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How Neocons Banished Realism
How Neocons Banished Realism The grip that neocons and liberal interventionists have on Official Washington’s opinion circles is now so strong that “realists” who once provided an important counterbalance have been almost banished from foreign policy debates, a dangerous dilemma that James W Carden explores. In a widely remarked upon article for the online version of Foreign […]
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression — uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what happened. One of the […]
Hey, Wall Street——-This Bud’s For You!
Hey, Wall Street——-This Bud’s For You! The hordes of Washington politicians promising to boost the nation’s economic growth rate and the posse of monetary central planners and their Keynesian economists (excuse the redundancy) lamenting that “escape velocity” appears to have gone MIA have one thing in common. To wit, they have never looked at the chart below, or don’t get it if they have. Plain and […]
Iran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen
Iran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen Tensions were already running high between Tehran and Washington in the wake of Iran’s move to test-fire a next generation surface-to-surface ballistic missile with the range to hit Israel. And then the IRGC conducted a live-fire rocket test within 1,500 yards of a US aircraft carrier in the […]
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts […]
After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine
After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine Saudi Arabia’s well-funded public relations apparatus moved quickly after Saturday’s explosive execution of Shiite political dissident Nimr al-Nimr to shape how the news is covered in the United States. The execution led protestors in Shiite-run Iran to set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, precipitating a major […]
Why WWIII Is On The Horizon
Why WWIII Is On The Horizon The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives declared their agenda of US world hegemony. America was now the […]
Imperial Arrogance: Tony Blair, Qaddafi and Torture
Imperial Arrogance: Tony Blair, Qaddafi and Torture Tony Blair and Jack Straw. That former British prime minister Tony Blair is a poster boy for corruption, mendacity, opportunism, and ruthless ambition is by now a received truth. The man who took Britain into the war in Iraq on the coattails of the Bush administration in 2003, […]
How Oil Industry Lobbyists Played the Long Game to Access a Fuel-Rich Corner of Alaskan Wilderness
How Oil Industry Lobbyists Played the Long Game to Access a Fuel-Rich Corner of Alaskan Wilderness Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock This story was co-published by ProPublica and Politico Magazine. From his seat in the small plane flying over the largest remaining swath of American wilderness, Bruce Babbitt thought he could envision the legacy of one of his proudest achievements as […]
The One Percent Rallies Behind IMF Director Christine LaGarde
The One Percent Rallies Behind IMF Director Christine LaGarde Washington removed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the leading contender for the French presidency and as director of the IMF by framing him on phony charges of raping a New York hotel maid. The obviously false charge was proven to be totally fabricated and had to be dropped. […]
A Special Relationship
A Special Relationship The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again One morning early in 1988, Ed McWilliams, a foreign-service officer posted to the American Embassy in Kabul, heard the thump of a massive explosion from somewhere on the other side of the city. It was more than eight years after the Russian […]
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars
How ‘Obscure’ Bureaucrats Cause Wars Exclusive: Official Washington’s anti-Russian “group think” is now so dominant that no one with career aspirations dares challenge it, a victory for “obscure” government bureaucrats, like Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, as Jonathan Marshall explains. History isn’t just made by impersonal forces and “great men” or “great women.” Sometimes relatively obscure men and […]
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth My warning that the neoconservatives have resurrected the threat of nuclear Armageddon, which was removed by Reagan and Gorbachev, is also being given by Noam Chomsky, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, and other sentient observers of […]
Russia Threatens “Retaliatory Action” After NATO Expands Alliance For First Time In Six Years
Russia Threatens “Retaliatory Action” After NATO Expands Alliance For First Time In Six Years As the war in Syria enters its fifth year with no end in site, it’s easy to forget about the world’s “other” proxy conflict, that which is still unfolding in Ukraine. You might remember Ukraine as yet another example of US […]
