By William S. Lind Traditional Right The big question about the new Trump administration is whether its foreign policy will reflect President Trump’s views or long-standing Establishment positions. It is too early to offer a firm answer, but early indications are worrying. The past several weeks have seen […]
A number of people have for my views on the so-called “Muslim travel ban” imposed by the Trump administration. Here goes: Statistically, the evidence shows that right-wing terrorists have been slightly more violent in the years since 9-11 than Islamists, at least in the US obviously. But the […]
I agree with this analysis but disagree with its conclusions. Ultimately, our enemies are all states everywhere, and our greatest non-state rivals are the Wahhabist/Salafist renditions of Islam. I consider the struggles of the Kurds, particularly the PKK and allied tendencies, to essentially be the same as the […]
I generally agree with Bill’s analysis here, although I’m personally rooting for the Fourth Generation forces. “…we need a new Triple Alliance or Quintuple Alliance, and here as so often in grand strategy context is important. It is, again, the need for all states to work together against […]
Joke of the Week Award goes to Saudi Arabian foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir for this knee-slapping declaration: “We are doing everything we can to fight extremism. “I don’t believe there is any country in the world that is more committed or more determined or has expended more resources […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Martin van Creveld’s latest book, Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West and What Can Be Done About It, is so important that it re-defines the military reform agenda. Previously, military reform has focused on the problems that have led to […]
By John Knefel Village Voice Illustration by Matt Mahurin Billymark’s is the most working-class bar in Chelsea, if not all of Manhattan. On a Thursday afternoon in early March, union guys play darts as both TVs air a CBS report on the early days of Syria’s fragile cease-fire. […]
Press TV. Listen here. Preston says “there is no evidence that it was necessary for the United States to” use those weapons against Japan. The United States will not apologize to Japan over its 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki because such an apology would mean an […]
A very good summation of the present world order. It looks like Chomsky heard my recent speech at the National Policy Institute. 🙂 By Noam Chomsky The Guardian When we ask “who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/05/07/464471/US-jet-makers-worried Preston believes US fighter jet makers are fretting over losing revenue if they cannot sell jets to Persian Gulf Arab allies. US fighter jet manufacturers are concerned about the future of sales to America’s Persian Gulf Arab allies, which in part explains a […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Russia intervened in Syria, did what it came to do–strengthen the position of the Assad government–and has partially withdrawn. Meanwhile, our war with ISIS continues its endless futility, an inevitable result of war by pinking. War by plinking, using airstrikes that blow […]
Over at the Inferno: my latest love letter to the kind of “peacekeepers” nobody needs. Excerpts: Ostensibly formed as a global peacekeeping organisation in the wake of World War II, the United Nations, or U.N., has, over time, made it clear that the peace it means to impose […]
Has Donald Trump opened the door for non-interventionist foreign policy views to enter the mainstream? By William Greider The Nation Let’s admit it. As political provocateur, Donald Trump has a dizzy kind of genius. He feints to the right, then he spins to the left. Either way, the […]
A vote for this guy is a vote for the return of the neocons. The Intercept GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz has unveiled a foreign policy team full of conspiracy theorists and arch-neoconservatives who support policies just as belligerent as those of Donald Trump. While Cruz has been supported by some Republican figures […]
Press TV. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/19/456645/US-wants-Afghanistan-puppet- Obama reneged on his election campaign promise to end Afghan war, says Preston. America’s stepped-up aerial attacks in Afghanistan are part of Washington’s policy to seek the instatement of a puppet regime there, says an analyst. “What seems to be happening is that the goal […]
By William S. Lind The American Conservative The fault line in American politics is no longer Republican vs. Democrat nor conservative vs. liberal but establishment vs. anti-establishment. This is an inevitable result of serial failure in establishment policies. Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the […]
Because gender equality means that everyone must be obligated to serve the empire. The latest in totalitarian humanism. By Dan Lamonthe Washington Post The top officers in the Army and Marine Corps testified on Tuesday that they believe it is time for women to register for future military […]
Bill Lind expounds on the canon. This is what all you anarchist out there who want to overthrow governments and corporations need to be reading. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The real Saint Nicholas was less famous for giving gifts than he was for coming back from […]
Russia Today Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases. “We’re going to be freeing these […]
When it comes to electoral politics, I’m generally of the “worse is better” school. For instance, I’m inclined to root for Mrs. Clinton in 2016, for the simple reason that she is a reviled figure across the entire spectrum of the Right and the genuine (anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist) Left. […]
This is what anarchists and other radicals should be focusing on, not “microaggressions.” Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he […]
From the Atlantic. A thorough overview of the much-maligned militant-Muslim Männerbund. What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York […]
Some constructive criticism from Charles Glass. A French news cameraman burst into the bar of Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, where his colleagues gathered most evenings, on November 17, 1983. “At last,” he shouted, cupping both hands upward, “someone with balls!” French warplanes had just bombed the town of […]
Islam, immigration, and interventionism. I’ll be incorporating a response to the Ann-xieties expressed here (and elsewhere) into a future Infernal episode. There’s a lot of raspberrying and dismissiveness in the debate over whether to let the wave of “Syrian” “refugees” wash up on U.S. shores. In the partisan […]
In a better world, Paul would be POTUS. (In an >even< better world, the concept of a POTUS – and other national equivalents – would remain just that.)
