Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: There’s a scene in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey tells the fable of the mysterious Keyser Soze and how he became a crime lord. “One story the guys told me, the story I believe, was from his […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines. […]
By Alan Bickley, Free Life In 2003, most opposition to the Iraq War was confined to the argument that intervention there would do no good to the people of Iraq or in the intervening countries. This soon turned out to be a true argument, and those of us […]
By Jose Alberto Nino During the “America First” summit this week in D.C., Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) passionately demanded “that we absolutely annihilate the Russian forces, and we get them to crawl back into Russia so bloody and bruised that they can’t come back.” At the same summit, […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters’ criticism of President Joe Biden over the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Professor at Georgetown University, Trita Parsi, weighs in on the United States giving additional aid to Ukraine, and whether this is a logical long-term strategy.
Highlights from CPI Chicago conference “UNITE AGAINST THE IMPERIALISTS”
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: The US empire uses “freedom and democracy” as a pretext to conquer and kill in exactly the same way European colonialists used the pretext of spreading Christianity and civilization to save the godless savages. And it does so […]
Batya Ungar-Sargon and Robby Soave discusses the cease fire between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants following a three-day conflict in Gaza.
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 450 foreign-made components have been found in Russian weapons recovered in Ukraine, evidence that Moscow acquired critical technology from companies in the United States, Europe and Asia in the years before the invasion, according to a new report by Royal United Services Institute […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: During the furor over Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is […]
Kim Iversen: Russia & China Benefited Most From Pandemic, U.S. Hegemony On Its Way Out Kim Iversen discusses deplatforming, the culture of free speech, and why she’s hopeful. She talks about not being allowed to interview Fauci at The Hill, ultimately leading to her resignation in order to […]
The Signal Why is the Chinese government so angry about Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan? James Lee on rhetorical thunder, military build-up, and the potential for armed conflict. Pexels China is conducting live-fire military exercises around Taiwan and has cut off trade and diplomatic relationships with the island and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There are very few things on this boiling rock called earth that I hate more than war, but I’ve also been fascinated with war for as long as I can remember. There is just something about the cataclysmic […]
Is the United States prepared for escalating tensions with China over Taiwan that might genuinely lead to actual war? Former Defense Department advisor Col. Douglas MacGregor tells Tucker Carlson the answer is a decided “no,” and yet the United States seems determined to bumble our way into a […]
The United States Senate has voted 95-1-1 to approve the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, further engorging the ever-growing “defensive” alliance – this despite the fact that NATO was formed as a pact among nations to protect one another from the Soviet Union, a country that […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western […]
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Katie Halper and Emily Jashinsky react to news that China is ending several U.S. cooperation measures following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit.
Research director at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller, breaks down the mentality inside ‘the blob’ and how the military-industrial complex sabotages itself from the inside.
As Nancy Pelosi plots her “Will she or won’t she?” visit to the Far East that may involve a stopover in Taiwan, the U.S. Navy is engaging in aggressive maneuvers in the Taiwan Strait and China is warning the U.S. that these are all provocative moves that will […]
No one could have predicted for sure what would happen when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. Well, unless they were predicting that Pelosi would deliver a nonsensical word salad of a speech if given the opportunity. And that’s just what she did, waxing incomprehensibly about the concepts […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Alan MacLeod has a new article out with Mintpress News showing how most of the supposedly independent “fact-checking” organizations which Facebook has partnered with to police the information people are allowed to see on the platform about the […]
Expanding NATO is code word for senators and Congress people becoming millionaires on the sales of weapons.
The Corbett Report Watch this video on Archive / BitChute / Odysee or Download the mp4 This week on the New World Next Week: Pelosi goes to Taiwan as cold war machinations continue; Zawahiri is dead (just don’t ask for proof); and the UN declares war on conspiracy theorists. CLICK HERE for show notes and […]
Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray discuss the vote to support Sweden and Finland’s entry into NATO.
Katie Halper and Robby Soave discuss the military exercises China has launched around Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by HuffPost reporter Daniel Marans to better understand the Michigan primaries in both parties featuring a Democratic primary where AIPAC targeted a Jewish progressive
Murica is the guy who lives in a fortress protected by dozens of tanks and armored vehicles. Behind thick reinforced walls patrolled by hundred of soldiers, hiding inside a fortified shelter full of firearms and ammunitions with an escape to an undergroud bunker and still thinks he is […]
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Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but diplomatically corrosive visit, the aftereffects from which may be felt for years to come. Toward the end of her speech alongside Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, Pelosi’s brain underwent one of […]
Ben Norton talks about Zbigniew Brzezinski a diplomat, political scientist, counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor and the father of Morning Joe Co-Host Mika Brzezinski. It turns out that the elder Brzezinski predicted and warned against our present political moment in a […]
Nancy Pelosi arrives in Taiwan despite numerous warnings from China.
LA Progressive Days before the Democratic House primary in Michigan, Sen. Bernie Sanders told hundreds of voters gathered in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac Friday night that a vote for Rep. Andy Levin would send a vital message to billionaires and corporate PACs, including one controlled by the […]
By Thaddeus Russell, Reason (St. Martin’s Press) Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire, by Jonathan M. Katz, Macmillan, 432 pages, $29.99 The legend of Smedley Butler has sustained the American antiwar movement for nearly a century. A Marine commander […]
by Peter Zeihan on August 2, 2022 The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has arrived in Taiwan. As such, she is the highest-ranking US official to make a visit to the island since her predecessor, Speaker Newt Gingrich, visited in 1997. While there is […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: If someone criticizing the most dangerous agendas of the most powerful and destructive government on earth looks like “Russian propaganda” or “Chinese propaganda” to you, it’s because you yourself have been brainwashed by propaganda. ❖ The western propaganda campaign […]
The Burkean To sum up, Ladies and Gentlemen, What I want to say is that the West’s negative feelings about the world are due to the fact that the crucial energy and raw materials needed for economic development are no longer in the West’s hands. What it does […]
Journalist Ben Norton discusses why U.S. Imperialism is in profound crisis right now and what a multipolar world could look like. Ben Norton is a journalist, the editor of Multipolarista (https://multipolarista.com/) and a former editor at The Grayzone.
By Jose Alberto Nino During the “America First” summit this week in D.C., Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) passionately demanded “that we absolutely annihilate the Russian forces, and we get them to crawl back into Russia so bloody and bruised that they can’t come back.” At the same summit, […]
By Bradley Delvin, The American Conservative Every Republican who votes for Finland and Sweden in NATO must answer why America should use its blood and treasure to defend Europe’s left-wing order. The Senate is gearing up for a vote on whether or not the United States will accept […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride. “Speaker […]
Despicable is truly an understatement. It’s been going on for centuries with no end in sight. Thank you for excellent reporting.
Pro-Israel lobby groups have spent “shocking” amounts of money to change the course of multiple Democratic congressional primaries over the past year alone, reports our guest Peter Beinart. The latest is in Maryland, where former Congressmember Donna Edwards is being outspent sevenfold by corporate attorney Glenn Ivey in […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Octogenarian House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to spend her final years on this mortal coil trying to start World War Three, pushing the Biden administration to designate Russia an official “state sponsor of terrorism” and planning a […]
Bannonites need to remember that Steve is a Goldman-Sachs man.
In a recent television address, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to respond to accusations that he is uniquely responsible for the woes currently afflicting people in the west, in particular when it comes to high gas prices and inflation generally. In fact, Putin said, it is the elite […]
This kind of power always exist but its worse when its centralized.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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