russia Together
The Perfect Storm Bringing China And Russia Together During the Cold War, China and the Soviet Union regarded one another as strategic adversaries. Relations between Beijing and Moscow, however, have significantly improved over the years. Besides political alignment, the countries have complementary economies; China has an insatiable appetite for the raw materials which Russia has […]
Unipolar Moments Never Last More Than a Moment
Unipolar Moments Never Last More Than a Moment American leaders, politicians, policymakers and pundits are fond of talking about the “Unipolar Moment” and “Hyper Power” position that they imagine the United States enjoys in the world. Totally lacking from this fantasy are any inconvenient historical facts. The US Unipolar Moment (insofar as it existed at […]
US Planned Nuclear Strikes To End China, Soviet Union As “Viable Societies”, Declassified Docs Show
US Planned Nuclear Strikes To End China, Soviet Union As “Viable Societies”, Declassified Docs Show Like the famous George Santayana quote goes, “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” And thanks to a cache of documents released by George Washington University’s National Security Archive project, the American people are learning just […]
Watching America’s Collapse
Watching America’s Collapse Existence is running out for America In the 1950s and 1960s the United States was a vibrant society. Upward mobility was strong, and the middle class expanded. During the 1970s the internal contradiction in Keynesian demand management resulted in stagflation. Reagan’s supply-side economic policy cured that. With a sound economy under him, […]
Peace or Armageddon: Take Your Pick
Peace or Armageddon: Take Your Pick Photo by Paul Sableman | CC BY 2.0 I had just turned 15 when the Cuban Missile Crisis suddenly erupted. Like everyone else my age I had been propagandized from early childhood to see the Reds as America’s mortal enemy and to fear their designs to wipe us off […]
Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue
Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 When Harold Pinter got the Nobel Prize (2005), he described “a vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed”. He asked why “systematic brutality, widespread atrocities, ruthless suppression of independent thought” were well-known when they occurred in the Soviet Union. […]
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War
US Challenges Russia to Nuclear War Now that the United States (with the cooperation of its NATO partners) has turned the former Soviet Union’s states other than Russia into NATO allies, and has likewise turned the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact allies into America’s own military allies in NATO, the United States is finally turning the screws […]
From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face
From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face People living in the Soviet Union had a wonderful phrase to describe the two biggest circulation state-controlled newspapers, Pravda (meaning “truth”) and Izvestia (meaning “news”). There’s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, was the oft-repeated expression. It is unfortunate […]
That Collapse You Ordered…?
That Collapse You Ordered…? I had a fellow on my latest podcast, released Sunday, who insists that the world population will crash 90-plus percent from the current 7.6 billion to 600 million by the end of this century. Jack Alpert heads an outfit called the Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab (SKIL) which he started at Stanford University in […]
Russia Warns Of ‘Precise And Painful’ Response To Any Future US Sanctions
Russia Warns Of ‘Precise And Painful’ Response To Any Future US Sanctions Russia is continuing to warn the West of further attacks against Russia. Whether it be in the form of missiles or sanctions, the former Soviet Union doesn’t seem like they wish to play “war games” any longer. The United States this month added […]
Mises the Man and His Monetary Policy Ideas Based on His “Lost Papers”
MISES THE MAN AND HIS MONETARY POLICY IDEAS BASED ON HIS “LOST PAPERS” One day in 1927 Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, stood at the window of his office at the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, and looked out over the Ringstrasse (the main grand boulevard that encircles the center of Vienna). He said to his young friend […]
