Tom Woods Show With all the domestic insanity we’re understandably focused on, it’s easy to neglect what’s happening in foreign policy — Ukraine and Kazakhstan seem so remote to us, after all. But the lizard people could be cooking up a real disaster here, and we need to know […]
International economic sanctions imposed since the Taliban resumed power in Afghanistan in August 2021 have left the country on the brink of collapse. Widespread poverty is forcing an increasing number of desperate Afghans to turn to selling their kidneys to survive, with many unaware of the dangers of […]
The Intercept The normally reserved International Committee of the Red Cross recently made a surprisingly direct statement about the unfolding economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. They said, “Can the international community” — meaning the U.S. — “hold 39 million people hostage to the fact that they do […]
By Ryan Grim The Intercept Four months later, Jovenel Moïse was assassinated and replaced with a U.S.-backed prime minister, fueling suspicion of American involvement. At a little-noticed House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in March 2021, headlined “Policy Recommendations on Haiti for the Biden Administration,” a former ambassador to […]
By Matthew Cole The Intercept George Nader also cultivated key Trump advisers on behalf of his Gulf clients, prosecutors say. George Nader, an American adviser to the government of the United Arab Emirates, convicted sex offender, and frequent visitor to the White House during President Donald Trump’s first […]
By Margot Williams, The Intercept “U.S. Takes Hooded, Shackled Detainees to Cuba,” declared the Washington Post headline on January 11, 2002. The reporters who wrote it were on the ground at Guantánamo Bay and in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I was in Washington, at my desk in the Post newsroom, […]
By Dave Paone, Epoch Times NEW YORK—Protesters held a demonstration outside the Queens office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Jan. 14. The activists, not representing any one organization, said their purpose was to persuade Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, to introduce legislation in the House of Representatives […]
By Caitlin Johnstone In a drastic pivot from typical denunciations of false flag operations as conspiratorial nonsense that don’t exist outside the demented imagination of Alex Jones, the US political/media class is proclaiming with one voice that Russia is currently orchestrating just such an operation to justify an […]
During a Friday press briefing, Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that intelligence reports that operatives are already in Ukraine preparing a “false flag operation” to create a pretext for a Russian incursion. READ MORE: http://hill.cm/KQ4OSH6
By Damon Linker, The Week Russia has amassed significant forces along the border of Ukraine. Talks between Russia and NATO appear to have broken down. Members of Washington’s foreign policy establishment are beginning to suggest the need to respond to any Russian military moves against Ukraine with a […]
Ryan Grim breaks down controversy surrounding March Congressional testimony from the former U.S. ambassador to Haiti.
By Ryan Cooper The Week Afghanistan is starving. The country’s economy has collapsed, a bitter winter has taken hold, and half the population doesn’t have enough to eat. Already many have died — and it could get much, much worse. UNICEF estimates 1 million children could perish over the […]
The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]
Washington Post foreign affairs journalist, Pamela Constable, details the winter famine facing Afghan civilians.
By Mark Crispin Miller News from Underground It seems Medea Benjamin has been too busy seeking peace to do much reading on the subjects that she writes about (as in the piece below). If she were to look into that “coup attempt” almost a year ago, beyond the […]
The neocon/superhawk/supplyside alliance is hoping they’re going to get another Reagan 1980 moment in 2024. By Conrad Black, National Post The resumption of American national renovation in 2024 will re-establish the unambiguous superiority of American influence in the world, and particularly its economic model. Dec. 26 will mark […]
By Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, Gray Zone Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia. Economist Michael Hudson has published a new, third edition […]
By Grayson Quay, The Week Russia is moving military helicopters into position on the Ukrainian border in what could be a sign of impending invasion, The New York Times reported. Per the Times, “U.S. officials say the Russian … window for an invasion is limited, dictated by temperatures […]
By Mohammed El-Kurd, The Nation Murad Attieh has been in prison for 133 days for what many believe is an effort to criminalize our movement. When Israeli officers and undercover agents raided Murad Attieh’s home and arrested him on August 10, his mother, Nuha, had hoped he would […]
Nothing? By David Klion, The Nation Progressive thinkers are developing a foreign policy approach that opposes military confrontation while acknowledging Beijing’s oppressive policies. Since March 2019, Hong Kong has confronted the greatest challenge to its relatively free and open civil society since it was transferred from British to […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the humanitarian crisis brewing in Afghanistan as millions of innocent civilians are on the verge of starvation in part due to US sanctions on the regime
Ryan Grim details a new bombshell allegation about the assassination of the Haitian president, buried in paragraph 29 of a New York Times story.
