Militarism bulletin, 2018
For the list of top articles see Recommended Links section
- 20200228* Chas Freeman America in Distress The Challenges of Disadvantageous Change ( Feb 24, 2020 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
- 20200228* Russia s Relationship With China Is Growing Despite Setbacks by Lyle J. Goldstein , ( Feb 23, 2020 , nationalinterest.org ) [Recommended]
- 20200207* How They Sold the Iraq War by Jeffrey St. Clair ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
- 20191221* Trump comes clean from world s policeman to thug running a global protection racket by Finian Cunningham ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.rt.com ) [Recommended]
- 20191204 : American Pravda the Nature of Anti-Semitism by Ron Unz ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20190414 : Commentary of Trump decision to move embassy to J ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20190404 : Fascism A Warning by Madeleine Albright ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
- 20190216 : "Semi-intelligence agences" is a very sad joke: When I watched the US rep. who supposedly investigated this Magnitzky affair for the US gov. state under oath that he never verified any of the info that Browder gave him, I kept thinking "Is this guy serious ?" ( Jul 27, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181231 : Trump s Trade Czar, The Latest Architect of Imperial Disaster by Alfred McCoy ( Dec 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181231 : Poor General Kelly, one of the generals who let 911 happen, is probably going to be promoted to Bechtel. ( Dec 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181229* NATO Partisans Started a New Cold War With Russia - ( Dec 29, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181229 : After Syria, Trump Should Clean Out His National Security Bureaucracy by DOUG BANDOW ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181229 : Why Mattis' Exit Is A Defining Moment In US Foreign Policy ( Dec 29, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181228 : Send Mad Dog James Mattis to the Corporate Kennel ( Dec 28, 2018 , www.mintpressnews.com )
- 20181227 : Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Lindsay Graham ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : There is a difference between chickenhawks and neocon chickenhawks ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : There is a lot of silly hostile talk against Russia and China, but have you noticed how the US military always makes sure that there are no direct confrontations with countries that can turn the US into radioactive dust? ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : In which prosperous US Zionist "career" field has John Yoo landed? He is now a distinguished professor at Berkley Law ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : My impression is, ISIS is a mossad-Jewish lobby creation to win the PR war against Muslims and to keep the US attacking and containing Israel's geopolitical adversaries and eternally occupying Arab lands, and well, to Make Israel Safe Again ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Trump Pulls Troops Out of Syria in Desperate Attempt to Save His Presidency, Causing Geopolitical Earthquake ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20181227 : Employees at Jewish Claims Center had people pretend to be victims of Nazi persecution so they could collect money German funds over 6000 phony claims ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Could someone explain to me how exactly was the Soviet Union a serious threat to the US, particularly in 1947? ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : There is a lot of silly hostile talk against Russia and China, but have you noticed how the US military always makes sure that there are no direct confrontations with countries that can turn the US into radioactive dust? ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : I'm sure the Trumpster is telling us peasants what we want to hear, just as he did while campaigning, and who knows if the US military will really get out of Syria on his order ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Trump disengagement from Syria may be (and probably is) nothing more that a tactical retreat/change in plans for which the Mattis resignation is merely a fig leaf; that is, it's just more of the same disingenuous dialectics that we've been bombarded with since the beginning of the "Trump" administration ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Syrian government forces 'enter' Kurdish-controlled Manbij region ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Netanyahu: Israel will escalate its fight against Iranian-aligned forces in Syria after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Syria Withdrawal Enrages the Chickenhawks by Philip Giraldi ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : There is a difference between chickenhawks and neocon chickenhawks ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : Trump decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Lindsay Graham ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181227 : The destruction and destabilisation of the ME, an Israeli plan, as far as I know. ( Dec 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181225 : The USA has become especially corrupt internally since about the time the Soviet Union fell, with every aspect of US culture the courts and law, health care, etc becoming a criminal racket ( Dec 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181225 : The Mystery of American Imperial Power by Guillaume Durocher ( Dec 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181225 : Mattis Marks End of the Global War on Terror ( Dec 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181224* Jewish neocons and the romance of nationalist armageddon ( May 06, 2014 , mondoweiss.net ) [Recommended]
- 20181224 : What Is the Point of Pompeo's Cairo Speech by Daniel Larison ( Dec 19, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181224 : Something about possible source of Russian bots on the Internet ( Dec 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : It is a good thing that the US is not ruled by an egotistical authoritarian ( Dec 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : Diplomats joke: it's better to be US' foe than ally ( Dec 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : Chuck Schumer, feckless hack ( Dec 24, 2018 , theweek.com )
- 20181224 : Time to Get Out of Syria by Eric Margolis ( Dec 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181224 : Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy... by Caitlin Johnstone ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181224 : Mattis Resigns ( Dec 24, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181224 : Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind Of Political Viagra ( Dec 24, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181224 : How to fix America's dysfunctional trade system by Ryan Cooper ( Dec 20, 2018 , theweek.com )
- 20181224 : How Russia Would Strike Back if America Launches "Dollar" Sanctions by Josh Cohen ( Sep 01, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : China and Russia A Strategic Alliance in the Making by Graham Allison ( Dec 14, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : Zapadniki in Russia ( Dec 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : It is a good thing that the US is not ruled by an egotistical authoritarian ( Dec 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : Diplomats joke: it's better to be US' foe than ally ( Dec 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181224 : What Is the Point of Pompeo's Cairo Speech by Daniel Larison ( Dec 19, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181223 : Good riddance to James Mattis, Trump's last general ( Dec 23, 2018 , www.salon.com )
- 20181223 : Trump proposes cutting food stamps for over 700,000 people just before Christmas by Matthew Rozsa ( Dec 20, 2018 , www.salon.com )
- 20181222* If Truth Cannot Prevail Over Material Agendas We Are Doomed by Paul Craig Roberts ( www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181222 : How the Gulf War Gave Us the Antiwar Right The American Conservative ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181222 : The Great War Christmas Truce 'They Were Positively Human' The American Conservative ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181222 : Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.amazon.com )
- 20181222 : The Vocabulary of Economic Deception by Michael Hudson and Bonnie Faulkner ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181222 : Will Trump Hold Firm on His Syria Pullout ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181222 : Fallout Of Trump's Syria Withdrawal - Why Erdogan Does Not Want To Invade ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181222 : ISIS was created by the US as a part of its divide and conquer strategy. General Flynn blew the whistle on it which is why he has been vilified. Flynn spoke the truth on ISIS and lied to the FBI! Horrors ( Dec 22, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181221* Trump End the Syria War Now by Eric Margolis ( Jul 22, 2017 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181221 : The natural progression of Russiagate: (1) OMG, they hacked voting machines! (2) OMG, they hacked DNC servers! (3) OMG, someone talked to a Russian! ( Jul 23, 2017 , www.unz.com )
- 20181221 : Defense Secretary Mattis resigns amid Washington backlash over Syria troop withdrawal ( Dec 21, 2018 , www.wsws.org )
- 20181221 : Unreasonable self-contrdulation about Syria withdrawal and claimed that neocons were defeated is really childish ( Dec 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181221 : Looks like an o ld, sick neocon Hillarty still tries to influence events, continuing her warmongring ( Dec 21, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20181221 : The natural progression of Russiagate: (1) OMG, they hacked voting machines! (2) OMG, they hacked DNC servers! (3) OMG, someone talked to a Russian! ( Jul 23, 2017 , www.unz.com )
- 20181220 : The Year of Putin-Nazi Paranoia by C.J. Hopkins ( Dec 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181220 : The Year of Putin-Nazi Paranoia by C.J. Hopkins ( Dec 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181220 : Everything that falls short of fawning praise of Jews is anti-Semitic. ( Dec 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181219 : Trump is neocons hostage and does not control the USA foreign policy. In this circumstances China needs to get tough on casino modul Adelson to get her message heard by Bolton and other neocons ( Dec 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181219 : The highest priority should be SEIZING the ASSETS of EVERY individual who LIED us into WAR. ( Dec 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181219 : Judge excoriates Trump ex-adviser Flynn, delays Russia probe sentencing by Jan Wolfe and Ginger Gibson ( Dec 19, 2018 , www.yahoo.com )
- 20181218 : FBI's Flynn Notes Show He Was Aware of Nature of First Interview ( Dec 18, 2018 , news.yahoo.com )
- 20181218 : Wall Street, Banks, and Angry Citizens by Nomi Prins ( Dec 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181218 : What Lies Behind the Malaise of the West by Pat Buchanan ( Dec 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181217 : Hitler was defeated by soviet armies. They had thousands of Russian made T34, patriotic soldiers (more than 10 millions died, against around 0.1 million from US), and smart generals ( Dec 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181217 : Visualizing The West's Domination Of The Global Arms Market ( Dec 17, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181217 : The Mueller group disclosed only 2 redacted documents that were already known by Robert Willmann ( Sic Semper Tyrannis )
- 20181216 : FBI Docs Reveal Flynn Was Not Lying Or Did Not Think He Was Lying ( Dec 16, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181216 : Judge Emmet Sullivan in the Michael Flynn case orders the Mueller group to disclose interview material by Robert Willmann ( Dec 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20181216 : Former FBI SSA Exposes McCabe Mueller's Unethtical, Target Destroy Coercion Tactics, Defends Flynn ( Dec 15, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181216 : A World of Multiple Detonators of Global Wars by James Petras ( Dec 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181215 : No sorrow for The Weekly Standard demice. We can't forgive their cheerleading for stupid neocon wars > ( Dec 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181215 : Weekly Standard, RIP ( Dec 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181215 : Robert Kagan s Jungle Book of Forever War ( Dec 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181214 : Less Than Grand Strategy: Zbigniew Brzezinski s Cold War The Nation ( Nov 24, 2018 , www.thenation.com )
- 20181213 : Averting World Conflict with China by Ron Unz ( Dec 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181212 : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives speech in Brussels ( Dec 12, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
- 20181212 : Save the INF Treaty ( Dec 12, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181212 : US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives speech in Brussels ( Dec 12, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
- 20181212 : Save the INF Treaty ( Dec 12, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181210 : The American Melting Pot Can Turn Into A Volatile Mixture At The Top by Wayne Madsen ( Nov 25, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181210 : The American Melting Pot Can Turn Into A Volatile Mixture At The Top by Wayne Madsen ( Nov 25, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181210 : How Big Brother Grips Americans' Minds to Support Invasions by Eric Zuesse ( Dec 10, 2018 , countercurrents.org )
- 20181210 : A WORLD FEDERATION Chapter 4 Individual Responsibility The Nurenberg Principles by John Scales Avery ( Dec 09, 2018 , Countercurrents )
- 20181209* Die Weltwoche Weltwoche Online – www.weltwoche.ch Tucker Carlson Trump is not capable Die Weltwoche, Ausgabe 49-2018 ( Dec 09, 2018 , www.weltwoche.ch ) [Recommended]
- 20181209 : Pax Americana: Pompeo tells UN, WTO, ICC to bow and comply with US-led world order ( Dec 09, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20181209 : Pompeo is a Deep State Israel-firster with a nasty neocon agenda ( Nov 30, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181209 : The Mafia, CIA and Bush Senior - Pete Brewton, Author, Journalist (1992) Part 1 of 2 ( Dec 09, 2018 , nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com )
- 20181209 : Wannabe Zionists (Bolton) has been trying hard to show his loyalty to the Jewish State ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181209 : Pax Americana: Pompeo tells UN, WTO, ICC to bow and comply with US-led world order ( Dec 09, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20181208* Neocons Sabotage Trump s Trade Talks - Huawei CFO Taken Hostage To Blackmail China ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
- 20181208* Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
- 20181208 : Now that the banks are calling in their insurance, the EU has to deliver either by screwing down Italy the same as they did Greece or getting the French and German public (or better the whole EU) to bail out the banks. ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : Our benighted nation has become a "Global" entity, which entails our young men and women being used as cannon fodder for Israel's designs ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : Putin wants to normalize relations with the west but, inexplicably, he provokes and alienates the West just prior to every scheduled meeting with Trump. These events only makes sense if the provocations are coming from agents in the West who wish to derail any rapprochement between the US and Russia ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : Interview of Lamar Waldren, Historian, on the REAL H. W. Bush by Thom Hartmann ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181208 : Presidents, prime ministers, congresspersons and parliamentarians worldwide regularly negate the democratic will of their nation's voters by refusing to support legitimate election results. Strangely, their treasonous actions continue without serious reprisal or punishment by the voter. ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : Anyone who knows anything about history is that the rich were always better off than the poor, in fact the very definition of rich and poor. In this respect it never mattered if a society was capitalistic, communistic, or a theocracy, ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : Israel is one undeniably large factor behind spending surges since 2005. ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : The British, most directly, and then the US Brennan-Hayden (ok, he is no longer operational) CIA-Deep State are launching myriad ops to wedge Trump in (Khashoggi, current CentCom terror ops in Syria, and Ukraine now). ( Dec 08, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181208 : It appears that Jared Kushner (JK) is in the crosshair of Micheal Flynt! ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181208 : One fatal flaw of WASPs on both sides of the pond is that the upper crust ones don't seem to have much empathy for the less fortunate of their own kind ( Dec 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181207 : Globalism is about moving capital to the benefit of the haves. Migrants/immigrants are a form of capital. ( Dec 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181206 : The construction of a make-believe reality guarantees the US military/security complex's annual budget of $1,000 billion dollars of taxpayers' money even as Congress debates cutting Social Security in order to divert more largess to the pockets of the corrupt military/security complex ( Dec 06, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181206 : All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ( Dec 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181205* Who are the Neocons by Guyenot ( Dec 11, 2015 , Peak Prosperity ) [Recommended]
- 20181205 : The Ignorant and the Arrogant How Pompeo and Bolton Bring Us Closer to War in the Middle East ( Dec 05, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20181205 : Everything Flynn had to say implicated Obama, Clapper Brennan but the corrupt cabal isn't subject to the laws of unwashed inbreds like you and I and the other 320 million Americans (including those who THINK they're part of the club because they virtue signal so well). ( Dec 05, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181205 : What Foreign Threats by Philip Giraldi ( Dec 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181205 : INF Treaty End Is Near After Pompeo Gives Russia An Ultimatum ( Dec 05, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181205 : The Ignorant and the Arrogant How Pompeo and Bolton Bring Us Closer to War in the Middle East ( Dec 05, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20181205 : Mueller s Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump by Timothy L. O'Brien ( Dec 05, 2018 , www.bloomberg.com )
- 20181204 : Comparing China and America by Fred Reed ( Dec 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181204 : The Ignored Legacy Of George H.W. Bush War Crimes, Racism, Obstruction Of Justice ( Dec 04, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181204 : The Trump as neocons marionette by Tom Luongo ( Dec 03, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181204 : There is direct censorship and indirect censorship ( Dec 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181203 : One skilled researcher directs readers to the Warren Commission, where buried deep inside one volume is a finding that Oswald's rife was inoperable, certainly unable to function as a precise assassination weapon. Plus Oswald was a lousy shot to begin with. ( Dec 03, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181203 : From Killing Kennedy To Kremlin Collusion - Deep State Forced Out Of The Shadows ( Dec 03, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181202 : JFK MURDER SOLVED - Reward ( Dec 02, 2018 , jfkmurdersolved.com )
- 20181202 : George H.W. Bush, who died today at 94, most likely oversaw the CIA assets assigned to the JFK kill team ( Dec 01, 2018 , www.legitgov.org )
- 20181201* Congress' Screwed-Up Foreign Policy Priorities by Daniel Larison ( Apr 30, 2005 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181201 : G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item Bye-Bye American Empire by Finian Cunningham ( Dec 01, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181201 : Google is micro-gaslighting again by Steve Sailer ( Dec 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181201 : Announcement - The Unz Review ( Dec 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181201 : Whitewashing McCain's Support for the War on Yemen by Daniel Larison ( Nov 29, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181201 : Whitewashing McCain's Support for the War on Yemen ( Dec 01, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181201 : Congress' Screwed-Up Foreign Policy Priorities ( Dec 01, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181130* US Warlords now and at the tome Miill's Poer Elite was published ( May-June 1 1999, , prospect.org ) [Recommended]
- 20181130 : Pompeo's Perverse Yemen Rhetoric by Daniel Larison ( Nov 30, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181130 : Petras Where Have The Anti-War Anti-Bank Masses Gone by James Petras ( Nov 30, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181130 : Pompeo's Perverse Yemen Rhetoric by Daniel Larison ( Nov 30, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181129 : If The Saudi s Oil No Longer Matters Why Is Trump Still Supporting Them ( Nov 29, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181129 : Neocons 'Taking Over The White House' WSJ's Kissel Joins Trump Administration ( Nov 29, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20181128 : Beware the Trumpenleft! by C.J. Hopkins ( Nov 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181128 : Porky is just throwing his weight about, and while it might be considerable, it has little significance to NATO. The US warmongers would love to get something started, but the last thing most Americans want is a major war with a nuclear power that has already said "I'm done fucking around." ( Nov 28, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181128 : Russia Is Disadvantaged by Her Belief that the West Is Governed by Law by Paul Craig Roberts ( Nov 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181127* US Foreign Policy Has No Policy by Philip Giraldi ( Nov 27, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181127 : The GRU could obviously learn a few lessons from Browder ( Nov 27, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181127 : US Required to Give Israel $10,500,000 Each Day ( Nov 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181127 : Why the Two State Solution is Apartheid by Craig Murray ( Nov 27, 2018 , craigmurray.org.uk )
- 20181126 : The Coming War over Ukraine by Jonas J. Driedger ( Nov 26, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181126 : October 23, 2018 at 07:28 ( Nov 26, 2018 , craigmurray.org.uk )
- 20181126 : Fighting primitive antisemitism ( Nov 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181125 : Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963 ( Nov 25, 2018 , www.jfklibrary.org )
- 20181125 : John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy by Laura Knight-Jadczyk ( Nov 22, 2006 , www.sott.net )
- 20181125 : Thieves Like Us the Violent Theft of Land and Capital is at the Core of the U.S. Experiment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ( Nov 25, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20181125 : October 24, 2018 at 06:29 ( Nov 25, 2018 , craigmurray.org.uk )
- 20181125 : How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized by Jeremy Scahill ( Nov 25, 2018 , theintercept.com )
- 20181125 : Trump vs Berlusconi ( Nov 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181125 : Felix Keverich ( Nov 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181124* Anonymous Exposes UK-Led Psyop To Battle Russian Propaganda ( Nov 23, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181124 : Trump Sides With the Iran Hawks on Saudi Arabia by Curt Mills ( Nov 24, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181124 : Tomgram Danny Sjursen, Global War to Infinity and Beyond by Danny Sjursen ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.tomdispatch.com )
- 20181124 : Thieves Like Us the Violent Theft of Land and Capital is at the Core of the U.S. Experiment ( Nov 24, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20181124 : Dirty Work Buying Votes at the UN Security Council naked capitalism ( Nov 24, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20181123 : Trump's Blatant Lies About the War on Yemen by Daniel Larison ( Nov 23, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181122* Facing Up to the Gradual Demise of Jewish Political Power ( Nov 22, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181122* Facing Up to the Gradual Demise of Zionist Political Power ( Nov 21, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181122 : Children's show is propaganda for Putin, say critics ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Here's one for all those who say, indignantly, "US debt is not 100% of GDP". No, that's right; it's not. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Here's one for all those who say, indignantly, "US debt is not 100% of GDP". No, that's right; it's not. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : CIA officials are signaling Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman must be replaced ( Nov 20, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : America had a net export capacity of 5 bcm in 2017 because it imported about 87 bcm from Canada ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Swiss court has ordered all Nord Stream partners to not make any payments to Gazprom, instead to pay all monies owed to Gazprom to Swedish bailiffs ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Magnitsky was a tax accountant employed by Firestone Duncan, the auditing firm in its turn employed by Hermitage Capital Management. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Browder's fears did not materialise: Prokopchuk did not became the head of Interpol ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Prosecutor General: Magnitsky was chemically poisoned on Browder's orders by substance typically used by intelligence agencies ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Russian prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against William Browder. He is accused of (1) organizing a criminal gang, (2) poisoning his gang member Sergei Magnitsky, and (3) also killing several other members of the gang. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : In Poland, Nato military drills brace against the unspoken threat of Putin ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Anyone thinking WWIII is winnable is certifiably insane ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Russia and ECHR ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Bloomberg: Here's One Measure That Shows Sanctions on Russia are Working ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : This calls to mind Russia's deal with Iran, in which Russia will trade food, medicines and what necessities Iran desires but which American-imposed sanctions make difficult to obtain, for Iranian oil and gas which Russia will use domestically. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Norway and Finland have accused Russia of causing GPS malfunction that ocurred during the latest NATO arsing around close to Russian frontiers ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : "Traditional political blindness": Russia has responded to the adoption of the UN resolution on the Crimea ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Trump, JFK, and the Deep State Part Q by Jack Ravenwood ( Nov 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181122 : Trotsky: Permanent slaughter is way of life for any capitalist empire ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Ukraine, where it's already snowing, isn't ready for winter ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Ukraine is actually ruled by a small group of tycoons; according to the European Council on Foreign Relations (which wants Ukraine to succeed as a western satellite, so you can bet anything negative about it will be soft-pedaled), the 50 5ichest Ukrainians pre-maidan controlled 45% of national GDP. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Neoliberalism claw back Brazil ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : On Thanksgiving eve some Russian oppositionists decided to personally thank the US authorities for the sanctions against Russia. ( Nov 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : The New Times has dodged almost certain closure this week by crowdfunding some 25 million rubles to pay off a government fine after an unprecedented show of support. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ( FDD ), which has become the leading neoconservative bastion seeking a war with Iran ( Nov 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181122 : The UK and the wider world is perfectly comfortable with far-right nationalist groups in Ukraine which pursue a Nazi ideology. Ukraine, after all, is snuggled right up against Russia, and such groups can be reliably expected to agitate against Russia. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : The State Dept. humanitarians, inspired by Clinton, and the totally zionized National Endowment for Democracy (and other banderite Chalupas) are undoubtedly elated with the "democracy on the march" in Ukraine ( Nov 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181122 : American foreign aid is prohibited from being given to any country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (the Symington Amendment) or refuses to abide by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) guidelines regarding its nuclear devices. ( Nov 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181122 : A USA politician on tv 'we do not love them, w're afraid of them'. ( Nov 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181122 : Children's show is propaganda for Putin, say critics ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : A good insight into the mafia structures and yellow journalism that run the west. ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : I've lately been wondering about the economics of being a big tax haven like the UK ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : No grey areas in this excellent documentary "The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire" by Michael Oswald that's been getting a lot of attention: ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : Sanctimoneyous: Post-Brexit Britain Will Test-Drive a Conscience ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181122 : November 15, 2018 at 8:00 am ( Nov 22, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181121 : Why Trump's Bankrupt Iran Policy Can't Succeed by Daniel Larison ( Nov 19, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181121 : I've been rolling on the floor with uncontrollable laughter (between episodes of schizoid lamentation) listening to Russophobes (e.g., David Sanger of the NYT) rant on in alarmism about the perils of RUSSIAN COLLUSION, all the while ignoring the elephant from Israel standing right next to their shoulders. ( Nov 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181121 : There Are Hundreds of Groups in the US Furthering the Interests of the Israeli State - They Should be Registered As Foreign Agents by Philip Giraldi ( Nov 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181121 : The mukhtar DJT, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel ( Nov 21, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20181121 : Sixteen years ago Wesley Clark said that the PNAC plan was for the US to take out 7 countries in 5 years, with Iran being the coup de gras. Hasn't happened yet. ( Nov 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : The problem is that if you look into eyes of Medusa you drop dead ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : No comments ;-) ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Medusa's "hair" signifies the bad ideas coming out from women head. Did you notice how many women in US are engaging in politics? ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : I love you Melania!! (Grin) ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : The Torah, biblical and Quran stories were written in agrarian societies where capitalistic enterprise hardly existed. Loans were for not dying of hunger in the period between when the food of the last harvest had been used completely, and the new harvest was still in the future. ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : It is an interesting side-note that both Christianity and Islam both prohibit the use of usury ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : A Jewish conman Bill Browder, who made the US Congress to dance to his tune, is named as a suspect in four murders: "'Highly likely that Magnitsky was poisoned by toxic chemicals on Bill Browder's orders" ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : A Finance Magnates analysis reports that one of the swindles alone has brought in over a billion dollars and employs 5,000 people. And a new scam, described below, may help what is predicted to be "the next major driver of the Israeli economy." ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Ukraine whistleblower exposes alleged DNC collusion ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : When do we take a stand, (when do we fight)? ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Israel support const Us taxpayers more than just the 3 billion per year, it more like 5 billion if you count the 760,000 for missile defense and a dozen other programs for aid to Israel. Cost was 1.6 trillion as of 2002, probably 2 trillion by now. ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Supposedly the 1965 Immigration Act was engineered by Jews to destroy white society. What it did accomplish was importing a bunch of Asians and Hispanics who do not care a whit about Israel or Jews and some Muslims who detest them. ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Doesn't anyone else get fatigued by the constant demand for attention by the one Ethnostate supposedly created by God ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Israel Wins 2018 Election by Philip Giraldi ( Nov 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : The problem is that if you look into eyes of Medusa you drop dead ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : I love you Melania!! (Grin) ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181120 : Medusa's "hair" signifies the bad ideas coming out from women head. Did you notice how many women in US are engaging in politics? ( Nov 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181119 : Thanking Vets for Their Service -- Why by The Saker ( Nov 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181119 : The US instigated coup was in line with Brzezinski's "Grand Chessboard" delusions of the US having to control Eurasia especially Ukraine in order to reduce Russia to the role of a regional power. ( Nov 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181119 : This article in The Intercept suggests that Zionists wanted Trump to win the election ( Nov 19, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181119 : The way that WTC 7 is so strenuously avoided and brushed aside by the Establishment, and even by many commenters here, stinks ( Nov 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181119 : Did Britain initiate both world wars? ( Nov 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181118 : A>ll, empires are ipso facto violent, since they must keep a variety of other states and peoples under permanent control and this can only be achieved by way of violence ( Nov 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181117 : Difficult times are coming for the US military industrial complex as for foreign arms sales ( Nov 17, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181116 : The proposal I would l ike to see introduced at the United Nations would be one to remove a nation that systematically violates the UN Charter ( Nov 12, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181116 : Food scarcity and malnutrition of children under the age of 5, places the Ukraine in percentage terms lower than Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya, Iraq ( Nov 16, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181116 : They give that con artist the Nobel Peace Prize as a reward for his glib platitudes and deceits promising a more peaceful, egalitarian and prosperous world ( Nov 16, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181115 : Bolton's Met His Match Melania! - Antiwar.com Original ( Nov 15, 2018 , original.antiwar.com )
- 20181115 : Armistice Day -- Crooked Timber ( Nov 15, 2018 , crookedtimber.org )
- 20181115 : Study US Has Spent $5.9 Trillion on Wars Since 2001 ( Nov 15, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20181115 : Congressional Report Warns US Might Lose a War Against China or Russia ( Nov 15, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20181115 : Netanyahoo's Likely Fall Destroys Trump's Middle East Strategy ( Nov 15, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181115 : Chaos in Israel Are Bibi's Days Numbered ( Nov 14, 2018 , www.antiwar.com )
- 20181115 : Bolton's Met His Match Melania! - Antiwar.com Original ( Nov 15, 2018 , original.antiwar.com )
- 20181115 : I think the film should be seen not so much as a testament to the success of the Israel lobby, but of its failure ( Nov 15, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20181115 : Finally Released Censored Al Jazeera Documentary Exposes Israel-Backed Attacks on US Activists ( Nov 13, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20181114 : Bolton Vows to 'Squeeze' Iran, Escalating Sanctions - News From by Jason Ditz ( Nov 13, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20181114 : Jewish Politics in America A Post Political View by Gilad Atzmon ( Nov 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181114 : Notes From Smartphone-Era Israel by by Andrew J. Bacevich ( Nov 14, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181114 : The Short War With Gaza Exposed Israel s Weakness by Laguerre ( Nov 13, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181114 : Bolton Vows to 'Squeeze' Iran, Escalating Sanctions - News From by Jason Ditz ( Nov 13, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20181113 : The Lessons of World War I Still Haunt Russia Today by Nikolas K. Gvosdev ( Nov 10, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181112* The Best Way To Honor War Veterans Is To Stop Creating Them by Caitlin Johnstone ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181112 : Bolton's Favorite Deranged Cult ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181112 : Macron wants to be like Putin, but the leash gets in the way ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181112 : When dual citizenship becomes conflict of interest by L. Michael Hager ( Nov 12, 2018 , thehill.com )
- 20181112 : The backstory behind Diane Rehm's question to Bernie Sanders on dual Israeli citizenship ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.politifact.com )
- 20181112 : The problem of dial citizenship is the US is not limited to Isreal ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.latimes.com )
- 20181112 : Trump was elected by advocating a populist-nationalist agenda, he betrayed his voters almost instantly and governed as Bush III ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181112 : War has become USA's 2nd nature above beyond the very essence of the military use, which should be to protect the nation's sovereignty ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181112 : Although Trump had reached the presidency by advocating a radical populist-nationalist agenda, he has hardly governed in those terms ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181112 : France The Incredible Shrinking President by Guillaume Durocher ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181112 : Macron wants to be like Putin, but the leash gets in the way ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181112 : Saudi royals internal fight looks probably like the Austrians in 1913 arguing about who their next Habsburg Ruler is going to be ( Nov 12, 2018 , peakoilbarrel.com )
- 20181112 : We Are Heading For Another Tragedy Like World War I by Eric Margolis ( Nov 12, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181111* Trump's Iran Policy Cannot Succeed Without Allies The National Interest by James Clapper & Thomas Pickering ( Nov 09, 2018 , nationalinterest.org ) [Recommended]
- 20181111 : The Unraveling of the Netanyahu Project for the Middle East ( Nov 11, 2018 , theduran.com )
- 20181110* US Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Killed 500,000 by Jason Ditz ( Nov 10, 2018 , news.antiwar.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181110* US Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan Killed 500,000 by Jason Ditz ( Nov 10, 2018 , news.antiwar.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181110 : Neocons linked destinies of the USA and Israel together. Once the US goes down, Israel goes down too ( Nov 10, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181110 : US Policy On Iran After The Midterm Elections by Barkley Rosser ( Nov 09, 2018 , angrybearblog.com )
- 20181108 : And who do you suppose are the forces which are funding US politicians and thus getting to call their shots in foreign policy? ( Nov 08, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181108 : And who do you suppose are the forces which are funding US politicians and thus getting to call their shots in foreign policy? ( Nov 08, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181107 : China ruled by Chinese...Russia ruled Russians...US ruled by dual citizens. See the difference ( Nov 07, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181107 : We are being played by an establishment that wants to move the country to the right. MAGA! is a bi-partisan effort fueled by the challenge from China and Russia ( Nov 07, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181107 : China ruled by Chinese...Russia ruled Russians...US ruled by dual citizens. See the difference ( Nov 07, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181106 : Democrats Want To Take On The War In Afghanistan If They Win The House by Akbar Shahid Ahmed ( Nov 06, 2018 , www.huffingtonpost.com )
- 20181106 : The sad reality is that the delusion Americans suffer from (result of their universal cradle-to-grave brainwashing that I mentioned earlier) is too deeply rooted as a core component of their identities. ( Nov 06, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181106 : The culprit is Neoliberal ideology that resulted in the deindustrialization and financialization of the Outlaw US Empire's domestic economy ( Nov 06, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181105 : Tax heavens and inequality ( Nov 05, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181105 : A superb new book on the duty of resistance ( Nov 05, 2018 , crookedtimber.org )
- 20181105 : "They Will Not Forgive Us" by James Carroll ( Nov 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181105 : James Carroll Entering the Second Nuclear Age by Tom Engelhardt ( Nov 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181105 : Nuclear war threat is now real ( Nov 05, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181105 : Both in Skriplas affair and in Syria the UK is slowly sinking to its appropriate level of incompetence and self-delusion ( Nov 05, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181103 : Trump is that quintessential Amerikkkan salesman: the grifter. ( Nov 03, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181102 : They say they're gonna give you better health insurance ( Nov 02, 2018 , twitter.com )
- 20181102 : They say they're gonna give you better health insurance ( Nov 02, 2018 , twitter.com )
- 20181101 : It's a great idea to appoint to UN yet another person, who will just read prepared scripts ( Nov 01, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181101 : Trade between Russia and Ukraine hit a low of $10.26 Billion in 2016, but struggled back up to $12.9 Billion last year. Pre Maidan it was more than $50 Billion annually. ( Nov 01, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181101 : It's a great idea to appoint to UN yet another person, who will just read prepared scripts ( Nov 01, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181101 : If the Khashoggi Affair was planned as a warning to Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, then the US knew exactly what was going to happen in the consulate. It was coupled with an immediate and orchestrated MSM reaction that was curiously detailed, and delivered at high volume. ( Nov 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181101 : When "bomb-like devices" were "intercepted" throughout last week the first rection was who planed them? Their targets were a roll call of CIAL connected neolineral "resistance" heroes like Soros, Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan ( Nov 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181101 : I suspect Cesar Sayoc is a straight up patsy. What strikes me is that the US empire and its faithful servants are resorting to old-fashioned and imported (out of the Goebbels manual, or if you like the Comintern manual) techniques to try and maintain their hold on public opinion. ( Nov 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181031 : The United States has never fought a war of self-defense, not once, unless you count the Civil War, which was an all-American effort with no foreign enemy. ( Oct 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181031 : Russia enacts sanctions against Ukraine which will, among other things, prohibit transferring money from Russian to Ukrainian banks ( Oct 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181031 : British must have hours of footage on Skripals that they have chosen not to reveal. And as the article concludes, the only logical reason for that is that it does not support the official narrative, since one has obviously been decided upon and vigorously defended. ( Oct 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181030 : Why American Leaders Persist in Waging Losing Wars by William J. Astore ( Oct 30, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181029 : What is often missing in comments is the importance of not confusing Zionism with Zionist "Jews", Zionists with Jew and Jews with Semites! ( Oct 29, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181028 : Russia tried to have resolution passed at the UN in favour of the INF Treaty. It was blocked by Washington's EU lickspittles including Germany. ( Oct 28, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181028 : Twitter Bans Conservative Neocon Critic Paul Craig Roberts in Dramatic Escalation of Censorship ( Oct 28, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20181027 : Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute: in a libertarian society, there is no commons or public space. There are property lines, not borders. When it comes to real property and physical movement across such real property, there are owners, guests, licensees, business invitees and trespassers not legal and illegal immigrants ( Oct 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181027 : Trump Came This Close to Getting Afghanistan Right by Daniel L. Davis ( Oct 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181027 : Big Business Strikes Back The Class Struggle from Above by James Petras ( Oct 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181027 : A Class War the Right Can Win The American Conservative ( Oct 27, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181027 : Rapid drop of the recruitment rates may accelerate hyper-automation and privatization of the US army ( Oct 27, 2018 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
- 20181027 : Trump turned into pure neocon: withdrawal from INF traty roiled Moscow but pleased neocons ( Oct 27, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181027 : Evaluating US Foreign Policy in Critical Times - RPI's Daniel McAdams on Israeli News Live ( Oct 26, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20181027 : Calling Brazil's Presidential Frontrunner 'Neofascist' is Accurate ( Oct 27, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20181027 : False flag election tricks ( Oct 27, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181027 : wayfarer ( Oct 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181026 : Mike Pompeo mentored by Papal Advisor Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon ( Oct 19, 2018 , unz.com )
- 20181026 : UOC-MP (Filaret included) sided with Ukrainian state in the Civil war ( Oct 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181025* Putin jokes with Bolton: Did the eagle eaten all the olives ( Oct 25, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181025* Putin jokes with Bolton: Did the eagle eaten all the olives ( Oct 25, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181025 : Nikki Haley Almost Started a Nuclear War ( Oct 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181025 : Nikki Haley Almost Started a Nuclear War ( Oct 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181023 : Insights Into The Khashoggi Ordeal; Who And Why by Ghassan Kadi ( Oct 23, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181023 : The overplayed drama of Mr. Khashoggi assassination is going to be used by the American Oil Cartel to control the Saudis Oil output ( Oct 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181022 : Ben Norton on Pompeo ( Oct 22, 2018 , friendsofsyria.wordpress.com )
- 20181022 : Kushner Tells CNN What Advice He Shared With MbS After Khashoggi Killing ( Oct 22, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181022 : Trump's Fanatical Iran Rhetoric by Daniel Larison ( Oct 22, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181022 : Ben Norton on Pompeo ( Oct 22, 2018 , friendsofsyria.wordpress.com )
- 20181022 : The Empire splits the Orthodox world possible consequences by The Saker ( Oct 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181022 : Is China Waiting Us Out The American Conservative ( Oct 22, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181021 : Bolton is a certified retard if he thinks he will bankrupt Russia with an arms race ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : Let's play Global Thermonuclear War ( Oct 21, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181021 : Can't find the episode but I believe Homer Simpson had the briefcase that US Presidents use to control the US nuclear forces. It had three buttons ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : The Istanbul Patriarch Plays at Pope and Falls Under Anathema ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : Let's play Global Thermonuclear War ( Oct 21, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181021 : The Khashoggi Murder -- Worse Than a Crime, a Mistake by Eric Margolis ( Oct 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181021 : Trump's Record of Failure in the Middle East ( Oct 21, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181021 : Poroshenko refused the Russian Orthodox Church any rights in Ukraine because of "the XVII century annexation". ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : Naftogaz has now begun to help itself to money from Russia's gas-transit payments, arguing that it is owed money from the Stockholm Arbitration ruling which Gazprom has refused to pay ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : The basic plans of nuclear war today are essentially the same as those developed in the 1960s, which is essentially a system of thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at Russian cities and military targets ready to be launched at a moment's notice. The US strategy has always been for a first strike ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : A non-nuclear war between Russia and USA/NATO waged in Western Europe is impossible ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : Trump To Pull U.S. Out Of 1987 Nuclear Weapons Treaty With Russia ( Oct 21, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181021 : Can't find the episode but I believe Homer Simpson had the briefcase that US Presidents use to control the US nuclear forces. It had three buttons ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181021 : Bolton is a certified retard if he thinks he will bankrupt Russia with an arms race ( Oct 21, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181020 : Neocon propaganda on Russia remind me of a Russian joke ( Oct 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181020 : Russia has a lot of fundamentals going for it, but it is also possible that the mistakes of the past and the pathological hatreds Russia has engendered among the Western and other imperial crazies will strike again. It is big and tempting. ( Oct 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181020 : According to Global Wealth Report by the personal wealth of the population Ukraine is in the 123rd place (out of 140 countries ranked). ( Oct 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181020 : Trump is de facto neocon ( Oct 20, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181020 : Neocon propaganda on Russia remind me of a Russian joke ( Oct 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181019 : How to select a UN diplomat: any politicized US housewife qualifies, the least qualified candidate wins ( Oct 19, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181019 : Women's March On The Pentagon Puts The 'Pro' Back In 'Protest' PopularResistance.Org by Cindy Sheehan ( Jun 03, 2018 , popularresistance.org )
- 20181018* Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Goes Neocon by Robert W. Merry ( Oct 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181016* Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Goes Neocon ( Oct 16, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20181016 : CIA Whistleblower claims Nikki Haley will run for president in 2024 ( Oct 16, 2018 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
- 20181016 : Pompeo's North Korea Fantasy ( Oct 16, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181016 : Pompeo's North Korea Fantasy ( Oct 16, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181016 : How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley ( Oct 16, 2018 , www.amazon.com )
- 20181016 : CIA Whistleblower claims Nikki Haley will run for president in 2024 ( Oct 16, 2018 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
- 20181014 : Empire Loyalists Grieve Resignation of Moderate Psychopath Nikki Haley ( Oct 14, 2018 , medium.com )
- 20181014 : Nobody in the adults world will miss Haley ( Oct 14, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20181014 : Where Is Trump's Alleged Isolationism by Ted Galen Carpenter ( Oct 09, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20181014 : Nobody in the adults world will miss Haley ( Oct 14, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20181013 : Haley's Poor Record at the U.N. The American Conservative ( Oct 13, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181013 : Haley's Poor Record at the U.N. The American Conservative ( Oct 13, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181012 : If the gas pipeline project is indeed implemented, then Kiev will demand that a penalty against against Russia be awarded the Ukraine for the loss it will suffer because of the redundancy of its gas transport system. ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : US senators demand Magnitsky Act probe, sanctions on Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi disappearance ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : Link to an interesting article about declassified CIA documents on labour camps in the Soviet Union during the 1950s ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : I suspect The Netherlands are being targeted because among other things the International Court of Crimes and the International Court of Justice are based in The Hague. One of these bone-shakers is that The Netherlands is a major corporate tax haven and as such competes with Britain and the US. ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : The west returns compulsively to the region because it thinks that this is where things might tear loose; independence movements in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan. Where, as the western regime-change impulse fondly returns time and again, issues of fundamentalist religion can be played upon to flare into conflict ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : CIA Democrats on the upswing ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : I don't see the republicans being the Nazis. Republican base has values closer in line with paleocons and not the neocons. The values of the Democraps are pure imperialist, exceptionalist and totalitarian in the name of PC ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : The Pantsir is a Lord-have mercy self-defense weapon once the Israelis have already decided to come over for another spot of target practice. The S-300 is to tell them in advance to stay the fuck away ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : Russia's answer to this theory? "Let the Israelis test our system and we shall see the results" ( Oct 09, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : Hysterical accusations were being levelled at the Syrian government, in an attempt to engineer immediate air strikes, on the basis of irrelevant evidence, at a time when the people doing this really ought to have known that relevant evidence tests on 'environmental' samples would shortly become available. ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : US says it cannot support some of EU's ideas for WTO reform ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : Dutch salivating using color revolution instruments to initiate the humanitarian bombing ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : The Boy Who Cried "Bear!!": a Norwegian Folk Tale ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : OPSW VIOLATES THEIR OWN RULES about ensuring a forensic "chain of custody" because they did not take bio-samples THEMSELVES but accepted the (2nd-hand) material that the 'authorities" had given them. ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : Jeez, those NATo propagandists are tough! ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : Like the values and rules that led the NSA to eavesdrop on Chancellor Merkel's phone calls for years, and to use American Embassies as listening posts. Mutti Merkel was very understanding, considering they were only doing it to keep us all safe. ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : How The U.S. Runs Public Relations Campaigns Trump Style Against Russia And China ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181012 : if Russia is so incompetent- why are they deemed a threat? Why is NATO beating the war drums about such a country? ( Oct 12, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Nikki Haley Just Screwed Conservatives Going Into Midterms: Bannon ( Oct 11, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181011 : Can the replacement be worse than Haley? ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : I still don't understand why her UN staff did not know until this morning that she was resigning. ( Oct 11, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20181011 : HARPER NIKKI FINDS THE DOOR ( Oct 11, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20181011 : Nikki Haley's Surprising Departure ( Oct 11, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20181011 : I wonder what the American reaction would be if China sent all their HP laptops back? ( Oct 09, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Most American LNG cargoes thus far to Europe are promptly sold on to someplace else where the Europeans can get more for it. ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Dutch push for a new sanctions regime for Human Rights abusers, apart from global sponsors of Islamic terrorism who also happen to have $$$ ( Oct 08, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : New clues may help locate lost intelligence files from 1938 French-British-Nazi pact ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : After the Nazis and their Baltic allies lost the war, the Balts (like other Eastern Europeans) had to do some serious shucking and jiving to re-brand themselves as Jeffersonian Democrats. Hence, the phony "dual totalitarian" or "dual-genocide" theories, which their court philosophers and historians quickly pulled out of their collective asses. ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Gleiwitz replay by British is planned ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on October 7 in Belgrade that NATO conducted the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 with the aim of protecting the civilian population against the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic. ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : US military program could be seen as bioweapon: Using the US's own definitions that it has used to place sanctions on other countries, this is clearly a dual-use technology, i.e. civilian with military applications ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : I wonder what the American reaction would be if China sent all their HP laptops back? ( Oct 09, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Politics has simply become another product, the consumption of which is regulated by advertising. Almost none of it is true, as if the product were really good, it would sell itself. ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Can the replacement be worse than Haley? ( Oct 11, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20181011 : Nikki Haley's Surprising Departure ( Oct 11, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20181011 : I still don't understand why her UN staff did not know until this morning that she was resigning. ( Oct 11, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20181011 : HARPER NIKKI FINDS THE DOOR ( Oct 11, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20181011 : Nikki Haley Just Screwed Conservatives Going Into Midterms: Bannon ( Oct 11, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20181010 : Nikki Haley's shock resignation prompts various theories ( Oct 10, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20181010 : Freedom fighters of Binomo and other notable quotes ( Oct 10, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20181010 : Nikki Haley Trump's Baghdad Bob by Harry J. Kazianis ( Oct 10, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181010 : Report Nikki Haley Is Resigning by Daniel Larison ( Oct 08, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181010 : The Lies of our (Financial) Times by James Petras ( Oct 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181010 : Nikki Haley Trump's Baghdad Bob by Harry J. Kazianis ( Oct 10, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181010 : Nikki Haley's shock resignation prompts various theories ( Oct 10, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20181010 : Freedom fighters of Binomo and other notable quotes ( Oct 10, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20181010 : Report Nikki Haley Is Resigning by Daniel Larison ( Oct 08, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20181009 : Make him deny it ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : Why the US empire now after several years of desprate pressure of oil prices down is now content with the possibility of dramatic increase in oil prices ? ( Oct 09, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20181009 : During the attack on Serbia, US flew more than 90% of NATO missions and it managed to destroy three missile batteries and one radar station (using HARM) ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : The level of skills in Syria air defence in th past was low ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : S-300s and other military hardware for Syria, by The Saker - The Unz Review ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : How the malicious smear game works ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : Who Doesn't Love Identity Politics by C.J. Hopkins ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : Make him deny it ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : How to Maliciously Smear Your Critics (and Not Get Away with It) by C.J. Hopkins ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : The idea of 'stealth' aircraft is in fact mostly a gimmick designed to enrich the military contractors ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : How to Maliciously Smear Your Critics (and Not Get Away with It) by C.J. Hopkins ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181009 : Alt-right platform ( Oct 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181008 : Dividing the working classes up into sub-groups according to race, ethnicity, and so on, and then pitting these sub-groups against each other, is extremely important to the ruling classes, who are, let's remember, a tiny minority of intelligent but physically vulnerable parasites controlling the lives of the vast majority of human beings on the planet Earth, primarily by keeping them ignorant and confused by C.J. Hopkins ( Oct 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181008 : Dividing the working classes up into sub-groups according to race, ethnicity, and so on, and then pitting these sub-groups against each other, is extremely important to the ruling classes, who are, let's remember, a tiny minority of intelligent but physically vulnerable parasites controlling the lives of the vast majority of human beings on the planet Earth, primarily by keeping them ignorant and confused by C.J. Hopkins ( Oct 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181007 : There Was No Debate When We Needed One by Paul Craig Roberts ( Oct 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181007 : Everything Is A Hoax by Paul Craig Roberts ( Oct 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181005 : The US Government s propaganda is structured to along the lines of a fantasy novel revolving around two mutually excusive ideas the country is surrounded by powerful enemies, and the country is the strongest and the most powerful nation which loved freedom ( Oct 05, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20181005 : White working class who voted for Trump have been duped so many times. First, when Trump promised us "America First!" Voters, apparently content to trust mere words, have ignored Trump's apparent definition of "America First!" as "America has the right to antagonize Iran and Russia, and launch pointless attacks upon Syria ( Oct 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181005 : I thought the Judge was too angry, whining, and evasive, when he could have been much more precise and pointed in his responses. ( Oct 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181005 : Christine Blah-Blah Ford Her Hippocampus by Ilana Mercer ( Oct 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181005 : Bret Kavanaugh is a Liar, a Perjurer and Belongs in Jail Instead of on the Supreme Court by David William Pear ( Oct 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181004 : What if this whole thing was just carefully managed theater designed to entertain the rubes? The Deep State allowed this spectacle, probably to embarrass Trump ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181004 : As manufactured political theatrics and deliberate distractions keep Americans easily mesmerized, more than 115 people in the United States die each day, after overdosing on opioids. ( Oct 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181004 : In the Heart of a Dying Empire by Tom Engelhardt ( Oct 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181003 : Kavanaugh Gang-Rapes Collie in Satanic Ritual by Fred Reed ( Oct 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181003 : He didn't tell me beer had alcohol in it and I didn't know boys were interested in sex, I thought it was just us girls by Fred Reed ( Oct 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181003 : False accusations of rape are not uncommon. A few gain national attention. Most do not. ( Oct 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181003 : Kavanaugh Gang-Rapes Collie in Satanic Ritual by Fred Reed ( Oct 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181003 : He didn't tell me beer had alcohol in it and I didn't know boys were interested in sex, I thought it was just us girls by Fred Reed ( Oct 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : WikiLeaks Calls QAnon A Likely 'Pied Piper' Operation ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : Christine Balsey Ford and her father are all CIA, check it out, he father Ralph G. Balsey Jr. and her brother are all CIA ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90% of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : Johann Ricke ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : Something about judge Kavanaugh personality and political views. ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : The way I see it, a woman over 50 years old goes on the stand, tries to put on the helpless cute little girl act complete with a six-year old's lisp, and pretends to have traumatic memories of something she claims happened over 35 years ago. ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : The hysterical harpies were certainly pleased with themselves when they got the result they wanted. ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : Like professional wrestlers, Republicans pretend to fight-but a Flake or someone like him, always appears in the nick of time, to save the day for the left. ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : GOP Betrayal The Cross Examination That Never Was by Ilana Mercer ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : Trump has tried to turn his presidency into a personality cult rather than MAGA ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20181002 : I tried really hard, but ended up giving my notice on Wednesday. ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.reddit.com )
