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Peter Zeihan – Waking Up to Reality in the Middle East
A discussion of the growing Sunni/Israeli alliance in opposition to the axis of resistance. The US seems to be attempting to use Turkey and Saudi Arabia to squeeze Iran from both ends, most likely to eliminate geopolitical competition to Israel and economic competition to the Gulf States, exact […]
Peter Zeihan – Disunited Nations – Interview – May 2020
If Peter Zeihan’s analysis and forecasts concerning the future of the unipolar order are at all correct, my predictions about the future of geopolitics were even more accurate than I previously thought. I’ve generally thought that globalization would eventually produce a global state system, which would require a […]
2021’s Most Pressing Humanitarian Crises Are All Victims of US War, Regime Change
And in other news, water is wet and the sun is hot. By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) yearly report on the world’s most pressing humanitarian situations has just been published, with the three most disastrous cases — Yemen, Afghanistan, and Syria — all the […]
Anti-Imperialism: North Korea vs. North Sentinel Island
2020 WM Sustainability Forum – Peter Zeihan
This is a pretty good overview of the interrelationship between the environment, economics, geopolitics, and technology.
Nothing Was Delivered: Trump’s Antiwar Deception
See my recent piece on the Trumpist foreign policy legacy. By Connor Freeman, Counterpunch President Donald Trump seems uninterested in ending any “endless wars.” Before leaving office, he could and should do so in Afghanistan, for example, where U.S. forces—while losing the longest war in our history—have led […]
Zapatista Uprising: How Indigenous Mexicans Stood Up Against NAFTA
Leftist critique of the Decolonization movement
Because I am a 100% proponent of indigenous peoples’ rights, I am often accused of promoting “indigenous nationalism” by leftoidal “anarchists.” I tend to reject both SJWish decolonization theory, which aims to steer indigenous movements toward “cultural Marxism” (and therefore toward being tools for neoliberalism), and the conventional […]
Meet the pseudo-left imperialists fighting against universal healthcare
The mainstream argument about “healthcare reform” is not a race in which I have a horse. Essentially, two statist sects are arguing over whether the healthcare system should be run by the king’s royal ministers (the progressive position) or the aristocratic feudal manors (the conservative position). But this […]
Biden’s Scary Foreign Policy Picks: A Blast From War Crimes Past
A breakdown of Biden’s new defense cabinet and what it means for war & peace. Who is Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Avril Haines, Lloyd Austin, and Linda Thomas-Greenfield?
Some Reflections on the Condition of US Politics
Being an anarchist, I have a natural morbid curiosity about the functioning of statecraft. I follow politics in the same way someone might drive very slowly past the scene of some horrific accident so as not to miss the sight of even one mangled limb. But perhaps even […]
Western Neoliberal Imperium: The Beginning
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the originals of the Neoliberal world order’s origins in the post-war era.
Arab states, Israel say they want in on Biden’s future Iran talks
What could possibly go wrong? By Nahal Toosi, Politico Some of the Iran nuclear deal’s fiercest opponents are urging President-elect Joe Biden to let them have a say — and maybe even a seat at the negotiating table — in future talks with Tehran. Representatives of some Gulf […]
Iran FM: European signatories to JCPOA have gravely breached their commitments
https://media.urmedium.com/video//2020/12/22/637442297610573056video.mp4 Iran’s foreign minister says European signatories to JCPOA have gravely breached their commitments
How Bush Family, Western Elites Corrupted By Chinese Communist Party Money
To the degree that the CCP gets away with anything it’s only because Western capital lets them do it. The Bush family is one of the world’s leading crime families.
Anarchism, Libertarianism and Environmentalism: Anti-Authoritarian Thought and the Search for Self-Organizing Societies
By Damian Finbar White and Gideon Kossoff Few intellectual currents have played as influen-tial a role in the development and shaping of mod-ern environmentalism as the anarchist andlibertarian tradition of social and political thought.Generalizations about common ideological rootsto a politics as diverse and internally divided asenvironmentalism are of […]
Instead of Propping Up a Dying Empire, It’s Time to Finally End US Wars
By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch It was the end of October 2001. Two friends, Max Elbaum and Bob Wing, had just dropped by. (Yes, children, believe it or not, people used to drop in on each other, maskless, once upon a time.) They had come to hang out with […]
Ocasio-Cortez Warns Biden That War and Wall Street Appointees Are a ‘Huge Reason We Got Trump’
Alexandria ain’t wrong. Although Trump has done nothing except building his own personality cult. By Brett Wilkin, Common Dreams Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a stern warning for President-elect Joe Biden about filling his Cabinet with the types of war and Wall Street candidates that have come to characterize […]
How Donald Trump Rescued the “Blob”
This article begins by asking a really dumb question. Maintaining the empire is the purpose of foreign policy. Joe is the new CEO of Imperialism, Inc. It’s like asking why the CEO of McDonald’s hasn’t converted the chain into vegan restaurants. By Blaise Malley, The American Conservative Joe […]
Imperialism 2.0: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
One thing that most “radicals” in North America (other than tankies, Third Worldists, a few libertarians, and some far-rightists) do not understand is that there is only one system, i.e. the global capitalist-imperialist empire in which the American ruling class is the senior partner. Even a cursory look […]
Germany significantly increases military spending
Germany apparently realizes that unipolarity is fading and the days of receiving military welfare from the USA will eventually pass. DW Global military expenditure reached $1.9 trillion (€1.7 trillion) in 2019, the highest annual sum in real terms since 1988. That sum marked an increase of 3.6% over […]
Nearly Two Million Communists Have Infiltrated the Western World
Meh. Sinophobia is the Russiagate of the Right.
