More than 200 people were killed during protests in Kazakhstan earlier this month. What was behind the protests and why does it look like President Tokayev has emerged stronger? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains.
Russia has massed thousands of soldiers along Ukraine’s border and it’s got people talking about a possible war. What’s President Putin’s strategy? And where does NATO fit in? #AJStartHere with @SandraGathmann explains five things you need to know to understand this story. Check out our other Start Here […]
Like I said in a previous post, it is a sad day when an unreconstructed Rockefeller Democrat/Kissingerian realist like Biden and a neo-Taft Republican isolationist like Tucker Carlson are what’s standing in the way of the neocon/Reaganite/liberal hawk ambition of World War Three with Russia. The Trotskyites and […]
The Democraps are back to being the hawkish imperialist party they were prior to the post-Vietnam era. Not that they ever really changed but for a few decades they at least lip-synced it. By Richard Hanania Why the culture war is global and there will be no insurgency […]
The Cold War is back. Obviously, the best way for the USA to counter this would be to offer Latin American countries better trade deals than what they will get from the Eastern powers and to treat Latin American countries like partners rather than as subjects and slaves. […]
Abbie Hoffman referred to the New York Times as the “voice of the ruling class” for a reason. It makes perfect sense for Germany to distance itself from US imperialism and work to develop friendlier relations with Russia, particularly given the history of conflict between the two countries. […]
It’s a sad day when Biden, an old-fashioned Rockefeller Democrat, and Tucker Carlson, an old-fashioned Republican isolationist, are the two main individuals standing in the way of World War Three. By Jacqueline Feldscher, Senior National Security Correspondent, Defense One President Donald Trump may have left Washington, but his […]
The neocons and liberal hawks actually managed to repair the Sino-Soviet split. By Erika Na, South China Morning Post Senior diplomats ‘reach broad consensus’ to boost strategic communication and jointly maintain regional peace and stability in virtual talks Meanwhile, China’s envoy to Russia welcomes Vladimir Putin’s visit to […]
That the American regime, even under a supposed “liberal” administration, is taking a more hawkish line on Ukraine than even Ukraine, is definitely more evidence that the American regime needs to be abolished, as if we needed more evidence. –As tensions continue to rise between Vladimir Putin’s Russia […]
I am neither a Sinophobe nor a Sinophile just as I am neither a Russophobe nor a Russophile. The political establishment (neoliberals and neocons) attacks these countries as enemies of humanity, and many on the far left or far right fetishize them. Russia is still a Second World […]
By Matt Taibbi The American foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine. Joe Biden last week said the American response in Ukraine would be proportional to Vladimir Putin’s actions. “It depends,” the president posited, thoughts drifting like blobs in […]
It looks like the Cold War is making a comeback. By Owen Churchill South China Morning Post US secretary of state says relationship is growing increasingly adversarial because ‘this is in many ways a different China on the world stage’ But he acknowledges Washington’s own rejection of multilateralism […]
By Phoebe Zhang South China Morning Post The ending has been altered on a streaming site to remove a series of explosions; instead, inserted text states everyone involved was either sent to a prison or a mental asylum China routinely censors foreign films either in full or partially, […]
by Maya Rostowska Vice The world is on high alert for a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. These Ukrainian soldiers say they’re ready – they’ve been fighting for 8 years already. NOVOTOSHKIVSKE, Ukraine – At 7:36PM on the 11th of January, Viktor Kucherenko was at his post in […]
By Andrew Roth in Moscow Russia’s aggressive buildup near Ukraine energised Nato into sending more forces to eastern Europe on Monday and led to a plunge on Russian markets, raising the stakes on the Kremlin’s bet that it could cajole, extort or force Ukraine into submission. For Moscow […]
Fighting has flared up once again in the breakaway regions of Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatist fighters say they are defending their cultural, historical and linguistic rights
Clip from the upcoming podcast with Nick and Danny talking about the political turmoil in Ukraine and the Eastern European region with Nato’s attempt to recolonize Russia.
China officially surpassed the US in 2015 having the largest middle class by American standards of family net worth anywhere between 50k and 500k. The gap has only further widened today. And more than 70 percent of Chinese millennials own their own home, which has allowed them to […]
World War 3 TRENDS As Biden Prepares 50k Troop Deployment Over Ukraine, China Advances On Taiwan. NATO has already deployed fighter jets and warships to the region. Russia has amassed over 100,000 troops to their western front.
The MIC cautioning that someone else might try a false flag would be hilarious… if their projection wasn’t an indication that they’ve decided they need another war
By Rick Rozoff, Anti-Bellum From former advisor Suzanne Massie, former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, former budget director David Stockman and former White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. When former Reagan officials oppose U.S. and NATO preparations for war with Russia and even the most (nominally) progressive […]
Krystal and Saagar provide the latest updates on the Ukraine situation as the Biden administration continues its aggression against the wishes of European allies and Ukraine itself.