- 20181002 : Trump is light fare compared to where the Neoliberal Democrats will go and has been, regarding women, sex, and all things crass ( Oct 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Why witch hunts occurred in New England not in the South of mid-Atlantic colonies ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Most Christians are not aware that in the latter part of the 16th century, early Lutheran Reformers close colleagues and followers of Martin Luther set in motion an eight year contact and correspondence with the (then) Ecumenical Patriarch, Jeremias II of Constantinople. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Always remember the equally lurid "recovered memories" of UFO abduction survivors ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" exemplifies very well how the hysteria of girls can be so dangerous that innocent men can be made to suffer terrible if not fatal consequences. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : False memory syndrome and witch hunts based on it ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : True, this "living wage" issue has become now America's chronic illness. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90% of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Johann Ricke ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Hopefully the FBI will investigate this collusion between Soros and the Democrats and Ms. Katz to influence the results of the judicial nomination process. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Graham was chosen to publicly throw a fit ecaquse he's inside-the-Beltway safe. He can huff and puff and talk tough on this hearing, precisely because the Establishment knows he'll never really go against them on issues like immigration or foreign policy. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Anti-White-Male Kavanaugh Hatefest May Close Midterm Enthusiasm Gap -- And Get GOP Senators On The Trump Train! by John Derbyshir ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Civil War II Coming by Kevin Barrett ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : I am concerned about dysfunction and incivility in American culture and politics ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : The entire process is cynical. 45 Dems were going to vote against him regardless, This is all about peeling off a handful of votes. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Ford already has a couple of GoFundMe accounts that have already racked up $ 700,000. Of course, the 6-7 figure book deal will follow. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : And no I don't believe that preposterous [to think that] Blasey [is CIA] operative. She and her whole family work for the CIA. ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : New Book Argues US Foreign Policy is Doomed to Fail ( Sep 29, 2018 , news.wttw.com )
- 20180929 : "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : How the USA will look in 50 years from now? ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180929 : Why witch hunts occurred in New England not in the South of mid-Atlantic colonies ( Sep 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180928 : Kavanaugh, The Disgust Circuit, And The Limits Of Nuts Sluts ( Sep 28, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180928 : GOP Betrayal The Cross Examination That Never Was by Ilana Mercer ( Sep 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180927 : On anti-Semitism ( Sep 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180927 : Russia and the Taming of the Israelis by Israel Shamir ( Sep 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180927 : On anti-Semitism ( Sep 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180927 : It should be noted that Herbert Marcuse was employed by the the U.S.'s OWI (Office of War Information) and then Bill Donovan's OSS (precursor to the CIA) during WWII. ( Sep 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180927 : Any president who picks a person like John Bolton as his National Security Advisor doesn t care about bringing more accountability to our foreign policy ( Sep 27, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180927 : Let Americans Visit North Korea Now by Doug Bandow ( Sep 27, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180927 : When Fake Countries Go to War by Doug Bandow ( Jul 04, 2017 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180927 : Misunderstanding Trump s Foreign Policy by Daniel Larison ( Sep 26, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180926 : The Huge Stakes of Thursday's Confrontations by Pat Buchanan ( Sep 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180926 : Hired to Drain the Swamp, Fired in Less Than a Year ( Sep 26, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180925 : Bolton Hates the Nuclear Deal Because It Proves Diplomacy Works ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180925 : Instantaneous mutation of MAGA into MIGA after Trump election ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180925 : Bolton Hates the Nuclear Deal Because It Proves Diplomacy Works ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180925 : USA/Israel/NATO would love for Russia to lash out against Israel for a provocation such as this Ilyushin 20 downing; but as the author suggests Russia knows it could not withstand the combined forces of NATO/Israel/USA in the Syrian theatre. Russia would not stand a chance. ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180925 : The Path to World War III by Philip Giraldi ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180925 : Unfortunately, the Cheney/Greenspan/Kagan kind does not capitulate voluntarily. ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180925 : It is past time for Donald Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to pull the plug on American engagement in Syria and terminate the seemingly endless cycle of wars in the Middle East: MAGA quickly mutated into MIGA ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180925 : The Black leadership role has now been essentially reduced to making the odd noise after the shooting of an unarmed Black by a White cop ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180925 : Instantaneous mutation of MAGA into MIGA after Trump election ( Sep 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180924 : The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy ( Sep 24, 2018 , amzn.to )
- 20180923 : I'd love to be the commissar in charge of ending affirmative action and punishing those who created and enforce it ( Aug 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Toilet Wars by Israel Shamir ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Modern IDENTITY LEFTISM WILL EAT ITSELF by Black Pigeon Speaks ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : One can like or dislike Judge Kavanagh, one can agree or disagree with his views, one may wish him in or out of the Supreme Court, but stopping him for allegedly trying to lay a girl while in high school is completely insane ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Darwin's Vigilantes, Reichard Sternberg, and Conventional Pseudoscience by Fred Reed ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Poroshenko has told Germans that the construction of "North Stream 2" makes no sense. ( Sep 23, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180923 : What is often forgotten is that whenever the term "intellectual" is used it must be the measure of correctness (supported by empirical evidence, both prior and after) not just the measure of the knowledge (historic, economic, military, scientific etc.) base one operates in order to sound "intellectual" and "sophisticated". This principle is long ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia ended Moscow's partnership with the West. ( Sep 23, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180923 : "White Helmets" is used in preference to the alternative, all too well associated in the popular imagination with the acme of American culture: the Western. ( Sep 23, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180923 : One minute warning was a part of Israeli plan ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Let's put it this way, once Russians and Americans begin to kill each-other, Israel goes immediately down. In fact, it will cease to exist as a state. But who wants to pay such a price? Bibi knows that. ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Putin, Israel and the downed Il-20 by The Saker ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Russians reiterated the official position that " The blame for the downed Russian plane and for the death of the crew lies entirely on the Israeli side ". ENTIRELY. ( Sep 23, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180923 : The Syrian ceasefire proves how far Putin has come out on top by Patrick Cockburn ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : European Union (EU) leaders rebuffed Theresa May appeal to give at least conditional support to her Chequers proposal for a "soft Brexit." ( Sep 23, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180923 : A New Martin Luther by Anatoly Karlin ( Aug 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : More on Something Rotten About the DOJ Indictment of the GRU ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Skripals is a demonstration of established British elite method of of slandering the non-obedient Russians ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Toilet Wars by Israel Shamir ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : I'd love to be the commissar in charge of ending affirmative action and punishing those who created and enforce it ( Aug 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : We in the West, who would again be the cannon fodder for such insanity, once more owe a debt of gratitude to Putin's statesmanship and levelheadedness ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : Despite noise in Russian blogosphere about "weak reaction" Russia need to thread very carefully this minefield: NATO is much stronger in this region ( Sep 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180923 : The USA now looks like new Bizantium with complex palace intrigues as "modus operandi" ( Sep 23, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180922 : Has Russia given up on the West? In a word -- Yes, Yes and Yes. ( Sep 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180922 : The nest of neocons in State Department still exists and influence the USA forign policy ( Sep 22, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180921 : MAGA is dead, people; say hello to MIGA. ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180921 : HARPER BIBI'S COVERT WAR ON AMERICA ( Sep 21, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180921 : Obama played both sides against the middle telling folks to vote for him and 'hope and change' bullshit and to shake his fist at Wall Street -- all the while enabling them to make more money than they thought existed. ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180921 : That agency is and always has been in the business of subverting or toppling other governments. ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180921 : NYT is now is regular deep state stooge ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180921 : Larry Wilkerson on Neocons in Trump Administration ( Sep 21, 2018 , scotthorton.org )
- 20180921 : Another brilliant article by Alain Gresh in Le Monde Diplomatique: The truths that wont be heard ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180921 : But what's categorically worse than having a childish buffoon as a sitting president? A deep state cabal of neocons and neolibs ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180921 : MAGA is dead, people; say hello to MIGA. ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180921 : Michael Hart's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE UNITED STATES by James Kirkpatrick ( Sep 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180920 : Every time one of these incidents happens, a flood of "chicken-hawks" come out of the woodwork demanding that Russia should "release the S700s" and "shoot everything down," etc. ( Sep 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180919 : As for Nutty Nikki Haley, Israeli PM Netenyahu wanted Haley in that spot ( Sep 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180919 : Guardian journos are proclaiming themselves the bastion of free speech, when in reality they are the enemies of it. ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : Washington's goal is to reduce Russia's gas market share in Eastern Europe by 20% by 2020 ( Sep 19, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180919 : First containership goes north of Russia from Asia to Europe ( Sep 19, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180919 : Whet crew of Il-20 was doing when Israeli jets approach it and fly above and form a bookshelf formation? ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : Destroying Syria is primary for US Hegemony and Israeli dominance ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : Russia does not have a fifth column in Israel, it is probably the other way round. ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : E>e are now faced with the imminent threat of either an Anglo/Zionist victory in Syria or WW3 ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : You probably can call shooting down IL-20 a NATO attack ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : "Israeli military delegation led by air force commander to travel to Moscow to share information on Il-20 plane crash. ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : on September 19, 2018 at 3:31 pm EST/EDT ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : Russia options are limited ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : It is a promise or threat being honored. For months we have we have been hearing high ranking American officials openly advocating that their goal in Syria was to make as many as possible Russian military return home in body bags ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : NATO ships are still off the Syrian coast. Why ? For what purpose ? Just keeping them at sea must cost millions of dollars. Are they waiting for something ? ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : I think a basic question here is whether the Israelis were deliberately trying to down the II-20. ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : Occupying foreign nations and killing foreign people in order to pay for college and to pay the mortgage and set up an retirement plan is weakness, not strength. "Thank you for your service", indeed. Too many Americans still worship at the altar of the Pentagon. ( Sep 19, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180919 : 13 British hypothesis about Skripal poisoning ( Sep 19, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180919 : As for Nutty Nikki Haley, Israeli PM Netenyahu wanted Haley in that spot ( Sep 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180919 : The Lehman 10th Anniversary spin as a Teachable Moment by Michael Hudson ( Sep 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180919 : In 2008, Obama was touted as a political outsider who will hose away all of the rot and bloody criminality of the Bush years. He turned out to be a deft move by our ruling class. Though fools still refuse to see it, Obama is a perfect servant of our military banking complex. Now, Trump is being trumpeted as another political outsider. ( Sep 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180918 : The document alleges that a senior Israeli government official conspired with Manafort in 2012 to defame then-Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko by accusing her of maintaining ties with anti-Semitic groups. ( Sep 18, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180918 : The radical Israeli zionists are convinced, it seems, that a peaceful, secular, stable Syria will seek to invade and destroy Israel. That's delusional ( Sep 18, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180918 : if Tymoshenko is elected, it will guarantee X more years of the same kind of oligarchic grab-the-cash leadership ( Sep 18, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180918 : Neoliberal EU faces the same crisis as the USA -- rejection of globalization by the majority of population ( Sep 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180918 : The Anne Frank Test by Philip Giraldi ( Sep 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180918 : Russia supported north in the USA Civil war ( Sep 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180918 : The Israeli pilots used the Russian plane as cover and set it up to be targeted by the Syrian air defense forces. ( Sep 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180918 : Censored film reveals The Israel Project's secret Facebook campaign ( Sep 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180917 : Dan Cohen has an excellent mini-doc (part one has been released so far) on war propaganda in Western media pushing regime change in Syria ( Sep 17, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180917 : The Dirty Dozen: 12 lies they tell you to anaesthetise you for the upcoming bombing of Syria by Peter Ford ( Sep 17, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180917 : The Bluffer's Guide to Bombing Syria By Peter Ford ( Sep 17, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180917 : Lawrence Wilkerson on the Neocons Plan: War in Syria, Then Iran by Adam Dick ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.antiwar.com )
- 20180917 : https://electronicintifada.net/content/censored-film-reveals-israel-projects-secret-facebook-campaign/25486 ( Sep 17, 2018 , electronicintifada.net )
- 20180916* Perils of Ineptitude by Andrew Levin ( Aug 03, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180916* I m delighted we can see the true face of American exceptionalism on display everyday. The last thing I want to see is back to normal. ( Sep 16, 2018 , crookedtimber.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180916 : British society is under the imminent threat of Putin-Nazi Novichok perfume assassin hit squads ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : Are We Becoming What We Once Hated by Eric Margolis ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : US goal was to take Ukraine into the future that it deserves. Now with grivna devaluation of over 300% we see what they meant ( May 31, 2015 , The Guardian )
- 20180916 : Are We Becoming What We Once Hated by Eric Margolis ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : British society is under the imminent threat of Putin-Nazi Novichok perfume assassin hit squads ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : The Enigma of Orwellian Donald Trump -- How Does He Get Away with It So Easily by Prof Rodrigue Tremblay ( Aug 17, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180916 : This story about Hoffman's getting censored and removed from Amazon's Kindle books is a fine example of why libertarianism is idealistic nonsense. ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : It was the "higher power" in the form of the Revolutionary Republican Napoleon Bonaparte who finally abolished the Inquisition with the French invasion of Spain, which suggests by parallel that when the US state collapses it will take its neocons with it. ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : On the censorship of Michael Hoffman's books by Amazon by The Saker ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180916 : Exaggerated claims about Jews power (Jewocracy) do more harm then good and give a perfect weapon for Zionists to censor critique of Israel ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180915* Why the US Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran by Patrick Lawrence ( Sep 15, 2018 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180915 : Two mutually exclusive actions at once ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Meanwhile, back in the "Mother of Parliaments" ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Fred to Take Wheel of Ship of State: Will Implement Thoughtful and Reasonable Measures by Fred Reed ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180915 : How To Think About Conservatism ( Sep 15, 2018 , crookedtimber.org )
- 20180915 : Kerry Trashes Trump Amidst Iran Row 8-Year Old Boy With The Insecurity Of A Teenage Girl ( Sep 15, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180915 : A shyster attorney that I had the unfortunate experience in working with, did tell the truth once when he said that there is no such thing as a justice system but there is a legal industry. ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : The problem there is that the USA cannot sell LNG at a competitive price against pipeline gas and still make money ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Ukraine attacks Russia on legal field and score points against Gasprom ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : I don't know why so many people are having trouble realizing that the United States intends to make the rules, not follow them, and to be the ultimate arbiter of its own behaviour. And at its very core, this is an intent that recognizes no equal ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : The cutting off of water supplies to the Crimea ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : JFK Assassination Link Found To Recent Financial Swindle by Michael Collins Piper ( Jul 07, 2008 , www.americanfreepress.net )
- 20180915 : "Drain the Swamp" and "MAGA" were skillfully crafted psyops, most likely from the inner sanctum of the most pernicious lobbying outfit on Capitol Hill, AIPAC. ( Sep 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180915 : The Khmer Rouge victory in Cambodia was precipitated by the U.S. bombings ( Sep 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180915 : since September 9, the White Helmets have been staging rehearsals of an alleged chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun, Russian officials say in the same statement, claiming that the rehearsals feature up to 30 civilians, including a dozen children aged 8-12. ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : "The United States does not seek to fight the Russians" a Pentagon spokesman said. "However, the United States will not hesitate to use necessary and proportionate force to defend US, coalition or partner forces ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Bob Woodward's book completely discredit the "Russiagate" story ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180915 : Zakharova in extravagant dress claims on Russian talk show that US and UK are trying to "Iraq" Russia ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Moscow is aware of who the people named as suspects in the Skripal case are, President Vladimir Putin said, adding that these people are civilians ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : On the meaning of the word "clearly" ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : RT editor-in-chief's exclusive interview with Skripal case suspects Petrov Boshirov (TRANSCRIPT) ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : In a nutshell: Krutikov's theory is that these 2 "gopniki" earn their daily bread by illegal (or semi-legal) trade in European vitamins and supplement. This is what brings them to Europe and what brought them to Salisbury, most likely (i.e., the purchase of supplements, for resale in Russia). ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Excellent review of the interview by Craig Murray, Well worth reading ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Fred to Take Wheel of Ship of State: Will Implement Thoughtful and Reasonable Measures by Fred Reed ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180915 : Two mutually exclusive actions at once ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Meanwhile, back in the "Mother of Parliaments" ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180915 : Tulsi Gabbard points out Trump betrayal of his electorate ( Sep 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180914 : Trump, the American bully, is attempting to threaten and intimidate every government of the world to bow to the interests of Wall Street and the US-based transnational corporations ( Sep 14, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180914 : Obama's Imperial Presidency by Carl Boggs ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180914 : No wonder the Russians came finally to understand that US is non-agreement capable ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180914 : This Memorial Day, remember the 116,516 Americans President Wilson killed in that senseless war. ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180914 : The current endless "War on Terra" can be seen as an increasingly desperate attempt of a fading American Empire to hold on to and maintain its power and hegemony, again with the material, human, and moral cost of this war actually accelerating its demise. ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180914 : The US are not interested in winning and leaving they want to continue disrupting the peaceful integration of East, West, and South Asia. ( Sep 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180914 : Infinite War: The Gravy Train Rolls by Andrew J. Bacevich ( Jun 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180913 : After Trump: The Donald in the Rearview Mirror by Andrew J. Bacevich ( Sep 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : How Trump can get rid of the author of NYT op-ed ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Haley: if there are chemical weapons that are used, we know exactly who's going to use them. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : "Staged Filming of False Flag 'Chemical Attacks' Has Begun in Idlib ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Henry A. Wallace on amrican fascism ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180912 : Since we've rarely been in such situations as Trump created in Syria, we don't really know what the margin of error is, nor what could lead to the use of nuclear weapons. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Real reason for western elite hatred of Russia is that it has destroyed neo con dreams of full spectrum dominance in military affairs. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180912 : Did Sanders' people challenge 'the Russians did it' propaganda line, demand the DNC servers be examined by forensic specialists and investigate Crowdstrike? No. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Amazing that the Veterans' letter was sent on the 9/11 in protest to the US government support for Al Qaeda. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Colin Wright ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Op-ed is particularly telling describing how the White House staff has succeeded in "[calling out] countries like Russia for meddling and [having them] punished accordingly" in spite of the president's desire for d tente was definitely written by neocon faction of NYT (and.or WH) ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Neocons typically are chickenhawks and draft dodgers ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Twenty American military veterans commit suicide on average every day, according to a recent report from the US Department of Veteran Affairs ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : There is a tendency to think Trump is unique. He is not Several other Presidents resorted to open militarism before as a wya to avoid domestic problems ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180912 : Unravelling ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180912 : The Rise and Continued Influence of the Neocons. The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180912 : Explosive Skripal allegations may blow up in Syria by George Galloway ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : How Trump can get rid of the author of NYT op-ed ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Haley: if there are chemical weapons that are used, we know exactly who's going to use them. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : Those who planned and caused to happen 9/11 clearly were not American patriots. The attack was physically and psychically and politically against the people of the United States, including the American military. ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180912 : John Bolton vs. the International Criminal Court A Simple Solution by Thomas Knapp ( Sep 12, 2018 , original.antiwar.com )
- 20180911* If you believe Trump is trying to remove neocons(Deep State) from the government, explain Bolton and many other Deep State denizens Trump has appointed ( Sep 11, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180911 : Greg Bacon ( Sep 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180911 : Why I Don't Speak of the Fake News of "9-11" Anymore by Edward Curtin ( Sep 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180910 : It's amazing that so much crisp, instantly-recognizable footage exists of the hit men, almost as if they were laying out an easily-reconstructable route for observers ( Sep 10, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180910 : Francesco Cossiga, formerly President of Italy, flat-out said that the major governments in Europe all privately recognise that 9-11 was run by the USA Israel ( Sep 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180910 : What was the role of Izrailies in 911? ( Sep 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180910 : Trump was able to harness and give voice to some very important forces working against classic neoliberalism ( Sep 10, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180909 : A country where an immigrant Sikh girl can become a neocon ambassador ( Sep 08, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180909 : Sharon s famous statement we control America is not the only one ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : In Britain Israel uses the same tactics as in in the USA ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : Israel s Fifth Column: Exercising control from inside the government by Philip Giraldi ( Sep 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : The Yinon Plan, is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority stipulates reconfiguration of its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states. ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : The "controversial" Al Jazeera Documentary on THE LOBBY in the USA: What it is about, and why it cannot and may never be shown to the world. ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : Neocons attempt to replay Iraq "success" in Iran ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : Financial interests dominate politics at least since 1902 ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : It should be noted that the NYT oped cruise missile happened to be exactly timed with the big splash of the Bob Woodward 'book' that trumpets the same meme ie the Trump administration is dysfunctional and in a state of mutiny ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : No trick is too low for those who consider Trump an intolerable intruder on THEIR power territory ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : Regime Change -- American Style by Pat Buchanan ( Sep 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : The McCain Death Extravaganza ( Sep 09, 2018 , larouchepac.com )
- 20180909 : It seems that the Wiesenthals and the Klarsfelds simply melted away and evaporated as soon as the Jewish State began sending the Israel-made weaponry to the neo-Nazi in Ukraine. ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180909 : Talking of neoliberal globalists 5th column, lest forget the solid one in the UK and Skripal's affair is thier work ( Sep 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180908 : Trump was warned repeatedly about the neocons et al, but has chosen to staff up with the same swamp creatures he ostensibly meant to expurgate. ( Sep 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180908 : Any of Trump's opponents in the 2016 primaries would have followed the same policies ( Sep 08, 2018 , www.thenation.com )
- 20180907* New York Times Undermining Peace Efforts by Sowing Suspicion by Diana Johnstone ( Sep 07, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180907 : The Coup Against Trump by CURT MILLS ( Sep 07, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180907 : Danny Sjursen on Terror Wars and Becoming Antiwar - The Scott Horton Show ( Aug 22, 2018 , scotthorton.org )
- 20180907 : A good news! Kim is willing to sign a Declaration of Peace with Moon prior to the Outlaw US Empire removing its troops, while also taking note of other related developments ( Sep 07, 2018 , sputniknews.com )
- 20180907 : >An Uber-Hawk Flies High Again in Trump's Washington ( Sep 07, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180907 : The New York Times op-ed and the 13 people who might be the author ( Sep 07, 2018 , www.cnn.com )
- 20180907 : Trump did not, in his 8th decade, suddenly develop a desire to serve the American people at his own expense. He is in the White House doing exactly what he has always done, he is pursuing whatever makes him happiest in the moment with no regard to consequences, morality or even common sense. ( Sep 07, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180906 : The US Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is! by Nick Turse ( Sep 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180906 : Syria - Mattis Lacks State Department's Intelligence ... On Al-Qaeda's Chemical Capabilities ( Sep 06, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180905 : Melting Arctic Creates New Opportunities For LNG ( Sep 05, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180905 : Trump s Pointless UN Stunt by DANIEL LARISON ( Sep 04, 2018 , theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180904 : The White House, the Senate, and much of the American media are in our hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own ( Sep 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180904 : Parts of Censored Al Jazeera Documentary on DC Israel Lobby Leaked ( Sep 04, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180904 : I think that the US strategy is very sound and its aims are obvious. Since they can't win any "hot" war of any significance, they decided to lure Russia into Cold war 2. And we all know who "won" Cold war 1. ( Sep 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180904 : What If the Mueller Investigation Pushed Trump to Attack Iran by Paul R. Pillar ( Sep 04, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180903* www.informationclearinghouse.info/50168.htm In Memoriam by Paul Edwards ( Sep 03, 2018 , www.informationclearinghouse.info ) [Recommended]
- 20180903 : Al Jazeera documentary on the USA Israeli lobby ( Sep 03, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180903 : Israel's Fifth Column by Philip Giraldi ( Sep 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180903 : Why the whole banking system is a scam ( Sep 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180903 : Tenth Anniversary of Financial Collapse, Preparing for the Next Crash by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers ( Sep 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180903 : New Book Gives Credence to US Ambassador's Claim That Israel Tried to Assassinate Him in 1980 ( Sep 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180903 : How identity politics poison politivcal dioscourse and divide people by Tobias Langdon ( Sep 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180903 : Poison for the Goyim- More Hysteria and Hyperbole about Labour Anti-Semitism by Tobias Langdon ( Sep 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180902* Open letter to President Trump concerning the consequences of 11 September 2001 by Thierry Meyssan ( Aug 30, 2018 , www.voltairenet.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180902 : The countries that are truly dependent on Russia are in ex-communist Eastern Europe. They still rely on a network of pipelines built by USSR, and would go into energy crisis if Russia suddenly ended supply. ( Sep 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180902 : Foreign currency private debt is worse in Russia than in the rest of East-Central Europe other than Hungary ( Sep 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180902 : Bombing it induced a humanitarian crisis in the coastal region where Gaddafi's power was concentrated, contributed to a wave of refugees, and let the cities which supported him know they were not impregnable, that their weaknesses were being exploited ( Sep 02, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180902 : Is the next US aggression on Syria already scheduled- by The Saker ( Sep 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180902 : US Strategy in Syria: 'Create Quagmires Until We Get What We Want ( Sep 02, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180902 : A few are beginning to wake up to the reality that snatching Ukraine away from Russia was never about prosperity and security for its people, and all about destabilizing Russia by MARK CHAPMAN ( Sep 02, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180902 : Iran Hawks Always Get Iran Wrong ( Sep 02, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180901 : We are in for another two years of alternating Russia and Nazi hysteria in neoliberal MSM by C.J. Hopkins ( Aug 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180901 : Survey of the pervasively corrupt history of Robert Mueller ( Sep 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180901 : Trump wants his FBI and DOJ to "do the right thing" or he "may have to get involved." He better act soon or be scalped by Mueller. ( Sep 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180901 : Johnnie Walker Read ( Sep 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180901 : We are in for another two years of alternating Russia and Nazi hysteria in neoliberal MSM by C.J. Hopkins ( Aug 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180901 : We live in times in which the media elites and academia are fully insane. That means that the 'normal' levels of insanity and venality for career politicians will be ramped up ( Sep 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180831 : John Bolton is, I believe, the scariest character in Trump's administration ( Aug 31, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180831 : Trump will show those borscht-eating bastards! ( Aug 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180831 : It is reported that the German company and partner in Nord Stream II, Uniper, may pull out of the project due to the risk of US sanctions ( Aug 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180831 : Bulgaria stepped up when the European Commission called and got absolutely no compensation for cancelling the South stream to the contrary, the decision cost Bulgaria a great deal of money ( Aug 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180831 : It occurs to me that if Russia were really as malignant and evil as Washington pretends it is, Russia would be first to take that step, booting American companies out of Russia, perhaps giving them 72 hours to clear out their desks and get out. ( Aug 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180831 : The real McCain eulogy: from blackagendareport.com ( Aug 31, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180831 : It is quite possible that Trump, and Obama before him, are basically front-men ( Aug 31, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180831 : Trump is relying on shoddy "analysis" offered up by propagandists and ideologues. They don't, or at least they don't care, as long as they get what they want. They want Iran destroyed, just as the neocons wanted their war on Iraq, and spent the better part of fifteen years concocting excuses until Bush came into office. ( Aug 31, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180831 : Iran Hawks Always Get Iran Wrong by DANIEL LARISON ( Aug 31, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180831 : The Trump Administration's Cruel Collective Punishment of the Iranian People by DANIEL LARISON ( Aug 31, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180831 : John Bolton is, I believe, the scariest character in Trump's administration ( Aug 31, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180830 : >Once the spy agencies become the controlling element a government degenerates into a regime or imperium depending upon its level of power. ( Aug 30, 2018 , craigmurray.org.uk )
- 20180830 : Behviour of the USA toward North Korea confirms the Outlaw US Empire is not agreement capable. It also again confirms the policy to attain Full Spectrum Dominance of the planet is still the #1 goal. ( Aug 30, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180830 : Why the U.S. Never Learns from Foreign Policy Failures ( Aug 30, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180829 : Max Boot Greases The Wheels of Empire ( Aug 29, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180829 : The Other Side Of John McCain by Max Blumenthal ( Aug 29, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180829 : Ron Paul: President Trump May Not Be a Neoconservative, but He Is Influenced by Neocons by adam dick ( Aug 14, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180829 : Max Boot Greases The Wheels of Empire ( Aug 29, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180828 : CRITICIZE ISRAEL AND GO TO JAIL? IS THAT HOW LOW ZIONISTS HAVE SUNK? ( Aug 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180828 : Just move on. The Guardian is not a relevant news outlet. ( Aug 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180828 : Mueller is part of the plot against Trump as is Rosenstein. Both are guilty of sedition as active participants in a coup to overthrow the POTUS ( Aug 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180828 : The Crucifixion of Jeremy Corbyn by Philip Giraldi ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Rich, middle class and poor relationship ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Jimmy Dore rightly states they are CIA funded campaigns of Dems candidates ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : On a difference between ruthless ambition with psychopathy. They have similar features, but are not the same ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Superficial differences between Dems and Republicans begs the question -- who is (and has been since the 1940s) setting US policy? If we, the voters, cannot alter or change our national policies, then democratic oversight of the Republic is nothing but a sham ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Sic Semper Tyrannis - John McCain is Dead by Willy B ( Aug 27, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180827 : Rich, middle class and poor relationship ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : WSWS.org offers a valuable alternative perspective on current events ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Corbyn is being destroyed -- like blowing up a bridge to stop an advancing army by Jonathan Cook ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Disclaimer ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Chemically induced fanaticism. We have no idea which of our 'opinion leaders' have undergone such antidepressant induced change ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : The Deep state is not, repeat not , the American people ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Ukraine and NATO ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Hillary was Sec of State at the time the US election-meddling-and-color-revolution brigade tried to rig the Russian elections against Putin. ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Russian Threat ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : Empire Spymongering and Elite Conspiracy Practioners by James Petras ( Aug 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180827 : The CIA is the armed wing of Washington's permanently governing technocratic party, in the same way the KGB was the armed wing of the Soviet Communist Party. For both the contol of MSM is the part of the agenda ( Aug 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180826 : Jonathan Winer, Steele dossier and the Magnitsky Act ( Aug 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180826 : Mass Dementia in the Western Establishment by Diana Johnstone ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180826 : Trump and Corbyn by Israel Shamir ( Aug 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180826 : The Union of Establishment Republicans and Establishment Democrats ( Aug 26, 2018 , caucus99percent.com )
- 20180825 : How to interfere in a foreign election by Stephen Kinzer ( Aug 19, 2018 , www.bostonglobe.com )
- 20180825 : There is no way anyone in their right mind would enter into an agreement with the USA, and even when they do, as in the examples of North Korea here, or Iran recently - the USA backs out of them! That is not the kind of dance partner anyone would want to tango with ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180825 : MoA - Trump Ties North Korea Talks To Trade Deal With China ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180825 : Seize the transnational corporations to rebuild Syria-, by Thierry Meyssan ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.voltairenet.org )
- 20180825 : Obama Marries the Liberals to the Neocons by PATRICK ARMSTRONG ( Aug 22, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20180825 : Trashing Treaties- Trump s Shameful Legacy ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20180825 : The Trump administration and Iran by Thierry Meyssan ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.voltairenet.org )
- 20180824 : Brennan was caught spying on the Senate Intelligence Commitee, subsequently lied about it and allegedly directed personnel under his command to lie about to the Senate and the IG ( Aug 24, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180824 : The Dark Side of War Propaganda ( Aug 24, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180824 : From reading The Devil s Chessboard it is quite clear that Allen Dulles still ran things after he was fired by JFK, and was most likely the coordinator of the assassination ( Aug 24, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180824 : Do Democrats Want an Impeachment Fight by Pat Buchanan ( Aug 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180824 : Some info about the American senator who famously could not remember how many houses he and his wife owned. ( Aug 24, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180823 : "Don't get fat": but be careful to understand what's too fat, what too thin. If correlation is worth anything never certain then if you want a long life be "overweight". Don't, please don't, flirt with being "underweight". ( Aug 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180823 : What the Brennan Affair Really Reveals by Stephen Cohen ( Aug 23, 2018 , www.thenation.com )
- 20180823 : The War Piece to End All War Pieces Or How to Fight a War of Ultimate Repetitiousness by Tom Engelhardt ( Aug 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180822* The CIA Owns the US and European Media by Paul Craig Roberts ( Aug 18, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180822 : In Spies Battle, Trump Holds the High Ground by Pat Buchanan ( Aug 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180822 : Beijing s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump by Alfred McCoy ( Aug 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180822 : Trump Caves To Enemy Of The People -- Time To Show Loyalty To Those Loyal To Him, by James Kirkpatrick - The Unz Review ( Aug 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180819 : What's going on in the US is unprecedented. The entire political or so-called liberal establishment is fighting with every means at their disposal against a democratically elected President. ( Aug 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180819 : Why we do not negotiate with the USA ( Aug 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180819 : Economics ( Aug 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180819 : Neoliberals have monopolized the information distribution system internet and television and used it to silence critics, prevent competing platforms from arising, bully society into accepting their standards of conduct and thought, blacklist conservatives in Hollywood, promote physical violence against dissenters ( Aug 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180818 : https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/3/15914750/steve-bannon-trump-tax-rich ( Aug 18, 2018 , www.vox.com )
- 20180818 : Pence brought in swamp creatures like Rosenstein, John Bolton, Nikki Haley. ( Aug 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180818 : I've noticed the "Power Elite" have decided to rewrite American history in regards to the American Civil War ( Aug 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180818 : The debate's been ongoing for over 2 years now: Is Trump part of the Deep State, or is he an outlier backed by a Deep State faction? ( Aug 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180818 : Is Russia an Adversary by Gary Leupp ( Aug 13, 2018 , dissidentvoice.org )
- 20180817 : Jim Kunstler Exposes The Democratic Party s Three-Headed Monster ( Aug 17, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180817 : Review Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism by Andre Vltchek, by David William Pear - The Unz Review ( Aug 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180816 : Russiagate and neo-McCarthysim are result of the newly minted Anti-Trump allience of neocons and neoliberals ( Aug 16, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180816 : Russiagate and neo-McCarthysim are result of the newly minted Anti-Trump allience of neocons and neoliberals ( Aug 16, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180815 : McFaul and Browder are on the same team, playing different positions ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : "Under the mantle of the "war on terrorism," successive US governments, Democratic and Republican alike, have not only conducted wars whose victims number in the millions, but also carried out an unrelenting attack on democratic rights, from domestic spying to censoring the Internet. ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : Imperial brainwashing works very well: Many US citizens were willing to kill 2 million Iranian civilians to save 20,000 U.S. soldiers ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : Dezinformation from Euractive intended to block North Stream II ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : Countermove in Caspian see: no NATO allowed ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : Russia is one of only 7 nation states to have verifiably dismantled and destroyed their chemical weapon stockpiles as ratified by the OPCW and in compliance to the CWC. After Skripal false flag they probably have a second thought. ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : Trump policies are all over the place first the hard-ass who will never back off, then conciliatory and talking international unity ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : A concise summary of the nuclear attack on Japan ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180815 : War Without End by C.J. Chivers ( Aug 15, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180814* US Intelligence Community is Tearing the Country Apart from the Inside by Dmitry Orlov ( Jul 28, 2018 , russia-insider.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180814 : Why Confronting Israel is Important by Philip Giraldi ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Book: RAND DECEPTION: The TRUTH ABOUT BILL BROWDER, the MAGNITSKY ACT, and ANTI-RUSSIAN SANCTIONS ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Is not it ironic that the neocon and MI6 corrected Browder is a grandson of two KGB agents? ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Maybe The US congress truly believe they can decapitate Russia with very little risk or damage to NATO countries, but from publicly available data it doesn't look like that. ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Trump has repeatedly stressed that Russia and the US are the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, with their combined nuclear arsenal accounting for 90 percent of world's total, and thus the US must live in peace with Russia. ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : If a nuclear war starts, it is only logical for the initial combatants to target ALL powers at once, as this may be their last chance to reduce their neighbors' ability to loot and conquer after the war. ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Russia of today is in a comparatively much weaker position overall than the USSR due to powerful fifth column ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Why Did 51 American State Department Officials 'Dissent' Against Obama and Call for Bombing Syria? ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Creating problems in Ukriane is one of the few ways Russia could impose tangible costs on USA ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Our Despicable, Indefensible Policy in Yemen by Daniel Larison ( Aug 13, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180814 : It was Neocons who pushed the USA to invade Iraa, but, as Greenspan said, the goals of USA were about oil not so much about Israeli interests in the region ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Trump's Trade War with China Undermining China's Dependence on Neoliberalism ( Aug 14, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20180814 : Israel not Russia is the one foreign country that can interfere with impunity with the political processes in the United States yet it is immune from criticism. ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : America's Lengthening Enemies List by Pat Buchanan ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Does mere accusation now stand for "truth" in this inmates-running-the-asylum charade USA is putting on? ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Litvinenko affair now looks like a dressed rehearsal of Skripals ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : An objective criticism of the Zionist enterprise now a days and its apologists resort immediately to unrestrained howls and accusations of antisemitism. ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180814 : Iran s Supreme Leader No War Nor Negotiations Ever With This White House ( Aug 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180814 : Washington won t be winning any wars against Russia and/or China. It should stick with what it s good at, that is bombing third world countries, on behalf of its Zionist masters. On second thoughts, it shouldn t be doing that either. ( Aug 14, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180814 : Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo Push Confrontation With Iran ( Aug 14, 2018 , truthout.org )
- 20180814 : A neocon view of Trump attempt to solve the crisis of neoliberalism in the USA ( Aug 14, 2018 , truthout.org )
- 20180814 : Latest Sanctions Against Russia Show Trump Not in Control of His Administration by F. Michael Maloof ( Aug 10, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180813 : If the world was a theater, Americans see themselves as the only performers -- the role of the rest of the world is to applaud their performance. ( Aug 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180813 : The Perils of Trump's Iran Obsession by Daniel Larison ( Aug 13, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180813 : http://www.euronews.com/2018/08/13/iran-s-leader-orders-governent-not-to-talk-to-u-s ( Aug 13, 2018 , www.euronews.com )
- 20180813 : New US Sanctions vs. Russia by Anatoly Karlin ( Aug 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180813 : If the world was a theater, Americans see themselves as the only performers -- the role of the rest of the world is to applaud their performance. ( Aug 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180812 : Yes, the Press Helps Start Wars ( Aug 12, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180812 : What is Trumpism by Sanjay Reddy ( Aug 12, 2018 , www.ineteconomics.org )
- 20180811 : Economics, Trumpism and Migration ( Aug 11, 2018 , crookedtimber.org )
- 20180811 : Rand Paul Against the World ( Aug 11, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180811 : The USA never ratified Versailles, on the contrary, there came neutrality laws. ( Aug 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180810 : "Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all others" ~ Emperor Septimius Severus to his sons ( Aug 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180810 : America's Militarized Economy by Eric Zuesse ( Aug 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180810 : There is also the documented presence of American forces and officers in the operations room of the Saudi coalition ( Aug 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180809 : Russian diplomat warns US sanctions against Iran to destabilize Middle East AMN ( Aug 09, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180809 : Pompeo Slaps On Major Russia Sanctions...Over Unproven UK Poisoning! ( Aug 09, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180809 : 'No surprise if Moscow recalls ambassador' Russia will lash out against new sanctions, say experts ( Aug 09, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180809 : No fighter of the establishment would make such stupid mistakes as Trump has ( Aug 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : God Bless Stephen Cohen ( Aug 04, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180808 : Jerusalem could be a safer location for the US Embassy than Tel Aviv if there is a war against Iran. For religious reasons ;-) ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : McFaul is talking nonsense ( Aug 08, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180808 : Imagine what is coming in the United States where the simmering hatreds are invited and exploited by not three distinct groups, but hundreds by Sic Semper ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : The Constitution looked fairly good on paper, but it was not a popular document; people were suspicious of it, and suspicious of the enabling legislation that was being erected upon it ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : In past wars, civilian oil tankers did not sail through the straits ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : The CIA, FBI, and US army killed Dr. King with the help of their organized crime assets. JFK might be killed the same way ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : At some point the Western Powers decided the that old Communist Apparachik Milosevic would be the Bad Guy and the Croatian freedom-loving "our bastards" the good guys to be internationally recognized and thus enflamed the passion of secession. ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : Bill Clinton's Rules of Engagement on the already identified Enemies of the People ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : The Soviet entry into the war played a much greater role than the atomic bombs in inducing Japan to surrender because it dashed any hope that Japan could terminate the war through Moscow's mediation ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : The Empire-Lovers Strike Back Trump, Putin and the Post-Helsinki Uproar by Richard Rubenstein ( Aug 03, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180808 : Exclusive Iran, then Turkey, as the Hot War Gains Ground in Washington ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.veteranstoday.com )
- 20180808 : Trump as the disposable President for the Neocons? ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : Israel is not only Iran's greatest enemy ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : American Pravda Jews and Nazis by Ron Unz ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : Jerusalem could be a safer location for the US Embassy than Tel Aviv if there is a war against Iran. For religious reasons ;-) ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180808 : Has US misread the Iranian street ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.csmonitor.com )
- 20180808 : Trump Warns Allies Risk Severe Consequences If They Violate Iran Sanctions ( Aug 08, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180807 : Britain Tightens NATO s Noose Around Russia ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180807 : OIL and only OIL should guide the policy making considerations of the American Empire in the Middle East ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180807 : The UK s Labour Party and Its Anti-Semitism Crisis ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180807 : More Lies About the White Helmets by Philip Giraldi ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180807 : Does the Russiagate Narrative Protect Those with Power and Influence Q A (Pt 2-5) ( Jul 18, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20180807 : The Legacy of Infinite War ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180807 : During the presidential political campaign, Trump made clear that he was against regime change and that is why many people voted for him. Now he is trying to launch a potentially disastrous war on Iran. ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180807 : Fool on the Hill the Bombast of Boris Johnson ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180807 : An interesting analogy with neocons effort to fuel Russiagate hysteria ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180807 : On Iran, the Neocons Are No Ronald Reagan by Barbara Slavin ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180807 : Iran sactions will be another instance of Trump learning that intimidating countries is a different game than making hotel project deals ( Aug 07, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180807 : Would War With Iran Doom Trump by Pat Buchanan ( Aug 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180806 : The deeper problem, is that while Max Boot get so many issues wrong, he is given such a massive platform for propagating his neocon views. ( Aug 06, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180806 : Both Zionism and Nazism are essentially exaggerations of Nineteenth century European racial nationalism, both posit a more or less imaginary history to justify their territorial claims ( Aug 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180806 : The Birth of a Bomb and the Rebirth of a City ( Aug 06, 2018 , angrybearblog.com )
