The Signal What will the United States’ new National Security Strategy mean for America and its place in the world? Brian Katulis on how the White House is shaping the future of U.S. foreign policy. Greg Rosenke In mid-October, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden released a […]
The idea that the neocons are in decline is a myth that the neocons want you to believe. The neocons are more powerful now than ever. They have recolonized the Democratic Party with figures like Bolton, Cheney, and Kristol being liberal heroes. They continue to lead the Never […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Those who hate Russia the most are the ones who embody everything they claim to hate about it: they’re all pro-war, pro-censorship, pro-propaganda, pro-trolling operations, and support Ukraine in banning political parties and opposition media. They are what […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The Biden administration is reportedly considering opening a national security review of Elon Musk’s business ventures which could see the plutocrat’s purchase of Twitter blocked by the White House, in part because Musk is perceived as having an “increasingly […]
Shadowproof’s Kevin Gosztola turns this week’s “Reframe” show into an impromptu “Unauthorized Disclosure” episode. We look forward to taking some calls during the hour, but we will begin our conversation on the topic of Israel’s meddling in US politics and lessons that the left should learn, especially based […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: We should probably talk more about the fact that the US empire is loudly promoting the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine by defeating Russia while quietly acknowledging that this goal is impossible. This is like accelerating […]
Reuters Representational photo: An Egyptian Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter participates in an Egyptian military demonstration for observers during Bright Star 2017, Sept. 19, 2017, at Mohamed Naguib Military Base, Egypt. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Battles via U.S. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – […]
Setareh Sadeghi, an Esfahan, Iran-based scholar and teacher, provides Max Blumenthal with a view of Iran’s protests against the country’s morality police and the death of Mahsa Amini never heard in US mainstream. Sadeghi explains that while many Iranians oppose the morality police, the protests have failed to […]
By Michael Lind, National Interest The United States is in retreat, defeat, or stalemate everywhere, whether in the military arena or in the realm of trade and industrial production. MERICAN TRIUMPHALISM is back. The difficulties encountered by Vladimir Putin’s regime in its invasion of Ukraine are being used […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The west is advancing the claim that Putin is distributing Viagra to his soldiers so that they can more effectively rape Ukrainians, which was a ridiculous propaganda narrative the first time the west used it to manufacture consent […]
Here are my most recent articles for you POLL: Increasing Number of Americans Prefer Diplomacy with Rival Nations According to a recent survey published by the Eurasia Group Foundation, a growing number of Americans prefer that policymakers pursue negotiations with rival countries. Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman of […]
As long as Tulsi holds the line against the neocons, MIC, and Patriot Act, I’m with her. I didn’t like her Sanders liberalism then, and I don’t care for her Carlson conservatism now. But those are just vehicles. She’s a Hindu nationalist.
I always found the hypocrisy of hating Iran and not the Saudis ridiculous.
Israel has such a ridiculous level of influence in the United States, even on a local level. It doesn’t get talked about because the optics are a nightmare. Imagine the “China flu” crowd angry about Israel.
By David Sacks, Newsweek Elon Musk got in hot water again on Twitter—for proposing peace. On Monday, Musk proposed a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, for which he was denounced as a pro-Putin puppet by the Twitter mob that has formed to police the discourse […]
A brief note about disagreement in the blacklist age Matt Taibbi After publishing “On John Lennon’s Birthday, a Few Words About War” last night, old friend and former Moscow Times editor Matt Bivens* and I discovered we’d written on the same topic. You can find Matt’s excellent essay […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Star Wars megastar Mark Hamill was recently named an ambassador for United24, the fundraising platform of the Ukrainian government, where according to The Times his attention will center on “the procurement, repair and replacement of drones as well as […]
Why “pacifists” aren’t “fascifists” Matt Taibbi John Lennon was born October 9, 1940. He would have been 82 today. In 1972, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sent a letter to the office of Attorney General John Mitchell, suggesting Lennon be deported. Thurmond believed Lennon’s antiwar and anti-Nixon […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve always found conspiracy theories to be fascinating, not just individually, but as a concept in and of itself. I spent the darker portion of my teenage years happily lost down dark-web rabbit holes, searching for deeper meaning […]
Risk nuclear war with Russia? Yes, when it’s not enough for Washington to wage war on Americans Rod Dreher Oct 6, 2022 6:03 AM This sobering reflection on nuclear warfare on the Policy Tensor Substack has been making the rounds. Strongly urge you to read it. Excerpts: Whether […]
Fox News actually features Aaron Mate from The Grayzone. This is a rush transcript of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on October 5, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS CHANNEL HOST: Good evening and welcome to TUCKER CARLSON […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 8, 2022 A Ukrainian attack has severely damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge, the primary supply line for Russian food, fuel, ammunition and reinforcements into the Crimean Peninsula and southwestern Ukraine. It is, simply put, the single-most important piece of infrastructure in the war. […]
Douglas Macgregor Sep 22, 2022 12:05 AM The American Conservative At the end of 1942, when the Wehrmacht could advance no further east, Hitler switched German ground forces from an “enemy force-oriented” strategy to a “ground-holding” strategy. Hitler demanded that his armies defend vast, largely empty and irrelevant […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends 3 hr ago In this exclusive interview with Katie Halper, we discuss her experience facing the true media blackout around Israeli apartheid, what it tells us about American mainstream media and political discussion writ large, and the double standard that independent, leftist political commentators […]
United States and worldwide Geopolitics analysis. Russia Ukraine conflict latest news update with Colonel Douglas Macgregor.
