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The View From the End of the American Empire
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images THE VIEW FROM THE END OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IN HIS UNITED Nations General Assembly speech last week, President Donald Trump loudly stated his intention to effectively dismantle the world order that the United States painstakingly built over the past century. Trump lauded nationalism before the assembled delegates at the same […]
The danger of patriotism
The danger of patriotism My friends, it is frightening how simple we are and how easily we are manipulated simply because we are intellectually lazy. The U.S. establishment has confused cause and effect by and through a flag-waving mania in America. “Patriotism” throughout history has covered a multitude of mischief. We are seeing it now! […]
The Killing of History
The Killing of History One of the most hyped “events” of American television,The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, “They will inspire our […]
Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States
Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States Past the Point of No Return Adventures in depravity are nearly always confronted with the unpleasant reality that stopping the degeneracy is much more difficult than starting it. This realization, and the unsettling feeling that comes with it, usually surfaces just after […]
The End Is Nigh
The End Is Nigh Recently, US Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin stated, “If China doesn’t follow these sanctions [against North Korea], we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the US and international dollar system.” This is astonishingly shortsighted, as the US can no more do without trade with China […]
Russia Warns US In Unprecedented “Secret” Face-To-Face Meeting Over Syria, But What’s The Endgame?
Russia Warns US In Unprecedented “Secret” Face-To-Face Meeting Over Syria, But What’s The Endgame? The moment the first Russian jet landed in Syria at the invitation of the Assad government in 2015, Putin placed himself in the driver’s seat concerning the international proxy war in the Levant. From a strategic standpoint the armed opposition stood […]
Barbarism and Shame: Why the US Refuses a Korea Peace Treaty
Barbarism and Shame: Why the US Refuses a Korea Peace Treaty The Korean crisis is a powerful lens on American barbarism, past and present. Despite Washington’s self-righteousness and pretensions of virtue, the modern history of Korea is an especially powerful lesson that destroys the American national mythology. Listening to President Trump’s conceited rhetoric about wiping […]
China Fears “Vicious Circle” On Korean Peninsula, US Sees “Tipping Point” If Kim Tests H-Bomb Over Pacific
China Fears “Vicious Circle” On Korean Peninsula, US Sees “Tipping Point” If Kim Tests H-Bomb Over Pacific In a considerably more aggressive, and less diplomatic, ‘story’ in China’s government mouthpiece Xinhua, writers warn: “It is not hard to tell that the situation has become a vicious circle where more missile tests trigger more sanctions, while […]
How the US Became a Warmonger Police State
How the US Became a Warmonger Police State Professor David Ray Griffin is a tenacious person. He has written a number of carefully researched books that demonstrate the extraordinary shortcomings in the official account of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the subsequent anthrax attack. He has provided the […]
The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime
The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime Photo by Tom Thai | CC BY 2.0 Lars Schall: 70 years ago, on September 18, 1947, the National Security Act created the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. Douglas, you refer to the CIA as “the organized crime branch of the U.S. government.” Why so? Douglas Valentine: Everything the […]
The Worst Mistake in U.S. History
THE WORST MISTAKE IN U.S. HISTORY The worst mistake in U.S. history was the conversion after World War II of the U.S. government from a constitutional, limited-government republic to a national-security state. Nothing has done more to warp and distort the conscience, principles, and values of the American people, including those who serve in the […]
Petrodollar Under Attack
Petrodollar Under Attack (ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Once upon a time, the U.S. dollar was backed by the gold standard in a framework that established what was known as the Bretton-Woods agreement, made in 1944. The dollar was fixed to gold at a price of $35 an ounce, though the dollar could earn interest, marking one notable difference from gold. We’re […]
U.S. Near Bottom in Public Trust of Newsmedia
U.S. Near Bottom in Public Trust of Newsmedia According to the most extensive study ever done of the public’s usages of, and trust in, the newsmedia in their country — a study that (in late January early February) scientically sampled thousands of people in each one of 36 different industrialized countries — the United States […]
Trump To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea Today
Trump To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea Today Update: According to Bloomberg, Trump won’t be declaring war (yet), and instead the announcement is sanctions related. TRUMP’S N. KOREA ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE SANCTIONS-RELATED: OFFICIAL TRUMP SAYS `WE WILL BE PUTTING MORE SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA” * * * Following yesterday’s anticlimatic Rex Tillerson press conference […]
Ban on Kaspersky Software: Hypocrisy of US Internet Agenda
Ban on Kaspersky Software: Hypocrisy of US Internet Agenda On September 18, the US Senate voted to ban the use of products from the Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab by the federal government, citing national security risk. The vote was included as an amendment to an annual defense policy spending bill approved by the […]