- 20180806 : Sanctions and Trump s Disdain for Diplomacy by Daniel Larison ( Aug 06, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180806 : The Rise and Continued Influence of the Neocons. The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) ( Aug 06, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180806 : The deeper problem, is that while Max Boot get so many issues wrong, he is given such a massive platform for propagating his neocon views. ( Aug 06, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180806 : Trump Warns Allies Risk Severe Consequences If They Violate Iran Sanctions Zero Hedge ( Aug 06, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180805* Cooper was equally as unhinged as Boot: Neoliberal MSM is a real 1984 remake. ( Aug 05, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180805 : The Skripals' misadventure (contretemps, dust up, theater, bit of bother) is absurd but did the U.K. government embrace it with alacrity and a vengeance or what? by Ron Unz ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : "Anti-semitism" is merely the enforcement wing of Zionism ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Question ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : The Empire-Lovers Strike Back Trump, Putin and the Post-Helsinki Uproar ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180805 : Donald Trump and the American Left by Rob Urie ( Aug 03, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180805 : Israel is not only Iran's greatest enemy, it's ours as well. ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Trump as the "disposable President" for the Neocons? ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Film that tracking the neocon influence and how the neoconservatives from the Bush era pushed the Iraq war ( Aug 04, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180805 : Has US misread the Iranian street ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.csmonitor.com )
- 20180805 : Marxism is a colossal ideology ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Multiculturalism is a recipe for national suicide. Culture, including religious belief, is the unifying factor that allows strangers to work with one another, by ensuring that they share the same assumptions about morality and about correct behavior in general. ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Nationalists winning Eastern Europe after the dissolution of the USSR is a verifiable tendency ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Ideas of stability, homeostasis, and the like, cannot win. ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Mulegino1 ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Earlier this year, Representative James Moran, a Democrat, said that "if it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this." ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free but as causally bound as the stars in their motions ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180805 : A real collusion happened with 911. The BBC knew that tower 7 would fall before it did ( Aug 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180804 : The "next" financial crisis and public banking as the response by Michael Hudson ( Aug 04, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180803 : US Senators Announce Russia Sanctions 'Bill From Hell' ( Aug 15, 2018 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
- 20180803 : Latin America: Reforms Which Deform ( Aug 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180803 : Would War With Iran Doom Trump by Pat Buchanan ( Aug 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180803 : The elites "have no credibility left by David North and Chris Hedges ( Oct 06, 2017 , www.unz.com )
- 20180803 : Appeasement as Global Policy by James Petras ( Aug 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180803 : Anglo America Russophobes as Fake Miracle workers; the Post Christ Resurrections ( Jun 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180802 : Stephen F. Cohen Debates Max Boot on CNN ( Jul 31, 2018 , American Committee for East-West Accord )
- 20180802 : Prof Cohen beating Max Boot like a rented mule ( Aug 02, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180802 : As I heard a USA female politician say about the USA Zionist lobby 'we do not like them, w're afraid of them'. ( Aug 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180802 : Stephen F. Cohen Debates Max Boot on CNN ( Jul 31, 2018 , American Committee for East-West Accord )
- 20180802 : Theatrical micro-militarism ( Aug 02, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180802 : Note on the level of efficiency of imperial brainwashing ( Aug 02, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180802 : Chalmers Johnson Dismantling the Empire by Tom Engelhardt ( Jul 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180802 : No Peter Brimelow, I Am Not Reviewing Jonah [Expletive Deleted] Goldberg's New Book by Hubert Collins ( Aug 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180802 : The Trump Doctrine Has Foreign Policy Elites Pulling Out Their Hair by Harry J. Kazianis ( Aug 02, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180802 : Prof Cohen beating Max Boot like a rented mule ( Aug 02, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180801 : Let Mikey do it Maybe not. ( Aug 01, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180731 : Uber Neocon Max Boot Often Wrong but Never in Doubt by Richard C. Young ( Jul 19, 2018 , www.richardcyoung.com )
- 20180731 : Trump vs. the New World Order by Stephen Kokx ( Mar 07, 2016 , akacatholic.com )
- 20180731 : Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire by Chalmers Johnson ( Jul 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180731 : Uber Neocon Max Boot Often Wrong but Never in Doubt by Richard C. Young ( Jul 19, 2018 , www.richardcyoung.com )
- 20180731 : Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire, by Chalmers Johnson - The Unz Review ( Jul 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180731 : Chalmers Johnson Dismantling the Empire, by Tom Engelhardt - The Unz Review ( Jul 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180731 : The Yellow Peril Comes to Washington by Philip Giraldi ( Jul 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180729 : The Helsinki Debacle and US-Russian Relations ( Jul 18, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180729 : Russians exposed a CIA spook who's implicated not only in Secret Agent Browder's war propaganda ( Jul 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180729 : Russia can mediate a grand bargain on Syria ( Jul 25, 2018 , blogs.rediff.com )
- 20180729 : The Putin-Trump Helsinki summit by The Saker ( Jul 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180729 : Trump is being beaten down by the propaganda arm of the deep state (the MSM) but his tenacity is paying off. Already poles are indicating that the majority of people are not taken in by the charade ( Jul 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180729 : The Helsinki summit, CIA-run media and U.S.-Russian Relations ( Jul 18, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180728 : Alex Krainer's book. It is a devastating critique of Browder, ( Jul 28, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180728 : How my book unmasking Bill Browder was censored by Amazon by Alex Krainer ( Oct 05, 2017 , thesaker.is )
- 20180727 : America's Allies Against Russia Iran, by Eric Zuesse - The Unz Review ( Jul 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180727 : Financial Times: Chinese Officials "Awed" by Trump's "Skill as a Strategist and Tactician" ( Jul 27, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180725 : US-Russia-China triangle in flux, again ( Jul 25, 2018 , blogs.rediff.com )
- 20180724 : How think tanks sell war... ( Aug 18, 2017 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180724 : Browder is one of those nine Russian oligarchs who stole hundreds of billions from Russia, helped by the drunken buffoon Yeltsin and a battery of Wall Street financial sharpies who also filled their pockets. ( Jul 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180724 : Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World by Philip Giraldi ( Jul 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180724 : Helsinki Secrets by Israel Shamir ( Jul 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180724 : Trump Seeks Confrontation for Its Own Sake by Daniel Larison • ( Jul 24, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180724 : Leaked Netanyahu Tape We Made Trump Cancel The Iran Deal by Tyler Durden ( Jul 18, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180723 : the CIA is the armed wing of Washington s permanently governing technocratic party, in the same way the KGB was the armed wing of the Soviet Communist Party. ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : American Pravda The Bolshevik Revolution and Its Aftermath, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : "Summitgate" screaming comes not only from the US mainstream, but also from that European elite ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : Muslim population of Russia ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : Those people who still think Trey Gowdy is some sort of great conservative warrior are about as annoying as those who still do not realize that Steve Bannon is nothing but a bloviating, Deep State douchebag. ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments by John Laughland ( Jul 19, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180723 : MK-DELTABURKE ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : 'Perpetual War' Explained In 140 Seconds ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180723 : Brennan, Hayden, Panetta, Morell, might well be children of parents who supported Joseph McCarthy ( Jul 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180723 : Roaming Charges: Are You Putin Me On? by Jeffrey St. Clair ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180722 : Trump Trips, But He's Right On Russia. Our Ruling Class Is Crazy. Remember The Romanovs! by John Derbyshire ( Jul 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180722 : Trump and the crisis of the neoliberal world order by Ashley Smith ( Jul 22, 2018 , isreview.org )
- 20180722 : Trump's New Neoliberalism s by Marco Rosaire Rossi ( Jan 07, 2018 , new-compass.net )
- 20180722 : Mass Dementia in the Western Establishment by Diana Johnstone ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180721 : Don t let his trade policy fool you Trump is a neoliberal by Daniel Bessner and Matthew Sparke ( Mar 22, 2017 , www.washingtonpost.com )
- 20180721 : Either Trump Fires These People Or The Borg Will Have Won ( Jul 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180720* Doubting The Intelligence Of The Intelligence Community by Ilana Mercer ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180720* Is President Trump A Traitor Because He Wants Peace With Russia by Paul Craig Roberts ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180720* Tucker Carlson The Cold War Is Over. The World Has Changed. Time To Rethink America's Alliances ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.realclearpolitics.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180720 : The reception of the Trump- Putin meeting is breathtaking. I have in my 61 years never witnessed such a hate and slander in the MSM ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180720 : Mrs. Clinton, who was criminally negligent with regard to the most important classified information, has been protected by the politicking Brennan, Clapper, and Mueller ( Jul 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180720 : US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of ( Jul 20, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180719 : America Overrules Trump No Peace with Russia by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts ( Jul 19, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180719 : The Magnitsky Hoax by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 28, 2016 , www.unz.com )
- 20180719 : Iraqi protesters blame 'bad government, bad roads, bad people' by Patrick Cockburn ( Jul 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180719 : Yes, We Should Call Them Imperialists by Paul Gottfried ( Jul 19, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180719 : Strzokgate is a documentary proof that key elements of the U.S. intelligence community were trying to short-circuit the US democratic process ( Jan 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180719 : Rather than yell at the top of one's lungs "Fake News" when they read a mainstream or alternative media story, and immediately discount everything, people ought look CRITICALLY at the facts, consider any bias, read other sources on the issue, and then draw their own conclusions ( Jul 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180719 : Lies About Putin and Syria by Ilana Mercer ( Jul 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180719 : MIC is afread to lose money because of Trump policies by Lara Seligman ( Jul 19, 2018 , foreignpolicy.com )
- 20180718 : The Russian elite realized that they could lose their money and houses anytime – not in godless Putin's Russia, but in the free West, where they had preferred to look for refuge. The Magnitsky Act paved the road to the Cyprus confiscation of Russian deposits, to post-Crimean sanctions and to a full-fledged Cold War by Israel Shamir ( June 20, 2016 , www.unz.com )
- 20180718 : National (In)Security by Rajan Menon ( Jul 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180718 : Syria and geopolitics of oil ( Jul 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180718 : After the press conference the usual anti-Trump operatives went ballistic ( Jul 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180718 : Deconstructing Bill Browder's Dangerous Deception Alex Krainer: with review by The Saker ( Aug 18, 2017 , thesaker.is )
- 20180717 : Doesn't the Universe work in such a way that *good* is constitutionally unable to successfully confront *evil* ( Jul 17, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180717 : Mass hysteria is exactly what it is, because it threatens their gravy train that comes from money taken by force from taxpayers. the citizens voted against the establishment, and the establishment is fighting back along with their MSM cronies. ( Jul 17, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180717 : Sic Semper Tyrannis Editorial - China hacked Clinton s e-mail ( Jul 17, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180717 : All the post WWII wars were done in the same way: demonizing leaders, defending democracy , false flag ops. ( Jul 17, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180716 : A Trump Foreign Policy by Dimitri K. Simes ( Jun 20, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180716 : Excellent Russian Analysis of Upcoming Trump - Putin Helsinki Meeting from Russian TV's New York Correspondent ( Jul 16, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180716 : The Racial Realignment of American Politics by Patrick McDermott ( Jul 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180715* What Mueller won t find by Bob In Portland ( Jul 12, 2018 , caucus99percent.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180715* As if the Donald did not sanctioned to death the Russians on every possible level. How is this different from Mueller's and comp witch hunt against the Russians? ( Jul 15, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180715 : Effect of the US TV on a parrot ( Jun 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180715 : Effect of the US TV on a parrot ( Jun 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180715 : Anglos don't value direct warfare, so they don't care if another military has better tech. Anglos realized a long time ago it is much less costly to just play divide and conquer to defeat a more powerful adversary by getting other countries to do the fighting. ( Jul 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180715 : Reasons Trump Breaks Nuclear-Sanction Agreement with Iran, Declares Trade War with China, and Meets with North Korea by James Petras ( May 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180715 : Forensic evidence has already proven that the data on the DNC server was downloaded on a USB thump drive. ( Jul 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180715 : Trump Marches Onward and Downward, by James Petras - The Unz Review ( Jul 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180714 : McMaken The Military Is A Jobs Program... For Immigrants Many Others ( Jul 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180714 : Trump Marches Onward and Downward, by James Petras - The Unz Review ( Jul 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180714 : Rediscovering the Art of Diplomacy With Vladimir Putin by Ted Galen Carpenter ( Jul 14, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180714 : Is Washington Playing Iran's Useful Idiot in Syria The American Conservative ( Jul 13, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180713 : Brennan insinuations are related to attempts to preserve the American empire ( Jul 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180713 : Trump, Putin, Marine Le Pen, the AfD, and a variety of other globalist-hating Hitler-alikes form "the Alliance of Authoritarian and Reactionary States" (the "AARS ) conspired to disband the European Union and NATO by C.J. Hopkins ( Jul 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180713 : Trump in a SAG actor, with decades of experience in professional entertainment though, so he knows how to play to his audience. ( Jul 13, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180712 : Challenging Chait s Paradigm by Hunter DeRensis ( Jul 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180712 : Mueller again asks for delay in Flynn sentencing by Morgan Chalfant ( Jun 29, 2018 , thehill.com )
- 20180711 : Pompeo's Breathtaking Arrogance by Daniel Larison ( Jul 11, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180711 : Senator McConnell always conjures the image and mannerisms of Colonel Sanders (ala Kentucky Fried Chicken) ( Jul 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180711 : National security means making sure the investments of the oligarchy are secured by the nation. Gen. Smedley Butler had it right 80 years ago. ( Jul 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180711 : War is not the opposite of peace, 'security' is the opposite of peace ( Jul 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180711 : Angry Bear " Bombing for Votes Public opinion shifts during the Iraq war and implications for future conflicts by Jeff Soplop ( Jul 09, 2018 , angrybearblog.com )
- 20180711 : Senator McConnell always conjures the image and mannerisms of Colonel Sanders (ala Kentucky Fried Chicken) ( Jul 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180711 : Pompeo's Breathtaking Arrogance by Daniel Larison ( Jul 11, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180710 : A Neoconservative Plan for Punishing Iran, by Philip Giraldi - The Unz Review ( Jul 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : 'Pay Up You NATO Deadbeats or Else!' by Eric Margolis ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : American Pravda Post-War France and Post-War Germany, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Pompeo's "Unilateral Gangster Mindset" Transcript of DPRK Statement Regarding North Korea U.S. High-level Talks in Pyongyang ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180709 : Some feelings toward Wall Street ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : July 4th and What It Really Means for Us by Boyd D. Cathey ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Leaked Chinese Memo Warns Of Thucydides Trap ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180709 : My own observation is that most of the projected U.S./Russian and U.S./Chinese confrontations would involve very extended lines of communication in the case of U.S. forces. ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Another bait and switch ? ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : WPOP fielded by the Unv of Maryland might be preferable to the polls like Pew ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Israel supported Al Qaeda in Syria: Former Mossad Chief ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Heated Debate: Kevork Almassian vs. FSA opposition representatives ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : anarchyst ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : I do not recall seeing any U.S. followup to the (Vincennes) atrocity ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Charles Krauthammer: Finally they are hitting targets power plants, fuel depots, bridges, airports, television transmitters that may indeed kill the enemy and civilians nearby ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : "Joshua Ryne Goldberg, a 20-year old living at his parents' house in US state of Florida, is accused of posing online as "Australi Witness," an IS supporter who publicly called for a series of attacks against individuals and events in western countries. ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Sic Semper Tyrannis Pompeo s prospects outlook from a 40-year Pyongyang watcher ( Jul 09, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180709 : Jul 2, 2018 - Peace Lover Trump? by Carlton Meyer ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.g2mil.com )
- 20180709 : Pancake theory weakness: It is impossible that floors above break floors below and continue breaking them up to the ground level. If the floors below disintegrate, then the floors above also disintegrate. ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : The myth of Jewish "superintellegnce" as a part of Zionism set of myths ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : Gilad Atzmon: The Cognitive Elite of Jewish History ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180709 : On the subject of Jews celebrating the death of others, I have seen photos of them gaily cooking Rachel Corrie pancakes to celebrate the death of the American student they brutally crushed to death with a tractor in occupied Palestine. ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180708 : The Doctrine of 'Superior People', by James Petras ( Jul 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180708 : A 29-year-old clerical employee in the Escondido City Manager's Office was forced out of his job this week after city officials learned he operates an anti-Semitic website and is active in a movement that blames Jews for the 9/11 terror attacks ( Jul 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : The recent Zionist behaviour toward Palestinians is nothing new ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : Since the model for apartheid is South Africa's segregating large parts of its population by pushing people of common race or ethnicity into Bantustans and restricting their rights in the rest off South Africa it is easy to see why Israel's treatment of Palestinians is compared to Apartheid ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : Israel is and always has been a racist ethnocracy, i.e., a political structure in which the state apparatus is appropriated by a dominant ethnic group to further its interests, power and resources. In short, apartheid ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : When the country is in US crosshears the elite of this country should better washet out: color revolutions has thier own dynamic and after they are lauchend it is more difficult to stop them that to at the very begnning. Also in such cases, as EuroMaydan has shown, an importnat role is played by turncoats with the goverment ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : ChuckOrloski ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : Correcting the historical record is not being a "fanboy" of anyone. The teaching and interpretation of history has far reaching consequences for the people, and its precisely the distortion and falsification of said history which leads to its mass manipulation ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War. ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180707 : All social orders and hierarchies are imagined, they are all fragile, and the larger the society, the more fragile it is. The crucial historical role of religion has been to give superhuman legitimacy to these fragile structures ( Jul 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : It not that Congress is a solid supported of Israel it is that Israel is a solid supporter of the US foreign policy ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Ralph Peters is a nice example of the nuttiest neocons around ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : If Ukraine drifts into chaos, its neighbors, being aware of its history of extreme violence and atrocity are preparing themselves for the spillover ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Pathological lust for political power which afflicted so many is in itself a good indication of a borderline disorder. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : The argument for creationism as far as I've heard it posited, is that our earth was 'seeded' with the DNA molecule, (as presumably other planets throughout the universe were as well), and that this was done by some intelligent (or otherwise deliberate) agent. (G0d?) ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : I am pretty sure without WWII there would be no 1991. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Putin conversion from atheist to a believer ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : An interesting variation of anti-Putin propaganda in blogs ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Russian army usually outperform Russian economy ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Russia's history is a bit more complex than some Manichean struggle between evil Jews and noble Russian Orthodox Christians. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Russia, the Neoconservatives, and the Real Issues Involved by Boyd D. Cathey ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Svidomite (Ukrainian nationalist anti-Russian view) has gotten greater academic play in US russian studies ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Russian "neoliberals" both grant-supported and ones that are not is a separate animal altogether ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : I believe that sexual attraction to the same gender, as well as a desire to change one's gender, are symptoms of mental disorder. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Russophobs and neocons are not crazy: they are cynical people without scruples working for money ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : The crisis of neoliberal society and American Empire is systemic and neocons are only are only one, however important, part of that. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : American military record of imperial adventures in second half of XX-early XXI century, once one discounts this turkey shoot of incompetent Iraq military in the Gulf Wars, is rather dismal. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : David R. Henderson on the Effects of War ( Jul 06, 2018 , scotthorton.org )
- 20180706 : The top levels of the USM pyramid know well the limits of the neoliberal box they've gotten themselves into. They've built the wrong force structure for the world as it is and will be. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : But I do not think the neocons are ideologues unless lawless disregard for humanity in search of profit, is an ideology. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Something about Richard Pipes ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : New PNAC formed. Called the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI) ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Are terms "neocon" and "Jew" synonyms ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Cannot see much difference between neocons and Deep State ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Geopolitical geo-economic challenges that the US West faces compels even good old-fashioned Anglo-Imperialists to say nasty things about Russia. ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180706 : Are there certain things that can't be questioned in a given society, without the risk of destruction of this society? ( Jul 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180705 : SNAFU! Dr. Phillip Karber on the Russian Way of War (MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!!) ( Jul 05, 2018 , www.snafu-solomon.com )
- 20180705 : Trump Has Repeatedly Pushed for US to Invade Venezuela by Jason Ditz ( Jul 04, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20180704 : Call It 'Unileaderism' Trump's Foreign Policy of One by John Feffer ( Jul 04, 2018 , fpif.org )
- 20180703 : With some exceptions Putin practices "national neoliberalism" in Russia ( Jul 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180703 : One day the world will realize how close we've come to WW III in the period between 2015/2020. An extended version of the Cuban missile crisis, if you will, but this time with only one statesman participating in this conundrum, the president of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. V.V. Putin. ( Jul 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180703 : Lots of people pretended to be persecuted just to get freebees in the US and elsewhere ( Jul 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180703 : No Fifth Column in the Kremlin Think again by The Saker ( Jun 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180703 : Just over a year ago, supposed Wikileaks source Seth Rich was assassinated ( Jul 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180703 : Trump's "Infrastructure" Plan: Pump Up the Pentagon by William Hartung ( Jul 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180703 : http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-10-28/news/0410280265_1_donald-trump-soros-fund-management-blackacre-institutional-capital-management ( Jul 03, 2018 , articles.chicagotribune.com )
- 20180703 : Donald Trump has been business partners with George Soros in at least $6 Billion in properties for more than a decade before his candidacy. They were even codefendants in a RICO suit (organized crime, as in the Jewish Mafia). ( Jul 03, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180628 : What is John Bolton s role in Trump s ME drama? ( Jun 28, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180628 : How America's Wars Fund Inequality at Home by Stephanie Savell ( Jun 28, 2018 , www.tomdispatch.com )
- 20180628 : If Putin's behavior in the near abroad makes him a "thug," what can we say about Bush, Obama and Trump? ( Jun 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180628 : More trade with Russia makes subjugation of Russia impossible ( Jun 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180628 : At War With Ourselves The Domestic Consequences of Foreign Policies ( Jun 28, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180628 : The neocons believe in only two things. First, that the United States is the sole world superpower, given license by something like a Divine Entity to exercise global leadership by force if necessary ( Jun 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180628 : China's Port In Sri Lanka's Is Good Business - The NYT's Report On It Is Propaganda ( Jun 28, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180627 : How Washington Has Lost Its Way ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20180627 : Holmes, Uncle Clunk, and and Epic Con Job, by Fred Reed - The Unz Review ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : jilles dykstra ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Iranian condensate will most likely replace US condensate to China as much as possible. ( Jun 27, 2018 , peakoilbarrel.com )
- 20180627 : Putin is rather philo-semitic ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Crawfurdmuir ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Immigration Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions by James Petras ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Globalists are plum tired of American middle class population, and their main purpose in the world is over ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : An induced torpor of complacency will make it seem impossible for neoliberal globalists to accesp the new reality until the last moment, then it's too late ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : jack daniels ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : The mechanics of identity wedge in politics ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Disclaimer ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Have some sympathy, but my opinion is that most such groups were used at the time by the national police and by the CIA to oppose people with more serious ideas, and the support for such groups at the time by CIA etc. in the U.S.A and in Europe is making serious cultural and sometimes violent (I see photos of Antlfa morons, etc., direct descendants) blowback. ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180627 : Space Command is About to Launch! by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Clinton was parachuted from Arkansas as a suitable puppet. ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : American Pravda The JFK Assassination, Part II Who Did It by Ron Unz ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Interesting players on the ground in Dallas that day included GHW Bush ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : The cultivation of a positive American image abroad was a primary concern of the Deep State, and given what immeasurable harm the exposure of a CIA coup would have done to America's standing as 'leader of the free world' I cannot imagine the plot was CIA-hatched or led. CIA connivance and behind-the-scenes assistance raises very interesting possibilities, though. ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Why Trump delayed release of the Kennedy files yet again ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : LJB and a crew of Texas Oil magnates and John Birch Society types in place and ready to help. They even posted a 'Wanted for Treason' poster the day Kennedy arrived ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Autopsy controversy ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Interesting similarities berween JFK assasination and 9/11 ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Was CIA and LBJ worked in tandem in the JFK assassination? ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : The opposition media is created to nominally represent alternative views but in reality to silence of the issues you want silenced. ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Why lymo, which as acrime scene artifact was repaired so quickly ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : See Col. L. Fletcher Prouty on why CIA hated JFK ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Was Osvald a CIA agent? ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Here's a good History Channel special on how LBJ may have been involved with the JFK assassination. I personally think it makes a pretty good case. ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Buzz Mohawk ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Italy bans freemasons from cabinet minister positions ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : How Many Turncoats Make a Coverup? Adam Waldman, Julian Assange, Oleg Deripaska and Luke Harding by John Helmer ( Jun 26, 2018 , johnhelmer.net )
- 20180626 : Extensive Interviews with USS Liberty Survivors' Audio tapes obtained by award winning British film maker Richard Belfield prove what every USS Liberty survivor, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer have said all along: that Israel deliberately attacked an American ship. ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180626 : Despite these very difficult conditions, a member of the crew heroically managed to jerry-rig a replacement antenna during the attempt, and by trying numerous different frequencies, was able to evade the jamming ( Jun 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180625 : Comment on "Trump and "National Neoliberalism"" ( Jun 25, 2018 , triplecrisis.com )
- 20180624 : Israel and the status of Jews in the USA ( Jun 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180624 : The government of the USA has marked Putin for destruction. But I think the rest of the world is rooting for him, and the Russian people, to survive the American onslaught. ( Jun 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180624 : Article 17 of the Russian Constitution says rights and freedoms of person and citizen are recognized and guaranteed pursuant to the generally recognized principles and norms of international law ( Jun 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180624 : Treason To What I'm With The Russians, They Hate Us Less Than The Media Does!, by James Kirkpatrick - The Unz Review ( Jun 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180624 : dfordoom ( Jun 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180624 : annamaria ( Jun 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180621 : Britain In Panic As Trump-Putin Summit Looms : all roads in Russiagate lead to London, not, be it noted, Moscow. by Alexander Mercouris ( Jun 21, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180621 : Britain In Panic As Trump-Putin Summit Looms : all roads in Russiagate lead to London, not, be it noted, Moscow. by Alexander Mercouris ( Jun 21, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180621 : Neocons, Zionists and Evangelicals ( Jun 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180621 : Mad Dog Mattis, the destroyer of Raqqa, frets about losing moral authority by Finian Cunningham ( Jun 20, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180620 : Awaiting the Putin-Nazi Apocalypse by C.J. Hopkins ( Jun 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180620 : Never underestimate what a man will do to keep a good-paying job. ( Jun 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180619* How The Last Superpower Was Unchained by Tom Engelhardt ( Jun 19, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180619 : Will the Real Donald Trump Please Stand Up by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180619 : U.S. Humiliates South Korea, Threatens North Korea, by David William Pear - The Unz Review ( Jun 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180618* American Pravda The JFK Assassination, Part I - What Happened, by Ron Unz - The Unz Review ( Jun 18, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180618 : The next year the strategic position of Ukraine might get worse ( Jun 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180618 : 'Deep Throat' was fiction, the CIA had all the info, the CIA fake 'leaker' is another big distraction game getting repeated ( Jun 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180618 : In criminal investigations the first question always is 'who benefits'. The weird thing in political suspicious deaths is that this question is seldom asked ( Jun 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180617* Mattis Putin Is Trying To Undermine America s Moral Authority by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jun 17, 2018 , caitlinjohnstone.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180617* the dominant political forces in EU are anti-Russia ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180617 : Is Anti-War Fever Building in the US by Gaius Publius ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180617 : As for Putin, it could be, that he is, for now, on a footing of equal to the insiders of above, he must somehow understand (Putin gives a public impression to be cognitively superior to all other political tarts of the moment) that real problems are global ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180617 : Can the EU become a partner for Russia by The Saker ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180617 : After WWII it took most Europeans less than a generation to revert to the traditional anti-Russian attitudes ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180617 : On Polish Russophobia ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180617 : In the German parliament Merkel and her supporters battle to continue their anti German policy against the CSU even in the CDU (Merkel's party) there are courageous people who that remind Merkel by whom she is paid, and to who she has obligations. ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180617 : "The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth ( Jun 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180616 : Putin and orthodox religion ( Jun 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180616 : Current Russian regime got bad roots. It cares not for people. Current increase of retirement age is another testament to this ( Jun 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180616 : Remember general plan Ost ( Jun 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180615 : Putin, Donbass, emigration of Ukranians to Russia and US neocons foreign policy ( Jun 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180615 : The West, not Putin, organized and supported a coup bringing to the power a super-corrupt illegitimate "government" that relies on armed neo-Nazi groups for the control of the county ( Jun 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180615 : Ralph Peters as one of the nuttiest neocons around. But as far as Jews are concerned, this appears to be yet another red herring, like Russia-bashing. Are gentile Koch brothers or Walton family any better than the worst Jews in the US? They are just as selfish, greedy, and repulsive as George Soros or Sheldon Adelson ( Jun 15, 2018 , www.g2mil.com )
- 20180615 : Russia, the Neoconservatives, and the Real Issues Involved by Boyd D. Cathey ( Jun 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180613 : Leaving the past behind ... by TTG ( Jun 13, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180613 : Egor Kholmogorov Stalin Is Not Great, by Anatoly Karlin - The Unz Review ( Jun 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180613 : Germany Was Defeated on the Eastern Front, Not Normandy, by Eric Margolis - The Unz Review ( Jun 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180612 : The Trump doctrine: 'the more you screw them the better they like it'! ( Jun 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180612 : With Trump-Kim Summit Hours Away, Iran Has Warning For North Korea Zero Hedge ( Jun 12, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180612 : Is Putin really ready to ditch Iran by The Saker ( Jun 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180612 : Understanding power of Israeli lobby in the USA by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180612 : The Israeli Attack On The USS Liberty by Paul Craig Roberts ( Jun 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180612 : In The Western World Truth Is An Endangered Species by Paul Craig Roberts ( Jun 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180611 : John F. Kennedy and the Question of World Peace ( Jun 11, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180611 : I think it wise to examine what Trump's outbursts at and beyond the G6+1 are based upon--his understanding of Economic Nationalism ( Jun 11, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180610 : Some display a weird obsession with colonialism. In reality everyone's self-serving; the form changes but at the end of the day, that's nature. And evidently the West, whatever foibles it has, should at least make an effort to survive ( Jun 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180609* Spooks Spooking Themselves by Daniel Lazare ( May 31, 2018 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180609* Still Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack by Ray McGovern ( Jun 09, 2018 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180609 : My father's MI5 file shows that not all facts are equal, by Patrick Cockburn - The Unz Review ( Jun 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180609 : What Goes Around: "Trampling on the Helpless Abroad" Comes Home ( Jun 09, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180609 : Dems Put Finishing Touches on One-Party 'Surveillance Superstate' by Mike Whitney ( Jun 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180606* Trump Voters, Your Savior Is Betraying You by Nicholas Kristof ( Feb 25, 2017 , www.nytimes.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180606* Why Foreign Policy Realism Isn't Enough by William S. Smith ( Jun 06, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180606 : >John Bolton is now part of the Cambridge Analytica scandal ( Jun 06, 2018 , newrepublic.com )
- 20180606 : Despite the fact that Trump folded, for the foreseeable future the Neocons will continue to focus their energy on trying to impeach Trump by the Saker ( Sep 20, 2017 , www.unz.com )
- 20180606 : >John Bolton is now part of the Cambridge Analytica scandal ( Jun 06, 2018 , newrepublic.com )
- 20180605 : The USA fear about Russia and the EU member states seems to be twofold: (1) more trade with Russia makes subjugation of Russia impossible; (2) more trade with Russia, and the railway connections with China, threaten to turn the USA into an economic backwater ( Jun 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180605 : Russophob claims: Russia has long been a colonial power. It simply expanded into its near abroad and has remained an empire in spite of the dissolution of the Tsarist/Soviet empire ( Jun 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180605 : Hating Russia is a Full-Time Job, by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180605 : Mourning in America The Day RFK Was Shot in Los Angeles The American Conservative ( Jun 05, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180605 : The Political Assassin Who Brought Down RFK ( Jun 05, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180604 : Ryan Dawson And Michael Collins Piper Israel And JFK ( Jan 24, 2014 , fromthetrenchesworldreport.com )
- 20180604 : Was LBJ Shacked up with a pretty Zionist when Israel attacked the USS Liberty? ( Sep 19, 2014 , truthscooper.wordpress.com )
- 20180604 : Links between LBJ and Mathilde Krim by Philip Weiss ( Jan 18, 2018 , mondoweiss.net )
- 20180603 : Brabantian ( Jun 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180603 : Did Israel Kill the Kennedys by Laurent Guyénot ( Jun 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180603 : Poland Under the Jewish Messiah, by Israel Shamir - The Unz Review ( Jun 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180601 : Illusion: The international campaign to unseat Bashar Assad is really an Izreaili campaign. In reality, secular nationalist Arab regimes were eliminated by the USA as regimes hostile to neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization ( Jun 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180601 : This People and Power film from 2010 investigated accusations that in 1952 the United States acquired and used germ-warfare technology on North Korea ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
- 20180530 : The 3-Step Guide for Tricking America into a War by John Richard Cookson ( May 28, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180529 : On Memorial Day, Getting Beyond 'Thank You For Your Service' The American Conservative ( May 29, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180529 : The Saudi Lobby s Scheme to Destroy the Iran Deal by By William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman ( May 23, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180528 : Making Sense Of America s Empire Of Chaos ( May 28, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180528 : What if Memorial Day was an occasion to remember all the horrific crimes of our nation, and vow to atone for them? Instead of a day to worship and kiss the militarist boot that is grinding our culture into the dirt ( May 28, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180528 : How To Honor Memorial Day by Ray McGovern ( May 28, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180528 : Whenever I read anything purporting to identify international bad guys and good guys, I always like to ask: Who has this purported bad guy invaded recently? How many bombs has this bad guy dropped on other people s countries? ( May 09, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180528 : Why You Should Read These Military Classics by Andrew J. Bacevich ( May 28, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180528 : >A Major Win for Trump's War Cabinet ( May 28, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180527* Northwestern University roundtable discusses regime change in Russia Defend Democracy Press ( www.defenddemocracy.press ) [Recommended]
- 20180527 : Turning on Russia by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould ( May 27, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180527 : The origin and the logic of the neocon imperial project Balkanizing the Middle East, Balkanizing the World Defend Democracy ( May 27, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180526 : Sex and the Brain by James Thompson ( May 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180526 : Reabilitation of Summers speech about sex differences in abilities by James Thompson ( May 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180526 : Buchanan Is US Bellicosity Backfiring? ( May 26, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180526 : Creative Chaos by David Lorimer ( May 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180525 : Democracy as a hologram generated by neoliberal state machine by C.J. Hopkins ( May 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180525 : The Simulation of Democracy, by C.J. Hopkins - The Unz Review ( May 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180525 : Democracy as a hologram generated by neoliberal state machine by C.J. Hopkins ( May 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180525 : How John Bolton Sabotaged The North Korea Talks ( May 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180524* The diversion of Russia Gate is a continuation of former diversions such as the Tea Party which was invented by the banksters to turn public anger over the big banking collapse and the resulting recession into a movement to gain more deregulation for tax breaks for the wealthy ( May 24, 2018 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180524 : Since at least 1945, the United States has only fought stupid wars. Obama, the Nobel laureate, launched several under the radar, lower intensity stupid wars on his own (Lybia, Syria and Ukraine). Trump still did not lauched any althouth he already bombed Syria several times; As he is controlled by neocons he will have his own war as well ( May 18, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180524 : It's long been an American conceit that the way you negotiate is to demand a surrender by your opponent, and then you hammer out the terms of that surrendert by Dave Lindorff ( May 24, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180522* Cat fight within the US elite getting more intense ( May 22, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180522* Can the majority of the USA be made to see that neocons will ruin the USA, and that their power must be liquidated ? ( May 22, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180522 : There is an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, and a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. I guess a civil libertarian is a national security hawk that's been spied on. ( May 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180522 : It wasn't spying; it was an insurance policy. Just ask Strozk and whomever else was meeting over that topic. ( May 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180522 : There is an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, and a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. I guess a civil libertarian is a national security hawk that's been spied on. ( May 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180521 : Trump's New Campaign Against Iran Will Not Achieve Its Aims ( May 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180521 : Stop Kicking Sand in Kim's Face by Eric Margolis ( May 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180520 : Making sense of Russian political ambiguities by The Saker ( May 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180520 : The Russian-German Relationship Is in Free Fall ( May 20, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180520 : Far from "the intelligence community" believing any such thing, it was eventually admitted that a handful of picked individuals from three agencies (of the 16) had cautiously expressed that "belief" with the proviso that they acknowledged that they knew of no supporting evidence. ( May 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180520 : Palestine urges Arab allies to recall envoys in Washington ( May 17, 2018 , www.dailysabah.com )
- 20180520 : US sanctions entities linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah ( May 17, 2018 , www.dailysabah.com )
- 20180520 : Will Trump's Pyrrhic Victory End with America's Role As Global Bully by Philip M. GIRALDI ( May 20, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20180519 : Trump Doesn't Have North Korea 'Cornered' by Daniel Larison ( May 19, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180518 : Foreign Policy Insiders try to Scuttle Trump-Kim Nukes Deal by Mike Whitney ( May 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180518 : A Trump Doctrine for Singapore and Beyond by Pat Buchanan ( May 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180516 : Reasons Trump Breaks Nuclear-Sanction Agreement with Iran, Declares Trade War with China, and Meets with North Korea by James Petras ( May 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180516 : Time changes: Professor Shephen Cohen became more popular among readers of unz.com ( May 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180516 : Anthrax scare as a way to enrich private contractors ( May 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180515 : Haley s Embarrassing Defense of the Gaza Massacre by Daniel Larison ( May 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180515 : Bureaucrats Versus Artists by W. Patrick Lang ( May 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180515 : This is not 4% of GDP id misleading a more poroet figure is 30 percentof federal tax revenue or each third dollar collected ( May 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180515 : The Ruinously Expensive American Military by Philip Giraldi ( May 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180515 : Haley s Embarrassing Defense of the Gaza Massacre by Daniel Larison ( May 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180514 : Netanyahu "Let's You and Him Fight", by Fred Reed - The Unz Review ( May 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180514 : Israel will now drive the US to war with Iran. ( May 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180513 : Possibility of a new war in Middle East the shoot the oil prices to $200 frighten Germany ( May 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180513 : Confusion over Netanyahu visit to Moscow and Putin passivity over recurrent Israeli strikes of Syria territory ( May 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180513 : Fighting unending wars across thousands of miles of the planet for almost 17 years without end, while making the president into a global assassin, is the necessary course of action under neoliberalism as the goal is to preserve and expande global, led by the USA neoliberal empire using power of bayonets ( May 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180513 : The Skripals will most likely never be allowed to talk by The Saker ( May 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180512 : Bolton diplomacy: "We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York." ( May 12, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180512 : Neoliberal management and Zombies by Robert Bonomo ( May 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180512 : Closing Hormuz would likely be the Iranian response to a sustained bombing campaign. A single strike on a nuclear facility could elicit a missile strike on the attacking party (US, Isreal or both.) Or it could involve multiple attacks on vulnerable US troops in Iraq and Syria. Iran has several rungs in its escalation ladder. It doesn't have to jump to the top one all at once. ( May 12, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180512 : Yet another Israely false flag operation is needed to suck the US into attacking Iran. Supposed 'Iranian' counter-attack sets oil tankers ablaze (For maximum PR effect do not sink them) in the Hormuz straights closing the gulf to shipments of Gulf sourced oil. Oil prices temporarily spike to over $200 a barrel ( May 12, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180512 : Bolton diplomacy: "We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York." ( May 12, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180511 : Protecting Israel Is Their Full-Time Job by Philip Giraldi ( May 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180510 : Trump Ends The Nuclear Deal With Iran - What s Next ( May 10, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180504 : Neocon Jack Keane wants a permanent US presence in Syria ( Apr 27, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180504 : Too Many Foreign Policy Double Standards Hurt U.S. Credibility by Ted Galen Carpenter ( April 26, 2018 )
- 20180503* The 'Libya model' Trump's top bloodthirsty neocon indirectly admits that N. Korea will be invaded and destroyed as soon as it gives up its nukes by system failure ( May 03, 2018 , failedevolution.blogspot.gr ) [Recommended]
- 20180501 : Your assessment of Nikki Haley as a 'mental lightweight' is likely right ( May 01, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180501 : Israel is the main beneficiary of Syria war and the US hostility to Iran including Trump attempt to withdraw from JCPOA ( May 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180501 : Anti-Iran hysteria is just another round of manufactured consent ( May 01, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180501 : Netanyahoo's Iran Files are Well Known, Old and Purloined from Vienna ( May 01, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180501 : Smut Night at the Press Dinner by Pat Buchanan ( May 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180501 : The Korean Summit, by Israel Shamir - The Unz Review ( May 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180501 : Each American President needs to start at least one new war to feed military industrial complex and placated neocons -- their lobbists ( May 01, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180501 : Dumb Moves Have Consequences, by Philip Giraldi - The Unz Review ( May 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180501 : Your assessment of Nikki Haley as a 'mental lightweight' is likely right ( May 01, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180430 : If Nikki Haley was supposedly voted most likable US politician ( Apr 30, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180430 : Mike Pompeo who has been responsible for the effort to stop CIA support for ISIS, on directions from Donald J. Trump and the Pentagon faction which essentially controls the White House ( Apr 30, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180430 : If Nikki Haley was supposedly voted most likable US politician ( Apr 30, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180430 : Tracing the Rush to War by Craig Murray ( Apr 30, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180430 : Mike Pompeo who has been responsible for the effort to stop CIA support for ISIS, on directions from Donald J. Trump and the Pentagon faction which essentially controls the White House ( Apr 30, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180430 : Trump talks tough against Iran, but his political options are limited by Patrick Cockburn ( Apr 30, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180429 : Pompeo's Contempt for Diplomacy and the Nuclear Deal by Daniel Larison ( Apr 29, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180429 : Rules of war propaganda are fully applicable to Western Syria war coverage ( Apr 29, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180429 : Is the CIA Running a Defamation Campaign Against Putin by The Saker ( Apr 29, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180429 : The entire Liberal narratives around Vladimir Putin and Alexander Dugin are actually political reconstructions of the "Yellow Peril" stereotype ( Apr 29, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180429 : Pompeo's Contempt for Diplomacy and the Nuclear Deal by Daniel Larison ( Apr 29, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180429 : America is plagued by neocon experts without expertise ( Apr 29, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180429 : The Stupidity of Trying to 'Rewrite' the Nuclear Deal The American Conservative by Daniel Larison ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180429 : Macron's Tough Message to Washington by Eric Margolis ( Apr 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180428 : The Biggest Loser From a Successful Trump-Kim Summit China ( Apr 28, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180428 : Macron The Last Multilateralist ( Apr 28, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180427* A Most Sordid Profession by Fred Reed ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180427 : Roger Stone said that he has known John Bolton since the Reagan years. Stone claims Bolton is not a neocon warmonger but a guy who is a staunch believer in the old doctrine of peace through strength. ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180427 : Our friends here in China and in Russia tell us that we should not say this. Nevertheless, we do not respect the UN. It is controlled by many players, but in the end the master of puppets who pulls all the strings in the UN is the US. ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180427 : Pax-americana is slowly dying ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180427 : Syria Oil Play ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180427 : Mattis mentioned Iran twice in his Senate testimony yesterday, coupled with North Korea, with a return to those pesky Iran "nuclear ambitions." The US has had a lengthy war on "terror" so how about a war on "ambitions." Any excuse for war will do. ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180427 : Roger Stone said that he has known John Bolton since the Reagan years. Stone claims Bolton is not a neocon warmonger but a guy who is a staunch believer in the old doctrine of peace through strength. ( Apr 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : Even The Simpsons' writers weren't absurdist enough to come up with a President Haley. ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : The Neocons' Next Nightmare Project Waffle House Bombardier for POTUS 2020 by Philip Giraldi ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : CIA operatives Bradlee and his mentee Bob Woodward staged a coup. ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : Israel basically dictates Washington's official policies in the Mideast, it is Israel every bit as much as either occupied Washington or subservient Saudi Arabia that is probably most responsible for the anti-Assad chaos and carnage inside Syria. ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : Apparently Trump is backtracking on the US Troop pullout from Syria, or he was lying in the first place when he made that announcement: ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : Even The Simpsons' writers weren't absurdist enough to come up with a President Haley. ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : Drones, Baby, Drones! The Rise of Americas High-Tech Assassins ( Apr 03, 2015 , Alternet )
- 20180426 : The Neocons' Next Nightmare Project Waffle House Bombardier for POTUS 2020 by Philip Giraldi ( Apr 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180426 : The Skripal case and Douma false flag in Syria are clumsy, amateur attempts to push the US empire into war ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : Trump shouda put that McMahon wrestling lady in the propaganda department, shes pretty good at convincing 50 year old adults that wrestling is real. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : I'm as irritated as anybody by Brit-chauvinism, but their eminent contribution to the technical and philosophical foundations of modern society from Newton and Bacon through Locke, Smith, and Burke to Maxwell, Whitehead, and Turing is undeniable. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : The Zionists are very much like the CIA: they work secretly, scheming and planning their ugly machinations in the shadows for selfish gain. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : If I don't like the government and its policies (purchased by moneyed interests and non-Americans) am I an "America hater"? ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : Why did the Russians allow Israel so much freedom in Syria..from the start of their Syrian project? ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : The British dishonorable military officers run White Helmet rank-and-file: Any Qs about le Mesurier' and Tilley' devotion to militant Islamists and fanatical Israelis when good money is paid for the devotion? ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : The US claim of 100% effectiveness of their weapons system and 0% of the Syrian/Russian systems, this is plainly nonsense. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : Are the Russians Correct by W. Patrick Lang ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : The Lies Behind America's Interventions by Jon Basil Utley ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180425 : Trump can't keep the neocons off his back they are driving the bus. He's strapped into the driver's seat but isn't allowed to touch anything. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : Trump shouda put that McMahon wrestling lady in the propaganda department, shes pretty good at convincing 50 year old adults that wrestling is real. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : A big part of the "welfare" is corporate. Boeing, Lockheed, etc. ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : Is the Trump Administration/DoS trying to gaslight us? ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180425 : If Mattis didn't know about it, then he should have done and likewise with Trump ( Apr 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180424* America's Men Without Chests by Paul Grenier ( Apr 24, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180424 : Rand Paul Caves on Pompeo ( Apr 24, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180424 : This country has absolutely zero credibility or standing in the world anymore. All they've got is a military they can use to menace and bully the rest of the planet into submission. Which is a specialty of the Clintons ( Apr 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180424 : Rand Paul Caves on Pompeo ( Apr 24, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180423 : Syrian Narratives the Worthy, the Scurvy, and the Topsy-Turvy by Wendy Davis ( Apr 23, 2018 , caucus99percent.com )
