Russia is cast as the villain as far as events in the Ukraine are concerned, but when we look at the historical background, it is possible to see that the Russians have genuine and justifiable anxieties, which have been exacerbated by the behaviour of Britain and the United […]
December 31, 2022 Analysis The CCP’s Pandemic Propaganda Collapses as China’s Infections and Deaths Peak Share* READ MORE David & Goliath | Feature Film The incredible true story of David, a young shepherd who battles the most ferocious giant in human history. This epic […]
Even after the fall of the Cold War, the end of the War on Terror, and the last troop’s departure from Afghanistan, the Pentagon budget continues to explode to all new and obscene heights, with the U.S. rapidly approaching the first ever trillion-dollar annual weapons budget. – Glenn […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 30, 2022 NB: The following video is one I recorded while on my annual backpacking trip in August; please excuse any potential anachronisms. Camping at Adair Lake is most comparable to spending a night in a wind tunnel – and yes, it was […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Western analysts spent years warning that western actions would provoke a war in Ukraine, westerners spent four years being propagandized into hating Russia, then Russia invades and now western imperialists say the war is advancing US interests. But remember: […]
By Keith Preston December 29, 2022 While I agree that American/Atlanticist/unipolar/whatever hegemony is receding, I don’t think we will return to the bipolar world of the Cold War. Instead, we are moving toward a multipolar order like in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, where there were multiple great […]
This week, Briahna spoke to Co-Founder of Security Policy Reform Institute, Stephen Semler, about his thorough and viral analysis of the 2023 Omninus bill. No one is breaking down military spending like Stephen. We discuss how the bill undermines Biden’s climate “victories,” increased spending on the Ukraine/Russia conflict, […]
Linh Dinh Dec 28 [Chennai, 12/25/22] After a month in India, I’m back in Bangkok. My last four days in Chennai were eventful in unpleasant ways. I finally ate or drank something that kept me bedridden for most of two days. Finally strong enough to seek much needed […]
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 fictional book, Player Piano, saw the writing on the wall.
gilbertdoctorow Uncategorized December 27, 2022 The word “Russophobia” has been used very widely in the past couple of years by Russians and by “friends of Russia” abroad to describe the campaign of vilification of President Putin in particular and of the Russian people more generally that the […]
Philippe Lemoine Dec 27 When the invasion started, I was assuming that Russia would most likely defeat Ukraine’s military relatively easily, but that trouble would start after that if Putin intended to annex most of it. As it turned out, the Russians couldn’t even do what I thought […]
Caitlin Johnstone 3 hr ago Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world’s largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed […]
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Caitlin Johnstone 8 hr ago Listen to a reading of this article: One of the empire’s strongest assets is the widespread assumption that propaganda is something that only happens to other people. Another is the widespread assumption that propaganda only comes from other countries and other political ideologies. The […]
Mike Rothmiller: How Robert F. Kennedy Murdered Marilyn Monroe Former deep undercover detective Mike Rothmiller discusses deep politics, the abuse of power at the highest levels of government, and his new eye-opening book “Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe”. He profiles Marilyn Monroe and the […]
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda | FULL DOCUMENTARY The Corbett Report TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/alqaeda/ We all know the story of bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the story that was repeated ad nauseam in the […]
The 2023 New York Telos Conference March 30–April 1, 2023 The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY New York, NY Forms of War Co-sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY and the International Center for Critical Theory, New York University. […]
December 26, 2022 Chinese Regime In Its Race for Global Power, CCP Has Numerical Score for Every Nation It Wants to Overtake: Analyst Share* READ MORE A Novel and Breathtakingly Beautiful Documentary Series Dr. Malone, assisted by his wife, explains in full detail what […]
December 26, 2022 John Mac Ghlionn John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist. He covers psychology and social relations, and has a keen interest in… As This Latin American Country Falls Apart, China Looks on Anxiously Share* READ MORE James Gorrie James R. […]
Writer at Jacobin Branko Marcetic weighs in on the conversation surrounding Russia’s original motives for the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
by Peter Zeihan on December 26, 2022 Disclaimer: The following newsletters were originally published in late 2019. As the newsletter continues to grow, I will occasionally re-share some of my older releases for the newer members of the audience. As a partial thank you to all you who have directly […]
Bill Lind, a Hobbesian and Clausewitzian realist, is one of my favorite military and geopolitical commentators. Anarchists, your historical moment may happen sooner than you think. So when are you going to get your shit together? By William S. Lind, Traditional Right An article in the December 9, […]
Caitlin Johnstone 2 hr ago Listen to a reading of “War Is Over (If You Want It)”: War is over If you want it War is over If you want the health of your people more than global domination, War is over If you want everyone’s prosperity more […]
December 24, 2022 Thinking About China As This Latin American Country Falls Apart, China Looks on Anxiously Share* READ MORE David & Goliath | Feature Film The incredible true story of David, a young shepherd who battles the most ferocious giant in human history. […]
By Marco Gabbas The article interprets Fanon’s thought through the framework of hatred and enemy formation and tracks the origins of his anticolonialism. Fanon depicted and presented the colonial enemy in harsh terms, but colonialism can hardly be described as an “invented” enemy. Moreover, the Fanonian concept of […]
Bob Moriarty: Covid & Ukraine are the Greatest Propaganda Campaigns of our Lifetime Bob Moriarty discusses Ukraine as the dumbest war he’s ever seen and how Kiev has lost. Covid and Ukraine are the two greatest propaganda campaigns he’s seen in his lifetime. It’s all to do with […]
