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Perhaps The US Should Shut The Fuck Up About Respecting Other Countries’ Sovereignty
Perhaps The US Should Shut The Fuck Up About Respecting Other Countries’ Sovereignty Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ So Putin has finally made a move, issuing a decree formally recognizing the sovereignty of the separatist-held Donbas territories in eastern Ukraine known as the DPR and LPR. Russian troops are being deployed to the region in what Putin […]
Stockman: “We’re Not Useful Idiots!”
Stockman: “We’re Not Useful Idiots!” Honest injun. We’re not useful idiots here at Contra Corner! We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job. And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of information peddled by Russki propagandists appearing on Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge. Actually, […]
Choose One, But Only One: Defend the Billionaire’s Bubble or the U.S. Dollar and Empire
Choose One, But Only One: Defend the Billionaire’s Bubble or the U.S. Dollar and Empire The Empire is striking back, protecting what really counts, and the Billionaire Bubble sideshow is folding its tents. One of the most enduring conceits of the modern era is that the Federal Reserve acts to goose growth and therefore employment while keeping […]
Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America’s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good. It’s not okay […]
Everything Going Great
Everything Going Great Bad Faith, Worse News, and Julian Assange Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means “good news.” And it’s gospel that’s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines […]
They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court’s ruling on his extradition case. “The WikiLeaks publisher, 50, who is being held on remand […]
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping Julian Assange’s High Court judges offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality, writes John Pilger. “Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” –- Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds […]
British Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To US
British Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To US More than 2.5 years have passed since Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London after 7 years in hiding from British authorities, during which time Assange has struggled through a lengthy court battle, all while remaining imprisoned. And yet it […]
Nobody Who Says “You Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing” Actually Does
Nobody Who Says “You Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing” Actually Does Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Whenever I criticize the US empire’s manipulations and aggressions on a nation which disobeys its dictates I always get comments from people saying “You know, Caitlin, two things can be bad at once. You can criticize both.” They […]
Call It The Department Of Aggression, Not ‘Defense’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Call It The Department Of Aggression, Not ‘Defense’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Most of what consumes human attention is narrative; stories about what’s happening, which can be easily manipulated by the powerful. Things that are not narrative include weapons, troops, and resources. You can punch through the narrative distortion by just watching where […]
The Next European War
The Next European War The notion that history has nothing to teach us is one of the most pervasive beliefs in modern industrial society. It’s also one of the most misguided. Sure, we’ve got all these shiny new technological trinkets, and we love to insist to ourselves that this means we’re constantly breaking new ground […]
Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart
Why the Troubled U.S. Empire Could Quickly Fall Apart Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic military-industrial […]
The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat
The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The globally influential propaganda multiplier news agencies AP and AFP have both informed their readers that a “fugitive” has been extradited to the United States. “Fugitive businessman close to Venezuela’s Maduro extradited to US,” reads the AFP headline. “Alex Saab, […]
It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid
It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The oligarchic empire is working harder and harder to bolt down our minds in service of its agendas. Silicon Valley is working more and more openly in conjunction with the US government, and its algorithms elevate empire-authorized narratives while hiding unapproved ones […]