- 20180422* The Crisis Is Only In Its Beginning Stages by Paul Craig Roberts ( Apr 17, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180422 : Yeah. Sociopath. Gives me the shivers. Bill is the same, but conceals it better. ( Apr 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180422 : The Pearl Harbor hearings were meant to protect Marshall and Stark, and use Kimmel and Short as scapegoats. ( Apr 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180421* Amazingly BBC newsnight just started preparing viewers for the possibility that there was no sarin attack, and the missile strikes might just have been for show ( Apr 21, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180421 : The UN Charter is very vague about a lot of things, but it's very clear about one thing, and that is, when is it legal to go to war ( Apr 21, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180421 : The lesson the neo-cons learnt from the Iraq war is not that it was disastrous. It was only disastrous for the dead and maimed Iraqis, our own dead and maimed servicemen, and those whose country was returned to medievalism. It was a great success for the neo-cons, they made loads of money on armaments and oil. ( Apr 21, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180421 : Orwell certainly chose his words well when he called the UK 'Airstrip One' in his book 1984. The UK government, the US neocons yapping little poodle. ( Apr 21, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180421 : CIA, MI6 and rebels: Rebels can be genuine protesters but they will brutally used by CIA and MI6 for nefarious purposes ( Apr 21, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180421 : The US, UK and France act like they own the world ( Apr 21, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180421 : First Joust by Israel Shamir ( Apr 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180421 : A short overview of the r ( Apr 21, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180421 : Ultimately Trump is a typical playground bully ( Apr 21, 2018 , theguardian.com )
- 20180420 : Haley has been an embarrassment for the US at the UN. It was thought that Haley could not be worse than Samantha Power, but she proved otherwise ( Apr 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180420 : The most simple explanation for the disaster in Syria is that a sovereign state protected its national interest from an international contingent of mercenaries. ( Apr 20, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180420 : The Great Game Comes to Syria by Conn Hallinan ( Apr 20, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180420 : In an age of fake news and endless propaganda it's very difficult these days to see the woods from the trees ( Apr 20, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
- 20180420 : Haley has been an embarrassment for the US at the UN. It was thought that Haley could not be worse than Samantha Power, but she proved otherwise ( Apr 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419* The Neocons Are Selling Koolaid Again! by W. Patrick Lang ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180419 : Mad madam prostitute Nick Halley has to be soothed by Kudlow telling her she was not a demented rat. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Looks like Pompeo is compete idiot despite hs Harvard degree ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : You forgot the man of exemplary truthfulness: Colin Powell with his vial at the UN. That became a meme. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : You can't make it up: Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell told the C Span Washington Journal audience this morning that there was "no danger from a chemical plume" after missiles struck Syrian chemical plants "because the attack was designed to burn up" the fumes. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Trump is a typical business tycoon: a clueless moron. Pence is just a weasel ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : New Trump reality show: A fake response to a fake gas attack with fake WMDs ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : The biggest damage from the strikes on Syria was to the credibility of the US, French and Airstrip One governments. In the days of dubya at least some effort was put into the false flags ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Trump foreign policy differ little from bush and Obama ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Jews vs non-Jews in Trump administration ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : I was one of Jeff Sessions' biggest supporters, complained loudly when Trump wanted to fire him. Now I wish I hadn't. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Few Saudis and 9-11: Wolfowitz al Saud, Zelikow al Saud, Feith al Saud, Wurmsers al Saud, Libby al Saud, Zakheim al Saud, Chertoff al Saud. Just a very few. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Sachs worked closely w/ Soros to plunder USSR/ FSU ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : They never planned to let "Harvey" survive to see an actual trial, because of the lack of evidence against him, and therefore the evidence of a high-level conspiracy would then be so obvious. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Effectiveness of anti cruse missiles weapons: 47 of the 71 intercepts they claim were done by modern Pantsir and Buk systems that Syria purchased around 2010. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Trump's Missile Fiasco: Did the Pentagon collaborate with Moscow on which targets to hit? by Mike Whitney ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Merkel is a CIA asset. She has skeletons in her closet from her time in East Germany, and her meteoric rise to power was clearly engineered by a third party she herself lacked both the experience and the power base within the party for doing it herself ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Theresa May ties with military-industrial complex ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : You forgot the man of exemplary truthfulness: Colin Powell with his vial at the UN. That became a meme. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Trump is a typical business tycoon: a clueless moron. Pence is just a weasel ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : New Trump reality show: A fake response to a fake gas attack with fake WMDs ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : You can't make it up: Oklahoma congressman Steve Russell told the C Span Washington Journal audience this morning that there was "no danger from a chemical plume" after missiles struck Syrian chemical plants "because the attack was designed to burn up" the fumes. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : The Corrupt U.S. Congress Cheers as the War Industry Steals Billions from the People's Coffers ! ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Mad madam prostitute Nick Halley has to be soothed by Kudlow telling her she was not a demented rat. ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180419 : Looks like Pompeo is compete idiot despite hs Harvard degree ( Apr 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180418 : How dare Larry Kudlow suggest Nikki got confused!!! ( Apr 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180418 : I believe Stoicism has a great deal of value for modern man. ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : Obama vs Trump: That is how the political mechanism of faux populism works. ( Apr 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180418 : Count on an inverted yield curve and Treasury Department derivative losses in the trillions on interest rate swaps sold to Wall Street banks ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : The topic of China is delicate here in Russia. If one considers the total and basically psychotic enmity from the West, offer of friendship from China is a godsend. ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : Russian show with Yakov Kedmi really surprised and disturbed me ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : Chinese position of Douma false flag ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : Voting in UN on Russian resolution ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : Possible sup ply of Russian S300 to Syria ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : The USA bombings do not hinder the progress of the Syrian army ( Apr 18, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180418 : There is nothing like American policies in the Trump era. Even the president is not necessarily the last word ( Apr 18, 2018 , blogs.rediff.com )
- 20180418 : How dare Larry Kudlow suggest Nikki got confused!!! ( Apr 18, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180417* Poor Alex ( Apr 17, 2018 , failedevolution.blogspot.gr ) [Recommended]
- 20180417 : The long hand of Bolton ( Apr 17, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180417 : John Bolton In Search of Carthage by By Michael Shindler ( Apr 17, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180417 : Back to Brinkmanship by Jacob Heilbrunn ( Apr 17, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180417 : Trump Strikes Syria (And the Possible Consequences) by Dave Majumdar ( Apr 17, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180417 : Robert Fisk Reports Head of Douma Clinic Denies Chemical Weapons Attack by Craig Murray ( Apr 16, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180417 : The long hand of Bolton ( Apr 17, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180417 : Trump Prisoner of the War Party by Patrick J. Buchanan ( Apr 17, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180416 : The Bolton-Pompeo Package ( Apr 16, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180416 : BREAKING US media claims Nikki Haley is author of Trump's anti-Iran policies ( Oct 14, 2017 , theduran.com )
- 20180416 : To Secure Democratic Vote Pompeo Masks Regime Change Agenda ( Apr 16, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20180416 : Israeli lobby and the US foreign policy ( Apr 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180416 : But what neither the British Government nor the OPCW have, to the present, acknowledged is that blood samples from the Skripal's contained two nerve agents, A-234, aka Novichok, plus 3-Quinuclidinyl Benzilate, aka BZ or Buzz. ( Apr 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180416 : Tracing the Rush to War by Craig Murray ( Apr 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180416 : The Bolton-Pompeo Package ( Apr 16, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180416 : Why Do They Tell US Transparent Lies by Paul Craig Roberts ( Apr 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180416 : Alas, this is far from over! by The Saker ( Apr 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180416 : Trump is the Republican Obama. The follow the same model of government: faux populist leader dogged by crazy critics that want to derail a righteous agenda. Less slick, but more jingoistic ( Apr 16, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180416 : Trump voters dissatisfaction now reached boiling level ( Apr 15, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180416 : BREAKING US media claims Nikki Haley is author of Trump's anti-Iran policies ( Oct 14, 2017 , theduran.com )
- 20180416 : To Secure Democratic Vote Pompeo Masks Regime Change Agenda ( Apr 16, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20180415* The Trump Regime Is Insane by Paul Craig Roberts ( Apr 13, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180415 : Neocons destroyed Trump. Or was he just a decoy like Oabam to ensure continuation of neocon policies which he secretly supports himself ( Apr 15, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180415 : How Will Moscow Respond to the Syria Strikes by Nikolas K. Gvosdev ( Apr 15, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180414 : Poison Gas Weapon Of Choice For "False News" ( Apr 14, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180414 : The Deep State Closes In On The Donald ( Apr 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180413 : Pompeo Russians 'Met Their Match,' US Killed Hundreds of Them in Syria by Jason Ditz ( Apr 12, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20180413 : The End of International Law by Thierry Meyssan ( Apr 13, 2018 , www.voltairenet.org )
- 20180413 : Pompeo Russians 'Met Their Match,' US Killed Hundreds of Them in Syria by Jason Ditz ( Apr 12, 2018 , news.antiwar.com )
- 20180412 : Listening to Russian experts (short report about the mood on Russian prime time TV) ( Apr 12, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180412 : I am beginning to think that impeaching Trump is a good idea. He is ready to unleash another war on fase premises destroying the stability of the world. He truly is a bull in a china shop ( Apr 12, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411* Female neocon warmongers from Fox look like plastered brick walls – heartless and brainless. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180411 : Samantha Power Liberal War Hawk by Robert Parry ( Jun 15, 2015 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180411 : Samantha Power Liberal War Hawk by Robert Parry ( Jun 15, 2015 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180411 : Israel has no qualms about being a dishonest and lying inciter of a mass murder while pretending sanctimoniously on some "superior morality" and "eternal victimhood." ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Right now Jews and Arabs have joined forces to suppress the Persians. What happens AFTER the Persians are diminished? Do Israel and Saudi Arabia turn on each other? ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : There's a subconscious racism in the way [neo]liberal westerners treat Russia. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Twelve of the 15 council members backed the measure, including France, Britain, African countries, Kazakhstan and Kuwait. Bolivia voted against the draft resolution, while China abstained ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : California Democrat Zoe Lofgren and Michigan Republican Justin Amash are circulating a bipartisan letter to President Trump, insisting that he seek Congressional authorization before striking the government of Syria. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : With all these 'gas victims' churned out by the white helmets how is it that no such 'martyr' graves have ever turned up ? ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Red Crescent Says No Evidence of Chemical Attack in Syria's Douma ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Powell Iraq WDM presentation and recent Syria chemical attack: some analogies ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Syrian chemical weapon attacks happen whenever the rebels are about to be defeated. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : The Skriptal caper looks like kindergarten stuff compared to that 1965 genocide. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : This unscrupulous false flag op, crying foul and smearing the innocent for the crime they committed relentlessly is a special signature of the British/Anglo culture and trait. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : The toxin involved in classic shellfish poisoning is a naturally occurring neurotoxin, Saxitoxin, which agent remains toxic even after boiling or steaming, exactly the food preparation techniques likely to be employed in preparing shellfish for consumption. This is, indeed, what makes it so pernicious. ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Liars Lying About Nearly Everything by Philip Giraldi ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : The Russians are Flabbergasted, by Israel Shamir ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Is Theresa May as more evil than Hillary Clinton? ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : It's surreal to watch such staggering levels of dishonest incompetence among our globalist "elites". ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180411 : Something about British elite ( Apr 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180410 : Has the War Party Hooked Trump by Patrick J. Buchanan ( Apr 10, 2018 , original.antiwar.com )
- 20180410 : Israeli officials have called on the US to attack the Syrian Army, following what they called a "shocking attack" in Douma ( Apr 10, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180410 : Full frontal assault from Russia today on Skripls front ( Apr 10, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180409* When Military Leaders Have Reckless Disregard for the Truth by Bruce Fein ( Apr 09, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180409* Trump Is He Stupid or Dangerously Crazy by Justin Raimondo ( Apr 09, 2018 , original.antiwar.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180409 : "His inadequacies are easily stroked." I think Stormy Daniels would concur ( Apr 09, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180409 : The West has a strategy to support an insurgency using the leftovers and Kurds ( Apr 09, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180409 : Trump to Decide Soon Whether to Retaliate for Barbaric Act in Syria ( Apr 09, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180409 : There is no doubt that Trump is an elite "false flag". Someone who was intended to be simply PORTRAYED as being anti-establishment, but in reality, one who carried out and amplified everything the establishment wanted. But neoliberal elite overplayed its hand by encouraging hateful anti-Trump rhetoric so much that now everything that Trump will do will garner massive opposition. ( Apr 09, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180409 : "His inadequacies are easily stroked." I think Stormy Daniels would concur ( Apr 09, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180408 : Russia Will Never Be Our Friend, We'll Slap Them When Needed ( Apr 07, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
- 20180408 : China Gets Trumped ( Apr 08, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180408 : Do brighter minds incline to honesty by James Thompson ( Apr 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180407 : 'Russia Will Never Be Our Friend, We'll Slap Them When Needed' Waffle House Waitress on the Loose ( Apr 07, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180407 : Why Is Trump Targeting China and Russia ( Apr 07, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180405* An Interview with Retired Russian General Evgeny Buzhinsky The National Interest ( Apr 05, 2018 , nationalinterest.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180405 : Why the US Fails to Understand Its Adversaries ( Apr 05, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180404 : A Special Relationship Born in Hell, by Philip Giraldi ( Apr 03, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180403 : The West Should Avoid Starting a New Cold War with Russia by Doug Bandow ( Apr 03, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180403 : The US Arms Machine: Why Wars R Us ( Apr 03, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180403 : Two interconnected thoughts on US propaganda and the US Military Industrial Complex ( Apr 03, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180402 : Trump has shown that he'll bend quickly to neocon pressure, with increased interest in foreign war ( Apr 02, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180402 : Iether Russia and China stick together or might be devoured by the West one by one, with Russia first onthe list ( Apr 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180402 : The West wants to neutralize China. Russia is the threat to those plans because it could act as a bridge to Europe to China ( Mar 31, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180402 : How the East can save the West by The Saker ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180402 : Steal This Book The Publishing Misadventures of a CIA Whistleblower ( Apr 02, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180402 : The Third Bush Presidency ( Apr 02, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180402 : Trump has shown that he'll bend quickly to neocon pressure, with increased interest in foreign war ( Apr 02, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180401 : The ideal scenario of Skripal resurrection ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180401 : Check out this wonderful chart presented to the public by "Her Majesty's government" entitled "A long pattern of Russian malign activity" ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180401 : Problems with Russia-China relations ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180401 : Russia China are working closely to counter the West for existential threat ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180401 : The ideal scenario of Skripal resurrection ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180401 : Check out this wonderful chart presented to the public by "Her Majesty's government" entitled "A long pattern of Russian malign activity" ( Apr 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180331* RFK and Nixon immediately understood the assassination was a CIA-led wet-works operation since they chaired the assassination committees themselves in the past ( Mar 31, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180331 : Clinton mouthpiece NYT pushed the USA on warpath with Russia ( Mar 31, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180331 : Finally, Kennedy had enough, and in a personal letter dated May 18, 1963, the president warned that unless American inspectors were allowed into Dimona (meaning the end of any military activities), Israel would find itself totally isolated. Rather than answering, Ben-Gurion abruptly resigned ( Mar 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180331 : Where Have You Gone, George McGovern by Maj. Danny Sjursen ( Mar 29, 2018 , original.antiwar.com )
- 20180331 : America Must Drop Its Delusions about Dealing with Russia by Nikolas K. Gvosdev ( Mar 30, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180330 : Bolton Is the Opposite of an 'Honest Broker' The American Conservative ( Mar 30, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180330 : Donald Trump s Appointment Of John Bolton Means Regime Change Is Coming To Iran Sheep Media ( Mar 29, 2018 , asheepnomore.net )
- 20180330 : Why You Shouldn't Blindly Support US Foreign Policy ( Mar 30, 2018 , worldaffairs.blog )
- 20180330 : Bolton Is the Opposite of an 'Honest Broker' The American Conservative ( Mar 30, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180329 : Trump should call for a real 9/11 investigation, that would drain the swamp. But he is too afraid to do this ( Mar 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180329 : The analysis of the UVA Amsterdam professor Laslo Maracs is that Trump, and his rich friends, understand that the USA is no longer capable of maintaining an empire, and that war for enlarging the empire is even more suicide than trying to maintain the empire. ( Mar 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180329 : The entire history of mankind speaks the same tale. once and empire collapses it never recovers its former status and power ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180329 : The Anti-Liberty Boomerang of US Militarism ( Mar 29, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180329 : It's Not a Conspiracy Anymore; Public Belief in 'Deep State' Soars by Mike Whitney ( Mar 29, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180329 : Ann Coulter Slams Lazy Ignoramus Trump All He Wants Is Goldman To Like Him ( Mar 29, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180328 : The survey appears to confirm that democracy in the United States is largely a sham. Our elected representatives are not the agents of political change, but cogs in a vast bureaucratic machine that operates mainly in the interests of the behemoth corporations and banks ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180328 : You are quite right, Power Elite is more accurate description, but now that the term Deep State has reached common parlance, is it useful to try to rebrand them? ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180328 : Power elite is, in most modern countries, comprised of big money (different sources in different lands), dominant media controllers of intellectual discourse through academia, military infrastructure plus professional politicians, various intelligence agencies etc. ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180328 : redmudhooch ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180328 : How Iraq War destabilized the world and why the neocons aren't finished yet by Rania Khalek ( Mar 26, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180328 : The Consequences of Blowing Up the Nuclear Deal ( Mar 28, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180327* Let's Investigate John Brennan, by Philip Giraldi ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180327 : Here's John Bolton Promising Regime Change in Iran by the End of 2018 ( Mar 27, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180327 : John Bolton Tapped for NSA What Does It Mean for US-Russia Relations ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20180327 : A Ukrainian joke ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : An important British diplomat saw British control of the greater part of the world as the natural order of things ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : Perfidious Albion: An Introduction to the Secret History of the British Empire ( Mar 27, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180327 : how do you reform the Secret Police? ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : Stumbling into a War with Russia ( Mar 27, 2018 , nationalinterest.org )
- 20180327 : You will gain a better understanding of Vladimir Putin if you study his career as a sportsman, 3rd degree blackbelt Judoka than by sifting through his career as an ex-spy. ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : John Bolton Tapped for NSA What Does It Mean for US-Russia Relations ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.strategic-culture.org )
- 20180327 : Here's John Bolton Promising Regime Change in Iran by the End of 2018 ( Mar 27, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180327 : Time to find out if CIA interfered in the 2016 election ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : A Ukrainian joke ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : Within a week after Brennan's 'routine' visit in April 2014 to the Ukraine the Ukrainian army launched a civil war. That was within 2 weeks of the CIA instigated coup an the end of February 2014 ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : Then They Came for the Globalists by C.J. Hopkins ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180327 : Is Trump Assembling a War Cabinet, by Pat Buchanan - The Unz Review ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180326 : The US expulsions were part of "a coordinated effort" ( Mar 26, 2018 , www.theguardian.com )
- 20180326 : US expulsion of Russian diplomats is declaration of war by George Galloway ( Mar 26, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180326 : Trump Expels 60 Russian Diplomats as World Slides Towards War ( Mar 26, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180326 : Neocons Are Back With a Big War Budget and Big War Plans by Ron Paul ( Mar 26, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180325* A truly historical month for the future of our planet by The Saker ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180325 : John Bolton is in all likelihood a Zionist asset due to the Israelis having some very powerful kompromat on him ( Mar 25, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180325 : Don't forget that Bolton was the one who immediately blamed the Hariri assassination on Syria ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180325 : Hawks Always Fail Upwards by Daniel Larison ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180325 : Pompeo is on the record to bomb Iran with 2000 sorties ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180325 : Neocon lobby and Iraq war ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180325 : Hawks Always Fail Upwards by Daniel Larison ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180325 : White House Leaker Exposed ( Mar 22, 2018 , stonecoldtruth.com )
- 20180325 : The US neocons demand to close the "Bear Gap" with Russia ( Mar 24, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180325 : When Trump was elected, I thought that it was a one-day victory for the white working class. ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180325 : John Bolton is in all likelihood a Zionist asset due to the Israelis having some very powerful kompromat on him ( Mar 25, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180325 : Don't forget that Bolton was the one who immediately blamed the Hariri assassination on Syria ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180325 : Pompeo is on the record to bomb Iran with 2000 sorties ( Mar 25, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180325 : Basically McMaster started clearing out the Israel Zios in the department ...including several who violate security rules on top secret info ( Mar 24, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180325 : Neocons Panting for President 'Mad Dog' Mattis by Daniel McAdams ( Apr 22, 2016 , www.ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180324 : I have to laugh at the people trying to portray Bonkers Bolton as somehow less insane than he is. ( Mar 24, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180324 : Does Bolton appointment means the return to Monroe doctrine? ( Mar 24, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180324 : John Bolton: The Angriest Neocon by Adam Zagorin ( Nov 16, 2007 , content.time.com )
- 20180324 : Bolton plans to fire dozens of White House officials ( Mar 24, 2018 , www.veteranstoday.com )
- 20180324 : Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, who pressured intelligence officers to endorse his views of other rogue states, especially Syria and Cuba. ( Mar 24, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180324 : Is trump fully cooked ? ( Mar 24, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180324 : Perhaps a large but not too large conventional attack by US/Israel on 'industry and facilities directly related to Iran nuclear weapons development'? ( Mar 24, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180324 : I have to laugh at the people trying to portray Bonkers Bolton as somehow less insane than he is. ( Mar 24, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180324 : Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, who pressured intelligence officers to endorse his views of other rogue states, especially Syria and Cuba. ( Mar 24, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180324 : Bolton plans to fire dozens of White House officials ( Mar 24, 2018 , www.veteranstoday.com )
- 20180324 : Does Bolton appointment means the return to Monroe doctrine? ( Mar 24, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180324 : John Bolton: The Angriest Neocon by Adam Zagorin ( Nov 16, 2007 , content.time.com )
- 20180323* Inglorious end of career of neocon McMaster ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180323 : 'Trump lining up war cabinet' Bolton's elevation to NSC adviser fuels alarm ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180323 : So on the 15th anniversary of the Iraq debacle, a neocon who cheered it on is rewarded with a national security post where he can cue up the attack on Iran that was always the ultimate prize for Israel's US stooges? ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180323 : The worst thing about the appointment of anti-Iran hawk John Bolton is that the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party 100% supports war with Iran. ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180323 : Say what you will about Bolton he is a shrewd political animal. Here it looks as though he is trying to appear sane and reasonable....perhaps even likeable. ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180323 : MoA - John Bolton - The Man With A Hammer Is Looking For Nails ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180323 : Hawks Resurgent in Washington by Philip Girald ( Mar 22, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180323 : John Bolton's Incompetence May Be More Dangerous Than His Ideology by Heather Hurlburt ( Mar 23, 2018 , nymag.com )
- 20180323 : In a way Ukraine stepped on the same rake twice: once in 1991 and the second time in 2014. That's unforgivable ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : Megyn Kelly behaves like a rabid dog attacking Putin. Did not work well. ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
- 20180323 : MoA - John Bolton - The Man With A Hammer Is Looking For Nails ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180323 : Hawks Resurgent in Washington by Philip Girald ( Mar 22, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180323 : Putin and neoliberaism in Russia: What they told us about socialism was a pack of lies, but what they told us about capitalism turned out to be perfectly true ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : Russia has several significant problems with growth of Muslim population and the fact that this is last term for Putin, which might signify the end of the period of political stability ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : How many knows that Obama went to the WH with a regime change feather already in his cap ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : A simple question: Where is Julia Skripal, a citizen of Russian Federation, who was taken by the UK secret services and whisked away to some undisclosed location? ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : Interesting detail about illegal British war propaganda in breach of ICCPR Article 20. Of particular note is the report of Pompeo's role in the blame game for the failed Skripal provocation. ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : The alleged Salisbury attack succeeded as propaganda but rush to judgement, childish government and diplomatic ranting makes it similar to Iraq WDM hoax ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180323 : John Bolton's Incompetence May Be More Dangerous Than His Ideology by Heather Hurlburt ( Mar 23, 2018 , nymag.com )
- 20180323 : The worst thing about the appointment of anti-Iran hawk John Bolton is that the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party 100% supports war with Iran. ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180323 : 'Trump lining up war cabinet' Bolton's elevation to NSC adviser fuels alarm ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180323 : Say what you will about Bolton he is a shrewd political animal. Here it looks as though he is trying to appear sane and reasonable....perhaps even likeable. ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180323 : So on the 15th anniversary of the Iraq debacle, a neocon who cheered it on is rewarded with a national security post where he can cue up the attack on Iran that was always the ultimate prize for Israel's US stooges? ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
- 20180323 : Let's get over the McMaster ouster. The fact is that he was completely unqualified to be the National Security advisor. McMaster was uneducated in history and international politics. ( Mar 23, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180322* If it's correct, the Brits made a very nasty error that shows the true nature of their establishment. ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180322 : Bad news: Trump just picked John Bolton to be the new National Security Advisor. ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180322 : McMaster to Resign as National Security Adviser, and Will Be Replaced by John Bolton - The New York Times ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180322 : The Untold Story of John Bolton's Campaign for War With Iran by Gareth Porter ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180322 : Westerners held the carrots of a Western lifestyle, which the Russians could not match ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180322 : Neocons still rule the US, Trump or no Trump: Senate Votes to Kill Bill Challenging Legality of Yemen War ( Mar 22, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180322 : Does State Department have its own intel / black operations team in Syria? Thought it was a consumer not producer. ( Mar 22, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180322 : The only suggestions that the Russians were responsible for the incident come from exactly the same kinds of people who told us about Iraq's WMD and the supposed Libyan humanitarian emergency ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180322 : Russian MFA summons all ambassadors to a meeting on Skripal case (MUST WATCH!!!) The Vineyard of the Saker ( Mar 22, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180322 : Four days to declare a Cold War by Thierry Meyssan ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180322 : McMaster to Resign as National Security Adviser, and Will Be Replaced by John Bolton - The New York Times ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180322 : Bad news: Trump just picked John Bolton to be the new National Security Advisor. ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180322 : Trump's National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference 'Incontrovertible' ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180322 : The Israelis I believe needed JFK dead so they made sure he became deceased. He was in the way and with so many others hating him and his brother after he challenged the CIA, his days were numbered. Then it was Bobbies turn. ( Mar 22, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180322 : As far as I can tell, blatant lies of Western propaganda achieved among the people with brains the same result as the Soviet propaganda: even if they state something truthful for a change, people would doubt that. ( Mar 22, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321* Washington's Invasion of Iraq at Fifteen ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180321 : Ironically it was the US and its advisers that first handed all of the Russian wealth over to the oligarchs, and then, later, supported Yeltsin when he illegally dissolved the Rada and arrested their leaders (generally known as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis) (they had also supported him earlier, back when he was only President of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and Gorbachev was head honcho, when Yeltsin sent tanks to bomb the Rada/Parliament, during the so-called "August coup"). ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : The NUMEC Affair: Did Highly Enriched Uranium from the U.S. Aid Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program? ( Mar 21, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180321 : An insane anti-Putin propaganda campaign in the West helped Russian people to learn their lesson: another Yeltsin or Gorbachev in Russia are now highly unlikely. In fact, the West will regret the day Putin is gone. ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : Considering the DNC machine rigged the Democratic primaries and derailed Bernie Sanders' run, and considering the entire Establishment came out in force to defeat Trump (e.g. Donna Brazile admitting she shared debate questions with Clinton campaign..... leaked audios, false accusations,....which are still ongoing.....), whatever shenanigans Putin campaign was involved in seem like the proverbial nothingburger ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : RT Chief, Margarita Simonyan: Why We Don't Respect the West Anymore ( Mar 20, 2018 , russia-insider.com )
- 20180321 : Votel's message is, "The military is not on board for an adventure in the Middle East whose sole purpose is to make the President a "Wartime" President." ( Mar 21, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180321 : Russiagate Comes to England by Philip Giraldi ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : Let us posit some 3rd party, whose name some dare not mention? ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : There is absolutely nothing totally duplicitous, nothing evil, that British secret service (meaning both MI5 and MI6) will not do, and in fact has not done. ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : There is certainly a reasonable list of suspects, most more credible than the Russian state. Perhaps one can also separate out the crime in to two parts, those who committed it, and those who have sought to exploit it. ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : The USA neocons might want to present (apparently by way of a series of reckless provocations) ultimatum to Russia and China: "either cede your sovereignty to the empire and start taking orders, or it's war" or something like that. ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : Why ever would May backtrack? The MSM are in full support, creating all the facts that justify her shrill denunciation of Vlad the Poisoner? ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180321 : "Novichok" is not the name of the CW, but the code of the KGB operation carried out to identify the mole (the information leakage channel), as well as the supply of disinformation by Israel Shamir ( Mar 21, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180320 : The plausibility of the doping charges disappeared when, at a time when Russian athletes were under extreme scrutiny in the Winter Olympics, they were accused of doping in the curling and bobsleigh events \ ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180320 : You're suggesting that the plebeian mass of ignorant white trash calling themselves the British nation should actually rule themselves by way of a democratically elected parliament, their national loyalty centered on a constitutional monarch who is head of the English national Christian church. ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180320 : "US Foreign Policy Is the Greatest Crime Since WWII," Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark by Jay Janson ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press )
- 20180320 : This looks more and more like false flag operation by British intelligence againces: Queen May has no clothes on, but all the 'adults' in the mainstream press pretend to see a beautiful robe. ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180320 : Russiagate Comes to England, by Philip Giraldi ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180320 : For an extra funny, at one time, the United States was happy to supply fuel cycle capable breeder reactors to Iran, before the 1979 Revolution intervened. ( Mar 20, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180320 : I expect to see is that, as during the George II Administration, the US would loudly accuse Iran of breaking faith with agreements and demand unlimited access for 'inspectors'. ( Mar 20, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180320 : IIRC, the Anthrax show was seen [from my viewpoint = external], as akin to sending out a sheep-dog to shepherd the outliers = oppress any 'casual dissidents' to get everybody onto the same page = GWoT, 1st step to invade Afghanistan in order to rearrange some sand. ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180320 : Putin was inviting the Russian people to picture traitors dying friendless and alone Men Without a Country in apartments strewn with empty vodka bottles but he never said that traitors should be killed. This was BBC fake. ( Mar 20, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180319 : Who says that there is no proof that Putin did it? ( Mar 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180319 : Votel, Mattis and Dunford must be on the same page. ( Mar 19, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180319 : The vast majority of people have already had drummed into them the fact (sic) that novichok could only be produced in Russia, so this will of course be interpreted as conclusive proof that "Putin did it". The real push for dramatic measures (e.g., World Cup) will begin at that point. ( Mar 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180319 : The release of toxic agent via the car ventilation system, suggested by some Western MSM, looks unlikely ( Mar 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180319 : The whole story is probably a sham, a fake terror attack, a story concocted to befuddle the plebs and justify some new imperial aggression. ( Mar 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180319 : Who says that there is no proof that Putin did it? ( Mar 19, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180318 : Pompeo's All-or-Nothing View of Diplomacy by Daniel Larison ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180318 : Pompeo's All-or-Nothing View of Diplomacy by Daniel Larison ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180318 : America s Phony War by William J. Astore ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180318 : The War Prayer by Mark Twain ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180318 : Mattis' Weak Case for Supporting the War on Yemen by Daniel Larison ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180317* How the gas was administred in a place which was under surveillance and why passersby were not affected ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180317 : Was any poisonous gas present in the Skripal bench area. Looks highly unlikely ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : Most people react to an emotional message and only much smaller number to a rational message. In other words, if you want to promote anything, appeal to the emotional or even animal part of the human nature. This is exactly what the Western propaganda is doing ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : The real culprit might be one of the parties who are real beneficiaries of this propaganda surge, including criminal elements connected to the Russian exile "mafia" types, Ukraine, or some of the shadowy US and UK security state players ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : WWII between Russia and the West would be over in 1-2 days (if that), and is basically a suicide. ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : Was any poisonous gas present in the Skripal bench area. Looks highly unlikely ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : This is yet another insult against Russian technical knowhow. ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : Considering UK behavior towards Russia as a slap on face , Russia not only should but must demand immediate release of all information available to UK on this case and samples. It should be done in aggressive manner and backed by international law to which UK is a signer. ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : Asshole: Narcissist, sociopath, liar, thief, murderer, often sadistic, "special." ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life: In November 2017 British TV 6th session episode 5 of 'Strike Back" Novichok was used ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180317 : A possible role of psychopath in human society ( Mar 17, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316* The French philosopher Alain Soral is quite right when he says that modern "journalists are either unemployed or prostitutes" ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180316* Are We Living Under a Military Coup ? ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180316* Will the State Department Become a Subsidiary of the CIA ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180316 : Pompeo is seen as moderate towards Russia but as a hawk regarding Iran. The British noise about the alleged nerve gas agent is then nothing more but another attempt to force Washingtons s hand to increase hostility towards Russia. ( Mar 16, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180316* Will the State Department Become a Subsidiary of the CIA ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180316 : How do you know Skripal was murdered? Even the British haven't claimed that. In fact we don't even know that Skripal was injured. There have been no photos, no medical statements, we are just expected to believe all the fake news ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : The UK still refuses to provide the required-by-law materials to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon. The whole "communication" with Russians re Skripal case has exposed a stunning incompetence ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : Shadow of operation Gladio hangs over Skripal case ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : It is unlear if Novichok eve ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : Does Western civilization now reject real, objective truth emulating the USSR ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : The method attributed to poisoning of Skripal is the best indication of the false flag operation. Looks more and more like a recycled WMD hoax to justify attack on Syria ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : George Orwell sure can write this quote ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : Up until now, I was in favor of Putin trying to keep cool demeanor and be reasonable. Time works in favor of Russia, so simply trying to wait the Western collapse out is not unreasonable strategy. But with the West starting to resort to something as extreme as poisoning its own lapdogs and blaming Russia for it without presenting a single shred of evidence, it might be a good time to reconsider and join the escalation train in earnest. ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : Truth vs half-truth vs lie ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180316 : How the Iraq War Destabilized the Entire Middle East ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org )
- 20180316 : The rumor is widespread that DJT is seriously thinking of making Ambassador John Bolton his National Security Adviser ( via recess appointment) ( Mar 16, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180316 : Pompeo is seen as moderate towards Russia but as a hawk regarding Iran. The British noise about the alleged nerve gas agent is then nothing more but another attempt to force Washingtons s hand to increase hostility towards Russia. ( Mar 16, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180316 : H.R. McMaster Gives The Kremlin a Double Bird Salute ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.thedailybeast.com )
- 20180315 : Latter Day America: The 911 myth is the basis for all US foreign policy. ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180315 : Donny boy sure has a strange way of "draining the swamp." ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180315 : Julian Assange The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.washingtonpost.com )
- 20180315 : Having further researched Mike Pompeo's history it seems he is a war hawk ( Mar 15, 2018 , consortiumnews.com )
- 20180315 : One strong indication that Skripal case is used for a preplanned propaganda campaign against Russia that specialists in the UK who know their stuff no longer get airtime while people like Luke Harding, who plainly don t, are all over the media ( Mar 15, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180315 : Hysterical panegyric on Observer.com reminds the Hate Week speech delivered by an Inner Party member in the movie version of George Orwell's 1984 ! ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180315 : Rephazing Hermann G ring famous quote ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180315 : Russia is the Eastern Diamondback desperately trying to do all it can to avoid to have to strike. The West is the drunk idiot full of hubris, arrogance and a very mistaken sense of invulnerability saying " hold my beer and watch this! ". ( Mar 15, 2018 , thesaker.is )
- 20180315 : Western demonization of Putin ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180315 : The Political Forces Behind Rex Tillerson s Firing ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
- 20180315 : Pressure from Israel and the Lobby was not the only factor behind the decision to attack Iraq in March 2003, but it was critica ( Mar 15, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180315 : Julian Assange The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks ( Mar 15, 2018 , www.washingtonpost.com )
- 20180315 : Latter Day America: The 911 myth is the basis for all US foreign policy. ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180315 : Mattis is as dangerous warmonger as McMaster ( Mar 15, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314* Jefferson Morley on the CIA and Mossad Tradeoffs in the Formation of the US-Israel Strategic Relationship ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.antiwar.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180314 : We will probably never learn why President Trump turned on Rex Tillerson. If we ever do, it may be because Neocons are furious reality refuses to bend to their fantasies. ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : Latter Day America ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180314 : Krieger It's Impossible To Overstate How Terrible Mike Pompeo Is Zero Hedge ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180314 : Donny boy sure has a strange way of "draining the swamp." ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180314 : Pompeo strikes me as a Narcissist and pro-Israel lobbist ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : Indeed, apparently these heroes (and their leaders) needed to be protected from that odd and unpleasant "liberal game" called 'prosecution for crimes'. ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : Given the degree of effort Pompeo's used in pushing Russiagate, I can't wait for his first meeting with Lavrov or Putin. ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180314 : Trump Votes For Rexit - Torture Queen Will Head CIA - (Updated) ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180314 : Washington policies as the result of a monumental unconscious group-think based on individual self interest ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : Iraq is a country, in which, even the most pro-American Iraqis (outside of the Kurdish dominated region), will, at this very moment deciding that they have been screwed! ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180314 : Hysterical hyperventilation of British authorities about Skripal incident suggests that it was pre-plnanned provocation, a false flag operation for fueling Russiphonia and Neo-McCarthyism ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180314 : In effect, under Yeltsin our Harvard mafia turned Russia into African economy, never mind that Russian's aren't African's. This desire to rape and pillage the earth in order to take rents is a sophisticated, yet criminally insane method ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180314 : If Putin is so diabolical and his information operations so elegant and effective he should execute one that breaks the chain of zionist influence on the US polity. That would prevent Armageddon and the world would be thankful. ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : It's impossible to overstate how terrible Trump's entire cabinet is ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180314 : Pompeo strikes me as a Narcissist and pro-Israel lobbist ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : Given the degree of effort Pompeo's used in pushing Russiagate, I can't wait for his first meeting with Lavrov or Putin. ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180314 : Krieger It's Impossible To Overstate How Terrible Mike Pompeo Is Zero Hedge ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180314 : Indeed, apparently these heroes (and their leaders) needed to be protected from that odd and unpleasant "liberal game" called 'prosecution for crimes'. ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : For WP editors, a victory for legal army of Syria in their own country' is defying the INTERNATIONAL order ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180314 : Japan was ready to surrender before the US dropped two A bombs ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180314 : Neocons are like clogged arteries you know they will be a problem but failing to comprehend the danger, that heart attack can occur most unexpectedly, killing the host ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180314 : Trump Votes For Rexit - Torture Queen Will Head CIA - (Updated) ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180314 : I think it's possible that the most idiotic conspiracy theorists are flocking to alternative websites that are dissenting from The Narrative. The Unz Review (probably also RT and other sites) is an obvious candidate for such spontaneous activity. But yes, there's a possibility that some conscious effort is made to make these websites look bad. ( Mar 14, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180313 : The transition of Pompeo from CIA to the State Department is a logical step as both are intelligence agencies serving global neoliberal empire, not the USA as a country ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.theguardian.com )
- 20180313 : Betcha Rex is so so sorry he went to D.C. ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180313 : The transition of Pompeo from CIA to the State Department is a logical step as both are intelligence agencies serving global neoliberal empire, not the USA as a country ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.theguardian.com )
- 20180313 : My worst fears have been realized and it seems the U.S. and Israel are trying to provoke Russia into a reaction that will justify wider war for the purpose of "securing the realm" ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180313 : Russia's Stand-Off Capability The 800 Pound Gorilla in Syria by Andrei Martyanov ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180313 : Betcha Rex is so so sorry he went to D.C. ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180313 : Christopher Steele As Seen By The New Yorker, by Philip Giraldi - The Unz Review ( Mar 13, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180313 : The Primacy of Conscience ( Mar 13, 2018 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
- 20180313 : The CIA Democrats: Part one by Patrick Martin ( Mar 07, 2018 , www.wsws.org )
- 20180312 : "Fake News" and World War III. The Danger of Nuclear Annihilation Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization ( Mar 12, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
- 20180311* Reality Check: The Guardian Restarts Push for Regime Change in Russia by Kit ( Mar 11, 2018 , off-guardian.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180311* Washington s Century-long War on Russia by Mike Whitney ( www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180311 : I have the audacity to hope that the dismantling of the American Empire will proceed as copacetically as the dismantling of the Soviet Empire did ( Mar 11, 2018 , cluborlov.blogspot.ch )
- 20180311 : Reps. Barbara Lee and Justin Amash Lay Out a Case for Terminating the 2001 AU by Adam Dick ( Mar 01, 2018 , ronpaulinstitute.org )
- 20180311 : Bringing a sense of reality to a deeply delusional Empire by The Saker ( Mar 11, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180310 : Neocons dominate the Department of State: Witness the infamous State Department protest memo calling for more war on Syria. ( Mar 10, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180310 : Us neocons and Jewish question ( Mar 10, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180309 : A conflict in North Korea, John, would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes ( Mar 09, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180308* In recent years, there has been ample evidence that US policy-makers and, equally important, mainstream media commentators do not bother to read what Putin says, or at least not more than snatches from click-bait wire-service reports. ( Mar 08, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180308 : So the net effect of Flynn indictment is that Mueller's office is conducting our Russian foreign policy. Authority without either responsibility or expertise is not a desirable thing when it comes to forging correct relations with a nuclear power. ( Mar 08, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180308 : I dunno I think the whole air of ineptitude around The Company is just a cover. Why else would GHW Bush have been in Dallas at the time and then rocket just a few years later to its top job? Yeah, I know, it could have been KBR pulling all the strings, but I would still assert The Company was used as the vehicle to pre-position all the other necessary elements ( Mar 08, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180308 : Hope Hicks Tells House Intel Committee That Her Emails Were Hacked ( Mar 08, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180308 : Putin speech as a gift to US militarists ( Mar 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180308 : And Now For The Good News by Justin Raimondo ( Mar 08, 2018 , original.antiwar.com )
- 20180307 : How Russiagate helps the Israel lobby ( Mar 07, 2018 , electronicintifada.net )
- 20180307 : America is incapable of viewing itself through the eyes of others, and has the kind of blind arrogance that I would best compare to late 19th and early 20th Century German militarism the deeply embedded German worldview (long before Hitler) of superiority, destiny, and the corresponding natural right to Empire. ( Mar 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180307 : The thing with "neocons" is that they're pathological liars and narcissists. ( Mar 07, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180306* The U.S. Returns to 'Great Power Competition,' With a Dangerous New Edge ( Mar 06, 2018 , fpif.org ) [Recommended]
- 20180306* The current anti-Russian sentiment in the West as hysterical. But this hysteria is concentrated at the top level of media elite and neocons. Behind it is no deep sense of unity or national resolve. In fact we see the reverse - most Western countries are deeply divided within themselves due to the crisis of neolineralism. ( Mar 06, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180306 : The reason that Ziocon parasites have found such a fertile ground in the US is almost like an isolated island, whose people consider war to be entertainment (shock awe), have never had any serious family or home losses from it and are dumb and uneducated enough to be pulled by their noses through their MSM to any war that Ziocons fancy. ( Mar 06, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180306 : CNN: Trump 'berated' Hicks after House Intel testimony ( TheHill )
- 20180305 : The reason that militarists have found such a fertile ground in the US is that it is like an isolated island. As the result the US population considers war to be entertainment (shock awe), have never had any serious family or home losses from it and are dumb and uneducated enough to be brainwashed by MSM ( Mar 05, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180304* Generals who now are running the USA foreign policy represents a great danger. These men seem incapable of rising above the Russophobia that grew in the atmosphere of the Cold War. They yearn for world hegemony for the US and to see Russia and to a lesser extent China and Iran as obstacles to that dominion for the "city on a hill ( Mar 04, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180303 : The poisonous Guardian about Hope Hicks by Tom McCarthy ( Mar 03, 2018 , www.theguardian.com )
- 20180302* The main reason much of the highest echelons of American power are united against Trump might be that they're terrified that -- unlike Obama -- he's a really bad salesman for the US led neoliberal empire. This threatens the continuance of their well oiled and exceedingly corrupt gravy train ( Mar 02, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180302* Fatal Delusions of Western Man by Pat Buchanan ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180302 : Si>nce 1980th, very little has been done by US Federal Government for the benefit of the common citizen. A great deal has been done to facilitate the degradation of the standard of living of common citizen by the global one percent and by the costs of maintaining global neoliberal empire ( Aug 20, 2017 , www.moonofalabama.org )
- 20180302 : Trump_vs_deep_state as bastard neoliberalism vs classic neoliberalism ( Dec 27, 2016 , economistsview.typepad.com )
- 20180302 : Trump betrayal of Trumpism ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180302 : The deplorables, having found one another, need to hang together until we find real leadership. Trump, whatever he is, is not a leader. ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180302 : Neocon schumer plays identity politics ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180302 : Putin's 'Invincible' Missile Is Aimed at U.S. Vulnerabilities ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180302 : CPAC 2018 The Conservative Base (Not Elite) Has Embraced Trumpism -- Time For Trump To Follow Suit by James Kirkpatrick ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180302 : Trump Is 'Losing a Limb' With the Departure of Hope Hicks ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.nytimes.com )
- 20180302 : Hope Hicks Kept Detailed Diary At White House, Gets $10MM Book Offer Zero Hedge ( Mar 02, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180302 : McMaster may be on his way out ( Mar 02, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
- 20180301 : Putin The Man Who Stopped Washington s Regime Change Rampage by Mike Whitney ( Feb 28, 2018 , www.unz.com )
- 20180228 : Russia threatens our ability to dominate - US general to Congress ( Feb 28, 2018 , www.rt.com )
- 20180226* Why one war when we can heve two! by Eric Margolis ( Feb 24, 2018 , www.defenddemocracy.press ) [Recommended]
- 20180224 : Chuck Schumer War Hawk or Progressive ( Feb 24, 2018 , therealnews.com )
- 20180223 : The Knives Are Out for Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster ( May 09, 2017 , foreignpolicy.com )
- 20180222 : McMaster, Kelly On Their Way Out Zero Hedge ( Feb 22, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
- 20180220* Russophobia is a futile bid to conceal US, European demise by Finian Cunningham ( Feb 20, 2018 , www.rt.com ) [Recommended]
- 20180220 : Hillary Clinton If I m President, We Will Attack Iran We Would be Able to Totally Obliterate Them. Global Research - Cent ( Feb 20, 2018 , www.globalresearch.ca )
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Highly recommended!
