By Andrew Lapin Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — After the nation’s largest pro-Israel lobbying group spent an unprecedented amount to boost her opponent, progressive politician Donna Edwards lost her Maryland Democratic primary effort to return to the U.S. House on Tuesday. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and […]
By Asaf Shalev Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) – WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has become the largest individual donor to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s campaign committee, spending $2 million to support AIPAC’s involvement in this year’s Democratic primaries. The massive donation made in June and revealed earlier […]
By Andrew Sullivan Putin visits the National Space Center construction site in Moscow on February 27, 2022. (Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty) The brazenness and brutality of Russia’s assault on Ukraine earlier this year had a direct and potent effect on the West. NATO, far from crumbling, rallied together, […]
The Signal Is Europe heading toward an energy disaster when the weather turns? Samantha Gross on the likely paths of a major gas crisis. Thom Holmes Natural gas could now be rationed across the EU until the spring of 2023, according to a European Commission plan announced this week, […]
David Pan The extended nature of the war in Ukraine stems from the long-term political and ideological developments that have led up to it and will continue to dominate it. In Russia, the government has maintained support for the war through the promotion of a civilizational narrative about […]
By John L. Dorman Business Insider Republicans are becoming increasingly concerned with GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz’s pointed criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top aides, with many in the House GOP caucus distressed that her stance could be hurting the American alliance with the war-torn country […]
The Signal Matthias Matthijs on the new political dynamics of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. James Trenda The United Kingdom’s Conservative Party is moving on from the outgoing prime minister, as members have begun voting on a new leader. After leading the U.K. government during Britain’s exit from the […]
Geopolitics and Empire Gonzalo Lira: American Power Has Collapsed, It’s Pulling Down the Rest of the World With It Gonzalo Lira discusses the collapse of American power and how Washington has decided to pull down the rest of the world instead of accepting a graceful decline. The […]
Anti-war Veteran and Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate Matthew Ho has great insights into what is really behind the War in Ukraine and the involvement of the United States in particular. He also makes a prediction about the war which may shock you.
Is the anti-war Left dead? Keith Preston of Attack the System joins El Nino Speaks to talk about the anti-war Left’s apparent demise. LISTEN HERE Follow Keith’s content here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/zxcsvdf43_zx77 Attack the System Website: https://attackthesystem.com/ ATS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PanSecession/
by Peter Zeihan on July 15, 2022 I recently had the pleasure of joining Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer on Sam Harris’ podcast, Making Sense. We discussed my new book The End of the World is Just the Beginning and had a wide-ranging conversation on a variety of […]
By Linh Dinh Mekong River in Can Tho on 3/4/19] Density of life is not for everyone. Some people can’t stand sharing with anyone a wall, ceiling, bottle, kitchen, bedroom or toilet, etc. They’d prefer to feast, get drunk, argue or have sex alone. I understand. Vietnam, though, […]
By Julien Segre, Palladium It was in 1994 that Kazakhstan’s then-President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in a speech to Russian students at Moscow State University, first used the term “Eurasian Union” to suggest the creation of a regional trade bloc. He emphasized “the formation of a single economic space and […]
People who think farmer’s are rich are completely separated from reality. The vast majority barely make a profit, and they spend up to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week working.
A live debate at PorcFest, in Lancaster, New Hampshire. https://reason.com/video/2022/07/06/s… Should the U.S. give full military and political support to Ukraine in its war with Russia, short of sending troops? That was the subject of a Soho Forum debate held on Thursday, June 23, at the Porcupine Freedom […]
Even as far back as the 90s, Josette Sheeran, a member of the Unification Church and former journalist for The Washington Times (a news outlet founded by Sun Myung Moon), gave the first and apparently only interview with western media of Kim Il Sung. I can’t find this […]
Senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities Daniel Davis weighs in on Russia’s decision to turn to Iran to boost their weapons arsenal.
Krystal Kyle & Friends Forgive us if, before diving into our sneak peek of this week’s guest, we take a moment to take stock of some footage of John Bolton discussing the emotional labor of planning a coup: Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein John Bolton: “As someone who has […]
By Momcilo Nevsky Today we live in the post-Cold War epoch. We have left the stage of bipolarity which saw the Russian led communist world against the US led capitalistic and liberal world battle for global domination. Ultimately the capitalist and liberal camp won out with the dissolution […]
By Matt Taibbi With censorship soaring and real reporting all but taboo, the major dailies have just one important function left: being a political signaling system. The New York Times has declared the President’s age acceptable for discussion. On Monday, the New York Times ran a story pegged […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. Here […]
The neoliberal/neocon obsession with Iran is frustrating. Feels like a big charade to boost defense spending. 🤷♂️
Blinken said that China is ” the most serious long- term challenge to international order.” By that, he means the US dollar order. Which is an order centered around the US dollar, by far the most aggressive nation on the face of the planet responsible for the vast […]
By David Pan, TELOS The assassination of Shinzo Abe is an incredible loss for Japan and the rest of the world. His leadership in shifting Japan away from its postwar pacifism toward a more committed defense of liberal democracy laid the foundation for today’s developing security framework in […]
by Peter Zeihan on July 11, 2022 Germany shut down the Nord Stream 1 Pipeline today for a pre-scheduled 10-day maintenance period. Whether or not Russian natural gas will resume westward flows to Germany after repairs are made is anybody’s guess. The 55 bcm/yr pipeline is a key […]
J. Skousen predicted the exact year the conflict with Russia would start, now he has an even more dire prediction, watch the whole video if you want to see what the future may have in store for us. We dont agree with all his ideas, but he makes […]
By Sol 太阳 쏠 Before we can talk about the current state and trajectory of the existing empire, we need to ask basic questions about what empires are and why they exist… SOCIETY STRUCTURE Human society has its original basis in small Paleolithic hunter-gatherer tribes. Then, with the […]
By RICHARD LARDNER and BEATRICE DUPUY APNews This image from Maxar Technologies shows a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine, on Oct. 13, 2021. A United Nations report says Ukraine’s armed forces bear a large share of the blame for a deadly assault on a […]
Hundreds of thousands of protesters broke into the presidential palace in Sri Lanka. The country has been facing a food, fuel, and medicine shortage not seen in 70 years. The country declared bankruptcy only days ago.
