By Peter Weber The Week U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid on a two-story house in Syria’s northwest Idlib Province early Thursday, in pursuit of what one U.S. official told The New York Times was a “high value” target. The Pentagon gave only cursory details […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the Biden administration’s decision to send thousands of troops to the Ukrainian border and label any opposition to this move as Russian propaganda
By William P. Meyers iii Publishing And mistaking propaganda for history The current crisis in Ukraine forces thoughtful people to return to a basic question: what is fact and what is propaganda? I have seen and heard little news coverage that would provide Americans with an objective view […]
Gotta give her credit where it is due. By Marjorie Taylor Greene, Washington Times Karl Rove is, once again, beating the war drums. He is ready to send 18-year-olds like my son to fight nuclear Russia over Ukraine’s border so that he and the other neocons can talk […]
By Andrew Murray, Stop the War Coalition States have a right to join NATO The media give the impression that not joining NATO would breach Ukraine’s fundamental rights. In fact, no state has a right to join NATO – the existing member countries determine who should be admitted. […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week President Biden has approved the deployment of roughly 3,000 additional American troops to Europe “in the coming days“, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal confirmed Wednesday. It’s “the first major movement of U.S. forces in Russia’s military standoff with Ukraine,” intended to shore up the […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Ukraine’s army may have trouble transitioning from low-level conflict with Russian-backed separatists to full-scale war with Russia, a New York Times report published Tuesday claimed. According to the Times, the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine, which began in 2014 and has killed more […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Prince Andrew’s continued attempts to have Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against him dismissed.
Lloyd Austin and Anthony Blinken seem to be aspiring to be the new Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. By Peter Maass The Intercept Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s promises to curb civilian casualties are as empty as the military’s vows to stop sexual harassment. The Pentagon is not known […]
Three retired generals say there’s a real chance of another assault on democracy… and the armed forces should be wargaming it. But doesn’t the military have its own extremism problems? One of the generals, Paul Eaton, joins Mehdi to discuss.
By Joel Mathis The Week Following the botched U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of an Afghan family last year, the Pentagon has announced a new plan to reduce civilian deaths in America’s wars abroad. The Defense Department will set up a “civilian protection center of excellence” […]
Whatever one thinks of Michael Flynn, this is interesting. WATCH HERE
By Murtaza Hussain The Intercept Missile attacks on the UAE are the result of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed turning the Emirates into an active belligerent in Yemen. The United Arab Emirates has built an economic and political system reliant on its status as a safe harbor in […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Yep. Just hanging around, killing time, waiting to find out whether the US is going to start World War 3 now or a little later on. ❖ Washington: Russia’s gonna invade Ukraine. Moscow: We’re not gonna invade Ukraine. Kyiv: Yeah Russia’s not gonna invade Ukraine. […]
by Brian Czech Pundits, think tanks, and politicians are asking, “What does Putin want with Ukraine?” If you’re familiar with Ukraine’s flag—especially the bottom half—you’re halfway to the answer. Putin: inscrutable yet exuding practicality. (Image: CC BY-SA 2.0, Credit: Global Panorama) But let’s start with the conventional wisdom. […]
By Erika Na, South China Morning Post The comments by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Secretary of State Antony Blinken are Beijing’s first overt show of support for Moscow on the matter It has been revealed that China is being kept updated by Russia on security talks with […]
Kim Iversen makes the case that President Biden may seek military involvement in Ukraine to salvage his flailing approval ratings.
Bipartisanship: When the CIA Left and CIA Right Unite. Krystal and Saagar cover the bipartisan support for spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on weapons in Ukraine and the widespread support in DC for war in contrast with Ukraine’s government
Gallup’s Mohamed Younis, Drinkin’ Bros’ Dan Hollaway, Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Robby Soave discuss the popularity of U.S. intervention in Ukraine amongst Americans of all political ideologies
By Eric Margolis Amid surging tensions over Ukraine, the head of Germany’s navy had the courage to voice Europe’s fears over this totally unnecessary, contrived crisis. In a speech to an Indian think tank, Vice-admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach proposed the Western powers ‘respect’ Russian leader Vladimir Putin and accept […]
Nato and US troops are being positioned across eastern Europe, as western allies show they are united in their stance on Ukraine
The West still doesn’t know why war in Ukraine might happen, but it increasingly seems like it’s happening. Kiev is trying to keep calm and rally support while being surrounded on three sides and being the recent victim of a cyberattack that feels like a dry run. Meanwhile, NATO countries are sending weapons […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
New York Times NATO nations pursued talks but warned Russia of severe penalties for aggression. Washington made plans to boost European fuel supplies in case of a Russian embargo. The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it was working with gas and crude oil suppliers from the Middle […]
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.
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 […]
Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, Briahna Joy Gray, and Robby Soave discuss the potential fallout of U.S. military involvement in Ukraine.
Ukraine pushed towards meltdown. Neocons pushing Biden towards war.
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.
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 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.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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