I think everybody should listen the initial 47 minutes
Notable quotes:
"... Wanted to add that the malaise that is gripping the U.S. institutions is completely visible, it is not the opaque and obsequies portrait drawn by the punditry, news organizations, and elites. Seems most obvious to those of us outside the beltway that can clearly delineate between the failure of DC and the projections and marketing to the population that passes as wonky prose. Stupidity lacks the clarity, but brings the temerity making the facade not so subtle. ..."
"... Literally the only endorsement I've heard of Tulsi Gabbard - and a strikingly convincing one ..."
"... Isn't it just a question of the profits in the military business? ..."
https://youtu.be/mvILLCbOFo4
In the United States and other democracies, political and economic systems still work in
theory, but not in practice. Meanwhile, the American-led takedown of the post-World War II
international system has shattered long-standing rules and norms of behavior. The combination
of disorder at home and abroad is spawning changes that are increasingly disadvantageous to the
United States. With Congress having essentially walked off the job, there is a need for
America's universities to provide the information and analysis of international best practices
that the political system does not.
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. is a senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute
for International and Public Affairs, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, ambassador
to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm), acting Assistant Secretary
of State for African Affairs, and Chargé d'affaires at both Bangkok and Beijing. He
began his diplomatic career in India but specialized in Chinese affairs. (He was the principal
American interpreter during President Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972.)
Ambassador Freeman is a much sought-after public speaker (see
http://chasfreeman.net ) and the author of several well-received books on statecraft and
diplomacy. His most recent book, America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East was
published in May 2016. Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige,
appeared in March 2013. America's Misadventures in the Middle East came out in 2010, as did the
most recent revision of The Diplomat's Dictionary, the companion volume to Arts of Power:
Statecraft and Diplomacy. He was the editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on
"diplomacy."
Chas Freeman studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and in
Taiwan, and earned an AB magna cum laude from Yale University as well as a JD from the Harvard
Law School. He chairs Projects International, Inc., a Washington-based firm that for more than
three decades has helped its American and foreign clients create ventures across borders,
facilitating their establishment of new businesses through the design, negotiation,
capitalization, and implementation of greenfield investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint
ventures, franchises, one-off transactions, sales and agencies in other countries.
Trade
Prosper , 3 days ago
(edited)
Well worth the watch and hope more see it, especially the presentation in the initial 47
minutes. We Americans take our deficits and the $ as the reserve currency far too
lightly.
strezztechnoid , 2
days ago
Wanted to add that the malaise that is gripping the U.S. institutions is completely
visible, it is not the opaque and obsequies portrait drawn by the punditry, news
organizations, and elites. Seems most obvious to those of us outside the beltway that can
clearly delineate between the failure of DC and the projections and marketing to the
population that passes as wonky prose. Stupidity lacks the clarity, but brings the temerity
making the facade not so subtle.
yes it's me , 3
days ago
Literally the only endorsement I've heard of Tulsi Gabbard - and a strikingly convincing
one
Bob Trajkoski , 3
days ago
Way the US is Warmongering state and threat to humanity, on the planet.? Nukes in the
hand's of gangsters
strezztechnoid , 2
days ago (edited)
No, not mercenaries, this is a protection racket. The U.N. address in late 2018 by the
President (the laughter spoke volumes) was about as insightful as a "goodfellas" scene where
the shakedown of the little guy is highlighted. It was the speeches by other countries at the
meeting that was most informative.
A definitive pullback from U.S. hegemony was palpable, real, and un-moderated. Large and
small countries all expressed an unwillingness to be held under the thumb of the global
bully. This is the result of having an over abundance of a particle within D.C.; not the
electron, photon, or neutron...but the moron.
Frank , 3 days
ago
Aura of imperial purpose.
Dan Good , 7
hours ago
Isn't it just a question of the profits in the military business?
Highly recommended!
Russia has closed major border crossings with China across the Far East due to the rapid spread of coronavirus. That constitutes
a significant blow to a trading relationship that had only just begun to fully blossom. The closures come just as new auto and rail
bridges spanning the Amur River are finally
reaching
completion.
The primary line of debate among Russia-China relations analysts is whether the "rapprochement" is robust and tending toward even
a genuine alliance or whether it is weak and has little to show for decades of cooperation other than a few rhetorical flourishes.
After all, the skeptics note, if this bilateral relationship is so robust, then why did it take so long to get those bridges built?
The China-Russia trading relationship does indeed remain underdeveloped and will evidently face additional headwinds in the near
future (along with all of China's trading relationships, so it seems). But
the importance of security ties
can hardly be disputed, especially if one takes the long view. Could China have fought the United States to a stalemate in the Korean
War without Soviet military assistance? Not a chance. More recently, Russia's sale of high-tech air and naval weaponry during the
1990s and 2000s created a solid foundation for today's muscle-bound dragon with both claws (DF-26) and sharp fangs (e.g. YJ-18).
But will it go further?
A tantalizing hint was offered by Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Valdai Conference in early October 2019. During his
remarks, he dropped the following bombshell: "I probably won't open a big secret. It'll become clear anyhow. We are now helping our
Chinese partners to create a missile attack warning system. This is a very serious thing, which will increase the defense capability
of the People's Republic of China in a fundamental way. Because now only the USA and Russia have such a system [Большой тайны, наверно,
не открою. Все равно это станет ясно. Мы сейчас помогаем нашим китайским партнерам создать систему СПРН – систему предупреждения
о ракетном нападении. Это очень серьезная вещь, которая капитальным, кардинальным образом повысит обороноспособность Китайской Народной
Республики. Потому что сейчас такую систему имеют только США и Россия]." This seemingly major step forward in Russia-China military
cooperation demands greater scrutiny. It also provides an interesting opportunity to gauge opinion among Russian strategists regarding
the long-term viability of a close military partnership with the Middle Kingdom.
One impressively comprehensive Russian appraisal begins
by stating that "Russia had to look for various options for answering Washington's actions" to withdraw from the INF Treaty. The
same article notes somewhat ominously that the United States is preparing in case of "accidental nuclear war with Russia." Employing
the Russian acronym "SPRN" literally "warning systems against rocket attack [системы предупреждения о ракетном нападении]" for early
warning system, this assessment also makes the important point that Russia's SPRN has only recently completed a long process of upgrades
meant to fill "gaps [разрывы]" caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, when key facilities for early warning were located in
non-Russian parts of the USSR.
The article quotes one Moscow defense expert, Igor Korotchenko [Игор Коротченко], as offering the following assessment: "This
is really a huge contribution of Russia to strategic stability, since China receives a powerful tool in order not to become a victim
of the first disarming blow from the United States." Another Russian expert, Konstantin Sivkov [Константин Сивков], maintained that
this move would enhance "global stability" but also articulated some concern with respect to Russia's long-term interests. "When
China has at its disposal all the technologies that Russia has at its disposal, or creates similar ones, it will cease to need Russia
as a defender," Sivkov said. "And this could adversely affect Russian-Chinese relations." Korotchenko, however, is more bullish on
the long-term prospects for the defense relationship with Beijing. He underlined the commercial prospects for Russian companies,
and added that the early warning initiative will "contribute to the further rapprochement of Russia and China, building a common
security policy [поспособствует дальнейшему сближению России и Китая, выстраиванию общей политики в области безопасности]."
That's an interesting disagreement among Russian security specialists, for sure, but another rather significant observation regarding
these developments was offered in this same article by the former deputy commander of Russia's air defense command, Alexander Luzan
[Александр Лузан]. He contends that Russia will benefit from the enhanced cooperation with Beijing on an early warning. Luzan explains
that the ground components of Russia's SPRN are comprised of []long range "Voronezh" [Воронеж] radars that can see out four thousand
to six thousand kilometers to detect ICBM launches. Short-range "Sunflower [Подсолнухи]" radars are more suitable for warning of
short-range launches, but also offer ship-detection capabilities. Directly reflecting on operational advantages for the Russian military,
Luzan observes: "Vladivostok and Primorye are protected here, but there is nothing 'in depth.' We once tried to deploy our facilities
in Mongolia, but it didn't work out very well. Therefore, if the Chinese close this 'tongue,' it will be very important for Russia
[Владивосток и Приморье у нас защищены, а 'в глубину' там ничего нет. Мы когда-то в Монголии пытались разместить свои комплексы,
но не очень получилось. Потому если китайцы этот 'язычок' закроют, то для России это будет очень важно]." Again citing this Russian
general, the article states that "a unified information space is created and data is exchanged with Chinese radars, [and therefore]
'the security of our country from the east will be even better.'"
Such interpretations are generally in accord with the analysis
of Vladimir Petrovsky [Владимир Петровский,], a senior fellow and military specialist at Moscow's Institute of the Far East of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. This analyst writes that many believe that Putin's announcement of this strategic cooperation initiative
at Valdai signals that "the military alliance between Russia and China . . . has finally become real." Petrovsky also notes that
other specialists have begun to speculate on the meaning of a "retaliatory strike" under such circumstances, wherein the early warning
is relayed by a third country. He quotes the Russian president (speaking at Valdai) further on the matter of motives for new missile
deployments in the Asia-Pacific region: "we suddenly heard from the American military that the first step in this direction would
be taken just in Asia. But that step also impacts on us, because we need to understand: where in Asia, will Russian territory be
endangered or not? By the way, it's immediately clear what was the root cause of the exit: not Russia and not mythical violations
of the [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] Treaty by us. If they are going to put [U.S. missiles] in Asia, then Asia is the primary
reason for withdrawing from this Treaty [вдруг услышали от американских военных, что первый шаг в этом направлении будет сделан как
раз в Азии. Но он и нас затрагивает, потому что надо понять: где в Азии, будет доставать это российскую территорию или нет? Кстати
говоря, сразу понятно, что было первопричиной выхода: не Россия и не мифические нарушения нами Договора. Если они собираются ставить
в Азии, то Азия и является первопричиной выхода из этого Договора]." In other words, Putin's announcement of this initiative to accelerate
military cooperation with China is intended, in part, as a response to the United States' move to exit the INF accord.
Strongly hinting that Beijing might well gain access to Russian early-warning radars based in the Arctic, Petrovsky observes,
"Taking into account geography, it is quite possible to develop protocols for the exchange of data between national SPRN." He further
contends that this early warning cooperation will be "mutually beneficial and not without compensation [эта помощь -- взаимовыгодная
и небезвозмездная]." This military expert explains that China still can learn from Russian radar proficiency, but also implies that
the Russian side may gain some advantages from China's evident prowess in microelectronics, for example. Moreover, he suggests, "a
possible Chinese satellite constellation could be a good addition to Russian orbital facilities." Still, Petrovsky concludes that
Russia and China "are not creating a military-political alliance. It is rather a matter of coordinating the military policies." Playing
down the significance of this new initiative, this specialist also notes that Russia and China have been holding annual ballistic
missile defense command and staff exercises for about a decade already.
Highly recommended!
Notable quotes:
"... Americans were the victims of an elaborate con job, pelted with a daily barrage of threat inflation, distortions, deceptions and lies, not about tactics or strategy or war plans, but about justifications for war. The lies were aimed not at confusing Saddam's regime, but the American people. By the start of the war, 66 per cent of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 and 79 per cent thought he was close to having a nuclear weapon. ..."
"... This charade wouldn't have worked without a gullible or a complicit press corps. Victoria Clarke, who developed the Pentagon plan for embedded reports, put it succinctly a few weeks before the war began: "Media coverage of any future operation will to a large extent shape public perception." ..."
"... During the Vietnam War, TV images of maimed GIs and napalmed villages suburbanized opposition to the war and helped hasten the U.S. withdrawal. The Bush gang meant to turn the Vietnam phenomenon on its head by using TV as a force to propel the U.S.A. into a war that no one really wanted. ..."
"... When the Pentagon needed a heroic story, the press obliged. Jessica Lynch became the war's first instant celebrity. Here was a neo-gothic tale of a steely young woman wounded in a fierce battle, captured and tortured by ruthless enemies, and dramatically saved from certain death by a team of selfless rescuers, knights in camo and night-vision goggles. ..."
"... Back in 1988, the Post felt much differently about Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction. When reports trickled out about the gassing of Iranian troops, the Washington Post's editorial page shrugged off the massacres, calling the mass poisonings "a quirk of war." ..."
"... The Bush team displayed a similar amnesia. When Iraq used chemical weapons in grisly attacks on Iran, the U.S. government not only didn't object, it encouraged Saddam. ..."
"... Nothing sums up this unctuous approach more brazenly than MSNBC's firing of liberal talk show host Phil Donahue on the eve of the war. The network replaced the Donahue Show with a running segment called Countdown: Iraq, featuring the usual nightly coterie of retired generals, security flacks, and other cheerleaders for invasion. ..."
The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It
was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as "weapons of
mass destruction" and "rogue state" were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience:
us.
To understand the Iraq war you don't need to consult generals, but the spin doctors and PR
flacks who stage-managed the countdown to war from the murky corridors of Washington where
politics, corporate spin and psy-ops spooks cohabit.
Consider the picaresque journey of Tony Blair's plagiarized dossier on Iraq, from a grad
student's website to a cut-and-paste job in the prime minister's bombastic speech to the House
of Commons. Blair, stubborn and verbose, paid a price for his grandiose puffery. Bush, who
looted whole passages from Blair's speech for his own clumsy presentations, has skated freely
through the tempest. Why?
Unlike Blair, the Bush team never wanted to present a legal case for war. They had no
interest in making any of their allegations about Iraq hold up to a standard of proof. The real
effort was aimed at amping up the mood for war by using the psychology of fear.
Facts were never important to the Bush team. They were disposable nuggets that could be
discarded at will and replaced by whatever new rationale that played favorably with their polls
and focus groups. The war was about weapons of mass destruction one week, al-Qaeda the next.
When neither allegation could be substantiated on the ground, the fall back position became the
mass graves (many from the Iran/Iraq war where the U.S.A. backed Iraq) proving that Saddam was
an evil thug who deserved to be toppled. The motto of the Bush PR machine was: Move on. Don't
explain. Say anything to conceal the perfidy behind the real motives for war. Never look back.
Accuse the questioners of harboring unpatriotic sensibilities. Eventually, even the cagey
Wolfowitz admitted that the official case for war was made mainly to make the invasion
palatable, not to justify it.
The Bush claque of neocon hawks viewed the Iraq war as a product and, just like a new pair
of Nikes, it required a roll-out campaign to soften up the consumers. The same techniques (and
often the same PR gurus) that have been used to hawk cigarettes, SUVs and nuclear waste dumps
were deployed to retail the Iraq war. To peddle the invasion, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell
and company recruited public relations gurus into top-level jobs at the Pentagon and the State
Department. These spinmeisters soon had more say over how the rationale for war on Iraq should
be presented than intelligence agencies and career diplomats. If the intelligence didn't fit
the script, it was shaded, retooled or junked.
Take Charlotte Beers whom Powell picked as undersecretary of state in the post-9/11 world.
Beers wasn't a diplomat. She wasn't even a politician. She was a grand diva of spin, known on
the business and gossip pages as "the queen of Madison Avenue." On the strength of two
advertising campaigns, one for Uncle Ben's Rice and another for Head and Shoulder's dandruff
shampoo, Beers rocketed to the top of the heap in the PR world, heading two giant PR houses:
Ogilvy and Mathers as well as J. Walter Thompson.
At the State Department Beers, who had met Powell in 1995 when they both served on the board
of Gulf Airstream, worked at, in Powell's words, "the branding of U.S. foreign policy." She
extracted more than $500 million from Congress for her Brand America campaign, which largely
focused on beaming U.S. propaganda into the Muslim world, much of it directed at teens.
"Public diplomacy is a vital new arm in what will combat terrorism over time," said Beers.
"All of a sudden we are in this position of redefining who America is, not only for ourselves,
but for the outside world." Note the rapt attention Beers pays to the manipulation of
perception, as opposed, say, to alterations of U.S. policy.
Old-fashioned diplomacy involves direct communication between representatives of nations, a
conversational give and take, often fraught with deception (see April Glaspie), but an exchange
nonetheless. Public diplomacy, as defined by Beers, is something else entirely. It's a one-way
street, a unilateral broadcast of American propaganda directly to the public, domestic and
international, a kind of informational carpet-bombing.
The themes of her campaigns were as simplistic and flimsy as a Bush press conference. The
American incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq were all about bringing the balm of "freedom" to
oppressed peoples. Hence, the title of the U.S. war: Operation Iraqi Freedom, where cruise
missiles were depicted as instruments of liberation. Bush himself distilled the Beers equation
to its bizarre essence: "This war is about peace."
Beers quietly resigned her post a few weeks before the first volley of tomahawk missiles
battered Baghdad. From her point of view, the war itself was already won, the fireworks of
shock and awe were all after play.
Over at the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld drafted Victoria "Torie" Clarke as his director of
public affairs. Clarke knew the ropes inside the Beltway. Before becoming Rumsfeld's
mouthpiece, she had commanded one of the world's great parlors for powerbrokers: Hill and
Knowlton's D.C. office.
Almost immediately upon taking up her new gig, Clarke convened regular meetings with a
select group of Washington's top private PR specialists and lobbyists to develop a marketing
plan for the Pentagon's forthcoming terror wars. The group was filled with heavy-hitters and
was strikingly bipartisan in composition. She called it the Rumsfeld Group and it included PR
executive Sheila Tate, columnist Rich Lowry, and Republican political consultant Rich
Galen.
The brain trust also boasted top Democratic fixer Tommy Boggs, brother of NPR's Cokie
Roberts and son of the late Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana. At the very time Boggs was
conferring with top Pentagon brass on how to frame the war on terror, he was also working
feverishly for the royal family of Saudi Arabia. In 2002 alone, the Saudis paid his Qorvis PR
firm $20.2 million to protect its interests in Washington. In the wake of hostile press
coverage following the exposure of Saudi links to the 9/11 hijackers, the royal family needed
all the well-placed help it could buy. They seem to have gotten their money's worth. Boggs'
felicitous influence-peddling may help to explain why the references to Saudi funding of
al-Qaeda were dropped from the recent congressional report on the investigation into
intelligence failures and 9/11.
According to the trade publication PR Week, the Rumsfeld Group sent "messaging advice" to
the Pentagon. The group told Clarke and Rumsfeld that in order to get the American public to
buy into the war on terrorism, they needed to suggest a link to nation states, not just
nebulous groups such as al-Qaeda. In other words, there needed to be a fixed target for the
military campaigns, some distant place to drop cruise missiles and cluster bombs. They
suggested the notion (already embedded in Rumsfeld's mind) of playing up the notion of
so-called rogue states as the real masters of terrorism. Thus was born the Axis of Evil, which,
of course, wasn't an "axis" at all, since two of the states, Iran and Iraq, hated each other,
and neither had anything at all to do with the third, North Korea.
Tens of millions in federal money were poured into private public relations and media firms
working to craft and broadcast the Bush dictat that Saddam had to be taken out before the Iraqi
dictator blew up the world by dropping chemical and nuclear bombs from long-range drones. Many
of these PR executives and image consultants were old friends of the high priests in the Bush
inner sanctum. Indeed, they were veterans, like Cheney and Powell, of the previous war against
Iraq, another engagement that was more spin than combat .
At the top of the list was John Rendon, head of the D.C. firm, the Rendon Group. Rendon is
one of Washington's heaviest hitters, a Beltway fixer who never let political affiliation stand
in the way of an assignment. Rendon served as a media consultant for Michael Dukakis and Jimmy
Carter, as well as Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Whenever the Pentagon wanted to go to war, he
offered his services at a price. During Desert Storm, Rendon pulled in $100,000 a month from
the Kuwaiti royal family. He followed this up with a $23 million contract from the CIA to
produce anti-Saddam propaganda in the region.
As part of this CIA project, Rendon created and named the Iraqi National Congress and tapped
his friend Ahmed Chalabi, the shady financier, to head the organization.
Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon handed the Rendon Group another big assignment: public
relations for the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan. Rendon was also deeply involved in the planning
and public relations for the pre-emptive war on Iraq, though both Rendon and the Pentagon
refuse to disclose the details of the group's work there.
But it's not hard to detect the manipulative hand of Rendon behind many of the Iraq war's
signature events, including the toppling of the Saddam statue (by U.S. troops and Chalabi
associates) and videotape of jubilant Iraqis waving American flags as the Third Infantry rolled
by them. Rendon had pulled off the same stunt in the first Gulf War, handing out American flags
to Kuwaitis and herding the media to the orchestrated demonstration. "Where do you think they
got those American flags?" clucked Rendon in 1991. "That was my assignment."
The Rendon Group may also have had played a role in pushing the phony intelligence that has
now come back to haunt the Bush administration. In December of 2002, Robert Dreyfuss reported
that the inner circle of the Bush White House preferred the intelligence coming from Chalabi
and his associates to that being proffered by analysts at the CIA.
So Rendon and his circle represented a new kind of off-the-shelf PSYOPs , the privatization
of official propaganda. "I am not a national security strategist or a military tactician," said
Rendon. "I am a politician, and a person who uses communication to meet public policy or
corporate policy objectives. In fact, I am an information warrior and a perception
manager."
What exactly, is perception management? The Pentagon defines it this way: "actions to convey
and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their
emotions, motives and objective reasoning." In other words, lying about the intentions of the
U.S. government. In a rare display of public frankness, the Pentagon actually let slip its plan
(developed by Rendon) to establish a high-level den inside the Department Defense for
perception management. They called it the Office of Strategic Influence and among its many
missions was to plant false stories in the press.
Nothing stirs the corporate media into outbursts of pious outrage like an official
government memo bragging about how the media are manipulated for political objectives. So the
New York Times and Washington Post threw indignant fits about the Office of Strategic
Influence; the Pentagon shut down the operation, and the press gloated with satisfaction on its
victory. Yet, Rumsfeld told the Pentagon press corps that while he was killing the office, the
same devious work would continue. "You can have the corpse," said Rumsfeld. "You can have the
name. But I'm going to keep doing every single thing that needs to be done. And I have."
At a diplomatic level, despite the hired guns and the planted stories, this image war was
lost. It failed to convince even America's most fervent allies and dependent client states that
Iraq posed much of a threat. It failed to win the blessing of the U.N. and even NATO, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Washington. At the end of the day, the vaunted coalition of the willing
consisted of Britain, Spain, Italy, Australia, and a cohort of former Soviet bloc nations. Even
so, the citizens of the nations that cast their lot with the U.S.A. overwhelmingly opposed the
war.
Domestically, it was a different story. A population traumatized by terror threats and
shattered economy became easy prey for the saturation bombing of the Bush message that Iraq was
a terrorist state linked to al-Qaeda that was only minutes away from launching attacks on
America with weapons of mass destruction.
Americans were the victims of an elaborate con job, pelted with a daily barrage of
threat inflation, distortions, deceptions and lies, not about tactics or strategy or war plans,
but about justifications for war. The lies were aimed not at confusing Saddam's regime, but the
American people. By the start of the war, 66 per cent of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was
behind 9/11 and 79 per cent thought he was close to having a nuclear weapon.
Of course, the closest Saddam came to possessing a nuke was a rusting gas centrifuge buried
for 13 years in the garden of Mahdi Obeidi, a retired Iraqi scientist. Iraq didn't have any
functional chemical or biological weapons. In fact, it didn't even possess any SCUD missiles,
despite erroneous reports fed by Pentagon PR flacks alleging that it had fired SCUDs into
Kuwait.
This charade wouldn't have worked without a gullible or a complicit press corps.
Victoria Clarke, who developed the Pentagon plan for embedded reports, put it succinctly a few
weeks before the war began: "Media coverage of any future operation will to a large extent
shape public perception."
During the Vietnam War, TV images of maimed GIs and napalmed villages suburbanized
opposition to the war and helped hasten the U.S. withdrawal. The Bush gang meant to turn the
Vietnam phenomenon on its head by using TV as a force to propel the U.S.A. into a war that no
one really wanted.
What the Pentagon sought was a new kind of living room war, where instead of photos of
mangled soldiers and dead Iraqi kids, they could control the images Americans viewed and to a
large extent the content of the stories. By embedding reporters inside selected divisions,
Clarke believed the Pentagon could count on the reporters to build relationships with the
troops and to feel dependent on them for their own safety. It worked, naturally. One reporter
for a national network trembled on camera that the U.S. Army functioned as "our protectors."
The late David Bloom of NBC confessed on the air that he was willing to do "anything and
everything they can ask of us."
When the Pentagon needed a heroic story, the press obliged. Jessica Lynch became the
war's first instant celebrity. Here was a neo-gothic tale of a steely young woman wounded in a
fierce battle, captured and tortured by ruthless enemies, and dramatically saved from certain
death by a team of selfless rescuers, knights in camo and night-vision goggles. Of course,
nearly every detail of her heroic adventure proved to be as fictive and maudlin as any
made-for-TV-movie. But the ordeal of Private Lynch, which dominated the news for more than a
week, served its purpose: to distract attention from a stalled campaign that was beginning to
look at lot riskier than the American public had been hoodwinked into believing.
The Lynch story was fed to the eager press by a Pentagon operation called Combat Camera, the
Army network of photographers, videographers and editors that sends 800 photos and 25 video
clips a day to the media. The editors at Combat Camera carefully culled the footage to present
the Pentagon's montage of the war, eliding such unsettling images as collateral damage, cluster
bombs, dead children and U.S. soldiers, napalm strikes and disgruntled troops.
"A lot of our imagery will have a big impact on world opinion," predicted Lt. Jane Larogue,
director of Combat Camera in Iraq. She was right. But as the hot war turned into an even hotter
occupation, the Pentagon, despite airy rhetoric from occupation supremo Paul Bremer about
installing democratic institutions such as a free press, moved to tighten its monopoly on the
flow images out of Iraq. First, it tried to shut down Al Jazeera, the Arab news channel. Then
the Pentagon intimated that it would like to see all foreign TV news crews banished from
Baghdad.
Few newspapers fanned the hysteria about the threat posed by Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction as sedulously as did the Washington Post. In the months leading up to the war, the
Post's pro-war op-eds outnumbered the anti-war columns by a 3-to-1 margin.
Back in 1988, the Post felt much differently about Saddam and his weapons of mass
destruction. When reports trickled out about the gassing of Iranian troops, the Washington
Post's editorial page shrugged off the massacres, calling the mass poisonings "a quirk of
war."
The Bush team displayed a similar amnesia. When Iraq used chemical weapons in grisly
attacks on Iran, the U.S. government not only didn't object, it encouraged Saddam.
Anything to punish Iran was the message coming from the White House. Donald Rumsfeld himself
was sent as President Ronald Reagan's personal envoy to Baghdad. Rumsfeld conveyed the bold
message than an Iraq defeat would be viewed as a "strategic setback for the United States."
This sleazy alliance was sealed with a handshake caught on videotape. When CNN reporter Jamie
McIntyre replayed the footage for Rumsfeld in the spring of 2003, the secretary of defense
snapped, "Where'd you get that? Iraqi television?"
The current crop of Iraq hawks also saw Saddam much differently then. Take the writer Laura
Mylroie, sometime colleague of the New York Times' Judy Miller, who persists in peddling the
ludicrous conspiracy that Iraq was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
How times have changed! In 1987, Mylroie felt downright cuddly toward Saddam. She wrote an
article for the New Republic titled "Back Iraq: Time for a U.S. Tilt in the Mideast," arguing
that the U.S. should publicly embrace Saddam's secular regime as a bulwark against the Islamic
fundamentalists in Iran. The co-author of this mesmerizing weave of wonkery was none other than
Daniel Pipes, perhaps the nation's most bellicose Islamophobe. "The American weapons that Iraq
could make good use of include remotely scatterable and anti-personnel mines and
counterartillery radar," wrote Mylroie and Pipes. "The United States might also consider
upgrading intelligence it is supplying Baghdad."
In the rollout for the war, Mylroie seemed to be everywhere hawking the invasion of Iraq.
She would often appear on two or three different networks in the same day. How did the reporter
manage this feat? She had help in the form of Eleana Benador, the media placement guru who runs
Benador Associates. Born in Peru, Benador parlayed her skills as a linguist into a lucrative
career as media relations whiz for the Washington foreign policy elite. She also oversees the
Middle East Forum, a fanatically pro-Zionist white paper mill. Her clients include some of the
nation's most fervid hawks, including Michael Ledeen, Charles Krauthammer, Al Haig, Max Boot,
Daniel Pipes, Richard Perle, and Judy Miller. During the Iraq war, Benador's assignment was to
embed this squadron of pro-war zealots into the national media, on talk shows, and op-ed
pages.
Benador not only got them the gigs, she also crafted the theme and made sure they all stayed
on message. "There are some things, you just have to state them in a different way, in a
slightly different way," said Benador. "If not, people get scared." Scared of intentions of
their own government.
It could have been different. All of the holes in the Bush administration's gossamer case
for war were right there for the mainstream press to expose. Instead, the U.S. press, just like
the oil companies, sought to commercialize the Iraq war and profit from the invasions. They
didn't want to deal with uncomfortable facts or present voices of dissent.
Nothing sums up this unctuous approach more brazenly than MSNBC's firing of liberal talk
show host Phil Donahue on the eve of the war. The network replaced the Donahue Show with a
running segment called Countdown: Iraq, featuring the usual nightly coterie of retired
generals, security flacks, and other cheerleaders for invasion. The network's executives
blamed the cancellation on sagging ratings. In fact, during its run Donahue's show attracted
more viewers than any other program on the network. The real reason for the pre-emptive strike
on Donahue was spelled out in an internal memo from anxious executives at NBC. Donahue, the
memo said, offered "a difficult face for NBC in a time of war. He seems to delight in
presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administration's
motives."
The memo warned that Donahue's show risked tarring MSNBC as an unpatriotic network, "a home
for liberal anti-war agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every
opportunity." So, with scarcely a second thought, the honchos at MSNBC gave Donahue the boot
and hoisted the battle flag.
It's war that sells.
There's a helluva caveat, of course. Once you buy it, the merchants of war accept no
returns.
This essay is adapted from Grand Theft Pentagon.
Highly recommended!
In any case withdrawal from Syria was a surprising and bold move on the Part of the Trump. You can criticizes Trump for not doing
more but before that he bahvaves as a typical neocon, or a typical Republican presidents (which are the same things). And he started
on this path just two month after inauguration bombing Syria under false pretences. So this is something
I think the reason of change is that Trump intuitively realized the voters are abandoning him in droves and the sizable faction
of his voters who voted for him because of his promises to end foreign wars iether already defected or is ready to defect. So this is
a move designed to keep them.
Notable quotes:
"... "America shouldn't be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price," Trump said. ..."
President Trump's big announcement to pull US troops out of Syria and Afghanistan is now emerging less as a peace move, and more
a rationalization of American military power in the Middle East. In a surprise visit to US forces in Iraq this week, Trump
said he had no intention of withdrawing the troops in that country, who have been there for nearly 15 years since GW Bush invaded
back in 2003.
Hinting at private discussions with commanders in Iraq, Trump boasted that US forces would in the future launch attacks from there
into Syria if and when needed. Presumably that rapid force deployment would apply to other countries in the region, including Afghanistan.
In other words, in typical business-style transactional thinking, Trump sees the pullout from Syria and Afghanistan as a cost-cutting
exercise for US imperialism. Regarding Syria, he has bragged about Turkey being assigned, purportedly, to "finish off" terror
groups. That's Trump subcontracting out US interests.
Critics and supporters of Trump are confounded. After his Syria and Afghanistan pullout call, domestic critics and NATO allies
have accused him of walking from the alleged "fight against terrorism" and of ceding strategic ground to US adversaries Russia
and Iran.
'We're no longer suckers of the world!' Trump says
US is respected as nation AGAIN (VIDEO)
Meanwhile, Trump's supporters have viewed his decision in more benign light, cheering the president for "sticking it to"
the deep state and military establishment, assuming he's delivering on electoral promises to end overseas wars.
However, neither view gets what is going on. Trump is not scaling back US military power; he is rationalizing it like a cost-benefit
analysis, as perhaps only a real-estate-wheeler-dealer-turned president would appreciate. Trump is not snubbing US militarism or
NATO allies, nor is he letting loose an inner peace spirit. He is as committed to projecting American military as ruthlessly and
as recklessly as any other past occupant of the White House. The difference is Trump wants to do it on the cheap.
Here's what he said to reporters on Air Force One before touching down in Iraq:
"The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world. It's not fair when the burden is all on us, the United
States We are spread out all over the world. We are in countries most people haven't even heard about. Frankly, it's ridiculous."
He added: "We're no longer the suckers, folks."
Laughably, Trump's griping about US forces "spread all over the world" unwittingly demonstrates the insatiable, monstrous
nature of American militarism. But Trump paints this vice as a virtue, which, he complains, Washington gets no thanks for from the
150-plus countries around the globe that its forces are present in.
As US troops greeted him in Iraq, the president made explicit how the new American militarism would henceforth operate.
"America shouldn't be doing the fighting for every nation on earth, not being reimbursed in many cases at all. If they want
us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price," Trump said.
'We give them $4.5bn a year': Israel
will still be 'good' after US withdrawal from Syria – Trump
This reiterates a big bugbear for this president in which he views US allies and client regimes as "not pulling their weight"
in terms of military deployment. Trump has been browbeating European NATO members to cough up more on military budgets, and he has
berated the Saudis
and other Gulf Arab regimes to pay more for American interventions.
Notably, however, Trump has never questioned the largesse that US taxpayers fork out every year to Israel in the form of nearly
$4 billion in military aid. To be sure, that money is not a gift because much of it goes back to the Pentagon from sales of fighter
jets and missile systems.
The long-held notion that the US has served as the "world's policeman" is, of course, a travesty.
Since WWII, all presidents and the Washington establishment have constantly harped on, with self-righteousness, about America's
mythical role as guarantor of global security.
Dozens of illegal wars on almost every continent and millions of civilian deaths attest to the real, heinous conduct of American
militarism as a weapon to secure US corporate capitalism.
But with US economic power in historic decline amid a national debt now over $22 trillion, Washington can no longer afford its
imperialist conduct in the traditional mode of direct US military invasions and occupations.
Perhaps, it takes a cost-cutting, raw-toothed capitalist like Trump to best understand the historic predicament, even if only
superficially.
This gives away the real calculation behind his troop pullout from Syria and Afghanistan. Iraq is going to serve as a new regional
hub for force projection on a demand-and-supply basis. In addition, more of the dirty work can be contracted out to Washington's
clients like Turkey, Israel and Saudi Arabia, who will be buying even more US weaponry to prop the military-industrial complex.
'With almost $22 trillion of debt, the US is
in no position to attack Iran'
This would explain why Trump made his hurried, unexpected visit to Iraq this week. Significantly, he
said
: "A lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking", regarding his decision on withdrawing forces from Syria
and Afghanistan.
Since his troop pullout plan announced on December 19, there has been serious pushback from senior Pentagon figures, hawkish Republicans
and Democrats, and the anti-Trump media. The atmosphere is almost seditious against the president. Trump flying off to Iraq on Christmas
night was
reportedly his first visit to troops in an overseas combat zone since becoming president two years ago.
What Trump seemed to be doing was reassuring the Pentagon and corporate America that he is not going all soft and dovish. Not
at all. He is letting them know that he is aiming for a leaner, meaner US military power, which can save money on the number of foreign
bases by using rapid reaction forces out of places like Iraq, as well as by subcontracting operations out to regional clients.
Thus, Trump is not coming clean out of any supposed principle when he cuts back US forces overseas. He is merely applying his
knack for screwing down costs and doing things on the cheap as a capitalist tycoon overseeing US militarism.
During past decades when American capitalism was relatively robust, US politicians and media could indulge in the fantasy of their
military forces going around the world in large-scale formations to selflessly "defend freedom and democracy."
Today, US capitalism is broke. It simply can't sustain its global military empire. Enter Donald Trump with his "business solutions."
But in doing so, this president, with his cheap utilitarianism and transactional exploitative mindset, lets the cat out of the
bag. As he says, the US cannot be the world's policeman. Countries are henceforth going to have to pay for "our protection."
Inadvertently, Trump is showing up US power for what it really is: a global thug running a protection racket.
It's always been the case. Except now it's in your face. Trump is no Smedley Butler, the former Marine general who in the 1930s
condemned US militarism as a Mafia operation. This president is stupidly revealing the racket, while still thinking it is something
virtuous.
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages.
Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master's graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor
for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked
as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist
based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV.
dnm1136
Once again, Cunningham has hit the nail on the head. Trump mistakenly conflates fear with respect. In reality, around the world,
the US is feared but generally not respected.
My guess is that the same was true about Trump as a businessman, i.e., he was not respected, only feared due to his willingness
to pursue his "deals" by any means that "worked" for him, legal or illegal, moral or immoral, seemingly gracious or mean-spirited.
William Smith
Complaining how the US gets no thanks for its foreign intervention. Kind of like a rapist claiming he should be thanked for
"pleasuring" his victim. Precisely the same sentiment expressed by those who believe the American Indians should thank the Whites
for "civilising" them.
Phoebe S,
"Washington gets no thanks for from the 150-plus countries around the globe that its forces are present in."
That might mean they don't want you there. Just saying.
ProRussiaPole
None of these wars are working out for the US strategically. All they do is sow chaos. They seem to not be gaining anything,
and are just preventing others from gaining anything as well.
Ernie For -> ProRussiaPole
i am a huge Putin fan, so is big Don. Please change your source of info Jerome, Trump is one man against Billions of people
and dollars in corruption. He has achieved more in the USA in 2 years than all 5 previous parasites together.
