Patrick Macfarlane is the host of the Liberty Weekly podcast. Pete asked Patrick to come on to talk about a full length documentary he has produced entitled, “Stain of the Century? An Investigation Of Uyghur Genocide Allegations.” Patrick does a thorough job of exposing the source for some […]
This could be a color-coded revolution, a spontaneous uprising, or a combination of both. By Jack Phillips Epoch Times Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday in a number of cities to protest against human rights abuses, a lack of freedom, and a worsening economic situation […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit, Exile in Happy Valley Contrary to the gospel of Joy Reid, you really don’t have to be a right wing dick to acknowledge that there is a crisis at the border anymore than you need to be a weatherman to know which […]
By Saeed Shah, Wall Street Journal ISLAMABAD—For two decades, a large part of the Pakistani security establishment rooted for the Taliban in the Afghan war. Now that the Taliban are taking over vast tracts of the country and seem to be on the cusp of seizing power, panic […]
By Al-Jazeera Israeli forces opened fire on hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators who rallied against an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Friday, with more than 370 people wounded including 31 hit by live ammunition. Drones dropped tear gas canisters and smoke filled the air at the […]
By Matt Taibbi As protests erupt on the streets of a longtime U.S. ally, the Biden administration and the American media wait to see whose side they’re on. Any American correspondent working abroad will tell you: coverage of in-country upheavals are dictated by the nature of the government’s […]
Brian Concannon, Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky break down the latest updates in the Haitian government.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the latest updates in the Tucker Carlson- NSA story.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 73 percent of voters support U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan while 27 percent oppose. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss. This survey was conducted online within the United States from July 2 – 3 among 926 registered voters […]
By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report Whatever the strengths and limitations of Critical Race Theory, the debate over its usefulness to establishment circles is indicative of the American Empire’s rapid decline “The months-long protests and rebellions against racist policing forced the establishment to take a position on the […]
Krystal and Saagar inform viewers of what exactly is going on in Haiti right now
This is reminiscent of Clintonism from the 90s. Of course, the neocon-influenced New York Post is calling for US intervention. By Eric Farnsworth New York Post The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has amplified the political knife’s edge on which Haiti has long perched. The United States and […]
Propaganda by the deed. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to the assassination of Haiti president, Jovenel Moïse.
By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen Russia Today When it comes to issues of ‘human rights’ and individual liberties, every country in the world takes a different stance. Culture, religion, and […]
Presented by Haymarket Books and the Schools of Public Engagement (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag…) at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu), Noam Chomsky discusses the persistent and largely invariant features of U.S. foreign policy — in the words of U.S. planners, “the overall framework of order” — and its intimate relationship with U.S. […]
Armed intruders have killed Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, according to Associated Press reports.
Just like Vietnam and Cambodia. By Kathy Gannon, Bagram: The US left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander. Afghan military officials say they discovered the Americans’ departure more than […]
And US military interventions and counterinsurgency programs have probably killed another 20 to 30 million people since the mid-20th century. By David Vine, Counterpunch Over the last week, considerable debate arose around a calculation I helped produce showing that the wars the U.S. government has fought since the […]
By Philip Giraldi Joe Biden should read up on the history of American political and military interventions, regime changes and electoral interference worldwide. After only five months in office, President Joe Biden has already become notorious for his verbal gaffes and mis-spokes, so much so that an admittedly […]
By Taki Theodoracopulos Chronicles Such was my pro-Israel ardor back in 1967, I actually put my name down as a volunteer soldier in the Six-Day War. I was living in Paris, and I was asked by the recruiter if I were Jewish. When I answered in the negative, […]
“We are your Yankee Doodle Dandy come home.” This captivating scene from Oliver Stone’s “Born on the Fourth of July”—starring Tom Cruise as paralyzed Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic—shines a light on how one’s love of country can fuel the desire for radical change. Buy/Rent Born […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well dearest motherfuckers, it’s that time of the year again. A time for heat waves, fireworks, hotdogs, and backyard swimming pools. Annoyingly enough, it’s also a time for that kneejerk, braindead brand of jingoism that Americans like to […]
In this clip from PRIMO RADICAL #232, journalist and “Useful Idiots” host Matt Taibbi is asked about former MIT linguist, philosopher and media critic Noam Chomsky’s “bad takes”.
