Arrested DEA Informant Who Financed Haiti Plot Says US APPROVED Of Taking Out President
Ryan Grim details a new bombshell allegation about the assassination of the Haitian president, buried in paragraph 29 of a New York Times story.
What’s behind our soaring military budget, with journalist Andrew Cockburn and Marianne Williamson
According to journalist Andrew Cockburn in his latest book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, our bloated $778 billion defense budget doesn’t necessarily provide for our safety. Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has spent decades covering the Pentagon and defense industry and […]
Weimar Forever: How the World of Today Resembles the Weimar Republic
In this special hybrid event, FPRI’s Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics, Robert D. Kaplan, discusses how the world of today resembles the Weimar Republic, the German government from 1919 until 1933 that faced hyperinflation, political division, and other issues.
Decline of the Liberal Global Order
In this Direct Interview, John speaks with Doug Stokes, Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter. As the liberal global order is further eroded by identity politics and woke ideology, Professor Stokes and John consider the impacts of these progressive movements and a way […]
Where Does NATO Enlargement End?
By Patrick J. Buchanan, LewRockwell.Com After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But the dissolution did not stop with the 14 Soviet “republics” declaring their independence of Moscow. Decomposition had only just begun. Transnistria broke away from […]
Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
Why You Should Be Worried About China’s Debt Crisis
China’s debt crisis is worse than anyone thought. Here’s why.
How did a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany become central to the fate of Ukraine?
The Signal How did a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany become central to the fate of Ukraine? Anatol Lieven on the intense game of diplomacy going on with Moscow, Berlin, Washington, and Kiev. Thousands of Russian troops remain massed at the Ukrainian border, where Moscow started moving […]
Russian demands are ‘non-starters,’ says U.S. diplomat
By Grayson Quay The Week American and Russian diplomats made little progress on defusing tensions in Eastern Europe during talks that began Monday in Geneva, The New York Times reports. Moscow has massed 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine. Putin said in December he would prefer to […]
How Militarists HIJACKED US foreign policy, enriched themselves off forever wars
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
Iran Calls For Trump To Stand Trial For War Crimes
‘If the Nuremberg Laws were actually applied across the board, every post-war American President would be strung up in the gallows’ — Noam Chomsky
How Mike Gravel FOUGHT The Military-Industrial Complex
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Skye Wallin, the director of a new documentary about the late Senator Mike Gravel who stood up against the war machine in multiple Presidential campaigns
Ukraine: The Backstory
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right American establishment media, which combine historical ignorance with shallow ideology, are presenting Russia’s threat to invade Ukraine as just typical Russian bad boy behavior. However, there is a backstory to current events, and if we understand that backstory Russia’s actions become a […]
If we offered Russia a bridge out of conflict, would they buy it?
By Noah Millman The Week Next week, Western diplomats will meet with their Russian counterparts for a series of meetings that are likely the best opportunity to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which 100,000 Russian troops are already poised on the border. The question is: What can […]
Liz Cheney and the Many Lives of Neoconservatism
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something truly terrifying is happening at the Capitol this January. Something deeply deadly to what passes for democracy in this stagnant empire. Something far more severe than the QAnon Shamen and Proudboy lunkheads who garnered so much media […]
The Decline of the American World
From 2020. By Tom Tague, The Atlantic Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker […]
Millions in Afghanistan are facing extreme hunger
By Catherine Garcia The Week It’s been a dire winter in Afghanistan, with 23 million people facing extreme levels of hunger amid the brutal cold. Shelley Thakral, spokeswoman for the World Food Program in Afghanistan, told NPR that there are several reasons why so many Afghans don’t have […]
3 ways of looking at Kazakhstan’s remarkable, complicated upheaval
By Peter Weber The Week The large, oil-rich Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan began Friday — Christmas for the country’s Orthodox Christians — with at least 26 protesters killed over six days of mass protests, 18 dead security force members, burned presidential residences and government buildings, and more than 2,500 […]
Kazakhstan, Russia, and why recent protests matter
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Kazakhstan was suddenly awash in anti-government protests this week after a revolt over the price of fuel turned into something far more potent and powerful. Here’s everything you need to know: What’s going on? Thousands of Kazakhs across the oil-rich nation have been […]
Yossi Klein Halevi On Zionism: Has Zionism failed?
By Andrew Sullivan The Israeli journalist brings empathy to an intractable issue. Hey, why not start the new year with solving the Israel-Palestinian problem? Yossi is an American-born Israeli journalist and his latest book is Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. Following our episode with Peter Beinart last summer, […]
Undermining US Global Hegemony Is Good, Actually
By Caitlin Johnstone China and Russia are right to try to undermine US unipolar hegemony. The planet is not America’s property and efforts to stop it being treated as such are good. It’s not okay to be a grown adult in 2022 and still believe the US is […]
Kazakhs Protest, and Russia Reacts
By Peter Zeihan on January 6, 2022 Russian-led forces entered Kazakhstan today, under the guise of a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) peacekeeping mission. The former Soviet state and significant oil producer has seen several days of sustained public protests turned violent after raising the price of liquefied petroleum […]
How Putin is building tinpot empire of tyrants to ‘rebuild Soviet Union’ as he ‘sends troops & tanks’ to Kazakhstan
“Putin is building an Empire of Tyrants” OR “Putin is builing A Coalition of former Soviet Republics; to reject Neo-Liberalism & The US-Centric World Order” OR Some of Both? The audacity of sovereign nations trading with each other when the US State Department told them they are now […]
ARREST Made In Haitian President Assassination, Was The New Prime Minister Attack SET UP?
English language editor of Haiti Liberte, Kim Ives, details the arrest of a man accused of assassinating the former Haitian prime minister.