Geopolitics and Empire Kurt Schlichter: Americans are Living in an Unprecedented Time of Decline Kurt Schlichter discusses the fall, potential collapse, and possible resurgence of America. The apex of U.S. power was the 1990s where Washington stood militarily unchallenged, but the tables have turned as today Russia and […]
by James Corbett corbettreport.com July 9, 2022 As you no doubt know by now, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was assassinated in broad daylight on Friday. So what happened? Who was responsible? And what does it mean? Following are the results of an open source […]
By Peter Zeihan on July 8, 2022 Japanese society is reeling from the news that former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo had been assassinated. Political violence of this type is exceedingly rare in modern Japan, as are gun-related deaths. I will leave the particulars of the attack to those […]
By Pjotr Sauer and Samantha Lock The Guardian Vladimir Putin has issued one of his most ominous warnings yet, claiming Moscow has barely started its campaign in Ukraine and daring the west to try to defeat it on the battlefield. Speaking at a meeting with parliamentary leaders on […]
The Corbett Report Watch the video on Archive / BitChute / Odysee or Download the mp4 JOIN THE OPEN SOURCE INVESTIGATION: https://www.corbettreport.com/abe/ Ex-Japanese Prime Minister has been shot in Nara, Japan. Little is known beyond that at this point, as this story is still developing. I will be preparing a report on this for this […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath. ❖ Remember when rich people were so worried about Jeremy Corbyn raising […]
What Caleb mentioned about Liberal Order-I’m sure was mentioned in the Bilderberg convention.
About Richard Medhurst: #RichardMedhurst is an independent journalist and commentator. Regular live streams and interviews with popular guests from the Left such as Glenn Greenwald, Mike Figueredo (Humanist Report) and Max Blumenthal (Grayzone). Fluent in English, Arabic, French, German, and having grown up across several continents, Medhurst’s show […]
Good Citizen Full-time Twitter performer and empire exposer Caitlin Johnstone is on Substack where she publishes almost a short piece a day. Sometimes she hits targets, other times she shoots blindfolded. Some of her pieces are built on facts and evidence, while others are ad hominem attacks, ideological […]
Bill Lind has two new articles discussing his current book, which predicts a future global war between an alliance of states, and non-state actors. I would add to this that there is likely to be a more widespread fracturing of states along ethnic, cultural, religious, political, and economic […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Best wishes to Americans this July 4th as you celebrate your great nation’s revolutionary transition from being ruled by a king to being ruled by corporations. ❖ The US government views the American people as an annoying […]
The great foreign-policy hero Scott Horton returns first to discuss his recent debate at Porcfest with Cathy Young, and secondly to talk about the ongoing atrocity in Yemen and how we might actually be able to stop it. READ MORE
by Peter Zeihan on July 4, 2022 A question I am often asked after presentations, or on Twitter, is one on the subject of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s removal. Is it a question of when or if? Why hasn’t it happened yet? Who would do it? No less […]
Here are my most recent articles for you Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Declares New “Iron Curtain” is Emerging Between Russia and the West Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proclaimed on June 30, 2022 that an “Iron Curtain” is being erected between Russia and the Collective West. His […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: Fox News’s fabulously popular right wing pundit Tucker Carlson has ratcheted up his show’s anti-China propaganda yet again, introducing his interview with Brazil’s rightist president Jair Bolsonaro with a psychotic rant against Beijing that, were it about Moscow, […]
Each country needs to become independent. Especially the countries with natural reserves. They should be dependent on anyone!
International editor of El Ciudadano, Dennis Rogatyuk, explains why Ecuadorians’ initiated an 18-day national strike.
By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: There’s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don’t worry, there’s nothing the US government won’t do to make sure more High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems get to Ukraine. […]
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain will urge fellow NATO allies to consider a bigger role for the alliance in North Africa and the Sahel at a summit in Madrid on Thursday, with Spain’s foreign minister saying an intervention in Mali should not be ruled out. NATO has little appetite for […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that’s probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire and the corrupt institutions which influence […]
by Peter Zeihan on June 29, 2022 US bond rating service Moody’s announced that Russia was in default of its foreign debt payments yesterday, a first for Moscow since 1918. Unlike most countries who go into default, Russia has the money to pay its debts. But the sanctions […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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