The “Useful Idiots” co-host is dismissed from The Hill, which is a little too frank about the reason Matt Taibbi The longtime co-host of Useful Idiots, Katie Halper, made headlines last week, and not for any reasons she would have asked for. Katie was fired from a part-time […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Vladimir Putin has signed documents finalizing the Russian annexation of four regions in eastern Ukraine, meaning there’s now a western-backed Ukrainian counteroffensive underway to recapture what Russia officially considers parts of its homeland. Moscow has made it clear […]
Journalist and author, Daniel Lazare says the logical thing to do is to assure Russia that Ukraine and Georgia will never be incorporated into NATO and that can very easily be done.
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The western political/media class has been dismissing as “conspiracy theories” all claims that the US is likely responsible for last month’s sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, even while leveling the exact same accusations against Russia without […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Avoiding nuclear war is the single most important agenda in the world. The single most important agenda in history. It is more important than your political faction. It is more important than how Vladimir Putin makes your feelings […]
Katie Halper recorded a segment for The Hill’s Rising defending Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from attacks over calling Israel an apartheid state. The Hill presents itself as a channel that opposes cancel culture and censorship. Halper says she was told that The Hill has a ban on opinion videos […]
Jonathon Van Maren I hope you’re all having a good week. As usual, I have some short culture posts on The Bridgehead, which you can read here. My latest podcast interview is with Katy Faust, author of the must-read Them Before Us: Why We Need A Global Children’s […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Someone who believes the US or its proxies sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines can tell you exactly what they’d stand to gain from it and how little it would cost them. Someone who believes it was Russia has […]
The GOP is simply the US branch of the Zionist-Wahhabi alliance in collusion with US arms merchants. Kevin McCarthy personally is also the single largest recipient of Saudi money in Congress and has been for a long time.
Cenk Uygur is generally a douchebag but kudos to him for this.
The neocons are creating a faux isolationist front in order to coopt right-wing antiwar sentiment. Michael Anton’s address at the Miami National Conservatism Conference on September 13, 2022.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The shit is getting real again in Ukraine and every neoliberal and his lobbyist seems super stoked about the carnage. After months of pulverizing battlefield gridlock and mounting global war fatigue, the Western warmongers finally have a tangible […]
Humanity needs to unite against the ruling class regardless of political affiliation.
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing (September 12), Ukraine’s counter offensives appear to be succeeding. The widely telegraphed offensive in the south is making some progress. But it looks as if its primary role was deception, where it has already succeeded because Russia responded […]
Here are my most recent articles for you President of Serbia Believes a “Great World Conflict” Will Take Place Within Two Months Aleksandar Vucic, the President of Serbia, issued a dire warning for the entire world. He believes that in the next two months the world could be […]
Keith Preston of Attack the System Explains How Neocons became a dominant force in American politics. Listen now Jose Alberto Nino How did the neocons come to prominence? Keith Preston, of Attack the System, reveals how the neoconservatives took over key foreign policy positions in the United States […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: As the US empire continues to escalate aggressions against both Russia and China, as Moscow warns that “strategic nuclear weapons” may be used to protect the territories it plans on annexing from eastern Ukraine even as Washington prepares to […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Vladimir Putin has announced that referenda will be held in four regions of the eastern part of Ukraine whose populations will now vote on whether to join the Russian Federation, much like the Crimea referendum of 2014 which […]
Geopolitics and Empire Martin Armstrong: The Plot to Seize Russia & Make It a NATO Vassal Martin Armstrong discusses his new book based on declassified documents where in the 1990s the West, NATO, and Russian oligarchy plotted to seize Moscow, loot Russia, and takeover its natural resources. […]
Caitlin Johnstone 12 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: I talk about narrative all the time partly because narrative control is the source and foundation of the power of the US-centralized empire. The ability to control the way people think, act and vote with […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Nineteen members of the US House of Representatives have written a letter [PDF] to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin cautioning that the partial cancellation of student debts can have the unintended consequence of reducing […]
By David Pan, Telos In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Sijia Yao about her article “Third Term Comparison,” from Telos 199 (Summer 2022). An excerpt of the article appears here. In their conversation they discuss the difference between world literature and comparative literature, […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The president of the United States has once again committed the US military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ll tell you a secret, dearest motherfuckers, if you promise to tell everyone else. The two-party system is nothing but a great big fucking distraction. When it comes down to the big money issues like war and peace, […]
A living document Two weeks ago (Aug. 26, 2022) media outlets throughout the West released breaking news directly from the Pentagon; At least two American ‘volunteers’ had been killed during a firefight in Ukraine. This report came on the heels of another just weeks earlier by Russian intelligence […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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