Virtually everything that is wrong with “liberal” or “progressive” thinking, and the thinking of many others further to the left, is summed up in a single headline. By Madeline Osburn The Federalist For the first time in history, half of the senior leaders of the National Security Council […]
Does anyone even remember who this slob is at this point? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to reporters about George Floyd’s death and attacks on reporters by police amid protests.
The Chinese have their problems but they’re being used by the US regime to deflect Americans’ attention from the fact that they’re being ruled by incompetent morons. William Jones is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). He is also a Non-Resident Fellow of the […]
Current faux Sinophobic rhetoric aside, China is just a province in global capitalism, a loan and labor mine for Western governments and corporations, and a test market in state repression. Far too many Western radicals promote China, Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea, etc. as model societies or as […]
The conflict between the US and Iran is an international equivalent of when the Scarfo crime family and Pagans motorcycle club went to war over control of methamphetamine markets in Philadelphia. Iran’s successful expulsion of the US in 1979, expropriation of Western petroleum interests, leadership of the resistance […]
The Defense Post Libya’s UN-recognised unity government said Thursday that it was back in full control of the capital and its suburbs after more than a year of fighting off an offensive by eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar. “Our heroic forces have full control of Greater Tripoli right up […]
Because the US is run by serial war criminals. Duh? By Janea Wilson In These Times On June 2, President Trump threatened to deploy military troops against Americans in response to nationwide protests after the recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump’s suggestion to use military force […]
The Washington Post has long been known in “foreign policy dissident” circles as the “voice of CIA.” The WaPo is now owned by Bezos which indicates that an alliance has formed between the Deep State and the techno-oligarchs (the rising wing of the ruling class, gradually eclipsing the […]
This is an interesting discussion at times, although the Jacobin boys show their statism at times.
How the Empire was formed. By Adam Tooze Foreign Policy Klaus Schwab, impresario of the World Economic Forum, released a manifesto in the run-up to this year’s annual meeting at Davos, Switzerland, in which he called for a contemporary equivalent to the postwar conferences that established the liberal […]
So what do you know? Rummy the Dummy actually got one right. “While no one condones looting, on the other hand, one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed…” – Donald Rumsfeld An […]
I consider Maoism to be the Eastern world’s version of Nazism (with ordinary Marxism-Leninism being more like Eastern fascism). But the Maoist critique of international relations, both geopolitically and socioeconomically, is correct. I could almost be an “anarcho-Maoist,” lol. In fact, I generally agree with the geopolitical analysis […]
This is some pretty good commentary. I disagree with some of this but I do agree that the state everywhere is the enemy. Although some of his arguments would be stronger if he embraced Hardt and Negri’s “Empire” thesis.
The works of Antony Sutton are essential reading for those who want to know how the 20th century’s “managerial revolution” took place, and how it was spread throughout the developed world by global capitalism in a way that transcended national, cultural, ideological, and governmental-structural differences. Sutton tended to […]
Keep in mind that China is a permanent member of the US-created UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization (which manages the global capitalist empire), and the G-20, which the Asian Development Bank has characterized as the steering committee of global capitalism. In other words, China is just […]
This article is an excellent demonstration of why the “anarcho-left” fails. Not everything said in this is “wrong,” and not every point being made is worthless, but it’s mostly just the standard mainstream “progressive” narrative with an anarchistic gloss. Most telling of all is that there is no […]
This is a pretty good discussion of the US-Saudi relationship. Now, if Krystal and Saager would critique the US-Israel relationship. Yeah, right…lol Th Krystal and Saagar discuss the FBI’s recent discovery of a link between al Qaeda and a Saudi military trainee who killed three U.S. sailors in […]
A Marxist-Leninist commie-worshiper makes his case for Xi Jinping’s neo-Maoism. To Western leftists who want to live under state-communism, I always say join the military where you are guaranteed a job and all your basic needs (food, shelter, clothes, healthcare) are provided. Or if the military is not […]
Of course, he will. To ask the question is to answer it. When Daniel Marans says that “foreign policy wasn’t really an issue” in the Democratic primaries, he totally nails it. The antiwar vote in the US is basically non-existent. The Democrats and Republicans are both two uber-imperialist […]
Sanders pretty much showed what he was about when he endorsed the Kosovo War in 1999.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Remember when the Russians were coming? It seems like just last week Vladimir Putin was whistling the Soviet National Anthem just around every corner of main street. After the colossal clusterfuck of Hillary 2016, you couldn’t swing a […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss reports that China is threatening to sanction lawmakers who have been critical of the country’s handling of the coronavirus.
By Tony Seed In the dead of night, they swept in aboard V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Landing in a remote region of one of the most volatile countries on the planet, they raided a village and soon found themselves in a life-or-death firefight. It was the second time […]
An interesting infographic from the Smithsonian Institute indicating where around the world US forces are involved. See an enlarged version here. By Stephanie Savell and 5W Infographics Smithsonian Magazine Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, […]
One thing I really like about Peter Zeihan’s geopolitical analysis is that it is non-ideological. It’s not about taking anyone’s side as much as saying, “Like it or not, this is what is happening. Make of it what you will.” One of the best things about Zeihan is […]
The positions that Ilhan Omar takes on foreign policy generally lead me to conclude that she is a tool of the Muslim Brotherhood (right-wing Sunnis who strategically play the Shia-led axis of resistance and pro-imperialist Wahhabi/Zionist block against each other). Her positions line up almost perfectly with theirs.
