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Book Review: Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers By David Swanson
Max Blumenthal’s new book, “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump,” is over 300 pages and wastes not a word. It also does far more than it claims. Continue reading
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U.S. Ambassador to Russia Openly Boasts of ‘Gunboat Diplomacy’
Who remembers the good old days, where diplomats engaged in that thing called diplomacy. Remember – when it talk first, shoot second? Those days seem to be long gone by the looks of it, evidenced by this latest spate of bravado from US Ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, extolling the virtues of ‘gunboat diplomacy.’ Continue reading
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Why the United States has a special relationship with Israel. It’s not the Israeli lobby By Stephen Gowans
In his book A World Without Islam, former Kabul CIA station chief, Graham E. Fuller, argues that the 9/11 and other attacks on the United States by aggrieved Muslims would have occurred even in a world without Islam, because the attacks were a reaction against US imperialism, and were not a product of the attackers’… Continue reading
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US imperialism resurrects the Monroe Doctrine
“Today, we proudly proclaim for all to hear: the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well,” US national security advisor John Bolton declared last week in Florida. Continue reading
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Shadow Boxing for Empire: The Mueller Report
By the end of the Obama regime, the US had gone through seven wars and was in the process of losing five of them. Washington was facing global challenges to its dominant economic and political role from Russia and China. Continue reading
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Putin Won – Time Magazine Annoyed That He Does More Than Superman by Angelina Proskurina
Hello friends, with you is Angelina Proskurina, and today I would like to talk about latest issue of the popular American magazine “Time”, on the cover where we can unexpectedly see President Vladimir Putin. Continue reading
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RAY McGOVERN: Unaccountable Media Faced with Dilemma in Next Phase of Deep State-gate
Readers of The Washington Post on Monday were treated to more of the same from editorial page chief Fred Hiatt. Hiatt, who won his spurs by promoting misleading “intelligence” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and suffered no consequences, is at it again. Continue reading
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Washington’s Attempt to Impose its Will on the EU Stirs Anti-American Moods By Grete Mautner
The untamed desire of the Trump administration to impose all sorts of conditions and restrictions on the way that Europe operates is clearly leading to an abrupt increase in anti-American moods across various social layers of the European society. Practically speaking, there’s an avid hatred visible all across the EU towards Trump’s use of the… Continue reading
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Iran floods reveal US hypocrisy, economic terrorism and “let ’em all die” policy By Ivan Kesić
Since March 19th, devastating floods swept across large areas of Iran, triggered by the heaviest downpours in many years. Heavy rainfall began two and a half weeks ago, overflowing rivers, washing away bridges, inundating houses and destroying infrastructural establishments in the northern, western and central parts of the country. Continue reading
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The geopolitics of oil in the Trump era By Thierry Meyssan
The United States have become the leading world producer of hydrocarbons. As from now, they are using their dominant position exclusively to maximise their profits, and do not hesitate to eliminate their major rivals in oil production, plunging their citizens into misery. Although in the past, access to Middle East oil was a vital necessity… Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning Released from Solitary Confinement
After 28 days of incarceration, United States Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been released from solitary confinement and moved into the general population unit of the Truesdale Detention Center in Northern Virginia. Continue reading
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Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies By Glen Ford
Chastened by the long-awaited Mueller report — or at least what we’ve learned about the two-year probe into “Russiagate” from Attorney General William Barr — the U.S. corporate media have been forced to partially abandon their ludicrous claim of “collusion” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Or maybe the hysteria-makers were finally exhausted by their marathon of… Continue reading
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Books: Surpassing US Military Supremacy by Ron Ridenour
This is not a typical leftist or peace activist, but after reading his book and a piece on the website of the world’s most aggressive naval institution, I surmise that this Russian-American seeks to influence the avaricious eagle into realizing that warring against the cautious bear would not achieve success for anyone. Continue reading
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Gangster Economics Against Huawei & Nordstream 2 By Caleb Maupin
Many Americans base their entire view of the world, and their understanding of the relationship of the United States to other countries, on the contents of a college-level “Economics 101” course. They view the world market as a land of “free competition” in which different countries and international corporations “compete.” They then believe that consumers,… Continue reading
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American Political Circus is Rocked Again By Viktor Mikhin
The American political circus is trembling violently again, in a ring where vultures of every stripe have been caught in a chokehold. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is not thinking of finding a dignified solution anymore – he is simply trying to find a way out of a very difficult situation. Like the mythical Sisyphus, Mueller… Continue reading
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Russiagate implodes, pleasing Trump but leaving the left in the cold By Glen Ford
The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America”. Robert Mueller has finally put a plug in the noxious fart that has oozed for almost three years from the conjoined bowels of the Democratic Party and the national security state—but the stain remains, and… Continue reading
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The UNO destroyed by US « exceptionalism » By Thierry Meyssan
Now weakened in comparison with their Russian and Chinese competitors, the United States have returned to their historical reflexes. In terms of foreign relations, they have abandoned the liberal international order and returned to the doctrine of exceptionalism. By questioning their own engagement with the Security Council, they have opened the way to the deconstruction… Continue reading
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Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie By Craig Murray
The capacity of the mainstream media repeatedly to promote the myth that Russia caused Clinton’s defeat, while never mentioning what the information was that had been so damaging to Hillary, should be alarming to anybody under the illusion that we have a working “free media”. There are literally hundreds of thousands of mainstream media articles… Continue reading
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CNN And WaPo Demand That Trump Further Escalate Tensions With Russia by Caitlin Johnstone
CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network’s audience that the US president has “been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue” and asks “will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?” Continue reading
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Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive By Pepe Escobar
The Trump administration’s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy, writes Pepe Escobar. Continue reading