Truthbetold69
It could be a change for a better direction. Time will tell. 'If you do what you've always been doing, you'll get what you've
always been getting.'
Notable quotes:
"... Now consider the notion of "anti-Semitism." Google searches for that word and its close variants reveal over 24 million hits, and over the years I'm sure I've seen that term tens of thousands of times in my books and newspapers, and heard it endlessly reported in my electronic media and entertainment. But thinking it over, I'm not sure that I can ever recall a single real-life instance I've personally encountered, nor have I heard of almost any such cases from my friends or acquaintances. Indeed, the only persons I've ever come across making such claims were individuals who bore unmistakable signs of serious psychological imbalance. When the daily newspapers are brimming with lurid tales of hideous demons walking among us and attacking people on every street corner, but you yourself have never actually seen one, you may gradually grow suspicious. ..."
"... It has also become apparent that a considerable fraction of what passes for "anti-Semitism" these days seems to stretch that term beyond all recognition. A few weeks ago an unknown 28-year-old Democratic Socialist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scored a stunning upset primary victory over a top House Democrat in New York City, and naturally received a blizzard of media coverage as a result. However, when it came out that she had denounced the Israeli government for its recent massacre of over 140 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, cries of "anti-Semite" soon appeared, and according to Google there are now over 180,000 such hits combining her name and that harsh accusatory term. Similarly, just a few days ago the New York Times ran a major story reporting that all of Britain's Jewish newspapers had issued an "unprecedented" denunciation of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, describing it as an "existential threat" to the Jewish community for the anti-Semitism it was fostering; but this apparently amounted to nothing more than its willingness to sharply criticize the Israeli government for its long mistreatment of the Palestinians. ..."
I recently published a couple of long essays, and although they primarily focused on other
matters, the subject of anti-Semitism was a strong secondary theme. In that regard, I mentioned
my shock at discovering a dozen or more years ago that several of the most self-evidently
absurd elements of anti-Semitic lunacy, which I had always dismissed without consideration,
were probably correct. It does seem likely that a significant number of traditionally-religious
Jews did indeed occasionally commit the ritual murder of
Christian children in order to use their blood in certain religious ceremonies, and also
that powerful Jewish international bankers did play a large
role in financing the establishment of Bolshevik Russia .
When one discovers that matters of such enormous moment not only apparently occurred but
that they had been successfully excluded from nearly all of our histories and media coverage
for most of the last one hundred years, the implications take some time to properly digest. If
the most extreme "anti-Semitic canards" were probably true, then surely the whole notion of
anti-Semitism warrants a careful reexamination.
All of us obtain our knowledge of the world by two different channels. Some things we
discover from our own personal experiences and the direct evidence of our senses, but most
information comes to us via external sources such as books and the media, and a crisis may
develop when we discover that these two pathways are in sharp conflict. The official media of
the old USSR used to endlessly trumpet the tremendous achievements of its collectivized
agricultural system, but when citizens noticed that there was never any meat in their shops,
"Pravda" became a watchword for "Lies" rather than "Truth."
Now consider the notion of "anti-Semitism." Google searches for that word and its close
variants reveal over 24 million hits, and over the years I'm sure I've seen that term tens of
thousands of times in my books and newspapers, and heard it endlessly reported in my electronic
media and entertainment. But thinking it over, I'm not sure that I can ever recall a single
real-life instance I've personally encountered, nor have I heard of almost any such cases from
my friends or acquaintances. Indeed, the only persons I've ever come across making such claims
were individuals who bore unmistakable signs of serious psychological imbalance. When the daily
newspapers are brimming with lurid tales of hideous demons walking among us and attacking
people on every street corner, but you yourself have never actually seen one, you may gradually
grow suspicious.
Indeed, over the years some of my own research has uncovered a sharp contrast between image
and reality. As recently as the late 1990s, leading mainstream media outlets such as The
New York Times were still denouncing a top Ivy League
school such as Princeton for the supposed anti-Semitism of its college admissions policy,
but a few years ago when I carefully investigated that issue in quantitative terms for my
lengthy Meritocracy
analysis I was very surprised to reach a polar-opposite conclusion. According to the best
available evidence, white Gentiles were over 90% less likely to be enrolled at Harvard and the
other Ivies than were Jews of similar academic performance, a truly remarkable finding. If the
situation had been reversed and Jews were 90% less likely to be found at Harvard than seemed
warranted by their test scores, surely that fact would be endlessly cited as the absolute
smoking-gun proof of horrendous anti-Semitism in present-day America.
It has also become apparent that a considerable fraction of what passes for "anti-Semitism"
these days seems to stretch that term beyond all recognition. A few weeks ago an unknown
28-year-old Democratic Socialist named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scored a stunning upset primary
victory over a top House Democrat in New York City, and naturally received a blizzard of media
coverage as a result. However, when it came out that she had denounced the Israeli government
for its recent massacre of over 140 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza, cries of
"anti-Semite" soon appeared, and according to Google there are now over 180,000 such hits
combining her name and that harsh accusatory term. Similarly, just a few days ago the New
York Times ran a
major story reporting that all of Britain's Jewish newspapers had issued an "unprecedented"
denunciation of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, describing it as an "existential threat" to the
Jewish community for the anti-Semitism it was fostering; but this apparently amounted to
nothing more than its willingness to sharply criticize the Israeli government for its long
mistreatment of the Palestinians.
One plausible explanation of the strange contrast between media coverage and reality might
be that anti-Semitism once did loom very large in real life, but dissipated many decades ago,
while the organizations and activists focused on detecting and combating that pernicious
problem have remained in place, generating public attention based on smaller and smaller
issues, with the zealous Jewish activists of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) representing a
perfect example of this situation. As an even more striking illustration, the Second World War
ended over seventy years ago, but what historian Norman Finkelstein has so aptly labeled "the
Holocaust Industry" has grown ever larger and more entrenched in our academic and media worlds
so that scarcely a day passes without one or more articles relating to that topic appearing in
my major morning newspapers. Given this situation, a serious exploration of the true nature of
anti-Semitism should probably avoid the mere media phantoms of today and focus on the past,
when the condition might still have been widespread in daily life.
Many observers have pointed to the aftermath of the Second World War as marking a huge
watershed in the public acceptability of anti-Semitism both in America and Europe, so perhaps a
proper appraisal of that cultural phenomenon should focus on the years before that global
conflict. However, the overwhelming role of Jews in the Bolshevik Revolution and other bloody
Communist seizures of power quite naturally made them objects of considerable fear and hatred
throughout the inter-war years, so the safest course might be to push that boundary back a
little further and confine our attention to the period prior to the outbreak of the First World
War. The pogroms in Czarist Russia, the Dreyfus Affair in France, and the lynching of Leo Frank
in the American South come to mind as some of the most famous examples from that period.
Lindemann's discussion of the often difficult relations between Russia's restive Jewish
minority and its huge Slavic majority is also quite interesting, and he provides numerous
instances in which major incidents, supposedly demonstrating the enormously strong appeal of
vicious anti-Semitism, were quite different than has been suggested by the legend. The famous
Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 was obviously the result of severe ethnic tension in that city, but
contrary to the regular accusations of later writers, there seems absolutely no evidence of
high-level government involvement, and the widespread claims of 700 dead that so horrified the
entire world were grossly exaggerated, with only 45 killed in the urban rioting. Chaim
Weizmann, the future president of Israel, later promoted the story that he himself and some
other brave Jewish souls had personally defended their people with revolvers in hand even as
they saw the mutilated bodies of 80 Jewish victims. This account was totally fictional since
Weizmann happened to have been be hundreds of miles away when the riots occurred.
Although a tendency to lie and exaggerate was hardly unique to the political partisans of
Russian Jewry, the existence of a powerful international network of Jewish journalists and
Jewish-influenced media outlets ensured that such concocted propaganda stories might receive
enormous worldwide distribution, while the truth followed far behind, if at all.
For related reasons, international outrage was often focused on the legal confinement of
most of Russia's Jews to the "Pale of Settlement," suggesting some sort of tight imprisonment;
but that area was the traditional home of the Jewish population and encompassed a landmass
almost as large as France and Spain combined. The growing impoverishment of Eastern European
Jews during that era was often assumed to be a consequence of hostile government policy, but
the obvious explanation was extraordinary Jewish fecundity, which far outstripped that of their
Slavic fellow countrymen, and quickly led them to outgrow the available spots in any of their
traditional "middleman" occupations, a situation worsened by their total disinclination to
engage in agriculture or other primary-producer activities. Jewish communities expressed horror
at the risk of losing their sons to the Czarist military draft, but this was simply the
flip-side of the full Russian citizenship they had been granted, and no different from what was
faced by their non-Jewish neighbors.
Certainly the Jews of Russia suffered greatly from widespread riots and mob attacks in the
generation prior to World War I, and these did sometimes have substantial government
encouragement, especially in the aftermath of the very heavy Jewish role in the 1905
Revolution. But we should keep in mind that a Jewish plotter had been implicated in the killing
of Czar Alexander II, and Jewish assassins had also struck down several top Russian ministers
and numerous other government officials. If the last decade or two had seen American Muslims
assassinate a sitting U.S. President, various leading Cabinet members, and a host of our other
elected and appointed officials, surely the position of Muslims in this country would have
become a very uncomfortable one.
As Lindemann candidly describes the tension between Russia's very rapidly growing Jewish
population and its governing authorities, he cannot avoid mentioning the notorious Jewish
reputation for bribery, corruption, and general dishonesty, with numerous figures of all
political backgrounds noting that the remarkable Jewish propensity to commit perjury in the
courtroom led to severe problems in the effective administration of justice. The eminent
American sociologist E.A. Ross, writing in 1913, characterized
the regular behavior of Eastern European Jews in very similar terms .
Lindemann also allocates a short chapter to discussing the 1911 Beilis Affair, in which a
Ukrainian Jew was accused of the ritual murder of a young Gentile boy, an incident that
generated a great deal of international attention and controversy. Based on the evidence
presented, the defendant seems likely to have been innocent, although the obvious lies he
repeatedly told police interrogators hardly helped foster that impression, and "the system
worked" in that he was ultimately found innocent by the jurors at his trial. However, a few
pages are also given to a much less well-known ritual murder case in late 19th century Hungary,
in which the evidence of Jewish guilt seemed far stronger, though the author hardly accepted
the possible reality of such an outlandish crime. Such reticence was quite understandable since
the publication of Ariel Toaff's remarkable volume
on the subject was still a dozen years in the future.
Lindemann subsequently expanded his examination of historical anti-Semitism into a much
broader treatment, Esau's Tears , which appeared in 1997. In this volume, he added
comparative studies of the social landscape in Germany, Britain, Italy, and several other
European countries, and demonstrated that the relationship between Jews and non-Jews varied
greatly across different locations and time periods. But although I found his analysis quite
useful and interesting, the extraordinarily harsh attacks his text provoked from some outraged
Jewish academics seemed even more intriguing.
For example, Judith Laikin Elkin opened her discussion in The American Historical
Review by describing the book as a "545-page polemic" a strange characterization of a book
so remarkably even-handed and factually-based in its scholarship. Writing in
Commentary , Robert Wistrich was even harsher, stating that merely reading the book
had been a painful experience for him, and his review seemed filled with spittle-flecked rage.
Unless these individuals had somehow gotten copies of a different book, I found their attitudes
simply astonishing.
I was not alone in such a reaction. Richard S. Levy of the University of Illinois, a noted
scholar of anti-Semitism, expressed amazement at Wistrich's seemingly irrational outburst,
while Paul Gottfried, writing in Chronicles , mildly suggested that Lindemann had
"touched raw nerves." Indeed, Gottfried's own evaluation quite reasonably criticized Lindemann
for perhaps being a little too even-handed, sometimes presenting numerous conflicting analyzes
without choosing between them. For those interested, a good discussion of the book by Alan
Steinweis, a younger scholar specializing in the same topic,
is conveniently available online .
The remarkable ferocity with which some Jewish writers attacked Lindemann's meticulous
attempt to provide an accurate history of anti-Semitism may carry more significance than merely
an exchange of angry words in low-circulation academic publications. If our mainstream media
shapes our reality, scholarly books and articles based upon them tend to set the contours of
that media coverage. And the ability of a relatively small number of agitated and energetic
Jews to police the acceptable boundaries of historical narratives may have enormous
consequences for our larger society, deterring scholars from objectively reporting historical
facts and preventing students from discovering them.
The undeniable truth is that for many centuries Jews usually constituted a wealthy and
privileged segment of the population in nearly all the European countries in which they
resided, and quite frequently they based their livelihood upon the heavy exploitation of a
downtrodden peasantry. Even without any differences in ethnicity, language, or religion, such
conditions almost invariably provoke hostility. The victory of Mao's Communist forces in China
was quickly followed by the brutal massacre of a million or more Han Chinese landlords by the
Han Chinese poor peasants who regarded them as cruel oppressors, with William Hinton's classic
Fanshen describing the unfortunate history that unfolded in one particular village.
When similar circumstances led to violent clashes in Eastern Europe between Slavs and Jews,
does it really make logical sense to employ a specialized term such as "anti-Semitism" to
describe that situation?
Furthermore, some of the material presented in Lindemann's rather innocuous text might also
lead to potentially threatening ideas. Consider, for example, the notorious Protocols of
the Learned Elders of Zion , almost certainly fictional, but hugely popular and
influential during the years following World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution. The fall of so
many longstanding Gentile dynasties and their replacement by new regimes such as Soviet Russia
and Weimar Germany, which were heavily dominated by their tiny Jewish minorities, quite
naturally fed suspicions of a worldwide Jewish plot, as did the widely discussed role of Jewish
international bankers in producing those political outcomes.
Over the decades, there has been much speculation about the possible inspiration for the
Protocols , but although Lindemann makes absolutely no reference to that document, he
does provide a very intriguing possible candidate. Jewish-born British Prime Minister Benjamin
Disraeli certainly ranked as one of the most influential figures of the late 19th century, and
in his novel Coningsby , he has the character representing Lord Lionel Rothschild
boast about the existence of a vast and
secret network of powerful international Jews , who stand near the head of almost every
major nation, quietly controlling their governments from behind the scenes. If one of the
world's most politically well-connected Jews eagerly promoted such notions, was Henry Ford
really so unreasonable in doing the same?
Lindemann also notes Disraeli's focus on the extreme importance of race and racial origins,
a central aspect of traditional Jewish religious doctrine. He reasonably suggests that this
must surely have had a huge influence upon the rise of those political ideas, given that
Disraeli's public profile and stature were so much greater than the mere writers or activists
whom our history books usually place at center stage. In fact, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a
leading racial theorist, actually cited Disraeli as a key source for his ideas. Jewish
intellectuals such as Max Nordau and Cesare Lombroso are already widely recognized as leading
figures in the rise of the racial science of that era, but Disraeli's under-appreciated role
may have actually been far greater. The deep Jewish roots of European racialist movements are
hardly something that many present-day Jews would want widely known.
One of the harsh Jewish critics of Esau's Tears denounced Cambridge University
Press for even allowing the book to appear in print, and although that major work is easily
available in English, there are numerous other cases where an important but discordant version
of historical reality has been successfully blocked from publication. For decades most
Americans would have ranked Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn as among the world's greatest
literary figures, and his Gulag Archipelago alone sold over 10 million copies. But his
last work was a massive two-volume account of the tragic 200 years of shared history between
Russians and Jews, and despite its 2002 release in Russian and numerous other world languages,
there has yet to be an authorized English translation, though various partial editions have
circulated on the Internet in samizdat form.
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At one point, a full English version was briefly available for sale at Amazon.com and I
purchased it. Glancing through a few sections, the work seemed quite even-handed and innocuous
to me, but it seemed to provide a far more detailed and uncensored account than anything else
previously available, which obviously was the problem. The Bolshevik Revolution resulted in the
deaths of many tens of millions of people worldwide, and the overwhelming Jewish role in its
leadership would become more difficult to erase from historical memory if Solzhenitsyn's work
were easily available. Also, his candid discussion of the economic and political behavior of
Russian Jewry in pre-revolutionary times directly conflicted with the hagiography widely
promoted by Hollywood and the popular media. Historian Yuri Slezkine's award-winning 2004 book
The Jewish Century provided many similar facts, but his treatment was far more cursory
and his public stature not remotely the same.
Near the end of his life, Solzhenitsyn gave his political blessing to Russian President
Vladimir Putin, and Russia's leaders honored him upon his death, while his Gulag
volumes are now enshrined as mandatory reading in the standard high school curriculum of
today's overwhelmingly Christian Russia. But even as his star rose again in his own homeland,
it seems to have sharply fallen in our own country, and his trajectory may eventually relegate
him to nearly un-person status.
A couple of years after the release of Solzhenitsyn's controversial final book, an American
writer named Anne Applebaum published a thick history bearing the same title Gulag ,
and her work received enormously favorable media coverage and won her a Pulitzer Prize; I have
even heard claims that her book has been steadily replacing that earlier Gulag on many
college reading lists. But although Jews constituted a huge fraction of the top leadership of
the Soviet Gulag system during its early decades, as well as that of the dreaded NKVD which
supplied the inmates, nearly her entire focus on her own ethnic group during Soviet times is
that of victims rather than victimizers. And by a remarkable irony of fate, she shares a last
name with one of the top Bolshevik leaders, Hirsch Apfelbaum, who concealed his own ethnic
identity by calling himself Grigory Zinoviev.
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The striking decline in Solzhenitsyn's literary status in the West came just a decade or two
after an even more
precipitous collapse in the reputation of David Irving , and for much the same reason.
Irving probably ranked as the most internationally successful British historian of the last one
hundred years and a renowned scholar of World War II, but his extensive reliance on primary
source documentary evidence posed an obvious threat to the official narrative promoted by
Hollywood and wartime propaganda. When he published his magisterial Hitler's War ,
this conflict between myth and reality came into the open, and an enormous wave of attacks and
vilification was unleashed, gradually leading to his purge from respectability and eventually
even his imprisonment.
These important examples may help to explain the puzzling contrast between the behavior of
Jews in the aggregate and Jews as individuals. Observers have noticed that even fairly small
Jewish minorities may often have a major impact upon the far larger societies that host them.
But on the other hand, in my experience at least, a large majority of individual Jews do not
seem all that different in their personalities or behavior than their non-Jewish counterparts.
So how does a community whose individual mean is not so unusual generate what seems to be such
a striking difference in collective behavior? I think the answer may involve the existence of
information choke-points, and the ability of relatively small numbers of particularly zealous
and agitated Jews in influencing and controlling these.
We live our lives constantly immersed in media narratives, and these allow us to decide the
rights and wrongs of a situation. The vast majority of people, Jew and Gentile alike, are far
more likely to take strong action if they are convinced that their cause is a just one. This is
obviously the basis for war-time propaganda.
Now suppose that a relatively small number of zealous Jewish partisans are known to always
attack and denounce journalists or authors who accurately describe Jewish misbehavior. Over
time, this ongoing campaign of intimidation may cause many important facts to be left on the
cutting-room floor, or even gradually expel from mainstream respectability those writers who
refuse to conform to such pressures. Meanwhile, similar small numbers of Jewish partisans
frequently exaggerate the misdeeds committed against Jews, sometimes piling their exaggerations
upon past exaggerations already produced by a previous round of such zealots.
Eventually, these two combined trends may take a complex and possibly very mixed historical
record and transform it into a simple morality-play, with innocent Jews tremendously injured by
vicious Jew-haters. And as this morality-play becomes established it deepens the subsequent
intensity of other Jewish-activists, who redouble their demands that the media "stop vilifying
Jews" and covering up the supposed evils inflicted upon them. An unfortunate circle of
distortion following exaggeration following distortion can eventually produce a widely accepted
historical account that bears little resemblance to the reality of what actually happened.
So as a result, the vast majority of quite ordinary Jews, who would normally behave in quite
ordinary ways, are misled by this largely fictional history, and rather understandably become
greatly outraged at all the horrible things that had been done to their suffering people, some
of which are true and some of which are not, while remaining completely ignorant of the other
side of the ledger.
Furthermore, this situation is exacerbated by the common tendency of Jews to "cluster"
together, perhaps respresenting just one or two percent of the total population, but often
constituting 20% or 40% or 60% of their immediate peer-group, especially in certain
professions. Under such conditions, the ideas or emotional agitation of some Jews probably
permeates others around them, often provoking additional waves of indignation.
As a rough analogy, a small quantity of uranium is relatively inert and harmless, and
entirely so if distributed within low-density ore. But if a significant quantity of
weapons-grade uranium is sufficiently compressed, then the neutrons released by fissioning
atoms will quickly cause additional atoms to undergo fission, with the ultimate result of that
critical chain-reaction being a nuclear explosion. In similar fashion, even a highly agitated
Jew may have no negative impact, but if the collection of such agitated Jews becomes too
numerous and clusters together too closely, they may work each other into a terrible frenzy,
perhaps with disastrous consequences both for themselves and for their larger society. This is
especially true if those agitated Jews begin to dominate certain key nodes of top-level
control, such as the central political or media organs of a society.
Whereas most living organizations exist solely in physical reality, human beings also occupy
an ideational space, with the interaction of human consciousness and perceived reality playing
a major role in shaping behavior. Just as the pheromones released by mammals or insects can
drastically affect the reactions of their family members or nest-mates, the ideas secreted by
individuals or the media-emitters of a society can have an enormous impact upon their
fellows.
A cohesive, organized group generally possesses huge advantages over a teeming mass of
atomized individuals, just as a Macedonian Phalanx could easily defeat a vastly larger body of
disorganized infantry. Many years ago, on some website somewhere I came across a very
insightful comment regarding the obvious connection between "anti-Semitism" and "racism," which
our mainstream media organs identify as two of the world's greatest evils. Under this analysis,
"anti-Semitism" represents the tendency to criticize or resist Jewish social cohesion, while
"racism" represents the attempt of white Gentiles to maintain a similar social cohesion of
their own. To the extent that the ideological emanations from our centralized media organs
serve to strengthen and protect Jewish cohesion while attacking and dissolving any similar
cohesion on the part of their Gentile counterparts, the former will obviously gain enormous
advantages in resource-competition against the latter.
Religion obviously constitutes an important unifying factor in human social groups and we
cannot ignore the role of Judaism in this regard. Traditional Jewish
religious doctrine seems to consider Jews as being in a state of permanent hostility with all
non-Jews , and the use of dishonest propaganda is an almost inevitable aspect of such
conflict. Furthermore, since Jews have invariably been a small political minority, maintaining
such controversial tenets required the employment of a massive framework of subterfuge and
dissimulation in order to conceal their nature from the larger society surrounding them. It has
often been said that truth is the first casualty in war, and surely the cultural influences of
over a thousand years of such intense religious hostility may continue to quietly influence the
thinking of many modern Jews, even those who have largely abandoned their religious
beliefs.
The notorious Jewish tendency to shamelessly lie or wildly exaggerate has sometimes had
horrifying human consequences. I very recently discovered a fascinating passage in Peter
Moreira's 2014 book
The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War ,
focused on the important political role of that powerful Secretary of the Treasury.
A turning point in Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s relationship with the Jewish community came in
November 1942, when Rabbi Stephen Wise came to the corner office to tell the secretary what
was happening in Europe. Morgenthau knew of the millions of deaths and the lampshades made
from victims' skin, and he asked Wise not to go into excessive details. But Wise went on to
tell of the barbarity of the Nazis, how they were making soap out of Jewish flesh.
Morgenthau, turning paler, implored him, "Please, Stephen, don't give me the gory details."
Wise went on with his list of horrors and Morgenthau repeated his plea over and over again.
Henrietta Klotz was afraid her boss would keel over. Morgenthau later said the meeting
changed his life.
It is easy to imagine that Morgenthau's gullible acceptance of such obviously ridiculous
war-time atrocity stories played a major role when he later lent his name and support to
remarkably brutal American occupation policies that probably led to
the postwar deaths of many millions of innocent German civilians .
renfro , July 4, 2018
at 7:23 pm GMT
@jilles dykstra
You could help yourself by learning the real history ..I suggest the foremost historian on
the subject Thomas Thompson and his ' History of Arabia'. Jerusalem was not founded by Jews,
i.e. adherents of the Jewish religion. It was founded between 3000 BCE and 2600 BCE by a West
Semitic people or possibly the Canaanites, the common ancestors of Palestinians, Lebanese,
many Syrians and Jordanians, and many Jews. But when it was founded Jews did not
exist.
Jerusalem was founded in honor of the ancient god Shalem. It does not mean City of
Peace but rather 'built-up place of Shalem." The "Jewish people" were not building Jerusalem
3000 years ago, i.e. 1000 BCE. First of all, it is not clear when exactly Judaism as a
religion centered on the worship of the one God took firm form. It appears to have been a
late development since no evidence of worship of anything but ordinary Canaanite deities has
been found in archeological sites through 1000 BCE. There was no invasion of geographical
Palestine from Egypt by former slaves in the 1200s BCE. The pyramids had been built much
earlier and had not used slave labor. The chronicle of the events of the reign of Ramses II
on the wall in Luxor does not know about any major slave revolts or flights by same into the
Sinai peninsula. Egyptian sources never heard of Moses or the 10 plagues & etc. Jews and
Judaism emerged from a certain social class of Canaanites over a period of centuries inside
Palestine. Jerusalem not only was not being built by the likely then non-existent "Jewish
people" in 1000 BCE, but Jerusalem probably was not even inhabited at that point in history.
Jerusalem appears to have been abandoned between 1000 BCE and 900 BCE, the traditional dates
for the united kingdom under David and Solomon. So Jerusalem was not 'the city of David,'
since there was no city when he is said to have lived. No sign of magnificent palaces or
great states has been found in the archeology of this period, and the Assyrian tablets, which
recorded even minor events throughout the Middle East, such as the actions of Arab queens,
don't know about any great kingdom of David and Solomon in geographical Palestine. Since
archeology does not show the existence of a Jewish kingdom or kingdoms in the so-called First
Temple Period, it is not clear when exactly the Jewish people would have ruled Jerusalem
except for the Hasmonean Kingdom. The Assyrians conquered Jerusalem in 722. The Babylonians
took it in 597 and ruled it until they were themselves conquered in 539 BCE by the
Achaemenids of ancient Iran, who ruled Jerusalem until Alexander the Great took the Levant in
the 330s BCE. Alexander's descendants, the Ptolemies ruled Jerusalem until 198 when
Alexander's other descendants, the Seleucids, took the city. With the Maccabean Revolt in 168
BCE, the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom did rule Jerusalem until 37 BCE, though Antigonus II
Mattathias, the last Hasmonean, only took over Jerusalem with the help of the Parthian
dynasty in 40 BCE. Herod ruled 37 BCE until the Romans conquered what they called Palestine
in 6 CE (CE= 'Common Era' or what Christians call AD). The Romans and then the Eastern Roman
Empire of Byzantium ruled Jerusalem from 6 CE until 614 CE when the Iranian Sasanian Empire
Conquered it, ruling until 629 CE when the Byzantines took it back.
A. The Muslims, who ruled it and built it over 1191 years.
B. The Egyptians, who ruled it as a vassal state for several hundred years in the second
millennium BCE.
C. The Italians, who ruled it about 444 years until the fall of the Roman Empire in 450
CE.
D. The Iranians, who ruled it for 205 years under the Achaemenids, for three years under the
Parthians (insofar as the last Hasmonean was actually their vassal), and for 15 years under
the Sasanids.
E. The Greeks, who ruled it for over 160 years if we count the Ptolemys and Seleucids as
Greek. If we count them as Egyptians and Syrians, that would increase the Egyptian claim and
introduce a Syrian one.
F. The successor states to the Byzantines, which could be either Greece or Turkey, who ruled
it 188 years, though if we consider the heir to be Greece and add in the time the Hellenistic
Greek dynasties ruled it, that would give Greece nearly 350 years as ruler of Jerusalem.
G. There is an Iraqi claim to Jerusalem based on the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests, as
well as perhaps the rule of the Ayyubids (Saladin's dynasty), who were Kurds from Iraq.
L.K , July 4, 2018 at 9:24 pm
GMT
@jilles dykstra
I understand what you are saying, Jilles, but let's be accurate, shall we?
The Jews have ZERO right to "return" to Palestine one cannot go back to a place one never
left in the first place.
The story that the Romans expelled the Jews from Palestine 2000 years ago is FALSE.
See Israeli historian Shlomo Sand( the invention of the Jewish people).
At any rate, even had the story been true – and it is NOT – the notion of
modern Jews laying claim to the land 2000 years later is truly bizarre.
L.K , July 4, 2018 at 9:28 pm
GMT
@renfro
In short, today's Palestinians and their ancestors have been living continuously between
the River and the Sea for about 9,000 years."
Exactly.
In the preface of his book "Ten myths about Israel", Israeli historian Ilan Pappe,
writes:
Were the Jews indeed the original inhabitants of Palestine who deserved to be
supported in every way possible in their "return" to their "homeland"? The myth insists
that the Jews who arrived in 1882 were the descendants of the Jews expelled by the Romans
around 70 CE. The counterargument questions this genealogical connection. Quite a hefty
scholarly effort has shown that the Jews of Roman Palestine remained on the land and were
first converted to Christianity and then to Islam. Who these Jews were is still an open
question -- maybe the Khazars who converted to Judaism in the ninth century; or maybe the
mixture of races across a millennium precludes any answer to such a question.
[Apr 04, 2019] Fascism A Warning by Madeleine Albright
Junk author, junk book of the butcher of Yugoslavia who would be hanged with Bill clinton by
Nuremberg Tribunal for crimes against peace. Albright is not bright at all. she a female bully
and that shows.
Mostly projection. And this arrogant warmonger like to exercise in Russophobia (which was the
main part of the USSR which saved the world fro fascism, sacrificing around 20 million people)
This book is book of denial of genocide against Iraqis and Serbian population where bombing with
uranium enriched bombs doubled cancer cases.If you can pass over those facts that this book is
for you.
Like Robert Kagan and other neocons Albright is waiving authoritarism dead chicken again and
again. that's silly and disingenuous. authoritarism is a method of Governance used in military.
It is not an ideology. Fascism is an ideology, a flavor of far right nationalism. Kind of
"enhanced" by some socialist ideas far right nationalism.
The view of fascism without economic circumstances that create fascism, and first of
immiseration of middle and working class and high level of unemployment is a primitive
ahistorical view. Fascism is the ultimate capitalist statism acting simultaneously as the civil
religion for the population also enforced by the power of the state. It has a lot of common with
neoliberalism, that's why neoliberalism is sometimes called "inverted totalitarism".
In reality fascism while remaining the dictatorship of capitalists for capitalist and the
national part of financial oligarchy, it like neoliberalism directed against working class
fascism comes to power on the populist slogans of righting wrong by previous regime and kicking
foreign capitalists and national compradors (which in Germany turned to be mostly Jewish)
out.
It comes to power under the slogans of stopping the distribution of wealth up and elimination
of the class of reinters -- all citizens should earn income, not get it from bond and other
investments (often in reality doing completely the opposite).
While intrinsically connected and financed by a sizable part of national elite which often
consist of far right military leadership, a part of financial oligarchy and large part of lower
middle class (small properties) is is a protest movement which want to revenge for the
humiliation and prefer military style organization of the society to democracy as more potent
weapon to achieve this goal.
Like any far right movement the rise of fascism and neo-fascism is a sign of internal problem
within a given society, often a threat to the state or social order.
Still another noted that Fascism is often linked to people who are part of a distinct ethnic
or racial group, who are under economic stress, and who feel that they are being denied rewards
to which they are entitled. "It's not so much what people have." she said, "but what they think
they should have -- and what they fear." Fear is why Fascism's emotional reach can extend to
all levels of society. No political movement can flourish without popular support, but Fascism
is as dependent on the wealthy and powerful as it is on the man or woman in the street -- on
those who have much to lose and those who have nothing at all.
This insight made us think that Fascism should perhaps be viewed less as a political
ideology than as a means for seizing and holding power. For example, Italy in the 1920s
included self-described Fascists of the left (who advocated a dictatorship of the
dispossessed), of the right (who argued for an authoritarian corporatist state), and of the
center (who sought a return to absolute monarchy). The German National Socialist Party (the
Nazis) originally came together ar ound a list of demands that ca- tered to anti-Semites,
anti-immigrants, and anti-capitalists but also advocated for higher old-age pensions, more
educational op- portunities for the poor, an end to child labor, and improved ma- ternal health
care. The Nazis were racists and, in their own minds, reformers at the same time.
If Fascism concerns itself less with specific policies than with finding a pathway to power,
what about the tactics of lead- ership? My students remarked that the Fascist chiefs we remem-
ber best were charismatic. Through one method or another, each established an emotional link to
the crowd and, like the central figure in a cult, brought deep and often ugly feelings to the
sur- face. This is how the tentacles of Fascism spread inside a democ- racy. Unlike a monarchy
or a military dictatorship imposed on society from above. Fascism draws energy from men and
women who are upset because of a lost war, a lost job, a memory of hu- miliation, or a sense
that their country is in steep decline. The more painful the grounds for resentment, the easier
it is for a Fascist leader to gam followers by dangling the prospect of re- newal or by vowing
to take back what has been stolen.
Like the mobilizers of more benign movements, these secular evangelists exploit the
near-universal human desire to be part of a meaningful quest. The more gifted among them have
an apti- tude for spectacle -- for orchestrating mass gatherings complete with martial music,
incendiary rhetoric, loud cheers, and arm-
lifting salutes. To loyalists, they offer the prize of membership in a club from which
others, often the objects of ridicule, are kept out. To build fervor, Fascists tend to be
aggressive, militaristic, and -- when circumstances allow -- expansionist. To secure the
future, they turn schools into seminaries for true believers, striv- ing to produce "new men"
and "new women" who will obey without question or pause. And, as one of my students observed,
"a Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy
that others do not."
After climbing into a position of power, what comes next: How does a Fascist consolidate
authority? Here several students piped up: "By controlling information." Added another, "And
that's one reason we have so much cause to worry today." Most of us have thought of the
technological revolution primarily as a means for people from different walks of life to
connect with one another, trade ideas, and develop a keener understanding of why men and women
act as they do -- in other words, to sharpen our perceptions of truth. That's still the case,
but now we are not so sure. There is a troubling "Big Brother" angle because of the mountain of
personal data being uploaded into social media. If an advertiser can use that information to
home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what's to stop a Fascist
government from doing the same? "Suppose I go to a demonstra- tion like the Women's March,"
said a student, "and post a photo
on social media. My name gets added to a list and that list can end up anywhere. How do we
protect ourselves against that?"
Even more disturbing is the ability shown by rogue regimes and their agents to spread lies
on phony websites and Facebook. Further, technology has made it possible for extremist
organiza- tions to construct echo chambers of support for conspiracy theo- ries, false
narratives, and ignorant views on religion and race. This is the first rule of deception:
repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The
Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is
neither.
Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by assert- ing: "Fascism was the major
political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain." Over the
years, he and other scholars have developed lists of the many moving parts that Fascism
entails. Toward the end of our discussion, my class sought to articulate a comparable list.
Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are
required to do exactly what lead- ers say they must do, nothing more, nothing less. The
doctrine is linked to rabid nationalism. It also turns the traditional social contract upside
down. Instead of citizens giving power to the state in exchange for the protection of their
rights, power begins with the leader, and the people have no rights. Under Fascism,
the mission of citizens is to serve; the government's job is to rule.
When one talks about this subject, confusion often arises about the difference between
Fascism and such related concepts as totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, tyranny,
autocracy, and so on. As an academic, I might be tempted to wander into that thicket, but as a
former diplomat, I am primarily concerned with actions, not labels. To my mind, a Fascist is
someone who identifies strongly with and claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is
unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use whatever means are necessary --
including violence -- to achieve his or her goals. In that conception, a Fascist will likely be
a tyrant, but a tyrant need not be a Fascist.
Often the difference can be seen in who is trusted with the guns. In seventeenth-century
Europe, when Catholic aristocrats did battle with Protestant aristocrats, they fought over
scripture but agreed not to distribute weapons to their peasants, thinking it safer to wage war
with mercenary armies. Modern dictators also tend to be wary of their citizens, which is why
they create royal guards and other elite security units to ensure their personal safe- ty. A
Fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try to settle people down,
Fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins, their foot soldiers have the will and
the firepower to strike first.
petarsimic , October 21, 2018
Madeleine Albright on million Iraqis dead: "We think the price is worth It"
Hypocrisy at its worst from a lady who advocated hawkish foreign policy which included the
most sustained bombing campaign since Vietnam, when, in 1998, Clinton began almost daily
attacks on Iraq in the so-called no-fly zones, and made so-called regime change in Iraq
official U.S. policy.
In May of 1996, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Madeleine Albright, who at the time was
Clinton's U.N. ambassador. Correspondent Leslie Stahl said to Albright, in connection with
the Clinton administration presiding over the most devastating regime of sanctions in history
that the U.N. estimated took the lives of as many as a million Iraqis, the vast majority of
them children. , "We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that's more
children than died in Hiroshima. And -- and, you know, is the price worth it?"
Madeleine Albright replied, "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price -- we think
the price is worth it.
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P. Bierre , June 11, 2018
Does Albright present a comprehensive enough understanding of fascism to instruct on how best
to avoid it?
While I found much of the story-telling in "Fascism" engaging, I come away expecting much
more of one of our nation's pre-eminent senior diplomats . In a nutshell, she has devoted a
whole volume to describing the ascent of intolerant fascism and its many faces, but punted on
the question "How should we thwart fascism going forward?"
Even that question leaves me a bit unsatisfied, since it is couched in double-negative
syntax. The thing there is an appetite for, among the readers of this book who are looking
for more than hand-wringing about neofascism, is a unifying title or phrase which captures in
single-positive syntax that which Albright prefers over fascism. What would that be? And, how
do we pursue it, nurture it, spread it and secure it going forward? What is it?
I think Albright would perhaps be willing to rally around "Good Government" as the theme
her book skirts tangentially from the dark periphery of fascistic government. "Virtuous
Government"? "Effective Government"? "Responsive Government"?
People concerned about neofascism want to know what we should be doing right now to avoid
getting sidetracked into a dark alley of future history comparable to the Nazi brown shirt or
Mussolini black shirt epochs. Does Albright present a comprehensive enough understanding of
fascism to instruct on how best to avoid it? Or, is this just another hand-wringing exercise,
a la "you'll know it when you see it", with a proactive superficiality stuck at the level of
pejorative labelling of current styles of government and national leaders? If all you can say
is what you don't want, then the challenge of threading the political future of the US is
left unruddered. To make an analogy to driving a car, if you don't know your destination, and
only can get navigational prompts such as "don't turn here" or "don't go down that street",
then what are the chances of arriving at a purposive destination?
The other part of this book I find off-putting is that Albright, though having served as
Secretary of State, never talks about the heavy burden of responsibility that falls on a head
of state. She doesn't seem to empathize at all with the challenge of top leadership. Her
perspective is that of the detached critic. For instance, in discussing President Duterte of
the Philippines, she fails to paint the dire situation under which he rose to national
leadership responsibility: Islamic separatists having violently taken over the entire city of
Marawi, nor the ubiquitous spread of drug cartel power to the level where control over law
enforcement was already ceded to the gangs in many places...entire islands and city
neighborhoods run by mafia organizations. It's easy to sit back and criticize Duterte's
unleashing of vigilante justice -- What was Mrs. Albright's better alternative to regain
ground from vicious, well-armed criminal organizations? The distancing from leadership
responsibility makes Albright's treatment of the Philippines twin crises of gang-rule and
Islamist revolutionaries seem like so much academic navel-gazing....OK for an undergrad
course at Georgetown maybe, but unworthy of someone who served in a position of high
responsibility. Duterte is liked in the Philippines. What he did snapped back the power of
the cartels, and returned a deserved sense of security to average Philippinos (at least those
not involved with narcotics). Is that not good government, given the horrendous circumstances
Duterte came up to deal with? What lack of responsibility in former Philippine leadership
allowed things to get so out of control? Is it possible that Democrats and liberals are
afraid to be tough, when toughness is what is needed? I'd much rather read an account from an
average Philippino about the positive impacts of the vigilante campaign, than listen of
Madame Secretary sermonizing out of context about Duterte. OK, he's not your idea of a nice
guy. Would you rather sit back, prattle on about the rule of law and due process while
Islamic terrorists wrest control over where you live? Would you prefer the leadership of a
drug cartel boss to Duterte?
My critique is offered in a constructive manner. I would certainly encourage Albright (or
anyone!) to write a book in a positive voice about what it's going to take to have good
national government in the US going forward, and to help spread such abundance globally. I
would define "good" as the capability to make consistently good policy decisions, ones that
continue to look good in hindsight, 10, 20 or 30 years later. What does that take?
I would submit that the essential "preserving democracy" process component is having a
population that is adequately prepared for collaborative problem-solving. Some understanding
of history is helpful, but it's simply not enough. Much more essential is for every young
person to experience team problem-solving, in both its cooperative and competitive aspects.
Every young person needs to experience a team leadership role, and to appreciate what it
takes from leaders to forge constructive design from competing ideas and champions. Only
after serving as a referee will a young person understand the limits to "passion" that
individual contributors should bring to the party. Only after moderating and herding cats
will a young person know how to interact productively with leaders and other contributors.
Much of the skill is counter-instinctual. It's knowing how to express ideas...how to field
criticism....how to nudge people along in the desired direction...and how to avoid ad-hominem
attacks, exaggerations, accusations and speculative grievances. It's learning how to manage
conflict productively toward excellence. Way too few of our young people are learning these
skills, and way too few of our journalists know how to play a constructive role in managing
communications toward successful complex problem-solving. Albright's claim that a
journalist's job is primarily to "hold leaders accountable" really betrays an absolving of
responsibility for the media as a partner in good government -- it doesn't say whether the
media are active players on the problem-solving team (which they have to be for success), or
mere spectators with no responsibility for the outcome. If the latter, then journalism
becomes an irritant, picking at the scabs over and over, but without any forward progress.
When the media takes up a stance as an "opponent" of leadership, you end up with poor
problem-solving results....the system is fighting itself instead of making forward
progress.
"Fascism" doesn't do nearly enough to promote the teaching of practical civics 101 skills,
not just to the kids going into public administration, but to everyone. For, it is in the
norms of civility, their ability to be practiced, and their defense against excesses, that
fascism (e.g., Antifa) is kept at bay.
Everyone in a democracy has to know the basics:
• when entering a disagreement, don't personalize it
• never demonize an opponent
• keep a focus on the goal of agreement and moving forward
• never tell another person what they think, but ask (non-rhetorically) what they think
then be prepared to listen and absorb
• do not speak untruths or exaggerate to make an argument
• do not speculate grievance
• understand truth gathering as a process; detect when certainty is being bluffed;
question sources
• recognize impasse and unproductive argumentation and STOP IT
• know how to introduce a referee or moderator to regain productive collaboration
• avoid ad hominem attacks
• don't take things personally that wrankle you;
• give the benefit of the doubt in an ambiguous situation
• don't jump to conclusions
• don't reward theatrical manipulation
These basics of collaborative problem-solving are the guts of a "liberal democracy" that
can face down the most complex challenges and dilemmas.
I gave the book 3 stars for the great story-telling, and Albright has been part of a great
story of late 20th century history. If she would have told us how to prevent fascism going
forward, and how to roll it back in "hard case" countries like North Korea and Sudan, I would
have given her a 5. I'm not that interested in picking apart the failure cases of
history...they teach mostly negative exemplars. Much rather I would like to read about
positive exemplars of great national government -- "great" defined by popular acclaim, by the
actual ones governed. Where are we seeing that today? Canada? Australia? Interestingly, both
of these positive exemplars have strict immigration policies.
Is it possible that Albright is just unable, by virtue of her narrow escape from Communist
Czechoslovakia and acceptance in NYC as a transplant, to see that an optimum immigration
policy in the US, something like Canada's or Australia's, is not the looming face of fascism,
but rather a move to keep it safely in its corner in coming decades? At least, she admits to
her being biased by her life story.
That suggests her views on refugees and illegal immigrants as deserving of unlimited
rights to migrate into the US might be the kind of cloaked extremism that she is warning us
about.
Anat
Hadad , January 19, 2019
"Fascism is not an exception to humanity, but part of it."
Albright's book is a comprehensive look at recent history regarding the rise and fall of
fascist leaders; as well as detailing leaders in nations that are starting to mimic fascist
ideals. Instead of a neat definition, she uses examples to bolster her thesis of what are
essential aspects of fascism. Albright dedicates each section of the book to a leader or
regime that enforces fascist values and conveys this to the reader through historical events
and exposition while also peppering in details of her time as Secretary of State. The climax
(and 'warning'), comes at the end, where Albright applies what she has been discussing to the
current state of affairs in the US and abroad.