By Spencer Ackerman The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn’t occur in an Iraqi prison. Yet that was foreordained, considering how throughout his life inside the precincts of American national security, Rumsfeld escaped the consequences of decisions he made that ensured […]
By Mark Harris and Denise Ferreira Da Silva Indigenous peoples in Brazil are under siege by the Brazilian government, which is waging war on two fronts. New legislation in the form of a bill known as PL 490/2007 threatens to cancel legal protections for Indigenous territories, while a […]
By Christina Lamb, Foreign Affairs In 2008, I interviewed the United Kingdom’s then outgoing military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, in a dusty firebase in Helmand Province, where international troops had been battling the Taliban on a daily basis for territory that kept slipping away. The war […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chastised top ruling party officials for failures in anti-epidemic work that led to an unspecified ‘great crisis’ and put the safety of the country and people at risk, state media reported.
Israeli President Rivlin speaks to the media outside the White House after his meeting with President Biden on Monday.
Krystal and Saagar go over the unilateral decision made by Joe Biden to bomb Syria once again.
By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites. AFGHANISTAN — The COVID-19 pandemic has been […]
Trita Parsi, Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss President Biden ordering airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Surfing through the news, it seems like every other motherfucker and his brother is flipping their proverbial wig over the supposedly literal threat China poses to the future of western civilization. Over on the center-right of what passes […]
He was a leading figure in the anti-Vietnam War movement. I consider the success of that movement to be arguably the most important movement in the history of the United States, and possibly more important than either the American Revolution or the Civil War. If there had been […]
China is an economic colony of the West and a test market for state repression in the West. Colin Rogero and Robby Soave react to reports that Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper, The Apple Daily, is shutting down this week.
Krystal and Saagar bring on expert Trita Parsi to inform viewers about the major political developments in the Middle East.
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right In the latest dust-up between Israel and Hamas–a few hundred dead is not a war–Israel once again appears to have triumphed. Hamas suffered around ten times as many casualties, and property damage ran at about the same ratio, or perhaps better, for […]
Aleksandr Dugin, Antony Blinken, Nelofer Pazira and Leon Wieseltier on military intervention, Russia vs. the West, populism and Afghanistan. Nexus Conference 2017 – The Last Revolution.
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will not vote until at least July on a closely watched effort to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force that allowed the war in Iraq, after Republican senators requested a public hearing and classified briefing. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee had been due to debate and vote on […]
Way to go, neocons. BBC Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi has won Iran’s presidential election in a race that was widely seen as being designed to favour him. He thanked Iranians for their support, after securing 62% of the votes. Mr Raisi is Iran’s top judge and holds ultra-conservative views. […]
I was with her. I knew she was right at the time and that the Afghan war would turn out more or less as it did. Anybody with a basic knowledge of that region of the world could have figured it out. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) cast the […]
The Republicans have more or less become Israel’s and Saudi Arabia’s US political arm, which was made possible by their alliance with the US armaments and petroleum industries.
I generally don’t take positions on conflicts within or between other countries. The exception is when the United States is facilitating genocides, civil wars, coups, state repression, and de facto or de jour slavery in other places (which, unfortunately, involves a lot of other places). It’s kind of […]
By Fiona Harrigan, Reason Repealing the law that allowed America to depose Saddam Hussein won’t stop us from waging war elsewhere. The House is expected to vote tomorrow on a bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D–Calif.) that would repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military […]
So the idea is to merely relocate the troops to next door in Afganistan. I suspect Pakistan will move more toward the Chinese orbit as the US influence in the region recedes. I see a potential future geopolitical rivalry between China/Pakistan and India/Japan/Southeast Asia/South Pacific. By Aarmir Latif […]
What Caleb Maupin says at about 1:24 is interesting.
By Alexander Morse Shepard The Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy is a think-tank based in Washington DC. The organization is highly sought after as a source of policy advice by those within the American political system. The center also has considerable support within certain sections of the […]
Ben Burgis comes to Ana’s rescue. Although I still think Ana was too soft in the interview. Ana Kasparian has recently and once again been the subject of, or rather subjected to, controversy on the Left. Ben Burgis plays a portion of Ana’s interview with Madeleine Albright that […]
The United States also overthrew the Ecuadorian government just recently just to kick Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy. AS soon as Julian was in jail we let them have their fair elections back. Of course, our news was mostly silent on this.
China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he commands the world’s attention, but who is China’s strongman and what is his agenda? Born into the privileged life of a princeling, banished to poverty in the countryside during a […]
Ilhan Omar was not hard enough in her comments. Hamas and the Taliban didn’t use Agent Orange to destroy the soil of their enemies. Agent Orange was the chemical agent they used to kill all the crops in Vietnam. The US thought it was a great idea to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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