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 […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends After 45 days, former Conservative British PM Liz Truss is out. Who will be in? And will their term last beyond the expiration dates of the stuff sitting in your fridge right now? These are big questions that point toward an even bigger crisis […]
The center-right thinker just got back from the Continent. And we catch up. Andrew Sullivan Chris — an old friend and, in my view, one of the sharpest right-of-center writers in journalism — returns to the Dishcast. A senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and contributing editor to […]
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 […]
How can we comprehend the victory of Giorgia Meloni, an admirer of Mussolini, in Italy’s recent elections? Is she a fascist? Does this represent a surging far-right trend in Europe? How has the war in Ukraine impacted Italian politics? And where is the Italian left in all of […]
Navid Zarrinnal, a Columbia Univ. PhD and Iranian scholar at Stanford University, joined Rania Khalek to help make sense of the unrest in Iran over the morality police or guidance patrol amid the death of Mahsa Amini and the way Western governments are using a legitimate grievance to […]
Emma hosts Dr. Nicholas Kardaras to discuss his recent book Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis-and How to Restore Our Sanity. Then, Emma is joined by Eugene Puryear, co-host of the Breakthrough News show, to discuss the recent civil and social unrest in Haiti.
About Richard Medhurst: #RichardMedhurst is an independent journalist and commentator born in Damascus. He is half British, half Syrian and speaks four languages: English, French, Arabic and German. His reporting focuses primarily on international relations, the Middle East and US politics, rooted in anti-imperialism. Medhurst is one of […]
Scott interviews author and Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter about the dangerous situation in Ukraine. Carpenter has been paying close attention to the social psychology behind America’s response to Russia’s invasion. He talks with Scott about how dishonest journalism, partisanship and neo-McCarthyism have poisoned people’s ability […]
K.M. Patten: Great Reset is the Dystopian Vision of a Technocratic Totalitarian World State Author K.M. Patten discusses his book “Staying ON During the Great Reset” and Cobra Commander Klaus Schwab’s dystopian vision of a technocratic totalitarian world state where he wants our world to become contactless […]
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) – […]
By Ben Cohen, The Algemeiner As Russia sends Iranian-manufactured drones hurtling into Ukrainian cities, destroying power and water plants and other vital infrastructure, the debate over Israeli policy towards the ongoing Russian invasion has been reignited, with growing support among Israelis for the supply of military aid to […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 20, 2022 Russia’s reliance on Iran for armed drones and missiles is a resounding fall from grace for the one-time defense manufacturing rival to the United States. And a telling indicator of not only just how far the Russians have fallen, but how […]
Ryan and Emily conduct a wide ranging interview with Iranian academic Setareh Sadeqi about her country’s relationship to the US and the current protests in Iran
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 […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Planting Angel Eggs On A Dying World”: Planting angel eggs on a dying world, at the feet of billboards, in the clearcut wastelands, by the rivers of tears from Yemeni mothers, under highway overpasses where defective gear-turners sleep, shambling from […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 19, 2022 Many people would consider it difficult to manage a country like Russia. It’s not. Or at least for Vladimir Putin, he’s following a well trod path mapped out for him by the former Soviet Union and its heavy-handed imperial predecessor. The […]
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: It’s pretty wild how the US is sending armored vehicles to Haiti to help quash the exact sort of uprising it’s been actively trying to create in places like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Hong Kong. ❖ The Pentagon […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 18, 2022 No matter the official line that comes out of the Chinese Communist Party Congress, Xi Jinping is China’s president for life. Rather than bringing stability to a very uncertain future for China, Xi’s leadership is almost guaranteed to further exacerbate the […]
Caitlin Johnstone 16 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: Of all the face-meltingly stupid narratives that have been circulated about the US proxy war in Ukraine, the dumbest so far has got to be the increasingly common claim that aggressively escalating nuclear brinkmanship is […]
Norman Finkelstein shares his thoughts on the justifications of Zionism and Israel as a State. 00:00 Intro 00:16 Norm’s own backstory on this issue 05:02 Did Israel have the right to create a nation? Norman G. Finkelstein (https://www.normanfinkelstein.com) received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 17, 2022 The Biden administration’s moves against China’s semiconductor industry are continuing to have serious consequences, including the largely universal resignation of American citizens working in the Chinese chip industry. China will rapidly find itself unable to fill in several critical gaps in terms […]