Press TV. Read here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/10/441101/US-Russia-confrontation-NATO-war-Daesh-Syria-nofly-zone The Pentagon says enforcing a no-fly zone over Syria could trigger a direct confrontation between the US and Russia. A potential confrontation between the United States and Russia would create an “extraordinarily dangerous” situation which drags world nations into a war, says an American […]
By William T. Hathaway Terrible terrorists are killing our soldiers in their countries and killing us here at home. How can we stop them? The answer is simple: Stop terrorizing them. We started this war. What we do to others comes back on us. In addition to centuries […]
By Michael Scheuer Non-Intervention.Com From this distance, Mr. Putin, it appears that when you unleashed the Russian air force on 30 September 2015 you expected to save Bashir al-Assad’s regime and bring order to Syria and Iraq in a relatively short period of time. Well, the application of […]
By Ryan McMaken It is common to see articles and columns in the Conservative media claiming that President Obama is engaging in “historic defense cuts.” There are claims that not in decades has the military ever endured such budget slashing. “Romney blasts Obama over military cutbacks” one headline […]
By William T. Hathaway This photo of my parents reveals much about their personalities (hers vivacious and outgoing, his withdrawn and closed off), their relationship (little real contact), and also the times (could be captioned Gender Roles in the 1950s: The Bathing Beauty and the Soldier). The typicality […]
Press TV. Listen here: The Russian military campaign on behalf of the Syrian government has exasperated the White House because it goes against the US policy of “eliminating” President Bashar al-Assad, says a journalist and analyst in Virginia. “The issue that the United States has with this Russian […]
By Andrew Bacevich The American Conservative Kasha Malasha / Shutterstock.com “Iraq no longer exists.” My young friend M, sipping a cappuccino, is deadly serious. We are sitting in a scruffy restaurant across the street from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It’s […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/436082 The United States is sending its Special Operations Forces to Syria out of concerns over losing its “geopolitical ground to Russia,” says a political analyst. Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday when asked about why the […]
A raunchily revisionist review by Ann Sterzinger. Sheds more light on the Conflict Without Heroes that was World War II. __________________ Is present-day Paris more puritanical than it was under the Nazis? I’d love to simply dwell on the jaunty visual attractiveness—not to mention the entertainment and historical […]
By Brandon Martinez Non-Aligned Media Brandon Martinez Non-Aligned Media October 4, 2015 So Russia has launched an air campaign in Syria to allegedly defend the embattled Assad regime. While this action will undoubtedly tickle the fancy of Putin’s diehard supporters in anti-Zionist circles, it does not undermine the […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If there was any doubt that Washington has learned absolutely nothing since George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, then President Obama’s address to the United Nations has confirmed the world’s worst fears. It was an oration that combined the most egregious lies with the […]
Russia Today The export of so-called ‘democratic’ revolutions has continued, but has unleashed poverty and violence instead of the triumph of democracy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said addressing the UN General Assembly. Attempts to push for changes in other countries based on ideological preferences have led to “tragic […]
These are the folks that anarchists should be paying attention to, not “social justice warriors” or American libertarian kooks. By Carne Ross New York Times Across an empty and arid plain, south of a town in eastern Syria called Tell Brak, there is a long berm marking the […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/01/431517/US-Russia-Syria-Assad The United States and Russia are pursuing “polar opposite objectives” in Syria which can lead to a serious military confrontation between the two powers, an American political analyst based in Virginia says. Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/431434 The United States does not want a direct military confrontation with Russian forces in Syria, an American political analyst based in Virginia says. But the primary objective of the Obama administration is the overthrow of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with […]
Russia moves to prevent genocide in the Middle East AWD.Com Addressing the Russian top brass on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin lambasted U.S. Middle-East policy for being ‘disastrous’ as Saudi-backed rebels vowed to purge Syria and Iraq from Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities. “We have nearly two million […]
By John R. Bradley The Spectator At the outset of Syria’s brutal four-year civil war, I was an almost unique voice in the British media deploring the push to depose the secular dictator President Bashar al-Assad, especially in the absence of a genuinely popular uprising against him. Here […]
I have predicted in the past that the regional powers in Asia would eventually tire of ISIS’ shenanigans, and move in to crush them. Now, it appears to be starting. Fort Russ Maxfux Translated by Kristina Rus China deploys troops to help Russia in Syria Remember the joint […]
By Marc Pierini Russia-Insider Only a few weeks ago, the al-Assad regime seemed in danger of losing the swath of land from Latakia to Damascus to the assaults of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Jabat al-Nusra and others. Today, Russia has taken over and brought in heavy […]
Here it comes. Examiner Russian troops during the 2008 invasion of Georgia. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images While the American media focuses in on the Trump vs. Fiorina zinger-fest with laser-like precision, foreign news services are picking up the Yankee slack on reporting of the Russian military build-up […]
By Ariel Zirulnick Christian Science Monitor Save for later Randa Gholam, a Christian living the Hezbollah stronghold neighborhood of Harat Hreik, stands next to a poster of Hasan Nasrallah in her home on November 15, in Beirut, Lebanon. Gholam supports and admires Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, and […]
My position on Syria is that the Assad government needs to retain power by any means necessary, including Russian intervention if necessary, given that the only alternative is the continued spread of ISIS. Russia Today In a rare interview with Russian media outlets, RT among them, Syrian leader […]
Listen to the interview on Press TV. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voices skepticism about the sincerity of the US, as the leader of the so-called international anti-Daesh coalition, in the fight against the Takfiri militants in the Middle East. In an interview with Russia’s Channel One TV on Sunday, Lavrov said Moscow has been informed […]
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