Overall, I would characterize this as an enjoyable and relatively easy read. I think the
biggest strength of this book is how Albright uses history, previous examples of leaders and
regimes, to demonstrate what fascism looks like and contributing factors on a national and
individual level. I appreciated that she lets these examples speak for themselves of the
dangers and subtleties of a fascist society, which made the book more fascinating and less of
a textbook. Her brief descriptions of her time as Secretary of State were intriguing and made
me more interested in her first book, 'Madame Secretary'. The book does seem a bit slow as it
is not until the end that Albright blatantly reveals the relevance of all of the history
relayed in the first couple hundred pages. The last few chapters are dedicated to the reveal:
the Trump administration and how it has affected global politics. Although, she never
outright calls Trump a fascist, instead letting the reader decide based on his decisions and
what you have read in the book leading up to this point, her stance is quite clear by the
end. I was surprised at what I shared politically with Albright, mainly in immigration and a
belief of empathy and understanding for others. However, I got a slight sense of
anti-secularism in the form of a disdain for those who do not subscribe to an Abrahamic
religion and she seemed to hint at this being partly an opening to fascism.
I also could have done without the both-sides-ism she would occasionally push, which seems
to be a tactic used to encourage people to 'unite against Trump'. These are small annoyances
I had with the book, my main critique is the view Albright takes on democracy. If anything,
the book should have been called "Democracy: the Answer" because that is the most consistent
stance Albright takes throughout. She seems to overlook many of the atrocities the US and
other nations have committed in the name of democracy and the negative consequences of
capitalism, instead, justifying negative actions with the excuse of 'it is for democracy and
everyone wants that' and criticizing those who criticize capitalism.
She does not do a good job of conveying the difference between a communist country like
Russia and a socialist country like those found in Scandinavia and seems okay with the idea
of the reader lumping them all together in a poor light. That being said, I would still
recommend this book for anyone's TBR as the message is essential for today, that the current
world of political affairs is, at least somewhat, teetering on a precipice and we are in need
of as many strong leaders as possible who are willing to uphold democratic ideals on the
world stage and mindful constituents who will vote them in.
Matthew
T , May 29, 2018
An easy read, but incredibly ignorant and one eyed in far too many instances
The book is very well written, easy to read, and follows a pretty standard formula making
it accessible to the average reader. However, it suffers immensely from, what I suspect are,
deeply ingrained political biases from the author.
Whilst I don't dispute the criteria the author applies in defining fascism, or the targets
she cites as examples, the first bias creeps in here when one realises the examples chosen
are traditional easy targets for the US (with the exception of Turkey). The same criteria
would define a country like Singapore perfectly as fascist, yet the country (or Malaysia)
does not receive a mention in the book.
Further, it grossly glosses over what Ms. Albright terms facist traits from the US
governments of the past. If the author is to be believed, the CIA is holier than thou, never
intervened anywhere or did anything that wasn't with the best interests of democracy at
heart, and American foreign policy has always existed to build friendships and help out their
buddies. To someone ingrained in this rhetoric for years I am sure this is an easy pill to
swallow, but to the rest of the world it makes a number of assertions in the book come across
as incredibly naive.
out of 5 stars
Trite and opaque
Avid
reader , December 20, 2018
Biast much? Still a good start into the problem
We went with my husband to the presentation of this book at UPenn with Albright before it
came out and Madeleine's spunk, wit and just glorious brightness almost blinded me. This is a
2.5 star book, because 81 year old author does not really tell you all there is to tell when
she opens up on a subject in any particular chapter, especially if it concerns current US
interest.
Lets start from the beginning of the book. What really stood out, the missing 3rd Germany
ally, Japan and its emperor. Hirohito (1901-1989) was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his
death in 1989. He took over at a time of rising democratic sentiment, but his country soon
turned toward ultra-nationalism and militarism. During World War II (1939-45), Japan attacked
nearly all of its Asian neighbors, allied itself with Nazi Germany and launched a surprise
assault on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, forcing US to enter the war in 1941. Hirohito
was never indicted as a war criminal! does he deserve at least a chapter in her book?
Oh and by the way, did author mention anything about sanctions against Germany for
invading Austria, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Poland? Up until the Pearl Harbor USA and
Germany still traded, although in March 1939, FDR slapped a 25% tariff on all German goods.
Like Trump is doing right now to some of US trading partners.
Next monster that deserves a chapter on Genocide in cosmic proportions post WW2 is
communist leader of China Mao Zedung. Mr Dikötter, who has been studying Chinese rural
history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the systematic
torture, brutality, starvation and killing of Chinese peasants compares to the Second World
War in its magnitude. At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in
China over these four years; the total worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55
million.
We learn that Argentina has given sanctuary to Nazi war criminals, but she forgets to
mention that 88 Nazi scientists arrived in the United States in 1945 and were promptly put to
work. For example, Wernher von Braun was the brains behind the V-2 rocket program, but had
intimate knowledge of what was going on in the concentration camps. Von Braun himself
hand-picked people from horrific places, including Buchenwald concentration camp. Tsk-Tsk
Madeline.
What else? Oh, lets just say that like Madelaine Albright my husband is Jewish and lost
extensive family to Holocoust. Ukrainian nationalists executed his great grandfather on
gistapo orders, his great grandmother disappeared in concentration camp, grandfather was
conscripted in june 1940 and decommissioned september 1945 and went through war as
infantryman through 3 fronts earning several medals. his grandmother, an ukrainian born jew
was a doctor in a military hospital in Saint Petersburg survived famine and saved several
children during blockade. So unlike Maideline who was raised as a Roman Catholic, my husband
grew up in a quiet jewish family in that territory that Stalin grabbed from Poland in 1939,
in a polish turn ukrainian city called Lvov(Lemberg). His family also had to ask for an
asylum, only they had to escape their home in Ukraine in 1991. He was told then "You are a
nice little Zid (Jew), we will kill you last" If you think things in ukraine changed, think
again, few weeks ago in Kiev Roma gypsies were killed and injured during pogroms, and nobody
despite witnesses went to jail. Also during demonstrations openly on the streets C14 unit is
waving swastikas and Heils. Why is is not mentioned anywhere in the book? is is because
Hunter Biden sits on the board of one of Ukraine's largest natural gas companies called
Burisma since May 14, 2014, and Ukraine has an estimated 127.9 trillion cubic feet of
unproved technically recoverable shale gas resources? ( according to the U.S. Energy
Information Administration (EIA).1 The most promising shale reserves appear to be in the
Carpathian Foreland Basin (also called the Lviv-Volyn Basin), which extends across Western
Ukraine from Poland into Romania, and the Dnieper-Donets Basin in the East (which borders
Russia).
Wow, i bet you did not know that. how ugly are politics, even this book that could have been
so much greater if the author told the whole ugly story. And how scary that there are
countries where you can go and openly be fascist.
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NJ , February 3, 2019
Interesting...yes. Useful...hmmm
To me, Fascism fails for the single reason that no two fascist leaders are alike. Learning
about one or a few, in a highly cursory fashion like in this book or in great detail, is
unlikely to provide one with any answers on how to prevent the rise of another or fend
against some such. And, as much as we are witnessing the rise of numerous democratic or
quasi-democratic "strongmen" around the world in global politics, it is difficult to brand
any of them as fascist in the orthodox sense.
As the author writes at the outset, it is difficult to separate a fascist from a tyrant or
a dictator. A fascist is a majoritarian who rouses a large group under some national, racial
or similar flag with rallying cries demanding suppression or exculcation of those excluded
from this group. A typical fascist leader loves her yes-men and hates those who disagree: she
does not mind using violence to suppress dissidents. A fascist has no qualms using propaganda
to popularize the agreeable "facts" and theories while debunking the inconvenient as lies.
What is not discussed explicitly in the book are perhaps some positive traits that separate
fascists from other types of tyrants: fascists are rarely lazy, stupid or prone to doing
things for only personal gains. They differ from the benevolent dictators for their record of
using heavy oppression against their dissidents. Fascists, like all dictators, change rules
to suit themselves, take control of state organizations to exercise total control and use
"our class is the greatest" and "kick others" to fuel their programs.
Despite such a detailed list, each fascist is different from each other. There is little
that even Ms Albright's fascists - from Mussolini and Hitler to Stalin to the Kims to Chavez
or Erdogan - have in common. In fact, most of the opponents of some of these
dictators/leaders would calll them by many other choice words but not fascists. The
circumstances that gave rise to these leaders were highly different and so were their rules,
methods and achievements.
The point, once again, is that none of the strongmen leaders around the world could be
easily categorized as fascists. Or even if they do, assigning them with such a tag and
learning about some other such leaders is unlikely to help. The history discussed in the book
is interesting but disjointed, perfunctory and simplistic. Ms Albright's selection is also
debatable.
Strong leaders who suppress those they deem as opponents have wreaked immense harms and
are a threat to all civil societies. They come in more shades and colours than terms we have
in our vocabulary (dictators, tyrants, fascists, despots, autocrats etc). A study of such
tyrant is needed for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or societal well-being.
Despite Ms Albright's phenomenal knowledge, experience, credentials, personal history and
intentions, this book is perhaps not the best place to objectively learn much about the risks
from the type of things some current leaders are doing or deeming as right.
Gderf
, February 15, 2019
Wrong warning
Each time I get concerned about Trump's rhetoric or past actions I read idiotic opinions,
like those of our second worst ever Secretary of State, and come to appreciate him more.
Pejorative terms like fascism or populism have no place in a rational policy discussion. Both
are blatant attempts to apply a pejorative to any disagreeing opinion. More than half of the
book is fluffed with background of Albright, Hitler and Mussolini. Wikipedia is more
informative. The rest has snippets of more modern dictators, many of whom are either
socialists or attained power through a reaction to failed socialism, as did Hitler. She
squirms mightily to liken Trump to Hitler. It's much easier to see that Sanders is like
Maduro. The USA is following a path more like Venezuela than Germany.
Her history misses that Mussolini was a socialist before he was a fascist, and Nazism in
Germany was a reaction to Wiemar socialism. The danger of fascism in the US is far greater
from the left than from the right. America is far left of where the USSR ever was. Remember
than Marx observed that Russia was not ready for a proletarian revolution. The USA with ready
made capitalism for reform fits Marx's pattern much better. Progressives deny that Sanders
and Warren are socialists. If not they are what Lenin called "useful idiots."
Albright says that she is proud of the speech where she called the USA the 'Indispensable
Nation.' She should be ashamed. Obama followed in his inaugural address, saying that we are
"the indispensable nation, responsible for world security." That turned into a policy of
human rights interventions leading to open ended wars (Syria, Yemen), nations in chaos
(Libya), and distrust of the USA (Egypt, Russia, Turkey, Tunisia, Israel, NK). Trump now has
to make nice with dictators to allay their fears that we are out to replace them.
She admires the good intentions of human rights intervention, ignoring the results. She says
Obama had some success without citing a single instance. He has apologized for Libya, but
needs many more apologies. She says Obama foreign policy has had some success, with no
mention of a single instance. Like many progressives, she confuses good intentions with
performance. Democracy spreading by well intentioned humanitarian intervention has resulted
in a succession of open ended war or anarchy.
The shorter histories of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Venezuela are much more
informative, although more a warning against socialism than right wing fascism. Viktor Orban
in Hungary is another reaction to socialism.
Albright ends the book with a forlorn hope that we need a Lincoln or Mandela, exactly what
our two party dictatorship will not generate as it yields ever worse and worse candidates for
our democracy to vote upon, even as our great society utopia generates ever more power for
weak presidents to spend our money and continue wrong headed foreign policy.
The greatest danger to the USA is not fascism, but of excessively poor leadership
continuing our slow slide to the bottom.
Alex
on October 09, 2017 , · at 3:08 pm EST/EDT
Something tells me he doesn't want to push this too much as money for this film came from
French and German sources. It is nice to see him sticking his neck out to uphold the Truth.
When I watched the US rep. who supposedly investigated this Magnitzky affair for the US
gov. state under oath that he never verified any of the info that Browder gave him, I kept
thinking "Is this guy serious ?" But when you realize that they never did any investigation
then it all seems logical.
Notable quotes:
"... San Diego Confidential, ..."
"... now, playing catch-up, the US is employing the crudest of methods: tariffs & military bullying (& God help us all, kidnapping). ..."
"... Copley implies that cohesive societies that seek victory over all other societies can't have it, because a cohesive society must have enemies, invented or carefully preserved if necessary. Perhaps that's what the Russia affair is about. If so, its not working. ..."
"... Poor General Kelly, one of the generals who let 911 happen, is probably going to be promoted to Bechtel. I say poor because he's only worth about $5 Million, which is a low figure for the super rich who own the military industrial complex. ..."
"... my take is that we are in the end game of imperialism. the western empire is in terminal decline and there will be more empires. from the evidence Russia and China, having learned the lessons of a few thousand years of experience are not seeking for empires. ..."
"... War is Good for Business and Organized Crime. Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Opium Trade. Rising Heroin Addiction in the US Afghanistan's opium economy is a multibillion dollar operation which has a direct impact on the surge of heroin addiction in the US. ..."
"... Place this against the U.S. – NSA – on record for what seems to be global surveillance having tapped the phones of U.S. European allies heads of states like Angela Merkel -among other things- with it's budget of $80 billion per year. Similar amount to the total Russian defense budget. Then there is the CIA and other "three letter organizations" in the U.S. and similar operations in the U.K. I think this is David against Goliath struggle and the latter is doing most of the beating. ..."
"... This madness is driving Russia into coalition with China and creating all sorts of totally unnecessary tensions. Forcing them to avoid the US dollar and so forth. How any of this supports western interests, or the interests of U.S. or U.K. citizens is a great misery. One thing is certain – this is self-destruction policy for the U.S. in the long run. This is what happens when the lunatics take over the asylum. ..."
"... Thankfully Vladimir Putin seems to be extremely capable and stable person – not likely to fall into temptation of hitting back with horrible consequences for world peace. ..."
"... Navarro appears to have the full support of Silicon Valley, Boeing and our other high tech exporters. On the other side is Wall Street and possibly British interests. For all of the hullabaloo about Trump violating the law against private citizens conducting foreign diplomacy when he was President-elect, the Wall Street crowd appears to have transgressed much further: ..."
The Geopolitics of Trump's Trade War
Most recently, a dissident economist and failed California politician named Peter Navarro has parlayed his hostility toward China
into the role of key architect of Donald Trump's "trade war" against Beijing. Like his Russian counterpart Alexander Dugin, Navarro
is another in a long line of intellectuals whose embrace of geopolitics changed the trajectory of his career.
Raised by a single mom who worked secretarial jobs to rent one-bedroomapartments where he slept on the couch, Navarro went to
college at Tufts on a scholarship and earned a doctorate in economics from Harvard. Despite that Ivy League degree, he remained an
angry outsider, denouncing the special interests "stealing America"
in his first book and later, as a business professor at the University of California-Irvine, branding San Diego developers "punks
in pinstripes." A passionate environmentalist, in 1992 Navarro plunged into politics as a Democratic candidate for the mayor of San
Diego, denouncing his opponent's husband as a convicted drug-money launderer and losing when he smirked as she wept during their
televised debate.
For the next 10 years, Navarro fought losing campaigns for everything from city council to Congress. He detailed his crushing
defeat for a seat in the House of Representatives in a tell-all
book , San Diego Confidential,
that dished out disdain for that duplicitous "sell out" Bill Clinton, dumb "blue-collar detritus" voters, and just about everybody
else as well.
Following his last losing campaign for city council, Navarro spent a decade churning out books attacking a new enemy: China. His
first "shock and awe" jeremiad
in 2006 told horror stories about that country's foreign trade; five years later, Death By China was filled with
torrid tales of "bone-crushing, cancer-causing, flammable, poisonous, and otherwise lethal products" from that land. In 2015,
a third book turned to geopolitics, complete with carefully drawn maps and respectful references to Captain Mahan, to offer an
analysis of how China's
military was pursuing a relentless strategy of "anti-access, area denial" to challenge the U.S. Navy's control over the Western Pacific.
To check China, the Pentagon then had two competing strategies -- "Air-Sea Battle," in which China's satellites were to be blinded,
knocking out its missiles, and "Offshore Control," in which China's entire coastline was to be blockaded by mining six maritime choke
points from Japan to Singapore. Both, Navarro claimed, were fatally flawed. Given that, Navarro's third book and a companion
film (
endorsed by one Donald Trump) asked: What should the United
States do to check Beijing's aggression and its rise as a global power? Since all U.S. imports from China, Navarro suggested, were
"helping to finance a Chinese military buildup," the only realistic solution was "the imposition of countervailing tariffs to offset
China's unfair trade practices."
Just a year after reaching that controversial conclusion, Navarro joined the Trump election campaign as a policy adviser and then,
after the November victory, became a junior member of the White House economic team. As a protectionist in an administration initially
dominated by globalists, he would be excluded from high-level meetings and,
according to Time Magazine , "required to copy chief
economic adviser Gary Cohn on all his emails." By February 2018, however, Cohn was on his way out and Navarro had become assistant
to the president, with his new trade office now the co-equal of the National Economic Council.
As the chief defender of Trump's
belief that "trade wars
are good and easy to win," Navarro has finally realized his own geopolitical dream of attempting to check China with tariffs. In
March, the president slapped
heavy ones on Chinese steel imports and, just a few weeks later,
promised to impose more of them on $50 billion of imports. When those started in July, China's leaders
retaliated against what
they called "typical trade bullying," imposing similar duties on American goods. Despite a
warning from the Federal
Reserve chairman that "trade tensions could pose serious risks to the U.S. and global economy," with Navarro at his elbow,
Trump escalated in September,
adding tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods and threatening another $267 billion worth if China dared retaliate.
Nonetheless, Beijing hit
back, this time on just $60 billion in goods since 95% of all U.S. imports had already been covered.
Then something truly surprising happened. In September, the U.S. trade deficit with
China
ballooned to $305 billion for the year, driven by an 8% surge in Chinese imports -- a clear sign that Navarro's bold geopolitical
vision of beating Beijing into submission with tariffs had collided big time with the complexities of world trade. Whether this tariff
dispute will fizzle out inconsequentially or escalate into a full-blown trade war, wreaking havoc on global supply chains and the
world economy, none of us can yet know, particularly that would-be geopolitical grandmaster Peter Navarro.
The Desire to be Grandmaster of the Universe
Though such experts usually dazzle the public and the powerful alike with erudition and boldness of vision, their geopolitical
moves often have troubling long-term consequences. Mahan's plans for Pacific dominion through offshore bases created a strategic
conundrum that plagued American defense policy for a half-century. Brzezinski's geopolitical lunge at the Soviet Union's soft Central
Asian underbelly helped unleash radical Islam. Today, Alexander Dugin's use of geopolitics to revive Russia's dominion over Eurasia
has placed Moscow on a volatile collision course with Europe and the United States. Simultaneously, Peter Navarro's bold gambit to
contain China's military and economic push into the Pacific with a trade war could, if it persists, produce untold complications
for our globalized economy.
No matter how deeply flawed such geopolitical visions may ultimately prove to be, their brief moments as official policy have
regularly shaped the destiny of nations and of empires in unpredictable, unplanned, and often dangerous ways. And no matter how this
current round of geopolitical gambits plays out, we can be reasonably certain that, in the not-too-distant future, another would-be
grandmaster will embrace this seductive concept to guide his bold bid for global power.
Alfred W. McCoy, a
TomDispatch
regular , is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Politics of
Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade , the now-classic book which probed the conjuncture of illicit narcotics and covert
operations over 50 years, and the recently published
In the Shadows of the American Century:
The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power ( Dispatch Books).
joun , says:
December 3, 2018 at 1:56 am GMT
Dugin, regardless of what minor success he had ten years ago, is not influential in the Kremlin. He did not orchestrate Russia's
absorption of Crimea. Simple strategic needs demanded that Crimea be absorbed, and a flawless Russian execution of an ambitious
plan won the day.
Peter Navarro is correct w/r/t China. Our trading relationship with China has been a disaster for our economy (to which I mean
our ability to have an economy absent financial shenanigans) and USG has effectively funded China's rise. There is no strategic
benefit to offshoring productive capacity. I don't really care if Navarro has failed at other tasks in his life. He is correct
on this one.
Si1ver1ock , says:
December 3, 2018 at 2:03 am GMT
we can be reasonably certain that, in the not-too-distant future, another would-be grandmaster will embrace this seductive
concept to guide his bold bid for global power.
Damn! Sounds just like me. Anyway, the US has made a lot of mistakes. It transferred much of its manufacturing base to China
and much of its technology. The Chinese see a chance to break away from the US economically and in technology.
The US invested in China's future. China invested in its future. Which is why China has a future.
China 2025:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/05/03/what-is-made-in-china-2025-and-why-is-it-a-threat-to-trumps-trade-goals/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.79ef31c78b0d
Sean , says:
December 9, 2018 at 12:57 pm GMT
https://www.waterstones.com/book/prisoners-of-geography/tim-marshall/9781783962433
Seeing geography as a decisive factor in the course of human history can be construed as a bleak view of the world, which
is why it is disliked in some intellectual circles. It suggests that nature is more powerful than man, and that we can only
go so far in determining our own fate.
Splitting the globe into ten distinct regions, former Sky News Diplomatic Editor Tim Marshall redresses our techno-centric
view of the world and suggests that our key political driver continues to be our physical geography. Beginning with Russia
(and its bewildering eleven time-zones), we are treated to an illuminating, border-by-border disassembly of what makes the
world what it is; why, for instance, China and India will never fall into conflict (the Himalayas), or why the Ukraine is such
a tactical jewel in the crown. With its panoptic view over our circumstance, Prisoners of Geography makes a compelling case
around how the physical framework of the world itself has defined our history. It's one of those books that prompts real reflection
and one that on publication absolutely grasped the imagination of our customers, ensuring it as a guaranteed entrant to our
2016 Paperbacks of the Year.
'One of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding.'
– Nicholas Lezard,
animalogic , says:
December 16, 2018 at 11:12 am GMT
@joun
"There is no strategic benefit to offshoring productive capacity. "
Quite right. However – that horse has long bolted. And now, playing catch-up, the US is employing the crudest of methods:
tariffs & military bullying (& God help us all, kidnapping).
Unfortunately, circumstances demand a radical & imaginative response & even harder, a realisation that the horse has
bolted.
Anon [275]
Disclaimer , says:
December 31, 2018 at 5:24 am GMT
Dear Mr. McCoy:
Now that you're here, you should read the Saker more. I'll pose this question though, If Russia and China are hell bent on
imperial expansion, why don't they show any interest in Mongolia? Fertile land, rich mineral resources, a tiny population incapable
of resistance it would be a no brainier. The reason they don't is because they are not imperial powers. Also, is empire a good
thing? In every historical example it has followed the same pattern and failed. Civilisations however endure through the ages.
Puzzled , says:
December 31, 2018 at 6:33 am GMT
" Vladimir Putin seeks to shatter the Western alliance with cyberwar " was where I noted this essayist is a fool and stopped
reading. Russians! Russians! Russians everywhere!
*vomit*
Anon [275]
Disclaimer , says:
December 31, 2018 at 6:49 am GMT
@Puzzled ire is failing and wrote this insightful essay on why.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176007/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_washington%27s_great_game_and_why_it%27s_failing_
But since then has gone on to muse how it might be extended. My argument is that the Empire does not serve the American people
and is leading to the destruction of the republic and the American people. The sooner it ends the better, and if Trump can speed
up its demise, then he is our guy.
jilles dykstra
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 7:05 am GMT
A very interesting article, for me, but, I suppose, for quite other reasons than most here expect. The essence of interest
is in the last two paragraphs.
In the first of these two those men are mentioned who by geopolitical ideas caused world wide disasters. If they did, I do not
know. The question 'did Napoleon make history or did history make Napoleon' still is a difficult one among historians, and will
remain difficult, is my idea. The man not mentioned in this paragraph is Hitler.
Then we get the ominous last paragraph, someone grabbing world wide power for geopolitical reasons, a great menace.
The essence of good propaganda is not telling lies, but telling just half truths. Not mentioned is that the area that now is
Germany for maybe hundreds of years could not feed the population, had to import food. In order to be able to import one must
export, a country with not enough agricultural production naturally must export industrial products, to fabricate these one needs
raw materials.
Not for nothing both WWI and WWII had geopolitical causes, German economic expansion to the SW and E, economic expansion that
threatened, in the British view, the autarcic British empire.
The implication of the last paragraph for me is clear, beware of the next Hitler. If the author has someone in mind who will
unleash the last world war is not clear to me.
Counterinsurgency
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 10:25 am GMT
@Puzzled y_, section on "managing enemies".
Copley implies that cohesive societies that seek victory over all other societies can't have it, because a cohesive society
must have enemies, invented or carefully preserved if necessary. Perhaps that's what the Russia affair is about. If so, its not
working.
It's like the Federal German republic trying 90 year old people who were drafted as teenagers to be concentration camp guards
in late WW II, when the Reich was scraping through the bottom of the manpower barrel, or like the British digging up Cromwell's
bones (see Wikipedia, "Oliver Cromwell", section: "Death and posthumous execution"). Not convincing.
Counterinsurgency
Biff , says:
December 31, 2018 at 11:08 am GMT
Alfred McCoy isn't the exact polar opposite of Bill Kristol who is wrong about everything , but McCoy does have a pretty
good track record of being mostly correct about the issues he covers, nevertheless, he still reads like an opinion column. He
also seems bonded by how he sees the American empire being some sort of force of benevolence when it acts and reacts in the same
manner as any other empire that's come and gone – and of course he loathes the idea of the next empire simply by default(they'll
brag about freedom too Alfred). And of course, in the realm of geopolitics, he never really mentions the bastard child; which
leaves a gaping hole in his analysis.
My guess is McCoy's basically on the right track. Not exactly, but he'll get you out of the woods.
Herald , says:
December 31, 2018 at 11:33 am GMT
Spot on. The reference to Russia waging cyberwar was an early warning that reading this long article would be a waste of time.
Alfred , says:
December 31, 2018 at 12:41 pm GMT
For the past decade, he has been a forceful advocate for Russian expansionism
It gets a bit boring reading about how aggressive Putin is and how he wants to reconquer all the territories that were voluntarily
given up by his predecessors. How exactly would Russia benefit by reaquiring the Baltic States or Poland? These countries are
on life-support. Poland get $20bn annually in direct and indirect subsidies from the EU. As for Ukraine, what possible benefit
to Russia would it be to have an extra 35 million people who are broke. Ukrainians today spend half their income on food and that
other half on heat – and that in a country with a very cold winter.
Let's not forget that there would not have been a "Berlin Crisis" if Stalin had not given parts of Berlin to the USA, the UK
and France. Can you imagine the USA doing something similar? This whole article is a real let down. I am disappointed. I guess
every barrel has to have a rotten apple or two.
Jayzerbee , says:
December 31, 2018 at 12:41 pm GMT
I would add that in my life, Henry Kissinger was the other supreme geopolitical theorist who attempted to establish a multipolar
geopolitics over a bipolar one. Keep in mind that it was he who essentially argued that China must be recognized in order to blunt
the USSR. Nixon thus became the one who opened China to the US, so that in theory the world was to be divided into the Russia
pole; the China pole; the American/NATO pole, and the "Third World" pole. With a dash of Mahan added to the mix, all would be
balanced and stable, or so Kissinger argued. Hmmmm, maybe not!
onebornfree , says:
Website
December 31, 2018 at 12:48 pm GMT
"Chain chain chain, chain of fools"
Also, perhaps read "Hormegeddon" by the great Bill Bonner:
https://bonnerandpartners.com/prepare-for-hormegeddon/
Regards, onebornfree
http://onebornfree-mythbusters.blogspot.com/
Anonymous [349]
Disclaimer , says:
December 31, 2018 at 1:01 pm GMT
@Miggle ext">
Are you for real? Have you looked at where these two respective areas are geographically? Hell, their borders aren't even adjacent.
As for China's interest in Tibet: what was once's part of the Empire will always be part of the Empire. Tibets been part of
the empire twice now, first under Genghis' Yuan Dynasty and again during under the Qing. That simple fact means from now until
the sun goes supernova, for China to be considered unified, Tibet must be a part of it. No ifs or buts.
That's not to mention the strategic considerations of occupying the high ground vis a vis the sub-continentals as well as the
area being the source of several great rivers. You'd have to be a madman to give that kind of advantage up.
jilles dykstra
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 1:25 pm GMT
@Anon Ghandi was of the opinion that the people of India, forgot the number, 100 million or more ?, served 400.000 rich Britons.
The Roman empire, I'd say 1% rich, 99% poor.
The tsarist empire, not much better.
The German empire again the exception, nowhere else at the end of the 19th century were common people in comparable living conditions.
The EU empire, EP members tax free incomes of some € 200.000 a year, plus an extravagant pension system.
Verhofstadt, additional income, not tax free, of at least € 450.000 a year.
Declarations, Schulz has been accused of spending € 700.000 in a year, among other things he liked a glass of wine.
ThreeCranes , says:
December 31, 2018 at 1:41 pm GMT
When it suits their purpose, writers on economics–I won't call them Economists–praise the tiger-like speed and agility with
which Capitalism responds to the vagaries of pressures and demands that arise in world markets. But when they're engaging in public
relations we get this:
"Despite a warning from the Federal Reserve chairman that " trade tensions could pose serious risks to the U.S. and global
economy ," .. Whether this tariff dispute will fizzle out inconsequentially or escalate into a full-blown trade war, wreaking
havoc on global supply chains and the world economy
which throw a protective cloak over a poor, picked-upon capitalism which is, apparently, incapable of getting out of its own
way.
Patrick Armstrong
, says: Website
December 31, 2018 at 1:43 pm GMT
Disappointing read. No, there is nothing to suggest that Dugin has any influence on Putin. No, there is no Russian cyberwar.
Putin's aims are Russia's recovery from the disasters of communism (a road to a blind alley as he has called it) and defending
Russia against NATO's expansion, colour revolutions and numerous false accusations.
Beijing is the place to look today for big strategic thinking.
SteveM , says:
December 31, 2018 at 2:19 pm GMT
@Puzzled reasons would be the last. Because the Europeans would find of other sources and shut out Russia as being an unreliable
business partner. Moreover, Russia is now the largest exporter of wheat and is developing export levels of production in soybeans
and pork. You can't sell to countries that you have wrecked militarily.
It's the U.S., not Russia that is playing the 800 pound Global Cop Gorilla with its war-mongering, economic warfare and global
subversion.
Like Puzzled, when I read that stupid, irrational line by Alfred McCoy, I simply stopped reading. Because nobody that dense
about obvious geo-political reality deserves to be read.
Digital Samizdat
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 2:24 pm GMT
Disappointing read. No, there is nothing to suggest that Dugin has any influence on Putin.
No kidding. This is what happens when you get your Russian news from the Times and the Beeb. I mean, if Dugin were such a Kremlin
favorite, how could he have lost his job at Moscow State University? You'd think he could just pick up the phone, call 'Uncle
Vova', and get his job back!
Of course Putin is a Eurasianist, but that's not because Dugin told him to be one. It's because every Russian ruler has been
a Eurasianist for centuries now. Why? Just look at a map: Russia is located in Eurasia. Would we therefore expect the Russians
to be Pan-Africanists or something else? Naturally they're going to be Eurasianists. They learned long ago that if they don't
dominate Eurasia, somebody else will -- and that will cause security problems for Russia. I can't say I hold that against them.
It's not as though the US would take kindly to some foreign empire coming on over to the Western Hemisphere and setting up shop,
say, in Latin America. In fact, just consider how Washington reacted when the Soviets concluded an alliance with Cuba. There was
no talk about the 'sovereignty of small nations' coming from the wallscreen then!
therevolutionwas
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 2:39 pm GMT
@joun
What financial shenanigans? And how has the US effectively funded China's rise? And how do tariffs destroy China ? (tariffs
are like shooting yourself in the foot)
Reuben Kaspate
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 2:47 pm GMT
@Anonymous
Tibet is the Achilles Heel of China it's there where the over confident Middle Kingdom will die the death of a thousand paper
cuts!
Reuben Kaspate
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 2:52 pm GMT
@Anon
Fertile land? Are you out of your freaking wits, Anon [275]? You can't grow shit in Mongolia!
Reuben Kaspate
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 2:55 pm GMT
My prediction for 2019: America will remain the hyperpower for the next 81 years; thereafter, I couldn't give a schitt!
Ilyana_Rozumova
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 3:04 pm GMT
@therevolutionwas
Analysis of US investment in China would explain a lot. It is zero? I do not think so!!!!!!!!!
Unrepentant Conservative
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 3:04 pm GMT
Beware of self-styled strategic thinkers attempting to revive flagging careers and gain influence.
Agent76 , says:
December 31, 2018 at 3:14 pm GMT
The cause for poverty is located at the Pentagon because they own the national debt! When if ever will the Joint Chiefs be
put on trial for these treasonous Wars and lost trillions?
December 24, 2013 The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases
The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military
bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the *Pentagon* one of
the *largest* landowners worldwide.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worldwide-network-of-us-military-bases/5564
Dec 21, 2013 Black Budget: US govt clueless about missing Pentagon $trillions
The Pentagon has secured a 630 billion dollar budget for next year, even though it's failed to even account for the money it's
received since 1996. A whopping 8.5 trillion dollars of taxpayer cash have gone to defence programmes – none of which has been
audited.
Sean , says:
December 31, 2018 at 4:37 pm GMT
@Ilyana_Rozumova between other countries and with its own colonies. As the Dutch comparative advantage was frozen out, their
military aggression declined with it. America sitting on its hands while China becomes a giant Hong Kong and countries all over
Eurasia fall under its sway would by likely to lead to a very nasty war that America would loose and loose badly. It is better
to try now to stop China growing that big and dangerous by declining to trade with them under conditions that will inevitably
make them grow too large to fight. Will trade barriers to China work well enough? Probably not because they are past the lift
off stage now (Carter did too good a job), but it is worth a try.
wayfarer , says:
December 31, 2018 at 4:39 pm GMT
There is opportunity for an American renaissance and really the only practical solution for its people – that is to swiftly
and decidedly push its pathetic government aside – and begin rapidly re-educating, re-training, re-tooling, and re-building a
next-generation manufacturing base.
The Next Manufacturing Revolution is Here
never-anonymous
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 5:50 pm GMT
Everything about this CIA agent's history lesson sounds fake. The blood sucking military runs the White House. ISIS or ISIL
or whatever the CIA calls itself today poses no threat. Poor General Kelly, one of the generals who let 911 happen, is probably
going to be promoted to Bechtel. I say poor because he's only worth about $5 Million, which is a low figure for the super rich
who own the military industrial complex.
jilles dykstra
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 6:02 pm GMT
@Sean ised an efficient military staff, efficient in planning. The Prussian army was the first to make extensive use of railways,
first time after the French 1870 attack. Very capable people, Germans. Red Army use of railways even in 1941 was a mess.
The GB preparations for the occupation of neutral Norway in April 1940, also a mess.
Pity quoted book is in German and with gothic letters, Ludendorff shows with extensive map material how the Germans in WWI fought
a two front, sometimes even three front war. Just possible through detailed transport planning.
Erich Ludendorff, 'Meine Kriegserinnerungen 1914 = 1918′, Berlin, 1918
Lin , says:
December 31, 2018 at 6:25 pm GMT
@joun
As I said before, rhetorics such as 'USG has effectively funded China's rise' are just over-exaggeration if not BS. Facts:
–Foreign investments only constitute a small % of Chinese domestic investment,
–The majority of foreign Investment in china are NOT from US.
–Total investment in China in recent years amount to $trillions per year
If one cares to examine the major industrial sectors in China , like hi-speed rail, steel, photovoltaic panels, electricity,
energy,.. automobiles Only in the auto sector the americans have a sizable role because the yanks want market access.
5371 , says:
December 31, 2018 at 6:52 pm GMT
Numerous historical howlers in this piece.
Ben Sampson , says:
December 31, 2018 at 8:05 pm GMT
we can be reasonably certain that, in the not-too-distant future, another would-be grandmaster will embrace this seductive
concept to guide his bold bid for global power.
my take is that we are in the end game of imperialism. the western empire is in terminal decline and there will be more
empires. from the evidence Russia and China, having learned the lessons of a few thousand years of experience are not seeking
for empires.
empires, traditional ones, are now altogether too costly, especially approaching their end. the world wont tolerate that anymore.
the credit empire is working so far but the people have cottoned on to that. to end global banking power simply take over the
banks, and recuse all debt for they were fraudulently accrued.
all banking will then by need be worker co-ops able to deal with all the financial services required by society..no conglomerates
required
the capitalists will probably try a desperate military gambit to try maintain their empire but that wont work. they are already
outgunned unless they decide to take the world down with them.
but I don't think we will have to worry about such trade 'grandmasters' farting around with the world for too much longer.
the end of imperialism will make such work redundant
and if the democracy does not replace capitalism and the elite wins, it's a Brave New World we looking at. Brilliant geneticist
bent on engineering humans. brilliant mind controllers, psychiatrists and such would be useful job qualifications to have, not
trade specialist.
Brave New World also makes the trade 'genius' redundant
Agent76 , says:
December 31, 2018 at 8:51 pm GMT
December 31, 2018 War is Good for Business and Organized Crime. Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Opium Trade. Rising Heroin
Addiction in the US Afghanistan's opium economy is a multibillion dollar operation which has a direct impact on the surge of heroin
addiction in the US.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-is-good-for-business-and-organized-crime-afghanistans-multibillion-dollar-opium-trade-rising-heroin-addiction-in-the-us/5664319
June 10, 2014 Drug War?
American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053
niceland , says:
December 31, 2018 at 9:34 pm GMT
It's always fun to read articles and history. This article was fun and perhaps thought provoking. But at least some parts of
it make no sense to me.
Take for example the "heartland" theory. Yes it probably made sense over a century ago when strategist -always looking in the
rear view mirror- judged the situation based on the Roman empire or Napoleons conquest. And their thoughts grounded in traditional
territorial wars.
Today with nuclear weapons, fast long range missiles and in very different economic reality, I don't think the "Heartland"
is the key to control the world, Eurasia, Europe or indeed anything else than possibly the "Heartland" it self. Control from the
Heartland over nuclear France or the U.K?
Annexing small part of land on your own borders whose inhabitants overwhelmingly welcome you with open arms, like Russians
did in Crimea, is totally different from conquering unwilling, hostile neighbors. The latter is extremely costly and difficult
exercise with just about zero upside but gaping black hole on the downside. Remember Afghanistan or Iraq or Vietnam? So the former
isn't indication of the latter!
I dont't see anything that supports the theory the Russians are playing by the book of the Heartland theory. In current political
situation it's outlandish idea. Perhaps the idea is to paint Russia's leaders as lunatics?
Yes the Russians are probably engaged in cyber-war. They seem to have the Russian troll farm in St. Petersburg – as reported
by European media it's amateur operation costing perhaps few million dollars per year with 80 people from the unemployment list's
hammering on laptops working shifts creating and nurturing social media accounts. No experts in politics or advanced computing
in sight, no supercomputers, artificial intelligence. Like I said, amateur operation hardly indicating state-sponsored efforts.
Place this against the U.S. – NSA – on record for what seems to be global surveillance having tapped the phones of U.S.
European allies heads of states like Angela Merkel -among other things- with it's budget of $80 billion per year. Similar amount
to the total Russian defense budget. Then there is the CIA and other "three letter organizations" in the U.S. and similar operations
in the U.K. I think this is David against Goliath struggle and the latter is doing most of the beating.
The press? R.T and few other outlets versus the western MSM who has in recent years acted like a pack of rabid dogs against
Russia. Investigative journalism into international affairs is replaced by publishing official statements and "analysis" from
"experts". This is war propaganda – nothing less. And the Russians are playing desperate defense most days.
This madness is driving Russia into coalition with China and creating all sorts of totally unnecessary tensions. Forcing
them to avoid the US dollar and so forth. How any of this supports western interests, or the interests of U.S. or U.K. citizens
is a great misery. One thing is certain – this is self-destruction policy for the U.S. in the long run. This is what happens when
the lunatics take over the asylum.
Thankfully Vladimir Putin seems to be extremely capable and stable person – not likely to fall into temptation of hitting
back with horrible consequences for world peace.
Happy new year everyone!
JLK , says:
December 31, 2018 at 9:54 pm GMT
It was a nice history essay, but there isn't much of a logical relationship between Mahan, Haushofer, et al. and the present
trade confrontation.
Navarro appears to have the full support of Silicon Valley, Boeing and our other high tech exporters. On the other side
is Wall Street and possibly British interests. For all of the hullabaloo about Trump violating the law against private citizens
conducting foreign diplomacy when he was President-elect, the Wall Street crowd appears to have transgressed much further:
Navarro tells Wall Street
'globalist billionaires' to end 'shuttle diplomacy' in U.S.-China trade war
It seems the New York banks would gladly trade the SV engineering jobs for a bigger share of the China banking business,
a la the Cleveland and Detroit auto industry jobs of the past.
A possible break with Britain is something even bigger to watch, as their involvement in China is even more finance-related.
JLK , says:
December 31, 2018 at 11:11 pm GMT
@Anon ng, which far exceeded direct investments into China by any other country.
If we take a look at the Santander report on Hong Kong FDI, most of it seems to come from the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman
Islands (both offshore banking locations, with the funds coming from who knows where) and the UK.
https://en.portal.santandertrade.com/establish-overseas/hong-kong/foreign-investment
Notable quotes:
"... Poor General Kelly, one of the generals who let 911 happen, is probably going to be promoted to Bechtel. I say poor because he's only worth about $5 Million, which is a low figure for the super rich who own the military industrial complex. ..."
never-anonymous
, says:
December 31, 2018 at 5:50 pm GMT
Everything about this CIA agent's history lesson sounds fake. The blood sucking military
runs the White House. ISIS or ISIL or whatever the CIA calls itself today poses no
threat.
Poor General Kelly, one of the generals who let 911 happen, is probably going to be
promoted to Bechtel. I say poor because he's only worth about $5 Million, which is a low
figure for the super rich who own the military industrial complex.
Highly recommended!
When historians examine the first few decades of the so-called post-Cold War era, they are
likely to marvel at the clumsy and provocative policies that the United States and its NATO
allies pursued toward Russia. Perceptive historians will conclude that a multitude of
insensitive actions by those governments poisoned relations with Moscow, and by the latter
years of the Obama administration, led to the onset of a new cold war. During the Trump
administration, matters grew even worse, and that cold war threatened to turn hot.
Since the history of our era is still being written, we have an opportunity to avoid such a
cataclysmic outcome. However, the behavior of America's political, policy, and media elites in
response to the latest parochial quarrel between Russia and Ukraine regarding the Kerch
Strait suggests that they learned nothing from their previous blunders. Worse, they seem
determined to intensify an already counterproductive, hardline policy toward Moscow.
U.S. leaders managed to get relations with Russia wrong just a few years after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. One of the few officials to capture the
nature of the West's bungling and how it fomented tensions was Robert Gates, who served as
secretary of defense during the final years of George W. Bush's administration and the first
years of Barack Obama's. In his surprisingly
candid memoirs , Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War , Gates recalls his report to
Bush following the 2007 Munich Security Council, at which Russian President Vladimir Putin
vented about Western security transgressions, including the planned deployment of a missile
defense system in Central Europe.
"When I reported to the president my take on the Munich conference, I shared my belief that
from 1993 onward, the West, and particularly the United States, had badly underestimated the
magnitude of the Russian humiliation in losing the Cold War . . . ." Yet even that blunt
assessment given to Bush did not fully capture Gates's views on the issue. "What I didn't tell
the president was that I believed the relationship with Russia had been badly mismanaged after
[George H. W.] Bush left office in 1993. Getting Gorbachev to acquiesce to a unified Germany as
a member of NATO had been a huge accomplishment. But moving so quickly after the collapse of
the Soviet Union to incorporate so many of its formerly subjugated states into NATO was a
mistake."
https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-31/html/container.html
Specific U.S. actions were ill-considered as well, in Gates's view. "U.S. agreements with
the Romanian and Bulgarian governments to rotate troops through bases in those countries was a
needless provocation."
