This is an interesting question to reflection on: What does it mean for the future of anarchist movements given that the center of world power is slowly shifting from the US-NATO-Israeli-Saudi-Sunni axis to the BRICS-Shia-Mercosur axis? By Jeff Thomas Ron Paul Liberty Report Throughout history, political, financial, and […]
In the face of a particularly pitiful election selection, Ann Sterzinger makes the case for giving oneself the first and final vote. Personally, were I American, I’d either just stay home or turn up only to draw a cock on the ballot paper, in line with my anti-democratic […]
Joke of the Week Award goes to Saudi Arabian foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir for this knee-slapping declaration: “We are doing everything we can to fight extremism. “I don’t believe there is any country in the world that is more committed or more determined or has expended more resources […]
By Joe Gill Middle East Eye Owen Jones’ call for the left to oppose Putin did not address the most serious charge that the Russian president is escalating the war in Syria Owen Jones recently implored the British left to take their fight to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. As […]
By Joey Ayoub Middle East Eye The inability of many leftists to see past outdated narratives on Syria has galvanised the rise of reactionary nativism in the West Over the last week, some members of the Twitter bubble argued over the left’s response to the ongoing Syrian crisis. […]
By Tormud A recent post by Sean Gabb about the crossroads at which the UK now finds herself and his assessment of what will likely happen next got me thinking about the decision now confronting my own country and the likely results of that decision, whichever the choice we […]
Can there be any doubt that totalitarian humanism is the dominant ruling class ideology? By Rod Dreher The American Conservative A reader passes along a government document putting out bids for a contract. Here’s the top of the document: Apparently the (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia, a small […]
Ronald Olden Libertarian Alliance The difficulty with America is that it tries to do too much. It’s one thing to become involved in a full scale war like the Second World War when the protagonists are Nation States and a decisive military outcome can be achieved. But it’s […]
Kevin Glick Libertarian Alliance “The world has been made worse by having the Americans try to rule it, and it will be made even worse once they give up and walk away.” (Sean Gabb) That’s an interesting perspective, and one with which it’s difficult to argue. While it […]
Press TV. Listen here. The United States views Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a “greater” enemy than the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, as the Assad government is trying to remain independent from the US and Israel, an American analyst says. Keith Preston, editor of the AttacktheSystem.com, made the comments […]
Press TV. Listen here. The situation on the Korean Peninsula should be observed “in the context,” an analyst say, asserting that the test flight of two US heavy bomber jets over South Korea does not necessarily refer to any particular escalation in the volatile region, where two world […]
Press TV. Listen here. The US committed “massive war crimes” during the Vietnam War and President Barack Obama’s recent acknowledgment of America’s brutal bombing campaign in that conflict is only a “drop in the bucket,” says a journalist and political commentator in Virginia. “What President Obama acknowledged was […]
Only what I’ve been saying for 20 years. “”Even when the United States is not about to #invade and occupy a country, coverage of official #Washington‘s core interests is generally gracious. Discussing same-sex #marriage or publishing and airing in-depth features on #race, #poverty or the #environment are well […]
Press TV. Listen here. Conflicting foreign polices make it difficult for the West and Russia to reach an agreement over Syria, says an analyst. Chief editor and director of Attachthesystem.com, Keith Preston, made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Sunday, citing recent talks between the […]
Press TV. Listen here. “We do not really want to have an arms race escalate between the two countries, particularly when the United States, North Korea and China are all nuclear-armed nations,” says Keith Preston, an American political analyst. The US government’s increasing weapon deployments near Chinese territories […]
By Philip Weiss The best thing about this political moment in the U.S. (if not for the good people of Iraq) is that the rise of ISIS and the Republican candidates’ embrace of the Iraq war is posing that deep and permanent question to the American public, Why […]
Press TV. Listen here. The “friendly” position towards Russia, adopted by GOP candidate Donald Trump, runs counter to the hegemony on top of the US foreign policy agenda, an American journalist says. Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks on Saturday, while commenting […]
About the only worthwhile thing about Trump is that he seems to genuinely disagree with the more extreme elements of the neocons’ foreign policy agenda and the neoliberal economic agenda. Sputnik News “We will have a very good relationship with Russia” promises the mercurial Republican nominee for president […]
Telesurtv.Net. “This coup attempt makes it necessary for us to not slow down the struggle against AKP fascism, but to enhance it,” read the KCK statement. In a statement published Saturday, the PKK’s political affiliate, the KCK, said the real and more dangerous coup is the one being led by President Recep […]
Press TV. Listen here. “The Americans do not like the Russians getting in the way” of toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, says US journalist Keith Preston. The US seeks to push Russia out of Syria because it views Moscow as a huge hurdle in its plans to topple […]
Press TV. Listen here.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry after their press conference in Moscow on July 15, 2016. (AFP) As US and Russian top diplomats speak of steps the two countries are taking to end the conflict in […]
Press TV. Listen here “The United States has sought to use Daesh as a means of toppling Assad,” Keith Preston says. The United States is pursuing a hypocritical policy towards its fight against Daesh in the Middle East, says political analyst Keith Preston. Washington is letting Daesh […]
By Sean Gabb This book is available at Amazon.Com. “The British Government is little more than a branch of the Pentagon” So argues Sean Gabb in this controversial and stimulating book. He calls for a British foreign policy that is completely independent of both the European Union and […]
