Afghans: “Please, give us our money back, so we can buy food!” Rand Paul: “Sorry, we already paid you back, and then some, in bombs. Those things aren’t cheap, you know!” By the way, there’s no need to give the Taliban the money in cash. It can be […]
LA Progressive In recent weeks both US and NATO have been stumbling toward confrontation with Russia over whether the Ukraine will be allowed membership in NATO. While there are various secondary issues on the negotiating table—deployment of US troops into Poland, Baltics and Romania and Russian natural gas […]
No, the obstacle is the military-industrial complex, war profiteers, the intelligence services, and the Israeli and Gulf State lobbies. By Damon Linker, The Week Three of the most prominent populist conservative writers around — Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladden Pappin — have taken to The New York […]
By Grayson Quay The Week French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave him a guarantee that Russia would not make any aggressive moves against Ukraine, BBC reports. “I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation,” Macron said before meeting with […]
Robby Soave details the controversy surrounding Olympics protest art posted at George Washington University, and explains why some college adminsitrations show deference to China.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on CNN’s decision to hire lifelong neocon propagandist and current ‘Never Trumper’ Jonah Goldberg after he quit Fox News
By Caitlin Johnstone Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz criticized the Biden administration’s dangerous escalations against Russia on the House floor on Monday, not because he thinks needlessly ramping up cold war brinkmanship with a nuclear-armed nation is an insane thing to do, nor because he believes the US government […]
By Caitlin Johnstone The state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has committed an absolutely jaw-dropping act of journalistic malpractice amid the west’s mad scramble to whip up public hysteria about China. Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian video blogger who lives in China and frequently criticizes western narratives about the Chinese […]
A fair point, but we should also beware of the antiwar Left, who often do an about-face as soon as a Democrat is in power and cooks up some “human rights” malarkey. By Joel Mathis The Week For most of my life, the anti-war movement — such as […]
I’ve been predicting that as China becomes more assertive an Indo-Pacific alliance is going to form in response. Look for India to enter into this framework at some point. While I am in no way a Sinophobe, I would prefer that China was contained, but in a way […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to the U.S. commando raid that led to the suicide death of ISIS global leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi.
Krystal and Saagar respond to a confrontational back and forth between the spokesperson for Biden’s state department and an AP reporter on what exactly is happening in Ukraine
Krystal and Saagar look at the latest raid on ISIS in Syria by the Biden administration and the possibility of civilian deaths being covered up once again
He’s getting so offended that Matt‘s asking for evidence. The nerve of these war criminals.
Accepting Ukraine into NATO will only escalate the situation and provoke Russia even more. Do this at your own peril.
By Grayson Quay The Week A Russian invasion of Ukraine could cause 50,000 civilian casualties and capture the capital city of Kyiv within days, Biden administration officials told lawmakers at briefings that became public Saturday, The New York Times reported. The officials said they could not confirm whether […]
By Sara Sirota The Intercept By seizing $9.4 billion of the Afghan central bank’s own reserves, the White House has welcomed death and destruction. Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., secured a vote Thursday on President Joe Biden’s refusal to release to the Afghan central bank $9.4 […]
By Nick Turse The Intercept Biden hails the “over-the-horizon” raid that killed the ISIS leader, but similar U.S. tactics have failed to stop terror groups in Africa. After the news broke that a U.S. raid in Syria ended with the death of the leader of the Islamic State, […]
They will end when the USA ends, which might not be that far away. By Murtaza Hussain The Intercept Biden’s claim that the world has been made safer by the killing of yet another terrorist leader is hard to credit. In a national address delivered this morning, President […]
By Caitlin Johnstone I’m declassifying evidence that Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland. Are you ready? Here it is: Nigeria is planning a false flag operation in Switzerland. See, the evidence is me asserting it. If you doubt this evidence, you’re a propagandist for Nigeria. […]
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a series of three lectures in November on “Liberal Ideals & International Realities” […]
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a series of three lectures in November on “Liberal Ideals & International Realities” […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal…. It is no longer a question of imitation, nor […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Friday in Beijing as Winter Olympics began and issued a detailed statement of their nations’ vision for a new international order, The Washington Post reported. The Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and […]
By Grayson Quay The Week The Biden administration restored a sanctions waiver for Iran’s nuclear program Friday, but the Iranian foreign minister says it won’t be enough to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, The Washington Post reported. The Trump administration withdrew from former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Joint […]
#Russia has maintained a threatening posture against Ukraine, including maintaining approximately 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border. The United States and the United Kingdom have taken the lead in crafting a set of financial sanctions they are threatening to levy against Russia in the case of any aggression. […]
Primo Radical Today a coalition of anti-war and anti-imperialist organizations will be staging nationwide protests against the Biden Administration’s dangerous march to war with Russia. Please stand up and be counted! Make clear that the American people do not support placing more US troops in Eastern Europe, and […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Back in November, The Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim, which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January. Then in late January when the calendar debunked the Military […]
Every bit of this story needs to be questioned, as always when dealing with strikes of this nature.