Biden Set To BOW To China After Failed Trade Deal
Saagar describes the way in which the Biden administration is bowing to China as a flawed trade deal from the Trump administration is set to expire
Meta Censors Anti-Imperialist Speech In Obedience To The US Government
By Caitlin Johnstone Anti-imperialist commentator Richard Medhurst reports that Instagram has deleted some 20 images from his account and given him a warning that he could face a permanent ban if he continues making similar posts. The posts in question are screenshots from a Twitter thread Medhurst made to […]
U.S. slaps new sanctions on Bosnian Serb leader, calling him a threat to Balkan ‘territorial integrity’
By Grayson Quay The Week The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Wednesday that it was imposing additional sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and a media company he allegedly controls, Reuters reports. A Treasury Department statement accused Dodik of “corrupt activities and continued threats to the […]
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for Civil War
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
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Haitian Prime Minister Survives Assassination Attempt. But Was It FAKE?
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave weigh in on the reported assassination attempt against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry
Exposing the Greedy BASTARDS Running US Foreign Policy
Krystal and Saagar talk to foreign policy expert Richard Hanania about how defense contractors made a fortune off America’s wars and that this money is at the heart of America’s strategy
US Militarism Should Have Died With the Soviet Union
By Daniel Larison, Antiwar.Com The Soviet Union ceased to exist 30 years ago, and with its disappearance the United States embraced a triumphalist interpretation of the end of the Cold War that has served to fuel its militarism for another generation. The loss of its major rival could […]
SHOCK: Breaking Points’ Audience is Surprisingly PRO-WAR with China??
Zac & Gavin react to a surprising poll of the audience of “Breaking Points” hosted by Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti
She Helped Expose Secret UAE-Run Prisons in Yemen — and Paid a Steep Price
By Alice Speri, The Intercept Huda Al-Sarari was forced into exile after her work documenting human rights abuses by U.S.-backed Emirati forces garnered global attention. Yemeni attorney Huda Al-Sarari had been representing women in domestic abuse and gender-based violence cases for years, when around 2015 she began fielding […]
American Man JAILED For Video Making Fun Of Rich UAE Teens
Ryan Grim details the story of an American man arrested and jailed in the UAE for posting a comedic parody of their elite class online.
John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony”
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a series of three lectures in November on “Liberal Ideals & International Realities” […]
The Price of Happiness
By Mara Hvistendahl The Intercept U.N. Power Broker Jeffrey Sachs Took Millions From the UAE to Research “Well-Being” Starting in 2016, the men who run the United Arab Emirates went all-in on positivity. They installed a giant smiley face on the dome crowning a Dubai police station. They created a […]
Who Won in Afghanistan? Private Contractors
By Dion Nissenbaum, Jessica Donati, and Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big. Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan […]
The Empire That Cried Genocide: Washington’s Exploitation of Ethnic Brutality from Rwanda to Xinjiang
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The American Empire is crying genocide again. It’s an old song that the war class loves to sing, but one that never fails to get their compliant colleagues in the mass media dancing. No matter how woke these […]
The truth about “Red Browns” & “Nazbols” – Caleb w/ Peter Coffin & Ms. ACD
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
Cuba Signs ‘Belt and Road’ Agreement With China
By Frank Fang, Epoch Times Cuba and China have signed a cooperation plan to push forward construction projects under Beijing’s controversial overseas infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which has saddled many participating countries with heavy debt loads. The Chinese Embassy in Cuba announced the agreement […]
Joe Rogan To CANCEL Ontario Show Over Canadian Travel Vax Mandates, Creating FRACTURED Society?
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss how travel restrictions have resulted in the rescheduling of a Joe Rogan show in Vancouver.
Germany’s Uncertain Future
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was wildly successful at maintaining a German–and European–status quo nearly two decades. While her tenure will almost assuredly be remembered as the Golden Age of a unified, post-war Germany, the deeper structural issues Merkel failed to address risk undermining the stability and success […]
GRAPHIC: Afghans STARVING Due To US Sanctions
Of course, all this political fighting does nothing to hurt the people in charge, only the poor, always the poor. “But why didn’t the Afghan government magically stabilize the country after 20 years of being pimped out to the military industrial complex?” The leaders of most major countries […]
The U.S. Military Is a Machine of Impunity
By Peter Maass. The Intercept Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease. My education in wartime savagery started in Bosnia in the 1990s. Reporting on the war, I visited death camps, saw civilians get shot and beaten, interviewed […]
Did Biden BLOW IT On Iran Deal By Listening To Israel?
Krystal and Saagar are joined by foreign policy expert and professor Dr. Trita Parsi to discuss the renewed tensions between America, Iran, and Israel over potentially re-entering the Iran nuclear deal
EXPOSED: Mass War Crimes In Syria Covered Up By Pentagon
Krystal and Saagar cover the war crimes in Syria hidden by the Pentagon after civilian deaths through drone strikes were covered up
A Ukraine War and the End of Russia
By Peter Zeihan All anyone can talk about in Europe these days is Russia. Russia is constricting natural gas flows to Europe in order to drive energy prices higher and extract geopolitical concessions. Russia is using irregular state tools — think cyber — to manipulate European politics and […]
Drone wars: U.S. imposes new sanctions on China
The Week Staff The U.S. cuts its reliance on a rival’s technology. The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: New restrictions on a key dronemaker show how serious the U.S. is about cutting its reliance on Chinese technology, said Bruce Einhorn […]
Dick Morris: Tucker Carlson’s Putin Play Mirrors Hitler Appeasement
Apparently, the right-wing is divided on Russia. Dick Morris is a former Clinton flunkie who defected to the neocons. Newsmax is a low-brow “movement conservative” publication whose main audience is now MAGAtards. But Carlson is also super popular with the MAGAtards as well while disliked by the neocons. […]
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