We’ve all become so desensitized to news of death and destruction coming from this part of the world that it’s important to take a minute and really think about 100 civilian deaths. Innocents caught up in proxy wars, simply because of where they were born. This is exactly […]
“An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” Sun Tzu
Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, Briahna Joy Gray, and Robby Soave discuss the potential fallout of U.S. military involvement in Ukraine.
By Julian Brave NoiseCat The Nation riving down international boulevard, East Oakland’s main inner-city thoroughfare, it’s hard to miss the Intertribal Friendship House. With its mural-rimmed courtyard featuring larger-than-life portraits of Natives, both famous and unknown, the community center, which some call the “urban rez,” stands apart from […]
By Peter Kornbluh, The Nation Where Obama was willing to try “engagement,” Biden administration policy remains mired in Cold War clichés. The Nation has always believed there is a better way. In mid-December, some 114 members of Congress sent a forceful letter to President Joe Biden calling for […]
Ukraine pushed towards meltdown. Neocons pushing Biden towards war.
By Eammon Singleton, The American Conservative In April 1998, Sony Corporation chairman Norio Ohga made world headlines with his comment, “The Japanese economy is on the verge of collapsing.” In reality, nothing in Sony’s experience supported such an assessment. On the contrary, its business boomed right through the 1990s. More generally, Japanese industrial corporations continued to gain share from American rivals. Yet […]
Kim Iversen criticizes the US response to conflict in Russia and Ukraine as fueling the military industrial complex.
Krystal and Saagar provide updates on the situation taking place on the Ukrainian-Russian border and the response from the foreign policy elite & the Biden administration planning on sending troops
NATO caught with its pants down due to Obamas reluctance to address the issue that began in Crimea: https://archive.ph/ZADOC
2022, and we’re still at the mercy of old cold war era boomer dinosaurs.
By M Mursal and Zahra Nader, The Guardian The temperature is dropping to below zero in western Afghanistan and Delaram Rahmati is struggling to find food for her eight children. Since leaving the family home in the country’s Badghis province four years ago, the Rahmatis have been living […]
Pakman seems to miss what is most important about the question he is addressing. Yes, Carlson is a dove on Russia. But he is an outlier. Most Republicans are still Russia hawks as they always have been. What is interesting is that Democrats are now Russia hawks as […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It has been a cold cold winter for Afghanistan and I’m afraid it’s only getting colder. As the temperature drops below freezing and the snow continues to fall, this tiny war-torn nation that has already seen so many […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Major western news publications are running a story about a sinister plot by the Russian government, and—you may want to sit down for this—the sources of the report are anonymous, and the evidence for it is secret. The New York Times reports that according to […]
America will never learn that we can’t have everything. Worse thing about it, going into territory we don’t know always has a bad outcome and we’re always the masters of the losing streak. Infuriating!!!
Tucker Carlson discusses how Washington is reacting to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Scott is joined by Clint Ehrlich who recently went viral after his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show struck the nerve of a handful of foreign policy “experts.” So Scott invited him on the show to dive deeper into his arguments. They discuss why Ehrlich is nervous about the […]
2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard assesses President Biden’s handling of Russian threat to invade Ukraine.
By Marcus Weisgerber and Tara Copp Defense One Latest deliveries to arrive today as DOD searches its inventory for more to send. The U.S. is expected to deliver more defense equipment to Ukraine today to counter Russia’s rapid escalation of military and diplomatic moves along the Ukrainian border, […]
By Grayson Quay The Week The State Department issued an order Saturday directing families of U.S. Embassy personnel in Ukraine to evacuate the country as soon as Monday, Fox News reports. Per Fox, the State Department is also expected to issued guidance next week encouraging American civilians to […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Saudi-led coalition forces reportedly carried out an air strike against a detention center in Yemen Friday, killing at least 70 people injuring over 100, and drawing condemnations from the United Nations, BBC reported. Amjad Yamin, who handles communications for Save the Children in Yemen, […]
How strong is the West’s resolve when it comes to Ukraine? A steady diet of diplomacy so far failing to lift the uncertainty over Vladimir Putin’s true intentions when it comes to those 100-thousand troops amassed at the border.
By Lee Fang, The Intercept NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August of last year, Fereshteh Forough feared that the group would close her school in Herat, the country’s third-largest city. Code to Inspire, an […]
By Joe Lauria, Consortium News When the U.S. overthrows a foreign government it either works from the top down, the bottom up, or through military invasion, writes Joe Lauria. Throughout the long, documented history of the United States illegally overthrowing governments of foreign lands to build a global […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week “If the U.S. and NATO aren’t willing to put troops on the line to defend Ukraine, and American allies can’t agree on a sanctions package, hasn’t the U.S. and the West lost nearly all of its leverage over [Russian President] Vladimir […]
By Matt Taibbi “Two amputee British actors, sitting in a tree, something, something, C-O-W!” Plus, a contest with prizes! Esteemed Yale professor Samuel Moyn tweeted this yesterday, cruelly tagging me and forcing a look at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s latest: Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn Count of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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