Thierry Baudet: We Must Develop More Courage to Counter Globalism Thierry Baudet discusses his foray into politics motivated by the Western world’s turn toward despotism. He feels we need to “become globalists” by organizing internationally and promoting liberty. He describes the elites and the global deep state, their […]
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Boniface (Sunday) This song from The Clash is one of my favorites. The line “London Calling” refers to the BBC broadcast that was sent to Occupied Europe in WWII, which began with that line.1 Of course, we all know this song refers to a city, in England, called […]
Irving Kristol’s protege wants to make Christian Zionism into the American state religion. By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish Yoram Hazony is a philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He founded the Shalem Center, a research institute in Israel, and he’s currently president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem […]
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 […]
“Your empire’s hands look a lot cleaner when you get to decide when history starts, and what parts of it don’t count.” – James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising
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By Jeremy Shapiro, War on the Rocks In war, nothing is inevitable and not much is predictable. But the war in Ukraine has a direction that observers can see and that we should name. What began as a criminal Russian aggression against Ukraine has become a proxy war […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 14, 2022 I’m frequently asked why the Germans aren’t doing more to support Ukraine. My response is: are you fully aware of how much they’ve already put on the line? The industrial heart of Europe has already severed–economically, politically, physically–with its largest foreign […]
Ralph Schoellhammer: Elites Are Turning Against Their Own Civilization Geopolitical consultant and professor Ralph Schoellhammer breaks down globalism and how elite policies are colliding with reality. He argues that the intellectual class are full of themselves, don’t get the recognition they think they deserve, and they lack an […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: We’re being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who’s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won’t stop invading and conquering until […]
American officials keep insisting they won’t negotiate with Russia, but now they’re also leaking a belief that Ukraine can’t win. Is this 4-D chess, or cluelessness? Or is there no plan at all? Matt Taibbi Look, the missiles are coming! Fifteen years ago, in a July 2007 Democratic […]
The Signal What do mass street protests mean for the regime in Iran? Vali Nasr on how the demonstrations represent a new kind of danger to the Islamic Republic. Artin Bakhan It’s been almost a month since nationwide demonstrations broke out across Iran, and the protests continue to […]
The Pentagon has long talked about scenarios in which they could try out their tactical nuclear “bomblets.” I’m thinking the idea of a “limited” nuclear war excites the hell out of the Pentagon. (The US dumped its nuclear bombs on the two Japanese cities because there was also […]
Jeffrey Sachs joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté to discuss escalating nuclear rhetoric in Ukraine proxy war, the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, and why a diplomatic off-ramp is more urgent than ever. Guest: Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia […]
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.
by Peter Zeihan on October 13, 2022 Even as Russia continues its work to assess the damage of the October 8 blast that destroyed part of the Kerch Strait Bridge, one thing is glaringly evident: we are at least weeks, if not months, away from normal operations across […]
I always found the hypocrisy of hating Iran and not the Saudis ridiculous.
Caitlin Johnstone An artist named Tonika Todorova has made a beautiful video with a reading of my poem Future Generations (If There Are Future Generations) for her platform Visceral Adventure. Check it out: The Substack for Visceral Adventure is here and the website is here. Friendly reminder that […]
Nicholas Carlson October 12, 2022 Hello! Welcome to the second edition of this newsletter. Today I’m thinking about the report that Elon Musk blocked Ukraine from using Starlink in Crimea, apparently out of concern that a Ukrainian effort to retake the area could lead to a nuclear […]
by Peter Zeihan on October 12, 2022 The Biden Administration has announced further limits on Chinese firms’ ability to access foreign (read: US dominated) semiconductor technology. Many of my followers ask why I don’t consider China a more capable potential threat to the global order than I do; […]
Geopolitics and Empire Lucas Gage: U.S. Empire & Neoliberal Globalism Stretching Thin, World’s Getting Sick of It USMC Veteran Lucas Gage discusses joining the marines after 9/11 and then becoming disillusioned with the GWOT, Military-Industrial-Complex, and American Empire. U.S. Empire or neoliberal globalism has basically taken over […]
Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was open to talks with the the US or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that US officials are lying when they say Russia has […]
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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