Top News Stories Tokyo’s long-term plan to become more disaster resilient The capital is planning to upgrade its infrastructure by 2049 to be better prepared for heavy rain and flooding events. China lacked a ‘zero COVID’ exit strategy. Its people are paying the price. The abrupt shift has […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 23, 2022 A number of changes are coming soon to the world of American automotive. NAFTA-related tariffs on foreign cars and trucks take effect in 2023 and 2024, while the Biden administration’s buy-American and buy-green policies will make electronic vehicles more affordable…assuming those […]
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Caitlin Johnstone 5 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: One of the most illustrative examples of how the mainstream worldview is based on narratives rather than facts is the way Republican officials like senate minority leader Mitch McConnell have been branded servants of Russia despite consistent […]
Is war in Ukraine splitting the world into two camps again? Lucan Way on the emerging competition for global supremacy. Pavel Neznanov Since Russia first invaded Ukraine on February 24, Vladimir Putin has spoken of the attack as part of a civilizational conflict with the West—like the Cold […]
American couple Nicholas Spencer and his wife, Mackenzie Leigh Mathias Spencer, both 32, stand in the dock at Buganda road court, in Kampala, Uganda, December 14, 2022. (File Photo by Reuters) A US couple detained in Uganda on charges of aggravated torture of a 10-year-old boy faces an […]
Caitlin Johnstone 58 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: The war in Ukraine is so aggressively marketed and PR-intensive and so interwoven with US corporations we should just call it the McProxy War. Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz Dumbest, phoniest, most PR-intensive proxy war of all time. […]
gilbertdoctorow Uncategorized December 21, 2022 22 Minutes When I first read through Olaf Scholz’s comprehensive foreign policy essay “The Global Zeitenwende” recently published in Foreign Affairs magazine, it brought to mind another sensational manifesto from an international leader in the news published by this very same authoritative journal. […]
by Eric Hendriks-Kim January 2023 Conservatives in the West see in the People’s Republic of China a daunting nemesis: an oppressive tech dystopia ruled by a Leninist party that negates conservatism’s attachment to civil society, Christianity, and individual liberties. You might expect the intellectual mainstream in mainland China […]
Derrick Broze: Resisting & Opting Out of the Great Reset Derrick Broze discusses the incoming threats of technocracy, smart cities, and the Algorithm Ghetto. Covid was a total technocratic operation to get us to “trust the experts”. Agenda 2030 has co-opted the environmental movement and has gone to […]
Peace activist and author Medea Benjamin joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the history of Ukraine as explained in her new book, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, co-authored with Nicholas Davies. Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of Code Pink and author of Drone […]
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by Peter Zeihan on December 20, 2022 Steel. The backbone of…just about everything. The cars we drive. The buildings we work in. Where we store our food. You get the point. But what happens when access to the inputs necessary for steel production starts to disappear? As we […]
Caitlin Johnstone 33 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: Truthout has a recent article titled “The Left Can Support Protesters in China Without Shilling for US Imperialism” with a subtitle asserting that “Chinese workers and Uyghurs need solidarity from leftists worldwide,” and it at no […]
Scholar Nicolai Petro discusses the overlooked influence of Ukraine’s far-right nationalist movement and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent admission that the Minsk Accords — the international formula for ending the post-2014 Donbas civil war — “was an attempt to give Ukraine time” to prepare for a conflict […]
Israel-based journalist and researcher David Sheen joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to explain the rise of followers of the late fascist Rabbi Meir Kahane and their role in the next Israeli coalition government. Sheen provides critical background on Bezalel Smotrich, an open ethno-supremacist who will run the Civil […]
Isfahan, Iran-based independent researcher Setareh Sadeghi joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss how protests in Iran have triggered calls for regime change and a violent insurgency from Western hawks, and the media warfare that has accompanied the destabilization campaign. The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com […]
In the second chapter of filmmaker Oscar Leon’s series on Ecuador’s resistance, Leon travels to the rural Andean community of Buenos Aires to meet rural campesinos and indigenous citizens defending their land against multinational mining companies. The clash over land and resources goes to the heart of the […]
After a 12-day visit, UN expert Alena Douhan calls for the lifting of US-led sanctions on Syria, where 90% of the population lives below the poverty line, 12 million grapple with food insecurity, millions are internally displaced, and electricity is scarce. The impact of the sanctions are compounded […]
by Peter Zeihan on December 19, 2022 If you’ve ever spent time in a pub throwing back (a few too many) pints, you’ve probably wandered over to the dart board. And hopefully you can at least hit the board, but beyond that…who knows where that dart is going. […]
There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J. William Fulbright, George McGovern, Gene McCarthy, Mike Gravel, William Proxmire, and, of course, Dennis Kucinich. But that was largely decades ago. The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, […]
Geopolitics and Empire J.J. Couey: COVID as Low-Yield Bioweapon, Elites Want Genetic Info for Immortality Jonathan Jay Couey discusses his evolving COVID theory, why he no longer believes the now official “lab leak” narrative, and how the “no virus” people can get so many things right yet […]
Faced with White House opposition, Sanders withdrew a resolution that would’ve challenged U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War. Fiona Harrigan | 12.14.2022 1:55 PM Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/SplashNews/Newscom) The Senate looked poised last night to vote […]
By Zak Cheney-Rice, a New York features writer When WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested at a Russian airport in February for carrying hashish oil, as many as 30,000 people were in prison in America for simple marijuana possession. By the time she was released on December 8 […]
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