Donald Trump Puts Israel First
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Tensions are hurtling towards a fever pitch again in the Middle East. The entire region seems to be haunted by a phantom chaos. All through out the deserts of the Orient, an ugly rash of seemingly random acts […]
“The Coming War On China” – Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary
By Caitlin Johnstone “The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable,” Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch […]
Peter Zeihan – Interview about Vaccines and the US Presidential Election
According to Zeihan, Democrats greatly improved their performance among the military, business interests, and fiscal conservatives, while the Republicans improved their performance among labor unions and Hispanics. If Obama was George McGovern’s revenge, can we say that Trump is Ross Perot’s and Pat Buchanan’s revenge? He also estimates […]
Biden Taps Susan Rice, Is It His WEIRDEST Pick Yet?
One of the panelists refers to Susan Rice as the “Forrest Gump” of bad foreign policy decisions.
Arab normalisation with Israel in 500 words
Al-Jazeera Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported trip to Saudi Arabia on Sunday follows the theme of unprecedented relations between Arab countries and Israel. The second half of 2020 has been seen an accelerated rate of normalisation of ties: the “Abraham Accords” were signed with the United Arab […]
Israel, Morocco agree to normalise relations in US-brokered deal
Al Jazeera Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months. As part of the agreement, US President Donald Trump […]
Biden Secy of Defense is the WORST of the Left
Tucker: This is the greatest threat to democracy, freedom worldwide
This makes for interesting propaganda from the Sinophobe “realist” wing of the ruling class, but it has cause and effect in reverse. China would be nothing without the support of Western capital. No Western investors, no Western borrowers, no Western export markets, no Western consumers=No China. It’s as […]
More or Less War? Biden Names Lloyd Austin For Secretary Of Defense
Biden’s Defense Pick Oversaw RISE OF ISIS, Syrian ‘Rebel’ Program And Then Sold Out
Raytheon’s new front man.
CCP Member CAUGHT REVEALING How China Will Use Wall Street To Control Joe Biden
The problem I have with Sinophobes like Saager is that they have cause and effect in reverse. The CCP is powerful to the degree that the Atlanticists enable them. Saagar Enjeti shares his concerns about how Joe Biden’s administration will deal with China.
Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as “Feeding the World”
By Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness corporations. Smallholder farmers are being criminalised and even made to disappear when it comes to the struggle for land. They […]
The devastating consequences of coronavirus lockdowns in poor countries
Globally, the lockdowns have had the effect of colonialism on steroids. By Kelsey Piper, Vox The coronavirus pandemic that’s shattered lives throughout high-income countries is hitting the developing world as well. But while many of the world’s poor countries affected by the virus have imposed the same social […]
Trump Orders All American Troops Out of Somalia
A reader observes, “The Pentagon said the troops in Somalia would be leaving by Jan. 15 – President Joe Biden will send them right back, In Fact with Trump having only 5 Days in Office, I can imagine The Military dragging their feet so they do not leave.” […]
A Primer on Nigeria’s Oil Bunkering
Oil bunkering, another great form of lumpenproletarianism, agorism, and pan-secessionism. Predictably, the Council on Foreign Relations has a hair up their ass about it. By John Campbell, Emily Mangan, Council on Foreign Relations After resuming from recess, the Nigerian Senate pledged to increase the country’s oil revenue by […]
How Anti-War Really is Tulsi Gabbard?
While Tulsi was my favorite of any of the presidential candidates (obviously, a very low standard), I have always seen her as a moderate non-interventionist rather than an anti-imperialist. But at least she made foreign policy into her primary issue (as it should be). However, what is interesting […]
Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment
By Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept There can be no doubt that in rejecting Donald Trump, voters in the United States removed one of the most cold-hearted, openly racist, and bigoted administrations to govern the U.S. in modern history. There are tangible Trump policies, including on immigration, that Joe […]
Recognition of Native Treaty Rights Could Reshape the Environmental Landscape
By Alex Brown, In These Times The U.S. has largely ignored the nearly 400 treaties signed with tribal nations, but that may be starting to change. And some think that could prevent, or even reverse, environmental degradation. Last month, Michigan officials announced plans to shut down a controversial oil […]
Zarif tells German FM Maas, E3 to correct own conduct before lecturing Iran
https://media.urmedium.com/video//2020/12/05/637427623033845914video.mp4
The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists
This seems to be the standard Shadia Drury interpretation of Carl Schmitt. Schmitt’s view of international relations was just a restatement of Machiavelli and Hobbes. It’s hardly extraordinary that Chinese geopolitical strategists would have an interest in him. The most important aspects of Schmitt’s thought was his recognition […]
Scientist, Spy Chief, Apologist for Torture? Meet Biden’s New DNI
A glass ceiling is broken. “Avril Haines created the legal framework for Obama’s drone policy, as well as legal cover for CIA agents involved in torture.” By Barbara Boland, The American Conservative Joe Biden announced last week that he will nominate Avril Haines to the position of Director […]
Can Biden Be Baited Into War? Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Scientist. More Provocations Likely
My guess is that Israel, probably in collaboration with the Saudis and the CIA, was trying to bait Trump into some kind of aggression against Iran before he leaves, or pressure Biden to do so when he comes in. In particular, the Israelis are trying to prevent the […]
My daughter confronted a Military Industrial Complex guy
I see a lot of left-libertarian types hating on Tom Woods at times, probably because he’s not PC enough about something or other. But any serious opponent of the MIC is a friend of mine, regardless of what else they believe. The MIC and related entities are really […]
MEET THE NEW BOSS
I’m not a huge fan of Paul Joseph Watson but this is spot on. The supposed “progressive” alternative to Orange Man’s “fascism.” My guess is that the foreign policy orientation of the Bidenists will be to attempt to reverse the decline of the US empire through the reassertion […]
Seasonal Depression and the Fallacy of White Guilt
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your […]
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