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Canada Becomes Party to Ukraine’s Conflict
Canada Becomes Party to Ukraine’s Conflict The Canadian government has given the green light for national defence contractors to sell weapons to Ukraine. This makes Canada a party to the conflict with all ensuing consequences. The decision sets no preconditions for selling the armaments to Ukraine. It has been taken despite the fact that Project Ploughshare and Amnesty International Canada […]
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who have done nothing […]
Propaganda, Confrontation and Profit
Propaganda, Confrontation and Profit The waves, the artificial tides of anti-Russian propaganda continue to beat upon the ears and eyes of Western citizens, spurred by Washington politicians and bureaucrats whose motives vary from deviously duplicitous to blatantly commercial. It is no coincidence that there has been vastly increased expenditure on US weaponry by Eastern European […]
US New Moves: War with Iran May Be Much Closer Than We Think
US New Moves: War with Iran May Be Much Closer Than We Think The US does not intend to end or even curtail its military presence in Iraq (as well as Syria) after the defeat of the Islamic State. It is planning to turn Iraq into a major theater of confrontation with Iran. There are […]
How the U.S. Dictatorship Works
How the U.S. Dictatorship Works A recent article in the Washington Post described how the current US tax-‘reform’ bill is being shaped; and it describes, basically (at least as far as tax-law changes are concerned), the operation of a US dictatorship by the super-rich. First of all, however: there is no longer any realistic question as regards whether the […]
NBC Pushes an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory on Behalf of CIA
NBC Pushes an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory on Behalf of CIA Retired National Security Agency (NSA) chief technology officer William Binney is being branded as a “conspiracy theorist” by corporate media outlets, most notably, the Comcast-owned National Broadcasting Corporation, for co-authoring a controversial memo issued this past summer by a group of former intelligence officers – […]
How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine
How the West Is Adopting the Worst Practices of the Post-Maidan Ukraine Before we tell you how Vice-President Dick Cheney, Senator John McCain, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Professor Stephen Cohen and, of course, President Donald Trump plus over 2000 prominent American and European politicians, celebrities and intellectuals joined the group of “useful idiots” one […]
The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend
The Public Are All Alone: Understanding How the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend In political matters, the public are taught to believe that some political Party is ‘good’, and that the others are “bad”; but the reality in recent times, at least in the United States, has instead been that both Parties […]
Washington’s Wars
Washington’s Wars The New York Times reported on October 22 that the United States has “just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories,” which is a staggering total. But in an intriguing revelation the Times reported that there are a further 37,813 troops deployed “on presumably secret assignment in places listed simply as ‘unknown.’ […]
Attack on RT Is Another Step Towards Sovietization of American Media
Attack on RT Is Another Step Towards Sovietization of American Media This week the US Department of Justice Criminal Division forced the Russian-funded television network RT (formerly Russia Today) to register as a “foreign agent” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Failure to comply would have risked arrest of RT’s management and seizure of […]
NATO: a Dangerous Paper Tiger
NATO: a Dangerous Paper Tiger The Chinese have a genius for pithy expressions and few are more packed with meaning, while immediately understandable, than “paper tiger”. NATO is one, but paper tigers that overestimate their powers can be dangerous. Some Russians are concerned that there are today more hostile troops at the Russian border than […]
How Runaway Inequality Creates Runaway Global Warming
How Runaway Inequality Creates Runaway Global Warming The bottom half of humans own next to nothing, but they own as much as the world’s richest 80 individuals do, because though the bottom half are poor, there are 3.79 billion of them. The average person among the richest 80 owns 45,750,000 times as much as does the average […]
Drums of Big War Heard in Middle East
Drums of Big War Heard in Middle East Summing up the recent events in the Middle East leads to the conclusion that the threat of a Saudi-Iranian war is looking increasingly credible as tensions rise in the Middle East. There are visible signs that the region is heading into an out and out conflict, waged […]
