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President Xi Orders Chinese Army To “Prepare For War”
President Xi Orders Chinese Army To “Prepare For War” In just a few short days, China has proved that investors who have been underestimating the geopolitical risks stemming from the simmering tensions between the US and China over the latter’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and paranoia over the fate of Taiwan – […]
Neocons Rage: International (And Domestic) Support for Trump’s Syria Pullout
Neocons Rage: International (And Domestic) Support for Trump’s Syria Pullout The mainstream press coverage of President Trump’s announcement that he would be removing US troops from Syria has been unanimously apocalyptic. Journos who until a few days ago couldn’t care less about the Kurds (certainly not when US president after US president has used them as a cat’s […]
US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year
US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in the New Year Washington’s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems, represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival. At his annual marathon Q & A news conference last week, Vladimir Putin warned about possible nuclear war, a growing threat because of Washington’s reckless […]
The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War
The Establishment Will Never Say No to a War A U.S. Army convoy in northern Syria. Photo: Sebastian Backhaus/NurPhoto via Getty Images The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining troops from the Iraqi, Syrian, and more general Middle Eastern conflicts? Or, for that matter, […]
Who Was Secretly Behind America’s Invading and Occupying Syria?
Who Was Secretly Behind America’s Invading and Occupying Syria? The invasion and occupation of Syria by tens of thousands of jihadists who were recruited from around the world to overthrow Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, was financed mainly by US taxpayers and by the world’s wealthiest family, the Sauds, who own Saudi Arabia and the world’s largest oil company, […]
The Self-Genocide of the West
The Self-Genocide of the West Stephen Cohen and I are branded “Russian dupes” and “Putin agents,” because we object to the highly orchestrated and false portrayal of Russia as a threat to the West, a portrayal that is leading to war. The purpose of this orchestration is to prevent President Trump or any future president […]
Saudi Arabia and China are preparing for war
Saudi Arabia and China are preparing for war The fact that Saudis want to control Yemen and the Chinese are increasing their presence in Myanmar is a preparation for the conflicts that may soon flare up. It is about securing the flanks. The war in Yemen is being waged more and more brutally by the […]
We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends
We Know How Trump’s War Game Ends Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd as he arrives to speak to navy and shipyard personnel aboard nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va. AP/Shutterstock So we’re […]
Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe: One Hundred Years of Delusional American Madness
Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe: One Hundred Years of Delusional American Madness We are now in the dubious position of “celebrating” – if that is the word – the 100th anniversary of US President Woodrow Wilson’s departure on December 4, 1918 on the liner SS George Washington for the Versailles Peace Conference where he was confident […]
If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed
If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed Throughout the long Cold War Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University was a voice of reason. He refused to allow his patriotism to blind him to Washington’s contribution to the confict and to criticize only the Soviet contribution. […]
Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy
Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy Since I last wrote about the bipartisan shrieking, hysterical reaction to Trump’s planned military withdrawal from Syria the other day, it hasn’t gotten better, it’s gotten worse. I’m having a hard time even picking out individual bits of the collective freakout from the political/media class to […]
Russophobia and the Specter of War
Russophobia and the Specter of War Could global warming pose the greatest threat to the future of life on the planet? Quite possibly, if we believe the international (and scientific) consensus, despite a widening stratum of debunkers, deniers, and skeptics. What about the prospects of thermonuclear war between the United States and Russia, two countries […]
What can we do?
What can we do? Rainbow over the Tapajós River in the Amazon © Todd Southgate / Greenpeace At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and […]
The Stampede of the Gadarene Swine: US Leaders Allowing Ukraine to Pull Them into Global War
The Stampede of the Gadarene Swine: US Leaders Allowing Ukraine to Pull Them into Global War George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel was right – Again: The only thing the human race learns from history is that it learns nothing from history. In 1914,the British Empire, largest in human history and one of the longest-lasting, charged into […]
