A reader asks this question: Hi, Keith. I am concerned that a lot [of]anti-imperialists are so used to America being the only and worst empire, that they are blind to foreign powers interested in becoming the next America, in the same way anarcho-capitalists are blind to the possibility […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Medium Isn’t it fascinating how western journalists are suddenly rallying to attack the dangerous awful and horrifying epidemic of “Assad apologists” just as the western empire ramps up its longstanding regime change agenda against the Syrian government? Kinda sorta exactly the same way they began […]
By Elliot Gabriel Mint Press News NEW YORK CITY — The dust had barely settled after last weekend’s U.S.-led bombing of Syria before a split in the political class developed. While some Beltway figures, media personalities and former officials hailed the bombings, others decried the “limited” nature of […]
Internationalist Commune of Rojava It’s Going Down The following statement comes from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava, and denounces the recent bombings carried out by NATO forces in Syria, which have been being planned for weeks, and carried out under the guise of ‘humanitarian intervention.’ From the Internationalist […]
An interview with the Tasnim News Agency. “The attack on Syria indicates that the Trump administration is now fully under the control of the neoconservative-controlled foreign policy establishment, and that any inclination the Trump administration may have ever had toward altering US foreign policy has been abandoned…,” Keith […]
Some refreshing comments from socialist and Russia Today commentator Caleb Maupin. While Maupin is a socialist and I am an anarchist, this was more or less the same position I began taking in the 1990s and 2000s during the anti-globalization and antiwar eras, i.e. that the revolutionary left […]
Some relevant comments from leading Rothbardian libertarian Tom Woods on Syria: “Well, Woods’s Law is on full display these days: No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up with John McCain. It’s as if the President, in his scramble to imitate Jeb! and Graham, forgot that […]
This is an interesting blog with an extensive amount of commentary about Syria. This blogger seems to hold to some kind of anti-Assad, Syrian leftist opposition perspective, and seems a bit soft on Western intervention. One thing I am not getting from this blog is an explanation of […]
Press TV. Listen here. If the United Sates were to launch an airstrike on Syria, it would certainly escalate the hostilities between Washington and Moscow and even could develop into a direct military confrontation between the two powers, says Keith Preston, an American political analyst in Virginia. Russia […]
Press TV. Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem (File photo) Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement downplays threats of a military action against Syria, ruling out a potential direct confrontation between the US and Russia or a wider war in the Arab country. “We rule out the situation developing […]
This interview is from 2016 but it’s highly relevant to what is going on now. Press TV. Listen here. The US is seeking to further escalate the years-long conflict in Syria through its so-called “Plan B,” in a bid to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power as […]
Thus far, Tucker Carlson has been, to my knowledge, the only mainstream media figure to challenge the System’s narrative on Syria. It’s interesting how the Republican Senator being interviewed said, “If you care about Israel…” the first time he opened his mouth. What if you don’t care about […]
It’s interesting to see various far left tendencies coming out and saying what I have been saying about the Western Left for years. “Four of the most prominent pseudo-left websites—Jacobin magazine, which is closely connected to the Democratic Socialists of America; Socialist Worker, the online newspaper of the […]
By Danny Haiphong Black Agenda Report Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Randi Nord “Anti-imperialism to me means supporting nations in their struggle against my government’s violent and exploitative influence.” This week I spoke with Randi Nord. Nord is a Detroit-based journalist and activist. She is the co-founder […]
Press TV. Listen here. The new shift in US policy in Syria was influenced by President Donald Trump’s so-called America First policy that he has advocated since coming to office, says a political analyst. Following Trump’s election, “America First” has become the official foreign policy doctrine of his […]
Press TV. Listen here. This AFP file photo taken on February 24, 2017 shows former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton. The appointment of John Bolton as US national security adviser indicates that the Donald Trump administration plans to escalate hostilities towards Iran, says an analyst. “John […]
This includes an audio clip of an interview with yours truly. Sputnik News The Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, or StratCom, was established in 2014 as a response to Western governments’ concerns over supposed Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe. The center insists that it is countering Moscow’s alleged […]
Stark Truth Radio. Listen here. Topics: FBI Paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad to Spy on Customer Devices who are Passing over User Data Violations of the 4th Amendment which prohibits warrant-less searches based on no probably cause Farming out state repression to the private sector as […]
A recent interview with Sputnik. Listen here. European nations are military colonies of the United States through NATO – that’s according to Keith Preston, the director of AttackTheSystem.com. In an interview to Press TV, he said that the United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on […]
Press TV. Listen here. The United States is punishing Latin American countries because they are moving towards China, Russia and other independent nations, an American political analyst says. Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a report […]
A recent interview I did with a Shia magazine. ShiaFollowers.Com An American political analyst has said that “the rejection of the position of the holy men undermines the structure of religious authority in general, which in turn allows extremist sects promoting twisted interpretations of Islam to proliferate.” “The […]
Press TV. Listen here. The United States has been able to colonize European countries by spending money to keep them secure while also selling them weapons, says an analyst in Virginia. Keith Preston, the director of AttackTheSystem.com made the remarks while discussing reports that the US has been […]
Press TV. Listen here. An AFP photo taken on May 15, 2017 shows staff monitoring the spread of ransomware cyber-attacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in Seoul. (Photos by AFP) A top US security firm is cautioning American politicians about a North Korean elite hacking […]
Press TV. Listen here. North Korea is not likely to attack any of its neighboring countries despite what the United States is trying to imply, says An American political analyst. Keith Preston, the Virginia-based Director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV about the […]
Kudos to Chris Hedges. This is as good an analysis as I would ever expect from someone on the Left. This is a fairly straightforward Marxist analysis within a social democratic ideological framework. But he knows who the real enemy is. By Chris Hedges Truthdig
A recent interview I did with Tasnim. The following is the full text of the interview. Available here. Tasnim: Recently, Saudi troops fatally shot a youth during operations carried out in the kingdom’s Shiite-populated Qatif region in Eastern Province. He was killed while driving in his car in […]
Press TV. Listen here. America’s new national security strategy announced by US Defense Secretary James Mattis is a veiled reference to funding the US military–industrial complex and expanding Washington’s hegemony around the world, says a political analyst in Virginia. In a speech on Friday at Johns Hopkins University’s […]
I disagree with certain things that are said in this, but it’s a very interesting discussion. Preston Martin interviews Matthew VanDyke and Mikhail Svetov about foreign policy.
