The Soviet Empire once ruled a third of the world’s nations and half the world’s peoples. But where are they now? During the Cold War, the world was divided into the Greater Western Empire and the Lesser Eastern Empire. The Lesser Eastern Empire was defeated at the cost […]
The neocons and their allies now seem to be in control of all US political factions. They are directly in control of the both sections of the neoliberal centrist factions, and indirectly in control of the Trumpist faction through infiltration and manipulation, and the “progressive” and “left unity” […]
Nothing like stating the obvious. By Jo Jorgensen, The American Conservative The 2016 Republican presidential primary debates revealed a sea change. From 2008 to 2012, then-congressman Ron Paul was routinely booed for his criticism of America’s foreign policy. It was even common to hear Republican office holders, commentators, […]
The following comments were banned from Facebook as “hate speech.” I originally posted these comments in response to a news story about Yemen’s retaliatory strike against the Saudis.
Hopefully, these young people will retain such attitudes as they get older. Senior fellow at The Eurasia Group Foundation, Mark Hannah, explains why the belief in “American exceptionalism” is dwindling.
Kyle Kulinski is usually pretty good at geopolitics and foreign policy. But he’s missing a few things here. First, the silliness of his UN apologetics is obvious enough. Also, Trump’s hawkish stance toward Iran and dovish stance toward the DPRK is not just about random personal impulses and […]
“Neither Trump nor Biden is a reliable realist on foreign policy, but neither one has the standard record of a hawk, either.” This is really grasping at straws here. Based on my observations of how the neocons have responded to the present political situations, it seems the neocons […]
Iran announced on Friday that it has sanctioned the United States’ Ambassador to Iraq Matthew Tueller and two other diplomats over their key role in carrying out acts of terror, violating the fundamental principles of human rights and imposing ‘cruel and illegal sanctions’ against the Islamic Republic.
What a turd.
A must-read for those who want to understand the ideological framework of US foreign policy. A primary reason why the “woke” ideology is so easily co-opted by the US state and its junior partners. “This strongly and lucidly argued book gave early warning of a political-intellectual movement that […]
Claes Ryn on the enemies of mankind, some of whom and their proteges and offspring are still around. The neocons have recolonized the Democratic Party at this point, continued to control the Republican Party in every essential area, embedded themselves in the Trump administration, and co-opted the Left […]
It is interesting how whenever Trump shows even a hint of non-interventionism, the rest of the ruling class pounces on him.
Trump’s antagonistic stance toward Iran, which is driven by his relationship with Israel and Saudi Arabia, is one of the worst aspects of his administration, along with his abrogation of the INF treaty with Russia and his wink and a nod to Erdogan.
More of the same. Imagine that. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss recent developments about Joe Biden’s potential presidential cabinet and watch his campaign’s latest rap battle advertisement.
Where are the woke folks? By Doug Bandow, The American Conservative Six years ago, the Islamic State appeared well on its way to creating a modern “caliphate,” or Islamist nation-state. The jihadist message of murder and mayhem drew thugs and cretins from around the world. They sought to […]
By Michael Rechtenwald Trump calls the Iraqi invasion ‘a disaster,’ wants to end ‘endless wars,’ and bring US troops home. It’s this that has fueled the deep state’s attempts to remove him from office by any means possible. The hawks want Biden to win. In a recent op-ed on RT, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley No one seems to be quite sure where this creature first lurked from. What foul crypt lays claim to the title of the beast’s cradle? Most trembling fingers point towards Europe, to the land of Caligula and Vlad […]
https://media.urmedium.com/ConvertedVideo/2020/10/10/637379205567746242video.mp4 Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh from October 10, after 10 hours of negotiations in Moscow. The ceasefire is set to go into effect later on Saturday.