An interesting take on immigration, economics, and US-Mexican relations from a Mexican nationalist. The economic analysis he gave was quite good. I wish these identitarian folks would emphasize that more. Often they sound like ordinary Republicans grousing about “colored folks on welfare.” He didn’t say anything Ralph Nader […]
Jim Hale served as media relations director for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a key pro-war organization that boasted such members as John McCain, George Shultz, and Bob Kerrey (senator from Nebraska). He is now a Tom Woods Show listener and a convert to noninterventionist foreign […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/26/472326/Kerry-Netanyahu-US-Israel-Settlements-Palestine-Preston “Virtually all of the major [US] politicians from both of the major parties repeatedly kowtow to the Israel lobby,” say Keith Preston. The United States’ unconditional support for Israel will not end anytime soon as most of the American politicians, regardless of their […]
By Tom Slater Spiked Online “Brexit is a fake revolt’, writes Paul Mason in the Guardian this week: ‘Working-class culture is being hijacked to help the elite.’ A withering article in Vice agrees. ‘Brexit is the upper classes in revolt’, writes Sam Kriss. ‘They see an undemocratic and […]
This is important news because it signifies a genuine tension between the seriously anti-imperialist Left and the center-Left. These cleavages are becoming every more pronounced all the time whether the issue is foreign policy, labor policy, trade, civil liberties, criminal justice, the environment, the war on drugs, police […]
Press TV. Listen here. “The rise of the Daesh was made possible by efforts by the Americans to destabilize various governments in the Middle East,” said Keith Preston. The administration of US President Barack Obama, along with neoconservatives in Washington, have pursued policies that helped in the rise […]
If the Trump and Sanders movements become a permanent fixture of US politics, the real effect of this will be to repeal the Reagan Revolution and bring American politics back to what it was in the 1970s, and with relatively similar political, economic, and social circumstances (minus the […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/07/469332/Donald-Trump-GOP-hawks Keith Preston said “Donald Trump is talking out of both sides of his mouth.” Donald Trump’s reversal of position on American intervention in Libya shows he is trying to appease hawks in the Republican Party and the US power elite, an American journalist […]
By Diana Johnstone Counterpunch On June 2, a few days before the California primary, Hillary Clinton gave up trying to compete with Bernie Sanders on domestic policy. Instead, she zeroed in on the soft target of Donald Trump’s most “bizarre rants” in order to present herself as experienced […]
Finally, a leftist who gets it. Although I do think the ATS perspective is superior to Trumpism. Aidan O’Brien Counterpunch Have we reached the endgame of Western democracy? When we heard Chomsky, a week or two ago on Democracy Now, saying that if pushed he’d vote for Clinton, […]
By Zach Beauchamp Vox.Com Hillary Clinton is, without a doubt, a hawkish Democrat. She has been consistently to the interventionist right of the party mainstream on issues like the Iraq War, the Afghanistan surge, and arming the Syrian rebels. Donald Trump, by contrast, has criticized the Iraq War […]
By Prof. John McMurtry and Kourosh Ziabari First published by Global Research in July 2015 A world-renowned Canadian philosopher argues that the United States holds the world record of illegal killings of unarmed civilians and extrajudicial detention and torturing of prisoners who are detained without trial. Prof. John […]
Press TV. Listen here. Preston says “there is no evidence that it was necessary for the United States to” use those weapons against Japan. The United States will not apologize to Japan over its 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because such an apology would mean an […]
Sanders voted against the Iraq War and has criticized efforts to use NATO to encircle Russia. By Walter Ross LA Progressive Progressives like LA Progressive editor Dick Price have indicated many domestic reasons why progressives prefer Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton. A recent New York Times editorial also […]
It’s interesting to hear Donald Trump point out the millions of casualties that have been generated by US imperialism in the Middle East. Trump has now moved to the left of Hillary on foreign policy as Hillary courts the neocons. By Rania Khalek The Intercept Donald Trump derided […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/05/11/465120/Russia-US-Missiles-NATO-Preston “NATO is really a projection of American military power,” says Preston. The United State and NATO’s move to activate a so-called missile shield across Europe is part of America’s plan to gain “the upper hand” against Moscow, says an American political analyst in […]
A very good summation of the present world order. It looks like Chomsky heard my recent speech at the National Policy Institute. 🙂 By Noam Chomsky The Guardian When we ask “who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are […]
During her campaign, Clinton, who I suspect will be the next president, is moving left on social policy and right on foreign policy. Hillary and Trump represent two trends I have been predicting for a long time. I have thought that the SJWs and the neocons would start […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/05/07/464471/US-jet-makers-worried Preston believes US fighter jet makers are fretting over losing revenue if they cannot sell jets to Persian Gulf Arab allies. US fighter jet manufacturers are concerned about the future of sales to America’s Persian Gulf Arab allies, which in part explains a […]
By Daniel Lewis New York Times Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan gave an anti-war sermon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, 1972.The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in […]
By Thomas Knapp The Garrison Center In March, an open letter from 121 Republican “national security leaders” characterized GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision as “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle,” swinging “from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence.” While it’s always wise […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Russia intervened in Syria, did what it came to do–strengthen the position of the Assad government–and has partially withdrawn. Meanwhile, our war with ISIS continues its endless futility, an inevitable result of war by pinking. War by plinking, using airstrikes that blow […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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