Isn’t it interesting that the two greatest allies of the US are an ethno-supremacist state and a Bronze Age theocracy? By Andrew Bacevich The American Conservative In the long arc of history, while regimes come and go, civilizations endure. Bet on the former against the latter, and you’re […]
“Neocon think tanks” are merely organizations that develop the “policy” programs that serve the interests of the state. By Jon Wight Ron Paul Institute for Prosperity The latest salvo in the ongoing attempt to de-legitimize and demonize Russia-based media has arrived with a directive from the US Justice […]
Efforts by the Empire to turn Iran into a wrecked nation like Iraq, Libya, and Syria have thus far failed. By Eric Margolis Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Listen to the state-“guided” US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests […]
The great thing about the Obama and Trump administrations is that they have proven that supposed “maverick” heads of state are no different than ordinary dynastic centrist politicians like the Bushes and the Clintons. US foreign policy and economic policy reflects the general consensus of the dominant factions […]
Like the Obama regime, the Trump regime is turning out to be a bunch of neocons after all. There is nothing that the Rome on the Potomac hates more than independent nations who defy the Empire. The US Empire would rather liquidate Syria into a failed state like […]
This looks to be an interesting conference. The 2018 Telos Europe Conference Friday, August 31, to Sunday, September 2, 2018 Ragusa, Sicily About the Conference The end of the two world wars saw the fall of mighty empires—from the Tsarist Empire, the Kaiserreich and the Ottoman Empire to […]
In the past, much of my own work has focused on critiquing a world order where the USA is the dominant hegemon because, well, that’s the world we’ve had for the past 30 years (and, really, for 73 years when it is considered that during the Cold War […]
Duncan Whitmore argues that US imperialism in the Middle East is about maintaining the hegemony of the petrodollar, countering the influence of Russia and China, and advancing the interests of Israel and Saudi Arabia. To all of that I would add maintaining hegemony over the oil trade by […]
The Never Trumpers need not have worried. As I have always said, the US President is merely a celebrity-administrator whose only genuine function is to preside over the implementation of policies that reflect the general consensus of the dominant factions of the elite. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO […]
This is great news in that it really does place the general public at odds with the ruling class. One of the most important and successful political movements in US history was the anti-Vietnam War/anti-draft movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The long range effect of the movement […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right One of the iron laws of warfare is that a higher level dominates a lower. You can be brilliant tactically, but if you are defeated operationally, you lose. You can win tactically and operationally, but if you get beaten strategically, you lose. […]
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s administration represents a tradition of “xenophobic isolationism” which is different from conventional GOP foreign policy, and may curb US imperialism, says a political analyst from Virginia. “We have this isolationist tradition that is very xenophobic in the sense that we […]
Press TV. Listen here. A military option by the US against North Korea to resolve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula would have “catastrophic consequences,” says a political analyst in Virginia. “An attempted invasion by the United States of the Korean Peninsula or the region of North Korea will certainly […]
On foreign policy, Trump more or less continues the Obama legacy, with a little bit of Republican hawkishness thrown in for good measure. In other words, more or less what Hillary what have done. Who could’ve guessed? By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Trump has had a more […]
The withering away of the antiwar movement during the Obama era, and the failure of the Left to oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to strengthen the position of the Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis (or to even take notice) indicates that US imperialism will have to be defeated externally rather than […]
This article provides a pretty good overview of why the antiwar movement is so tiny and ineffectual. The antiwar movement of the early 2000s was a cover for an anti-Republican movement, that quickly disappeared when Barack Obama was elected, even if there were no substantive changes in US […]
Some more interesting comments from Dick Moore. I would agree that US imperialism at present is far more pernicious than anything the Russians or Chinese are currently doing. For one thing, it has a much, much wider reach. Russia’s present foreign policy is a traditional Russian foreign policy, […]
As a I have long suspected. William S. Lind Traditional Right Those of us who supported President Trump in last year’s election because he promised a less interventionist foreign policy need to be aware of a rising danger. Neo-con influence in the Trump administration seems to be on […]
I got a mention in Breitbart, lol. Listen to the original interview with Press TV here. U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel renders him the “most pro-Zionist” commander-in-chief to have ever held the high office, declared Iran’s state-controlled news agency […]
Bill Lind’s analysis of the emerging world order is absolutely correct. If I were a statist, I would be taking the exact same position as Bill Lind, i.e. that the main threat that states now face is not each other but the rise of non-state actors and fourth […]
A great discussion between Gareth Porter and Tom Woods on Vietnam. Listen here. This is a must listen for anyone who is interested in how US imperialism actually works. ——————————————— We’ve all heard the usual arguments: the U.S. government entered the Vietnam War because of the domino theory, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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