The CPGB-ML stands resolute with the People’s Republic of China against imperialism.
By Caitlin Johnstone The western media are blaring headlines today about a “revelation” by the US government which does not actually reveal anything because it contains nothing but empty narrative fluff. “U.S. reveals Russian plot to use fake video as pretense for Ukraine invasion,” reads a headline from […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Some people in Washington are very upset that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) doesn’t think the United States should want Ukraine in NATO. This includes the White House, where Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the lawmaker’s concerns — that NATO membership would make […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week President Biden has announced the leader of ISIS has been killed during a U.S. raid in Syria. Biden said in a statement Thursday that U.S. military forces undertook a counterterrorism operation early Thursday, and “thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we […]
By Peter Weber The Week U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid on a two-story house in Syria’s northwest Idlib Province early Thursday, in pursuit of what one U.S. official told The New York Times was a “high value” target. The Pentagon gave only cursory details […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the US role in the ongoing financial and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Krystal and Saagar cover the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of troops to the Ukrainian border and label any opposition to this move as Russian propaganda
By William P. Meyers iii Publishing And mistaking propaganda for history The current crisis in Ukraine forces thoughtful people to return to a basic question: what is fact and what is propaganda? I have seen and heard little news coverage that would provide Americans with an objective view […]
Macron calls Putin. UN Security Council aligns against Biden’s Ukraine war
Joseph Weisberg, the creator of FX’s The Americans, former CIA officer, and author of Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, joins The Realignment to discuss how the U.S. should approach a conflict in Ukraine, how and when a second cold war began, what […]
Gotta give her credit where it is due. By Marjorie Taylor Greene, Washington Times Karl Rove is, once again, beating the war drums. He is ready to send 18-year-olds like my son to fight nuclear Russia over Ukraine’s border so that he and the other neocons can talk […]
By Andrew Murray, Stop the War Coalition States have a right to join NATO The media give the impression that not joining NATO would breach Ukraine’s fundamental rights. In fact, no state has a right to join NATO – the existing member countries determine who should be admitted. […]
A neocon mouthpiece makes his case. ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’ host warns of the ‘weakness’ of the Biden administration’s foreign policy.
The Average Chinese worker has seen their wages increase 500% in the last 15 years, they have laid 15,000miles of high-speed rail in the last 10 years. Now the Chinese have more high-speed rail than the rest of the world combined. China has seen the quickest and greatest […]
Pakistan wants an alliance with China against India. Kim Iversen discusses the Pakistan Prime Minister and other Muslim majority nation’s defending China in their “de-radicalization” efforts.
By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden has approved the deployment of roughly 3,000 additional American troops to Europe “in the coming days“, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal confirmed Wednesday. It’s “the first major movement of U.S. forces in Russia’s military standoff with Ukraine,” intended to shore up the […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week The White House has backed off describing the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine as “imminent,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday, explaining that the word sends an unintended message, per CNN’s Kevin Liptak. The switch-up in language arrives after multiple reports […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Ukraine’s army may have trouble transitioning from low-level conflict with Russian-backed separatists to full-scale war with Russia, a New York Times report published Tuesday claimed. According to the Times, the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine, which began in 2014 and has killed more […]
By Caitlin Johnstone 33 25 Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We’re being bashed in the face with western propaganda about the Ukraine situation with increasing forcefulness. Every day now we’re seeing things like “analysts” claiming Putin definitely wants a large-scale war, very familiar-looking puff pieces […]
The Daily Signal How are the U.S. and Europe thinking about the Russian threat in Ukraine? Anatol Lieven on how Vladimir Putin could be reviving NATO. Russia’s massive buildup of troops and weapons along its border with Ukraine creates a difficult puzzle for the West. For years, political and […]
By Jacqueline Feldscher Senior National Security Correspondent, Defense One Russian official claims the U.S. is trying to “drive a wedge” between Moscow and Kyiv with “unfounded accusations.” Russia issued a scathing public rebuke of America on Monday, saying the United States is “whipping up tensions” based on “unfounded […]
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