History Files This vast map covers just about all possible tribes that were documented in the first centuries BC and AD, mostly by the Romans and Greeks. The focus is especially on 52 BC, although not exclusively. Some migration was involved during this time, and some tribal divisions […]
By Louis C. Faron The customs and social systems of South American peoples are closely and naturally related to the environments in which they live. These environmental relationships are mediated by the systems of technology that the people use to exploit their resources. Four basic types of social […]
By Henry Miller Matador Network In 1884, a group of European leaders and diplomats met in Berlin to carve up Africa in service of their imperial interests. While there had been colonies in parts of coastal Africa for centuries, new advances in weapon technology, trains, and a liquid […]
This is my assessment of the recent piece by Peter Gelderloos at Crimethinc, “Preparing for Electoral Unrest and a Right-Wing Power Grab.” The Crimethinc article is a great companion piece to the recent commentary by It’s Going Down (which I critique here) and Three-Way Fight (which I had […]
By Srdja Trifkovic Chronicles People are policy and Joe Biden has 2,000 of them. That is, according to reporting in Foreign Policy magazine that his team of foreign policy and national security advisors has swelled to more than that number. A contingent of that size could be expected to produce a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As surely as the moon wanes and the dead leaves tumble, once every fourth October, it becomes downright chilling to be an American. That’s because every four years, like clockwork, Americans prove every flamboyant third world boogeyman we’ve […]
Caitlin nails it again. By Caitlin Johnstone Medium Kill millions in concentration camps and they’ll call you a monster. Kill millions with bombs and they’ll call you a moderate. A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change. Claiming a country attacked America’s […]
We anarchists must necessarily work to oppose all governments everywhere while at the same time opposing overarching systems of imperialism. The way we do that is through building global networks of oppositional subcultures predicated on the principle of self-determination and voluntary association for all. By Rich Edson FOX […]
The leader of a backwater but upstart province in the global capitalist empire seeks the favor of the chattering classes of the developed world. By Zack Colman Politico President Xi Jinping pledged on Tuesday that China would reach its peak emissions ahead of its 2030 goal and achieve […]
In an ideal world, protestors would not only be looting Wal-Mart and burning down police precincts, but they would be burning down the Saudi embassy as well. Most Americans have probably never even heard of Yemen or know that there is such a place. By Doug Bandow The […]
As Tom Woods says, no matter who gets elected, you always end up with John McCain, even posthumously. Elect Bill Clinton, get a war in Kosovo and Haiti. Elect George W Bush, get a war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Elect Barack Obama, get a war in Libya and […]
Associated Press ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — A bit after sunrise, dozens of Indigenous Tembé men began preparing for the important day ahead. They danced, chanted and donned matching black T-shirts before setting off on motorbikes into Brazil’s Amazon forest. Self-declared “forest guardians,” their aim was […]
Ain’t gonna happen. The Republicans are completely in thrall to the armaments industries, petroleum industry, the Israel Lobby, and the Saudi Lobby. The Christian Zionists are their most loyal voting block. For the Republicans, Washington, DC is basically just West Tel Aviv or West Riyadh.
The money quote: Because most Americans are self-centered and unconcerned about brown people in other nations, it’s ridiculous yet necessary to remind you that the Afghans we bomb are real people like you and me, that Iraqis are scarred for life when their children are hobbled by American […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Medium Whenever I criticize the foreign policy of the current US administration, I always get some pushback from Trump supporters who insist that this president is doing more good than harm by “fighting the Deep State” and, even more commonly, by “keeping us out of […]
By Derek Davison and Alex Thurston The Jacobin The liberal establishment is desperate to return a centrist to the White House in November and reestablish the country’s more stable military dominance of the world order, disrupted only briefly by Donald Trump. Joe Biden’s terrible track record on foreign […]
By Caitlin Johnstone People who dislike Trump are often reluctant to talk about this, but it looks likely that a Biden administration would be more warlike than its predecessor. In a recent interview with US Department of Defense newspaper Stars and Stripes, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said […]
By Ivan Eland The American Conservative n Bob Woodward’s book Rage, the author quotes President Trump as claiming that he “saved” de facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) after the assassination and dismemberment of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. Trump reportedly said, “I was able to get […]
Imagine that. The Gulf States and Israel are merely state-guaranteed export markets for US arms manufacturers and economic colonies for US petroleum companies underwritten by the US taxpayers. Executive VP at The Quincy Institute, Trita Parsi, breaks down the latest reports from the intelligence community concerning a potential […]
When the “War on Terrorism” started in 2001, I said at the time that the terror war was going to be a cover for a war of imperialist aggression against the rest of the world that rivaled the Third Reich’s. Of course, such views were met with much […]
The Mindcrime liberty show discusses whether megacorps would dominate the freed market/Rothbardistan/ancapistan/private law society (or whatever parlance one wants to use).
By Hans-Georg Maaßen and Johannes Eisleben TELOS Over the last fifty years, the West has witnessed a continuous decline in the quality of the state and its activities, along with a cultural deterioration of the public sphere. All OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries have also […]
Trump has been more pro-Israel than any previous US president, and he is at least as pro-Saudi as the Bush family. Listen here. Gareth Porter discusses President Trump’s foreign policy as we near the end of his first term. The story of Trump’s time in office, as everyone […]
They’ve also embedded themselves in the Trump administration with most “progressives” being co-opted stooges. Listen here. Scott interviews James Carden about his latest article, which explores the recent return of many prominent neocons to the Democratic Party in opposition to Trump. Carden reminds us that during the 1960s […]
The Zionist/Sunni alliance strengthens. It’s also interesting how the neoliberals, Never Trumper neocons, and Trumpists all hold to an “Israel First” foreign policy paradigm with the social democrats usually being a bit wishy-washy at best. By Jason Ditz Antiwar.Com A joint statement between Bahrain and the United States […]
A couple years ago, I was interviewed by a supposed “post-left” podcast that ridiculed my suggestion that anti-imperialism should be the priority issue of North American anarchists on the grounds that the US empire is the world’s leading mass murderer. At the same time, the hosts of the […]
Two of the world’s shittiest countries realize they can become even bigger dickheads by joining forces. Middle East Monitor The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel are working on a plan to establish a spy base in the Yemeni Island of Socotra, according to JForum, the official sites […]
The way this writer describes how each century seems to give rise to a major empire which then expires during the following century is interesting. Since the rise of Western hegemony, it was Portugal, followed by Spain, then Holland, France, England, and now America.
This book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in anti-globalization movements. The most important political question in the 21st century is how do we fight globalization without erecting repeats of 20th-century tyrannies like Communism, Nazism, and Islamism, or merely creating an endless series of chaostic failed […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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