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Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, […]
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 […]
Stealing a Nation: Secret SAS Mission to Capture Mideast Oil Artery
Stealing a Nation: Secret SAS Mission to Capture Mideast Oil Artery British files seen by Declassified-UK reveal details of torture from 1970, when special forces invaded and annexed the Persian Gulf’s most important oil route, Phil Miller reports. A dhow in the waters off Oman’s Musandam Peninsula, 2007. (hoteldephil, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Fifty years ago, U.S. […]
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 […]
NATO Sliding Towards War Against Russia in Ukraine
NATO Sliding Towards War Against Russia in Ukraine As far as Ukraine goes, Ankara seems to be setting the pace for NATO’s deepening involvement in the country’s war. Russia is investigating reports of Turkish attack drones being deployed for the first time in Ukraine’s eight-year civil war. The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) under the command […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
Karen Greenberg, Apologies All Around (Unfortunately, Not)
Karen Greenberg, Apologies All Around (Unfortunately, Not) Just in case you didn’t realize it, the lost war in Afghanistan was their fault, not ours. If we had any fault at all, as Secretary of Defense and former Iraq War commander Lloyd Austin pointed out at a Senate hearing last week, it was not fully grasping how bad […]
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Taiwan has been in the news a lot lately, and it’s really bringing out the crazy in people. The mass media have been falsely reporting that China has been encroaching on Taiwan’s “air defense zone”, which gets stretched into […]
The Great Game moves on
The Great Game moves on Following America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, her focus has switched to the Pacific with the establishment of a joint Australian and UK naval partnership. The founder of modern geopolitical theory, Halford Mackinder, had something to say about this in his last paper, written for the Council on Foreign Relations in 1943. […]
The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden’s new wars
The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden’s new wars Biden begins his first address to the UN General Assemble with a lie: “…the U.S. is not at war.” — Joe Lauria “Joe Biden, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, told world leaders Tuesday: ‘I stand here today, for the first time […]
Is Evergrande a symptom of deeper malaise?
Is Evergrande a symptom of deeper malaise? Evergrande’s imminent default is rocking markets – but few believe the collapse of a Chinese property developer could trigger a global financial crisis. What if Evergrande is just a symptom of a deeper malaise within the Chinese economy and its political/business structures? Maybe there is more at stake […]
Are the US and China Stumbling Toward an ‘Islands War’?
Are the US and China Stumbling Toward an ‘Islands War’? World War II began in Europe when the British, Sept. 3, 1939, declared war on Germany over its invasion of Poland to retrieve what Berlin claimed were its territories… If World War III breaks out between China and the U.S., it is likely to be […]
The Next US Civil War
The Next US Civil War COMMENT: Marty, You have been right about everything! This nightmare has unfolded exactly as you said it would globally not just here in the USA and nobody listened. I have attended many WEC’s and I’m so grateful for you and your staff. This feels hopeless. Is it time to leave the […]
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War
Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War Share prices of military manufacturers vastly outperformed the stock market overall during the Afghanistan War. May 25, 2002: Two U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters land at Bagram Airfield in Parwan, Afghanistan, after completing a mission. (U.S. National Archives) As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. […]