According to journalist Andrew Cockburn in his latest book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, our bloated $778 billion defense budget doesn’t necessarily provide for our safety. Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has spent decades covering the Pentagon and defense industry and […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan, LewRockwell.Com After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow. Decomposition had only just begun. Transnistria broke away from […]
By Grayson Quay The Week American and Russian diplomats made little progress on defusing tensions in Eastern Europe during talks that began Monday in Geneva, The New York Times reports. Moscow has massed 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine. Putin said in December he would prefer to […]
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
‘If the Nuremberg Laws were actually applied across the board, every post-war American President would be strung up in the gallows’ — Noam Chomsky
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Skye Wallin, the director of a new documentary about the late Senator Mike Gravel who stood up against the war machine in multiple Presidential campaigns
By Noah Millman The Week Next week, Western diplomats will meet with their Russian counterparts for a series of meetings that are likely the best opportunity to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which 100,000 Russian troops are already poised on the border. The question is: What can […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something truly terrifying is happening at the Capitol this January. Something deeply deadly to what passes for democracy in this stagnant empire. Something far more severe than the QAnon Shamen and Proudboy lunkheads who garnered so much media […]
From 2020. By Tom Tague, The Atlantic Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker […]
By Catherine Garcia The Week It’s been a dire winter in Afghanistan, with 23 million people facing extreme levels of hunger amid the brutal cold. Shelley Thakral, spokeswoman for the World Food Program in Afghanistan, told NPR that there are several reasons why so many Afghans don’t have […]
By Andrew Sullivan The Israeli journalist brings empathy to an intractable issue. Hey, why not start the new year with solving the Israel-Palestinian problem? Yossi is an American-born Israeli journalist and his latest book is Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. Following our episode with Peter Beinart last summer, […]
By Caitlin Johnstone China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America’s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good. It’s not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and still believe the US is […]
“Putin is building an Empire of Tyrants” OR “Putin is builing A Coalition of former Soviet Republics; to reject Neo-Liberalism & The US-Centric World Order” OR Some of Both? The audacity of sovereign nations trading with each other when the US State Department told them they are now […]
Saagar describes the way in which the Biden administration is bowing to China as a flawed trade deal from the Trump administration is set to expire
By Caitlin Johnstone Anti-imperialist commentator Richard Medhurst reports that Instagram has deleted some 20 images from his account and given him a warning that he could face a permanent ban if he continues making similar posts. The posts in question are screenshots from a Twitter thread Medhurst made to […]
By Grayson Quay The Week The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Wednesday that it was imposing additional sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and a media company he allegedly controls, Reuters reports. A Treasury Department statement accused Dodik of “corrupt activities and continued threats to the […]
Krystal and Saagar talk to foreign policy expert Richard Hanania about how defense contractors made a fortune off America’s wars and that this money is at the heart of America’s strategy
By Daniel Larison, Antiwar.Com The Soviet Union ceased to exist 30 years ago, and with its disappearance the United States embraced a triumphalist interpretation of the end of the Cold War that has served to fuel its militarism for another generation. The loss of its major rival could […]
Zac & Gavin react to a surprising poll of the audience of “Breaking Points” hosted by Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti
By Alice Speri, The Intercept Huda Al-Sarari was forced into exile after her work documenting human rights abuses by U.S.-backed Emirati forces garnered global attention. Yemeni attorney Huda Al-Sarari had been representing women in domestic abuse and gender-based violence cases for years, when around 2015 she began fielding […]
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 Dion Nissenbaum, Jessica Donati, and Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big. Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The American Empire is crying genocide again. It’s an old song that the war class loves to sing, but one that never fails to get their compliant colleagues in the mass media dancing. No matter how woke these […]
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
Of course, all this political fighting does nothing to hurt the people in charge, only the poor, always the poor. “But why didn’t the Afghan government magically stabilize the country after 20 years of being pimped out to the military industrial complex?” The leaders of most major countries […]
By Peter Maass. The Intercept Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease. My education in wartime savagery started in Bosnia in the 1990s. Reporting on the war, I visited death camps, saw civilians get shot and beaten, interviewed […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by foreign policy expert and professor Dr. Trita Parsi to discuss the renewed tensions between America, Iran, and Israel over potentially re-entering the Iran nuclear deal
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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