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War Drums Beating: Bulgaria Blocks Russian Access To Its Airspace For Syria Flights
War Drums Beating: Bulgaria Blocks Russian Access To Its Airspace For Syria Flights On Monday we flagged a notable escalation in the build up to the geopolitical “main event” in Syria where, thanks largely to the West’s ambition to break Gazprom’s leverage over Europe, the US and Russia are one “accidental” run-in away from taking the “proxy” […]
U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane
U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace its pro-Russian dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations’ responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this […]
The Myth of a Russian ‘Threat’
The Myth of a Russian ‘Threat’ Not a week goes by without the Pentagon carping about an ominous Russian “threat”. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey entered certified Donald “known unknown” Rumsfeld territory when he recently tried to conceptualize the “threat”; “Threats are the combination, or the aggregate, of capabilities and intentions. Let me set aside for the moment, intentions, because I […]
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland […]
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony The following is an edited version of a talk by the author as part of a panel at a public forum in Toronto on June 12, 2015. The forum was sponsored by the Centre for Social Justice and Socialist Project. You can view the talk here on ‘Left Streamed’. The Ukraine/Russia […]
The War Party’s Foolish Confrontation With Russia Is Heading Into A Dangerous Dead End
The War Party’s Foolish Confrontation With Russia Is Heading Into A Dangerous Dead End “U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe: A Message to Russia,” ran the headline in The New York Times. “In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting […]
Geopolitics Will Trump Economics in Greece
Geopolitics Will Trump Economics in Greece Based on the continued failure of the negotiating parties to make any substantive progress in the talks over Greek debt payments, the financial world is tied up in knots over a possible Greek exit from the European Union. The uncertainty has manifested in both high and low finance, with […]
March Toward Global War
March Toward Global War Obama = McCarthy + Dulles Brothers The New York Times (NYT) is a trusted source of Administration thinking, particularly in foreign policy, more, an uncanny, sensitive barometer of deep-lying structural-military-diplomatic events which are presently culminating, beyond the New Cold War brewing since Clinton’s international posture in Europe and the Pacific, in […]
Why Would Bloomberg News Completely Disappear the February, 2014 Ukraine Coup?
Why Would Bloomberg News Completely Disappear the February, 2014 Ukraine Coup? Bloomberg says in a post today that the “confrontation between Russia and the US” over Ukraine was “provok[ed]” by Putin’s annexation of Crimea: “…Putin annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea last March, provokingthe biggest confrontation between Russia and the U.S. and Europe since the Cold War.” […]
NATO Increasingly Surrounds the ‘Russian Threat’
NATO Increasingly Surrounds the ‘Russian Threat’ On Saturday, April 18th, the Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, told Britain’sTelegraph that “There is a Russian threat,” and that “The best insurance we have against a showdown is that NATO stands together.” Ever since the Soviet Union’s military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, dissolved in 1991, […]
Military Keynesianism And The Merchants Of Death
Military Keynesianism And The Merchants Of Death Militarism and military spending are everywhere on the rise, as the new Cold War propaganda seems to be paying off. The new “threats” that are being hyped bring big profits to military contractors and the network of think tanks they pay to produce pro-war propaganda. Here are […]
Hope on the Horizon and It Comes from Greece
Hope on the Horizon and It Comes from Greece Washington in its arrogance, seeing itself as “indispensable,” poses a continuing threat to the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The extraordinary number of dead that Washington has murdered in the 21st century–”The American Century”–is dismissed as “collateral damage” in the “war on terror.” The […]
Putin Says Attempts To Tip Nuclear Balance Don’t Scare Russia, Moscow Will Uncover “Schemes”
Putin Says Attempts To Tip Nuclear Balance Don’t Scare Russia, Moscow Will Uncover “Schemes” Russia is once again ratcheting up the rhetoric, this time to a fever pitch. Just a day after Putin’s Security Council posted a remarkably accurate and amusingly concise assessment of US foreign policy aims on its website, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign […]