Some pretty good economic analysis from Chris Hedges from 2018. Much of what he describes will be amped up on a mega-level following the present Great Depression Two. Hedges is a lot like Chomsky in the sense of offering a lot of succinct and astute analysis combined with […]
The Republicans’ Chinahate vs. the Democrats’ Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss The New Yorker’s interview with Chris Hayes, where the MSNBC host describes the network’s coverage of Russiagate as “craziness and paranoia.”
I do agree the Chinahate gets a little over the top, but no more so than the Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss Former Senator and Ambassador to Beijing, Max Baucus, on CNN, where he likens Trump’s China rhetoric to Nazi Germany.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Good morning dearest motherfuckers, it is spring time in this the plague besotted year of our lord Satan, twenty-hundred-and-twenty, and both major party candidates for the highest office of the greatest democracy imperialism can buy are confirmed geriatric […]
As good an example as any of why the liberal class is worthless. Keep in mind that the liberal class concentrated in the “ideas industries” are simply the new clergy whose purpose is to issue secular papal bulls on what is considered acceptable opinion and what is not […]
John Pilger’s new documentary. Russiahate didn’t get saluted when the Deep State/neoliberal wing of the ruling class/new clerisy alliance ran it up the flagpole. Now the right-wing of the ruling class is countering with Chinahate, and the neoliberal Bidenists are moving “out-Chinahate” the Trumpians. There’s not going to […]
This essay and the accompanying annotated bibliography seem to be a decent overview of the indigenous peoples’ rights movements around the world. I’d argue that support for indigenous movements is really the foundation of anti-imperialism because the expropriation of indigenous people is really how modern (and many pre-modern) […]
By Anthony Faiola, Karen DeYoung, Ana Vanessa Herrero Washington Post Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch. They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to explore all options in their […]
Under Trump, US foreign policy in the Middle East has basically amounted to allowing Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey (the “triumvirate of evil”) to expand their respective spheres of influence while working to undermine Iran’s axis of resistance. By Connor O’Brien Politico President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed […]
In recent times, I have seen a number of commentators calling for one or another kind of left/right hybrid populism. Some years ago, Ralph Nader was pushing this idea (obviously unsuccessfully). More recently, Krystal Ball (social democrat) and Saager Enjeti (economic nationalist) of The Hill’s Rising have promoted […]
Score one for the Chinese on this one. By Shashank Bengali and Alice Su Los Angeles Times BEIJING — The newscast blares from a television set in a Beijing apartment, carrying through an open window and echoing across the compound. The refrain is the same every evening: praise […]
Keystone warriors. Were they merely dumbasses who acted alone or part of a Bay of Pigs II operation? By John Otis, Kejal Vyas, and Jessica Donati Wall Street Journal OGOTÁ, Colombia—Seasick and vomiting aboard fishing boats packed with guns, ammo and two-way radios, the ragtag band of fighters—including […]
Supposedly, the world is comprised of 200 sovereign nations. In reality, it’s more of a case where the USA has 50 formal states and 150 informal states, with another 50 functioning as provinces within the G20-dominated global capitalist empire that is maintained by the US military empire (see […]
The Deep State apparently feared that a Trumpian insurgency within the ranks of the ruling class would end up pushing US foreign policy in “too far” of an “isolationist” direction. There seems to be an intra-ruling class civil war going on concerning the future of the empire between […]
Peter Zeihan provides a refreshing alternative to the China-love and/or China-hate that’s going on nowadays from the left and right. No, China is not going to replace the US as the global hegemon. Instead, China is likely to either implode or revert into neo-Maoism (which is already happening […]
Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As the smoke slowly settles on the bucolic hills of my farmland community and many others, the Coronavirus nightmare may be far from […]
The statist-centrist-centralist-reformist-electoralist “populism” of Krystal and Saager is interesting and insightful in some ways, but lame as hell in other ways. Gotta get over that “social contract” mythology, Saager. Four suggestions: 1. Renounce the state and become anarchists. The state is the enemy of all mankind. 2. Abandon […]
Let’s not do that to the poor Greenlanders. Most of the world are really just US provinces anyway. It’s like the US has 150-200 states rather than the formal 50. Continental Central/Eastern Asia are the only places that have any degree of autonomy from the Empire, and only […]
As I have said many times, Western political dissidents need to reject both Russophobia and Russophilia. Russia is a nation with the GDP of South Korea, a mere backwater province in the global capitalist empire. Russia only has one export product, petroleum, which the Western ruling classes covet […]
One reason I can’t really go for all the Chinahate we see today is that China is merely a test market for the kind of system the overlords of the empire want for the entire world, i.e. serf labor, techno-fascist surveillance, and labor camps for those who dissent. […]
As a general principle, I am for an “open-ended” approach to anarchist theory and practice in the sense of letting “a thousand flowers bloom.” I certainly don’t expect all anarchists everywhere to adopt my approach, and there can certainly be separate but parallel tendencies to the ATS perspective […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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