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Perpetual Debt, Perpetual War
Perpetual Debt, Perpetual War It’s always useful to visit the museum in order to offset the recency bias that distorts perceptions of current realities. In the great scheme of things, the picture below is admittedly not that ancient – from just 42 years ago. But it is nevertheless a museum piece because it pertains to […]
UK Threatens Russia With ‘High Impact’ Sanctions Over Ukraine
UK Threatens Russia With ‘High Impact’ Sanctions Over Ukraine NATO foreign ministers are meeting Friday to discuss Ukraine On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned Russia that the UK is working on “high impact” sanctions Western powers could implement over allegations that Moscow is plotting to invade Ukraine. “The UK is working with our partners on these […]
Putin Says the West Is Taking Russia’s ‘Red Lines’ Too Lightly
Putin Says the West Is Taking Russia’s ‘Red Lines’ Too Lightly The Russian leader says relations with US are ‘unsatisfactory’ and is open to more talks On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Western powers are taking Moscow’s “red lines” too lightly. “We’re constantly voicing our concerns about this, talking about red lines, but we understand […]
Russia Voices Concern Over Increased US and NATO Military Activity in Arctic
Russia Voices Concern Over Increased US and NATO Military Activity in Arctic Russia’s FM called for military meetings between Arctic states On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced concern over the uptick in US and NATO military activity in the Arctic. The comments were made in a speech at a meeting of the Arctic Council […]
The Kremlin’s Military Posture Reconsidered
The Kremlin’s Military Posture Reconsidered To the vast majority of Americans, including the foreign policy establishment, the question posed in the title may seem something of a joke. After all, absolute military superiority over Russia and other potential rivals for global influence has been the objective of US military policy for the last twenty-five years […]
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the […]
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 […]
The Myth of the Just War
The Myth of the Just War The notion that war can be just is almost entirely utopian. The arguments used to justify wars seem morally sound in a vacuum, but when put into practice, the justifications fall apart. Justifying war becomes a slippery slope, especially when considering that those whom are most capable of waging […]
US Treasury Dept Warns Allies Against Accidentally Trading With Iran
US Treasury Dept Warns Allies Against Accidentally Trading With Iran Companies ‘face substantial risks’ if they’re caught trading with Iran The US Treasury Department on Tuesday issued a statement directed at allied governments, and private companies operating out of allied countries, warning them against any trade with Iran, warning they “face substantial risks” if they […]
Turkey Detains Nearly 600 for Opposing Syria Invasion
Turkey Detains Nearly 600 for Opposing Syria Invasion Erdogan Spokesman: Opposing War Means Glorifying Terrorism As Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria continues, so too does their policy of arresting anyone seen as even sort of opposed to the attack. The Turkish Interior Ministry now says 449 people have been detained for criticizing the war on […]
Must-Watch: Ex Marine Goes Crazy, Blows Whistle On Syrian False Flag And Real Agenda
Must-Watch: Ex Marine Goes Crazy, Blows Whistle On Syrian False Flag And Real Agenda “We have tortured and killed and maimed and raped around this planet. We don’t operate under international law; we have the law of the jungle” Ken O’ Keefe is a former US Marine turned anti-war campaigner who appeared on a Press TV […]
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead
How the Pentagon is hiding the dead The secret campaign to undercount the ‘war on terror’ death toll in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America In the name of ‘counting every casualty,’ the Pentagon is systematically undercounting deaths from the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on drugs,’ in the Middle East, Central […]
