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Will Quiet Middle East Last? Or Is It Lull Before Next Storm?
Will Quiet Middle East Last? Or Is It Lull Before Next Storm? Across the Middle East, the coronavirus is stirring up both upheavals and more subtle changes from Tel Aviv to Riyadh, little reported and when covered little understood in the Western media. In Israel, the virus has enabled that master political magician Prime Minister […]
US, NATO Consumed by ‘Black Sea Madness’
US, NATO Consumed by ‘Black Sea Madness’ Whom the gods would destroy, Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, they first make mad. What would Nietzsche make of the current, truly mad US and NATO obsession with charging into the Black Sea? It is a useful thought to ponder. The Black Sea was far outside NATO’s traditional theater […]
Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela
Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela It is a scene depressingly familiar to inhabitants of Political Washington over the past 30 years since US armed invasion of small or vulnerable countries came back into fashion after being briefly discredited following the Vietnam War. This time it is Venezuela and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Written in History: The Death of America’s Hyper-Power Fantasy
Written in History: The Death of America’s Hyper-Power Fantasy In 1987, Paul Kennedy, a British professor of history at Yale University, unleashed a political and intellectual firestorm with the publication of his great (677-page) book, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.” Kennedy produced a magisterial overview of the competition for global power over […]
Seeing the Big Picture: Russia-China Economic Cooperation, the SCO and Global Climate Change
Seeing the Big Picture: Russia-China Economic Cooperation, the SCO and Global Climate Change This year’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok was as usual the subject of dismissive coverage – if any in the mainstream US and UK media. Viewed through the feverish and unregulated speculative bubbles that have defined what passes for 21st century global finance […]
Unipolar Moments Never Last More Than a Moment
Unipolar Moments Never Last More Than a Moment American leaders, politicians, policymakers and pundits are fond of talking about the “Unipolar Moment” and “Hyper Power” position that they imagine the United States enjoys in the world. Totally lacking from this fantasy are any inconvenient historical facts. The US Unipolar Moment (insofar as it existed at […]
One Minute to Midnight: Latest US Sanctions Propel Nations Towards Risk of War
One Minute to Midnight: Latest US Sanctions Propel Nations Towards Risk of War The State Department’s announcement on August 8 that the US government was going to impose sweeping new economic sanctions on Russia over the still mysterious and unresolved Skripal Affair was a truly fateful one. The famous Doomsday Clock of The Bulletin of the […]
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed The world transformed and nobody in the West noticed. India and Pakistan have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The 17 year-old body since its founding on June 15, 2001 has quietly established itself as the main alliance and grouping of nations across Eurasia. Now it has […]