His list of foolish or arrogant Western actions went on. Citing NATO's military
interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo during Bill Clinton's administration, Gates noted that "the
Russians had long historical ties with Serbia, which we largely ignored." And in an implicit
rebuke to his current boss, Gates asserted that "trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO
was truly overreaching." That move was a case of "recklessly ignoring what the Russians
considered their own vital national interests." Indeed, events regarding Ukraine after Gates
completed his memoirs illustrated that U.S. arrogance and meddling knew few bounds. U.S.
officials openly sided with
demonstrators who overthrew Ukraine's elected, pro-Russian government, and then reacted with
shock and anger when Russia retaliated by seizing and annexing Crimea.
Gates's overall assessment of Western, especially U.S., policy toward Russia during the
post-Cold War era was unsparingly harsh -- and devastatingly accurate: "When Russia was weak in
the 1990s and beyond, we did not take Russian interests seriously. We did a poor job of seeing
the world from their point of view and managing the relationship for the long term."
Unfortunately, Gates was one of the rare anomalies in the American foreign policy community
regarding policy toward Russia.
His criticism, trenchant as it is, still understates the folly of the policies that the
United States and its NATO allies have pursued toward Moscow. The treatment that three
successive U.S. administrations meted out to a newly capitalist, democratic Russia was
appalling myopic. Even before Vladimir Putin came to power -- and long before Russia descended
into being an illiberal democracy and then an outright authoritarian state -- the Western
powers treated the country as a de facto enemy. The NATO nations engaged in a series of
provocations even though Moscow had engaged in no aggressive conduct that even arguably
justified such actions.
When
Washington Assured Russia NATO Would Not Expand
Making Sure the Next Cold War Never Happens
The determination to confront Russia has only grown over the years, as the current tensions
involving the Kerch Strait illustrate. When Russian security forces fired on three Ukrainian
naval vessels that attempted to force a transit of the Kerch Strait (a narrow waterway between
Russia's Taman Peninsula and Russian-annexed Crimea that connects the Black Sea and Sea of
Azov), the United States and its NATO allies reacted furiously. U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations Nikki Haley branded Russia's conduct "
outlaw actions ."
An array of U.S. lawmakers and pundits advocate
highly provocative steps in response. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) the incoming chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged an increase in U.S. arms sales to Ukraine, asserting,
"If Putin starts seeing Russian soldier fatalities, that changes his equation."
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) threatened new sanctions on
Russia and called for a coordinated response between the United States and its European allies.
"If Putin continues his Black Sea bullying," Inhofe stated, "the United States and Europe must
consider imposing additional sanctions on Russia, inserting a greater U.S. and NATO presence in
the Black Sea region and increasing military assistance for Ukraine."
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) echoed those views. Menendez called for tougher sanctions,
additional NATO exercises on the Black Sea and more U.S. security aid to Ukraine, "including
lethal maritime equipment and weapons." Some hawks even seem receptive to Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko's call on NATO to station warships in the
Sea of Azov, even though such a step would likely lead to a shooting war between the West and
Russia.
Far too many Western (especially American) analyses explicitly or implicitly act as though
the United States and its NATO allies worked assiduously to establish cordial relations with
Russia but were compelled to adopt hardline policies solely because of Russia's perversely
aggressive conduct. That is a distorted, self-serving portrayal on the part of NATO partisans.
It falsely portrays the West as purely a reactive player -- that NATO initiatives were never
insensitive, provocative, or aggressive. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, the
opposite is closer to the mark; Russia's actions, both in terms of timing and virulence, tended
to be responses to aggressive Western initiatives. Unfortunately, avid NATO supporters seem
determined to double down, insisting that the Trump administration adopt even more
uncompromising policies.
Contending that Moscow is to blame for the deterioration of East-West relations because of
its military actions in Georgia and Ukraine, as U.S. opinion leaders tend to do, is especially
inaccurate. The problems began much earlier than the events in 2008 and 2014. The West
humiliated a defeated adversary that showed every sign of wanting to become part of a broader
Western community. Expanding NATO and trampling on Russian interests in the Balkans were
momentous early measures that torpedoed friendly relations.
Such policy myopia was reminiscent of how the victorious Allies inflicted harsh treatment on
a defeated, newly democratic Weimar Germany after World War I. The NATO powers are treating
Russia as an enemy, and there is now a serious danger that the country is turning into one.
That development would be an especially tragic case of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a
contributing editor at , is the author of 12 books and more than 750 articles on international
affairs. His latest book is Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic
Movements (forthcoming, February 2019).
Clyde Schechter
December 26, 2018 at 10:57 pm
The reason "we did a poor job of seeing the world from their point of view and managing
the relationship for the long term" is because we are arrogant and prone to meddling. It's
called American Exceptionalism, also known as American Imperialism. The future looks grim,
and, in my view, the current Cold War with Russia feels a lot more dangerous than the
original one because our leaders have upped the belligerence by orders of magnitude. At least
in the original Cold War the objective was merely containment of Communism. Our current
leaders want nothing short of global domination.
Fran
Macadam , ,
December 27, 2018 at 6:13 am
We are taking over, and anyone who resists is an aggressor.
It works until it doesn't.
peter
mcloughlin , ,
December 27, 2018 at 9:58 am
Another very insightful piece by Ted Galen Carpenter, and one that illustrates the
importance of seeing the other's point of view. Victors always see a settlement as final --
problem solved: the vanquished view it as temporary, to be reversed at the soonest opportunity.
What is being witnessed now is perhaps 'the tragic case of a self-fulfilling prophecy', but
perhaps also the pattern of history.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
Bluestem , ,
December 27, 2018 at 11:27 am
I have a family full of people who believe in American Exceptionalism. In their view,
nothing the US or allies do can be wrong because the US is exceptional.
More than 20 years ago I started telling them the US and NATO are provoking Russia by
extending NATO into former Soviet states. This was revealed almost exactly one year ago:
"Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border"
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/newly-declassified-documents-gorbachev-told-nato-wouldnt-23629
Imagine the outrage in the US if, shortly after the Soviet Union dissolved, the Russians
started re-annexing the former Soviet states.
Anon2017 , ,
December 27, 2018 at 12:11 pm
During the past two decades, US politicians running for federal office were more concerned
about family Values, cutting taxes or expanding the social safety net. No one appeared to run
on a platform of expanding NATO or being concerned about Ukraine or a new cold war. I suspect
that the average voter has no clue as to who Victoria Nuland is and the role she played in
overthrowing the pro-Russian band of corrupt politicians in Ukraine in favor of a more pro-NATO
band of corrupt Neo-Nazi politicians.
How many American mothers want their sons in the military to be sent off to war to fight
over Sevastopol?
Ken Zaretzke , ,
December 27, 2018 at 1:37 pm
A great article. Basically, Ted Galen Carpenter points to the *irrationality* of the
American foreign policy establishment towards the world's only other strategically (as opposed
to defensively) nuclear-armed nation. Is irrational animus against such a country dangerous?
Very.
Jack H , ,
December 27, 2018 at 2:26 pm
"Global domination" isn't twaddle, Brian. The 2018 National Defense Strategy lists as one of
our objectives "Maintaining
favorable regional balances of power in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the
Western Hemisphere."
Africa isn't on this particular list, but we have troops stationed in Niger, Somalia,
Djibouti, and Cameroon. We are seeking to establish a base in Ghana.
I think "global domination" is a fair description of our actual goal.
b. , ,
December 27, 2018 at 3:28 pm
Average life expectancy in Russia declined as neoliberal and capitalist exploitation abetted
by Yeltsin gave rise to organized oligarchy.
Today, average life expectancy in the US is declining.
The US really needs a Gorbachev. Doesn't look like it will get one before all the
manufactured "Russia!" hysteria carries us to the end of the Moment of Unipolar Disorder.
Eric Bergerud , ,
December 27, 2018 at 7:57 pm
I am in full agreement with this article. I am not alone. In 1998 George Kennan made his
final public pronouncement on US foreign policy in the NYT. He cautioned that American and
Western eagerness to expand NATO would trigger a new Cold War and was folly. Mikhail Gorbachev
has no love for Putin who put an end to Gorbie's desires to lead a social democratic party in
Russia. However, he has echoed Kennan in condemning an aggressive NATO and finding the West up
to their eyeballs in the Ukraine debacle. Let's not forget that Under Secretary of State
Victoria Nuland was in Kiev throughout the Maidan Square uprising -- baking cookies for
militants and condemning Euros for considering new elections in the Ukraine instead of a coup.
To finish seasoning the brother, CIA Chief James Brennan visited Kiev in April 2014 -- an
amazing action really. CIA chiefs do not usually show up in the middle of an international
trouble spot -- but obviously Obama didn't mind the message. We don't have to like Putin to
realize that the Russian public feels genuinely aggrieved by Western policies since the Cold
War ended, especially after the close US involvement with the Yeltsin debacle.
Observer , ,
December 28, 2018 at 5:03 am
In Cold War it was not modern Russia that was defeated, but rather Soviet Union and the
whole idea of Communism. Russian Federation is not the USSR, it is a capitalist state (OK one
can say "wild" or "croney" capitalist- it does not really matter, "capitalist" is the key word
here). The only thing all last Soviet/Russian leaders desired, including Gorbachev, Eltsin and
early Putin- was to become junior partners of the West in general and US in particular. It was
very clear from all they did and said at that time. Basically what was needed from the West is
to do smth like second Potsdam and co-opt Russia in the new world order. That was a golden
opportunity moment because at that moment Russian leadership and population in general would
sign under such policy.
How US managed to get in the situation where we are now is an interesting question for future
historians (providing that in the future there will be historians and not radioactive
dust).
Buf may be a clue here is the position of military-industrial complex? How else they can get
their unaccounted trillions? Russia is the ideal enemy. US can not live without a real enemy
for God knows what reason. There is some existential problem may be.
But one thing should be taken into account. Russia has a long tradition of defeating would-be
global hegemons. It would be a major folly if US joins that list.
TR , ,
December 28, 2018 at 10:18 am
Agree completely with the head and subhead of this piece.
For what it's worth, my neighbor's son-in-law is a young US Army officer and currently doing
a tour in Ukraine. Our tentacles are everywhere.
Sid Finster , ,
December 28, 2018 at 10:56 am
@Mikhail Butina: You throw out a lot of blanket statements but provide no specifics. Well
let me give you a few recent specifics:
Did Russia attack Iraq on the basis of shameless lies?
It must have been Russia that turned Libya into a failed state!
Was it Russia that expanded NATO after promising not to do so?
Russia must be the ones gleefully assisting the Saudi barbarians to commit genocide in
Yemen!
Is it perhaps Russia that demands "full spectrum dominance" and spends more on "defense than
the next ten largest militaries combined?
Did Russia undertake a coup in Ukraine and install actual live Nazis in power?
Nonsense. The United States did all of these things and more. Do not live by lies,
Mikhail.
John , ,
December 28, 2018 at 11:01 am
The idea of territorial conquest and control as a means of growing prosperity for a
civilization is obsolete. Exploration and colonization of space, the pursuit of fusion power,
addressing our living arrangements, and so on, should be where we are striving to excel, not
poking a nuclear armed bear with a stick.
However, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The unimaginative in our
nation's government, who can't see their own brokenness, should go into retirement and let
people with a vision that promotes peace and stability and real progress have a turn at the
wheel for a change.
Putin will be dead in two decades, maybe less, and Russia will start backsliding and
probably break apart even further. China, in its zeal to maintain control, will remain what it
always had been, an intelligent people hamstrung by a rigid mandarin overclass. Neither of
these so-called powers are worth spending any more time on.
Let America and the West build a permanent presence on the Moon and Mars. What then of
Crimea?
Sid Finster , ,
December 28, 2018 at 11:03 am
@TR: tell your neighbor's son-in-law to resign.
@Michael Kenney: if you are so convinced that military force is needed to stop Putin, stop
preaching idiocies and go to Ukraine and sign up with the many neo-Nazi paramilitaries there
and get to fighting. They take foreign volunteers.
CC , ,
December 28, 2018 at 12:41 pm
> The NATO powers are treating Russia as an enemy, and there is now a serious danger that
the country is turning into one.
So what? Russia is dying, economy is in deep decline, population is shrinking. 15-20 years
from now there will be no Russia.
Why should NATO care about it today?
Caliman , ,
December 28, 2018 at 1:52 pm
The more one pays attention, the more one realizes that "1984" was not fiction we have
always been (we NEED to be) at war with Eurasia.
After all, the aim of modern war is not to win we have not had a Victory that matters since
1945. The aim of modern war is $$ and career advancement for the connected few. War posture
against a credible enemy is essential.
Ken Zaretzke , ,
December 28, 2018 at 2:17 pm
Thank you for that comment, Observer. You are a Russian, no? That's what your English
suggests to me. I hope you keep commenting here -- we Americans need a little perspective.
reality check , ,
December 28, 2018 at 2:18 pm
Quote 1) U.S. officials openly sided with demonstrators who overthrew Ukraine's elected,
pro-Russian government,
Worse still, they sided with, if not directly empowered the very worst, openly fascist
elements of Ukrainian society who directly spearheaded the overthrow. mere months before new
elections. In essence, a repeat of the m.o. of the 1953 Iranian coup. Atlantic Council
ideologues can fabricate a progressive liberal agenda for Maidan ad nauseum and to
ever-diminishing effect. It was Nuland's 'dark colors' that did the heavy lifting, and very
likely by direct collusion and design. Woe be to our machinations.
Quote 2)and then reacted with shock and anger when Russia retaliated by seizing and annexing
Crimea.
Russia did not 'seize' Crimea. Crimeans in the vast majority willingly seceded from Ukraine
and joined Russia, as they had already attempted at various times for decades and as a de facto
'autonomous republic' had every right to do. Certainly at least as much right as Slovenia did
in its unilateral secession, sans referendum and sans a state coup instigating it.
Other than the de rigueur western soundbites, much in this article is directly on point.
In any case this was a positive step by Trump. Which was done after several disastrous,
typical neocon style actions.
Notable quotes:
"... Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of ..."
"... "Trump being Trump?" Seriously? He's proven through his actions and his appointments that he's a full-blown neocon ..."
"... If nothing else, appointing Bolton as national security advisor speaks volumes. Personnel is policy, as they say. ..."
"... Nothing to wonder at, war is the most lucrative racket going, for those who profit mightily from supplying weapons. It's become so important to an otherwise shrunken manufacturing base, that downsizing would affect employment, and there's nowhere domestic to absorb the overseas demobilized. ..."
"... Bolton is a national disgrace. This vile piece of trash is desperate to get the USA into a disastrous war with Iran. The quicker Bolton is removed the better. Any stooge who supported the Iraq invasion should be precluded from consideration. ..."
"... "Before we credit Trump with stumbling on something sensible for once, it might be wise to remember that we're still talking about -- Trump. Who now says that American troops still in Iraq can still raid into Syria as necessary, and by the way, they'll be staying in Iraq. So already it's shaping up as not so much a withdrawal as a reshuffling. After a minor adjustment to the game board, play can continue as necessary, such as whenever Bolton or Fox media whispers into the casino bankrupt's ear. Always always always a swindle, with Trump. It's an iron law." ..."
"... You do know that Trump wants to increase the military budget. Yet you maintain that he wanted to pull us out of foreign wars. Curious. Where would all that extra money go? ..."
"... Only an incompetent imbecile with no experience in leadership or government could be so dim-witted as to appoint people who would willfully defy and disregard his agenda. Surely our country would never put give such an incompetent so much authority. Oh wait sorry, never mind. ..."
"... I took his decision of withdrawal from Syria and seemingly from Afghanistan is his survival strategy for 2020 presidential election to appeal to war weariness American voters because Mr. Cohen's plea deal and the revelation of Trump signature on the license agreement for Moscow Trump Tower project would kill his 2020 chance. It is a good strategy but over the last two days his approval rating has not been improved." ..."
"... Those of us who want to see Bolton gone should first ask why he was chosen in the first place. Clearly Trump had to appease Adelson in order to make that appointment because he depends on his campaign donations. ..."
"... To those who say Trump has no foreign policy vision, you are wrong. His vision is simple, dismantle parts of the Empire, become a little more isolationist, and focus on 'America First'. Trump is not very intelligent, but he has the right instincts. He is up against the War Party, the most influential power center in the US, and that is not easy. Obama is more intelligent than Trump, but the results were very bad add one more destroyed country, Libya to his credit, and almost another, Syria (although thankfully the Russians stopped that). ..."
After Syria, Trump Should Clean Out His National Security Bureaucracy They're
undermining his positions and pursuing their own agendas. John Bolton should be the first to
go.
President Donald Trump has at last rediscovered his core foreign policy beliefs and ordered
the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. Right on cue, official Washington had a collective
mental breakdown. Neocons committed to war, progressives targeting Trump, and centrists
determined to dominate the world unleashed an orgy of shrieking and caterwauling. The
horrifying collective scream, a la artist Edvard Munch, continued for days.
Trump's decision should have surprised no one. As a candidate, he shocked the Republican
Party establishment by criticizing George W. Bush's disastrous decision to invade Iraq and
urging a quick exit from Afghanistan. As president, he inflamed the bipartisan War Party's
fears by denouncing America's costly alliances with wealthy industrialized states. And to
almost everyone's consternation, he said he wanted U.S. personnel out of Syria. Once the
Islamic State was defeated, he explained, Americans should come home.
How shocking. How naïve. How outrageous.
The president's own appointees, the "adult" foreign policy advisors he surrounded himself
with, disagreed with him on almost all of this -- not just micromanaging the Middle East, but
subsidizing Europeans in NATO, underwriting South Korea, and negotiating with North Korea. His
aides played him at every turn, adding allies, sending more men and materiel to defend foreign
states, and expanding commitments in the Middle East.
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Last spring, the president talked of leaving Syria "very soon." But the American military
stayed. Indeed, three months ago, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced an entirely
new mission: "We're not going to leave as long as Iranian troops are outside Iranian borders
and that includes Iranian proxies and militias."
That was chutzpah on a breathtaking scale. It meant effectively that the U.S. was entitled
to invade and dismember nations, back aggressive wars begun by others, and scatter bases and
deployments around the world. Since Damascus and Tehran have no reason to stop cooperating --
indeed, America's presence makes outside support even more important for the Assad regime --
Bolton was effectively planning a permanent presence, one that could bring American forces into
contact with Russian, Syrian, and Turkish forces, as well as Iranians. As the Assad government
consolidates its victory in the civil war, it inevitably will push into Kurdish territories in
the north. That would have forced the small American garrison there to either yield ground or
become a formal combatant in another Middle Eastern civil war.
The latter could have turned into a major confrontation. Damascus is backed by Russia and
might be supported by Ankara, which would prefer to see the border controlled by Syrian than
Kurdish forces. Moreover, the Kurds, under threat from Turkey, are not likely to divert forces
to contain Iranians moving with the permission of the Damascus government. Better to cut a deal
with Assad that minimizes the Turks than be Washington's catspaw.
The Pentagon initially appeared reluctant to accept this new objective. At the time,
Brigadier General Scott Benedict told the House Armed Services Committee: "In Syria, our role
is to defeat ISIS. That's it." However, the State Department envoy on Syria, Jim Jeffrey, began
adding Iran to his sales pitch. So did Brian Hook, State's representative handling the
undeclared diplomatic war on Iran, who said the goal was "to remove all forces under Iranian
control from Syria."
Washington
Melts Down Over Trump's Syria Withdrawal
Mattis Marks the End of the Global War on Terror
Apparently this direct insubordination came to a head in a phone call between President
Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Why are you still there?" the latter asked
Trump, who turned to Bolton. The national security advisor was on the call, but could offer no
satisfactory explanation.
Perhaps at that moment, the president realized that only a direct order could enforce his
policy. Otherwise his staffers would continue to pursue their militaristic ends. That
determination apparently triggered the long-expected resignation of Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis, who deserves respect but was a charter member of the hawkish cabal around the
president. He dissented from them only on ending the nuclear agreement with Iran.
Still in place is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who so far has proven to be a bit more
malleable though still hostile to the president's agenda. He is an inveterate hawk, including
toward Tehran, which he insists must surrender to both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as part of any
negotiation. He's adopted the anti-Iran agenda in Syria as his own. His department offered no
new approach to Russia over Ukraine, instead steadily increasing sanctions, without effect, on
Moscow. At least Pompeo attempted to pursue discussions with North Korea, though he was
certainly reluctant about it.
Most dangerous is Bolton. He publicly advocated war with both Iran and North Korea before
his appointment, and his strategy in Syria risked conflict with several nations. He's
demonstrated that he has no compunctions about defying the president, crafting policies that
contradict the latter's directives. Indeed, Bolton is well-positioned to undermine even obvious
successes, such as the peaceful opening with North Korea.
Supporting appointments to State and the National Security Council have been equally
problematic. Candidate Trump criticized the bipartisan War Party, thereby appealing to
heartland patriots who wonder why their relatives, friends, and neighbors have been dying in
endless wars that have begotten nothing but more wars. Yet President Trump has surrounded
himself with neocons, inveterate hawks, and ivory tower warriors. With virtually no aides
around him who believe in his policies or were even willing to implement them, he looked like a
George Bush/Barack Obama retread. The only certainty, beyond his stream of dramatic tweets,
appeared to be that Americans would continue dying in wars throughout his presidency.
However, Trump took charge when he insisted on holding the summit with North Korea's Kim
Jong-un. Now U.S. forces are set to come home from Syria, and it appears that he may reduce or
even eliminate the garrison in Afghanistan, where Americans have been fighting for more than 17
years. Perhaps he also will reconsider U.S. support for the Saudis and Emiratis in Yemen.
Trump should use Secretary Mattis's departure as an opportunity to refashion his national
security team. Who is to succeed Mattis at the Pentagon? Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan
appears to have the inside track. But former Navy secretary and senator Jim Webb deserves
consideration. Or perhaps it's time for a second round for former senator Chuck Hagel, who
opposed the Gulf war and backed dialog with Iran. Defense needs someone willing to challenge
the Pentagon's thinking and practices. Best would be a civilian who won't be captured by the
bureaucracy, one who understands that he or she faces a tough fight against advocates of
perpetual war.
Next to go should be Bolton. There are many potential replacements who believe in a more
restrained role for America. One who has been mentioned as a potential national security
advisor in the past is retired Army colonel and respected security analyst Douglas
Macgregor.
Equally important, though somewhat less urgent, is finding a new secretary of state.
Although Pompeo has not so ostentatiously undermined his boss, he appears to oppose every
effort by the president to end a war, drop a security commitment, or ease a conflict. Pompeo's
enthusiasm for negotiation with Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin is clearly lagging. While the
secretary might not engage in open sabotage, his determination to take a confrontational
approach everywhere except when explicitly ordered to do otherwise badly undermines Trump's
policies.
Who to appoint? Perhaps Tennessee's John Duncan, the last Republican congressman who opposed
the Iraq war and who retired this year after decades of patriotic service. There are a handful
of active legislators who could serve with distinction as well, though their departures would
be a significant loss on Capitol Hill: Senator Rand Paul and Representatives Justin Amash and
Walter Jones, for instance.
Once the top officials have been replaced, the process should continue downwards. Those
appointed don't need to be thoroughgoing Trumpists, of whom there are few. Rather, the
president needs people generally supportive of his vision of a less embattled and entangled
America: subordinates, not insubordinates. Then he will be less likely to find himself in
embarrassing positions where his appointees create their own aggressive policies contrary to
his expressed desires.
Trump has finally insisted on being Trump, but Syria must only be the start. He needs to
fill his administration with allies, not adversaries. Only then will his "America First" policy
actually put America first.
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to
President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire
.
Clyde Schechter ,
December 26, 2018 at 11:47 pm
After two years in office, I am utterly flabbergasted that there are still people out
there who take seriously the notion that Trump wants to extricate us from our wars around the
globe and refrain from starting new ones. Virtually every foreign policy decision he has made
has been contrary to that.
Finally, for once, he decides to pull out of Syria (a mere few weeks after he announced we
would stay there indefinitely) and somehow this one, as yet unimplemented decision represents
"Trump being Trump?" Seriously? He's proven through his actions and his appointments that
he's a full-blown neocon . Maybe I'll rescind the "full-blown" part of that judgment if
he actually does withdraw from Syria. But it would still be a pretty tiny exception to his
thoroughly neocon actions up to this point.
If nothing else, appointing Bolton as national security advisor speaks volumes.
Personnel is policy, as they say. And you'd have have spent the last two decades in a
coma living on another planet not to know that Bolton is the biggest warmonger around. He
makes most of the neocons look like pacifists by comparison. Even the people who think Trump
a complete idiot can't really imagine that Trump didn't know what he was getting when he
hired Bolton.
Let's get real here. It'll be great if he withdraws from Syria. It'd be even better if he
replaces his national security team along the lines suggested in this article. But don't hold
your breath. It would go against nearly everything he has done since taking office.
It's time to come to grips with the non-existence of the tooth fairy.
Fran
Macadam , ,
December 27, 2018 at 6:26 am
"heartland patriots who wonder why their relatives, friends, and neighbors have been
dying in endless wars that have begotten nothing but more wars."
Nothing to wonder at, war is the most lucrative racket going, for those who profit
mightily from supplying weapons. It's become so important to an otherwise shrunken
manufacturing base, that downsizing would affect employment, and there's nowhere domestic to
absorb the overseas demobilized.
The downside of this, therefore, is it may only be redirection and consolidation, to be able
to concentrate forces on Iran instead. The budget's not getting any smaller, so there's got to
be compensatory warmaking somewhere.
Trump got one right , ,
December 27, 2018 at 8:21 am
Bolton is a national disgrace. This vile piece of trash is desperate to get the USA into
a disastrous war with Iran. The quicker Bolton is removed the better. Any stooge who supported
the Iraq invasion should be precluded from consideration.
Mark Thomason , ,
December 27, 2018 at 9:35 am
"Yet President Trump has surrounded himself with neocons, inveterate hawks, and ivory
tower warriors."
In fairness to Trump, there just was nobody else. He had nobody lined up to be an
administration that believed what he did. Republicans were all hawks. Democrats wouldn't think
of helping, and were also all hawks anyway.
Trump's first effort to break out of that with second or third-line people went bust with
the likes of Gen. Flynn, and he was left with going back to the very people he'd defeated.
Fred Bowman , ,
December 27, 2018 at 9:43 am
At this point in time I don't think Trump will be able to win a second term, such is the
chaos he's brought about to his Presidency. So that leaves to question which of the men you
have suggested to help lead Trump to a less warlike America would choose to serve? Perhaps
first, we need an "Adult" as POTUS and maybe then, we can get "men of wisdom" who can help
America get out of it's "Military Misadventures" in the Middle East.
pax , ,
December 27, 2018 at 9:57 am
There is no problem replacing someone who should never have been tapped in the first place.
John Bolton. Never too soon to right a wrong. Get rid of neocon Bolton and his types now. Not
later. He marches to another drummer not to USA interests. I doubt Trump can even beat Kamila
Harris (darling of the illiberal left) in 2020 if he keeps Bolton and Co. around.
Steve Naidamast , ,
December 27, 2018 at 10:52 am
I wouldn't get overly excited about this. Trump has habitually initiated all levels of chaos
throughout his incompetent administration. This is nothing new but more of the same. If anyone
believes Trump actually found his brain, they are smoking something
CLW , ,
December 27, 2018 at 12:19 pm
What a joke. Trump has no "foreign policy vision," just a series of boisterous, bellicose
talking points that to his isolationist base and his own desire to be the strongman.
Kurt Gayle , ,
December 27, 2018 at 12:48 pm
sglover says (Dec 27, 12:12 am):
"Before we credit Trump with stumbling on something sensible for once, it might be
wise to remember that we're still talking about -- Trump. Who now says that American troops
still in Iraq can still raid into Syria as necessary, and by the way, they'll be staying in
Iraq. So already it's shaping up as not so much a withdrawal as a reshuffling. After a minor
adjustment to the game board, play can continue as necessary, such as whenever Bolton or Fox
media whispers into the casino bankrupt's ear. Always always always a swindle, with Trump.
It's an iron law."
However, just 6 days ago sglover said on another thread ("Washington Melts Down Over Trump's
Syria Withdrawal" -- Dec 21, 3:26 pm):
"I despise Trump, but if he's managed to stumble on doing something sensible, and actually
does it (never a certainty with the casino swindler) -- great! There's no sane reason for us
to muck about in Syria. However it comes about, we should welcome a withdrawal there. If the
move gives Trump some of the approval that he plainly craves, maybe he'll repeat the
performance and end our purposeless wallow in Afghanistan. It doesn't say anything good about
the nominal opposition party, the Dems, that half or more of them -- and apparently *all* of
their dinosaur 'leadership' -- can't stifle the kneejerking and let him do it. Of course many
of them are "troubled" because their Israeli & Saudi owners, er, 'donors' expect it. But
some of them seem to have developed a sudden deep attachment to 'our mission in Syria' for no
better reason than, Trump is for it, therefore I must shout against it. And then, of course,
there's the Russia hysteria. Oh yeah, what a huge win for Moscow if it scores the 'prize' of
occupying Syria! If that's Putin's idea of a big score, how exactly does it harm any American
to let him have it? I wonder if the Democratic Party will ever be capable of doing anything
other than snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"
FL Transplant , ,
December 27, 2018 at 1:24 pm
The problem with they article begins with it's first sentence "President Donald Trump has at
last rediscovered his core foreign policy beliefs " I can't find any core foreign policy
beliefs. What I have seen is a mosh-mosh of sound bites that resound well with his audiences at
rallies, and various people attempt to link those together and fill in the white space between
with what they WANT his foreign policy beliefs to be. But to go so far as to say he has any
consistent beliefs that combine to form a foreign policy is going way too far.
DeusIrae , ,
December 27, 2018 at 1:47 pm
Replace Bolton with Mike Flynn after all charges are dropped against him. Then have Robert
Mueller et al. arrested to be tried and put to death for High Treason. Then liberate Britain,
Bomb the Vatican, and put a naval blockade on China.
Bruceb , ,
December 27, 2018 at 2:21 pm
You do know that Trump wants to increase the military budget. Yet you maintain that he
wanted to pull us out of foreign wars. Curious. Where would all that extra money go? I'd
look for it at the top of Trump Tower. Certainly not in the pockets of ordinary citizens.
Shawn F , ,
December 27, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Hmm This article makes it seem like there's these renegades who have somehow held onto power
and are charting America's course on their own. But doesn't the President hand pick the members
of his cabinet? Wasn't every single one of them given their authority *by Donald Trump*?
Only an incompetent imbecile with no experience in leadership or government could be so
dim-witted as to appoint people who would willfully defy and disregard his agenda. Surely our
country would never put give such an incompetent so much authority. Oh wait sorry, never
mind.
Jeeves , ,
December 27, 2018 at 3:13 pm
We have a "peaceful opening" with North Korea? How many months ago did Mr. Bandow last read
about the NoKos counter-proposal to unconditional nuclear disarmament? And what about all the
Trump saber-rattling that preceded this so-called opening? If Trump was "played" by his own
advisers on Afghanistan, he was equally duped by the mirage offered by Kim.
WRW , ,
December 27, 2018 at 3:22 pm
Trump had no lofty notions underpinning this decision. He did it in an impetuous, chaotic
manner in which he obtained nothing in return from Russia or Turkey or Iran to address our
broader strategic interest in the region, such as ending the war in Yemen. Like everything he
does, it reeks of corruption and no doubt will be added to Muellers investigation.
Contrary to Bandows libertarian take, it is an expression of Trumps imperial presidency. The
Syrian involvement has strong bipartisan support even if lacking a resolution in support (and
the Libertarian Sen. Paul never got anywhere with a resolution against.) Leaving Syria was the
correct long term strategic decision.
I'm sure 99% of democrats in Congress supported the action. Only trump, with his
narcissistic incompetence could take an action that his opponents would overwhelmingly support
if done in a credible manner and turn it into controversy. Trump looks like the servant of
Russians and Turks in his conduct. Jan 2021 can't come soon enough.
The Other Sands , ,
December 27, 2018 at 4:32 pm
I find it interesting that so many people (the author apparently included) are still so slow
to understand that Trump can't afford to get rid of people, because he literally can't find new
cabinet members.
He started with mostly C-listers, and most of them are gone. He is on to hiring TV hosts,
bloggers, professional political grifters, his family, or just being stuck with straight-up
vacant posts.
Only the worst sorts would voluntarily work for such an angry, undisciplined, chaotic boss
in the smoking shambles of an organization like this administration.
You just go ahead and ask Chuck Hagel if he would join this train wreck.
Hideo
Watanabe , ,
December 27, 2018 at 9:19 pm
I blogged on December 22 when I read a similar article like this;
"Every time I read such article as this about Mr. Trump's decisions of any sort, I always
wonder if the authors believe that he has solid political philosophy or consolidated policy
agenda.
I took his decision of withdrawal from Syria and seemingly from Afghanistan is his
survival strategy for 2020 presidential election to appeal to war weariness American voters
because Mr. Cohen's plea deal and the revelation of Trump signature on the license agreement
for Moscow Trump Tower project would kill his 2020 chance. It is a good strategy but over the
last two days his approval rating has not been improved."
Mr. Trump seems to have delivered a speech in Iraq saying that the withdrawal from Syria
would not give any adverse effect on Israel security because the US government gives more than
$45 billion every year according to a local newspaper of Middle East.
This is another tactic to appeal to AIPAC to make sure his own security for 2020 candidacy,
isn't it?
usmc0846 , ,
December 27, 2018 at 9:52 pm
First 2000 troops is not much more than a reinforced battalion the USMC shuffles that many
warriors and more around the Mediterranean every six months. I think the issue with Trump is,
as it's always been, his gut seat of his pants way of handling virtually everything he does.
There's no control or consideration apparent in any action other than to pitch chum at his
largely illiterate followers.
In this case he's handed a huge victory to Putin (my my what a surprise that is) and
essentially screwed the Kurds. If nothing else those 2000 troops were at least keeping a cap on
things to some small degree. That's out the door now and I can't help but think that ISIS (aka
the enemy here) will have a vote on what happens next.
Trump Voter , ,
December 27, 2018 at 10:43 pm
"President Donald Trump has at last rediscovered his core foreign policy beliefs and
ordered the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. "
Too hopeful, at this point, I think. But I hope so, too.
Cloak And Dagger , ,
December 27, 2018 at 11:27 pm
Those of us who want to see Bolton gone should first ask why he was chosen in the first
place. Clearly Trump had to appease Adelson in order to make that appointment because he
depends on his campaign donations. What makes anyone think that the situation has changed
in such a way as to permit Trump more autonomy in his choice of his cabinet?
NEexpert , ,
December 28, 2018 at 1:54 am
"Or perhaps it's time for a second round for former senator Chuck Hagel, who opposed
the Gulf war and backed dialog with Iran."
I think it is an excellent idea to bring back Senator Hagel. He is a man of integrity. But
most importantly, he hasn't sold out his soul to Israel.
SteveK9 , ,
December 28, 2018 at 12:00 pm
To those who say Trump has no foreign policy vision, you are wrong. His vision is
simple, dismantle parts of the Empire, become a little more isolationist, and focus on 'America
First'. Trump is not very intelligent, but he has the right instincts. He is up against the War
Party, the most influential power center in the US, and that is not easy. Obama is more
intelligent than Trump, but the results were very bad add one more destroyed country, Libya to
his credit, and almost another, Syria (although thankfully the Russians stopped that).
What is mysterious is the following from the article:
'Yet President Trump has surrounded himself with neocons, inveterate hawks, and ivory tower
warriors. With virtually no aides around him who believe in his policies or were even willing
to implement them, he looked like a George Bush/Barack Obama retread.'
Why he does this, I don't know.
Pulling out of Syria will be a good thing for everyone. The reason is largely nonsense, as
it was Russia/Syria that destroyed Isis (we did manage to destroy another city, Raqqa), but I
don't care, and neither will the American Public, who understand nothing of Syria.
The Kurds will make an arrangement for limited autonomy with Damascus (already happening as
they just asked for protection from Turkey in Manbij). Turkey will not invade Syria as long as
they feel Damascus can control the border. Syria, Russia, and maybe even the Kurds will wipe
out the last of Isis and those militants in Idlib that would rather die than give up the fight
(the fanatics), will be killed.
Then, the reconstruction of Syria can begin in earnest, and it is to be hoped that the
Chinese will get off their butt and provide some assistance.
Israel is probably unhappy, which pleases me no end, and I hope this is an indication that
there is some limit to the number of people we are willing to murder on their behalf.
Guy St Hilaire , ,
December 28, 2018 at 2:55 pm
@ NEexpert.Integrity is a quality severely lacking in many politicians in the US.Not being
American , but watching closely, if Senator hagel is such a man , it would do American politics
much good ,not only for the US but the US standing in the world .Gods speed in chnaging the
likes of Bolton and Pompeo to begin with.
sglover , ,
December 28, 2018 at 5:03 pm
@ Kurt Gayle -- I don't think you'll find any contradiction between my two remarks.
All I'm saying is that in all the ways that really matter the sudden "withdrawal" from Syria
is already shaping up to be a typical Trump bait-and-switch. Sure, troops won't be bivouacing
in Syria. Instead, they'll be stationed next door in Iraq, so they can continue to muck around
in Syria. And Trump emphasized that as far as he's concerned we'll be staying in Iraq.
(Of course, that "strategic doctrine" is only valid until his next Fox media wallow in front
of the idiot box. I.e., maybe until tomorrow afternoon)
William Bowles , Dec 27,
2018 4:52:43 AM |
link
Why Mattis' Exit Is A Defining Moment In US Foreign Policy
by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
An important analysis!
https://orientalreview.org/2018/12/27/why-mattis-exit-is-a-defining-moment-in-us-foreign-policy/
Notable quotes:
"... Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He was an Army Infantry/Intelligence officer before working as a CIA analyst for the next 27 years. Ray admits to a modicum of bias against Marine officers, but not those with whom he worked back in the day. He is co-creator of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, which includes Marines who remember what Semper Fi means. ..."
"... A case in point is when you hear members of congress criticize Trump decision to withdraw the US army personals from Syria and Afganistan. These members forget that the US army in Syria is in violation of international laws and US laws as well. ..."
utgoing Defense Secretary Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis was famous for quipping , "It's fun to shoot some
people." It remains a supreme irony that Mattis was widely considered the only "adult in the
room" in the Trump administration. Compared to whom? John Bolton, the rabid neocon serving as
national security adviser? That would be the epitome of "condemning with faint praise."
With his ramrod-straight image, not to mention his warrior/scholar reputation extolled in
the media, Mattis was able to disguise the reality that he was, as Col. Andrew Bacevich
put it on
Democracy Now! this morning, "totally unimaginative." Meaning that Mattis was simply incapable
of acknowledging the self-destructive, mindless nature of U.S. "endless war" in the Middle
East, which candidate-Trump had correctly called "stupid." In his resignation letter, Mattis
also peddled the usual cant about the indispensable nation's aggression being good for the
world.
Mattis was an obstacle to Trump's desire to pull troops out of Syria and Afghanistan (and
remains in position to spike Trump's orders). Granted, the abrupt way Trump announced his
apparently one-man decision was equally stupid. But the withdrawal of ground troops is
supremely sane, and Mattis was and is a large problem. And, for good or ill, Trump -- not
Mattis -- was elected president.
Marine Wisdom
Historically, Marines are the last place to turn for sound advice. Marine Gen. Smedley
Butler (1881-1940), twice winner of the Medal of Honor, was brutally candid about this after he
paused long enough to realize, and write, "War is a Racket":
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members
of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My
mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-
ups. "
Shortly after another Marine general, former CENTCOM commander Anthony Zinni, retired, he
stood by silently as he personally watched then-Vice President Dick Cheney give his most
important speech ever (on August 26, 2002). Cheney blatantly lied about Iraq's (non-existent)
WMD, in order to grease the skids for the war of aggression against Iraq. Zinni had kept his
clearances and was "back on contract." He was well read-in on Iraq, and knew immediately that
Cheney was lying.
A few years later, Zinni admitted that he decided that his lips would be sealed. Far be it
for a Marine to play skunk at the picnic. And, after all, he was being honored that day at the
same Veterans of Foreign Wars convention where Cheney spoke. As seems clear now, Zinni was also
lusting after the lucrative spoils of war given to erstwhile generals who offer themselves for
membership on the corporate Boards of the arms makers/merchants that profiteer on war.
(For an earlier critique of senior Marines, see:
"Attacking Syria: Thumbing Noses at Constitution and Law." )
Marine officer, now Sen. Pat Roberts, R, Kansas, merits "dishonorable mention" in this
connection. He never rose to general but did become Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
at an auspicious time for Cheney and Bush. Roberts kowtowed, like a "good Marine," to their
crass deceit, when a dollop of honesty on his part could have prevented the 2003 attack on Iraq
and the killing, maiming, destruction, and chaos that continues to this day. Roberts knew all
about the fraudulent intelligence and covered it up -- together with other lies -- for as long
as he remained Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman
Scott Ritter on Pat Roberts
Roberts's unconscionable dereliction of duty enraged one honest Marine, Maj. Scott Ritter,
who believes "Semper Fi" includes an obligation to tell the truth on matters of war and peace.
Ritter, former UN chief weapons inspector for Iraq, who in April 2005 wrote, "Semper Fraud,
Senator Roberts," based partly on his own experience
with that complicit Marine.
Needless to say, higher ranking, more malleable Marines aped Zinni in impersonating Uncle
Remus's Tar Baby -- not saying nuttin'.
It is conceivable that yet another sharply-saluting Marine, departing Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, may be tapped by Trump to take Mattis's job. If that happens,
it will add to President Trump's bizarre penchant for picking advisers hell-bent on frustrating
the objectives he espoused when he was running for office, some of which -- it is becoming
quite clear -- he genuinely wants to achieve.
Trump ought to unleash Mattis now, and make sure Mattis keeps his distance from the Pentagon
and the Military-Industrial Complex before he is asked to lead an insurrection against a highly
vulnerable president -- as Gen. Smedley Butler was asked to do back in the day. Butler said
no.
Top Photo | U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, sits on stage during a change of command
ceremony at the U.S. Southern Command headquarters on Nov. 26, 2018, in Doral, Fla. Brynn
Anderson | AP
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church
of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He was an Army Infantry/Intelligence officer before
working as a CIA analyst for the next 27 years. Ray admits to a modicum of bias against Marine
officers, but not those with whom he worked back in the day. He is co-creator of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, which includes Marines who remember what Semper Fi
means.
Mahmoud HAm •
4 days ago ,
I am not so much surprised that military generals keep their mouths shot rather than tell
the truth when the truth is needed to avoid wars. But worse is that the US congress which are
supposed to overlook over the government misbehavior to make the government abide by the laws
and protect the interests of the people against government wrongs.
A case in point is when you hear members of congress criticize Trump decision to
withdraw the US army personals from Syria and Afganistan. These members forget that the US
army in Syria is in violation of international laws and US laws as well.
The congress are supposed the authority to declare war but the US is engaged in multiple
wars without US Congress authorization. Worse off these idiots want to force the Trump
administration to keep its illegal wars going on? What is the role of the congress??? To
correct and force the Administration to abide by the rule of laws of the force them to keep
violating international laws and US laws as well????
Felix Hoenikker
•
5 days ago ,
Trump's bizarre penchant for picking advisers hell-bent on frustrating the objectives
he espoused when he was running for office
It's bizarre that he's hired so many Bill Kristol approved neocons when they abandoned him
for Hillary in 2016. Or not so bizarre when one remembers what Russ Tice said about Cheney
using the NSA to get blackmail dirt. Now they've lost control, so it will be interesting to
see how they try to regain it.
Digital
Samizdat , says: December
25, 2018 at 10:54 pm GMT
Everybody say a prayer for Lindsay Graham this Christmas. I hear he's in distress
Chickenhawk (bird)
- Wikipedia "In the United States, chickenhawk or chicken hawk is an unofficial designation for three species
of North American
hawks in the family
Accipitridae :
Cooper's hawk , also
called a quail hawk, the sharp-shinned hawk , and the red-tailed hawk . The term
"chicken hawk", however, is inaccurate. Although Cooper's and sharp-shinned hawks may attack
other birds, chickens do not
make up a significant part of their diets; red-tailed hawks have varied diets, but may
opportunistically hunt free-range poultry . "
Notable quotes:
"... In defense of the chickenhawk -- the actual bird ..."
"... So while I certainly despise the useless eaters that agitate for war while having not the slightest idea what combat of any kind is about, I always cringe at the degradation of the word 'chickenhawk' a mighty little predator whose good name should not be sullied in association with such human detritus ..."
FB , says: December
25, 2018 at 11:13 am GMT
In defense of the chickenhawk -- the actual bird
The first time I saw one in action, it was quite a revelation I looked out the kitchen
window to see what looked like a blue jay perching on some kind of largish rock that he was
pecking at of course that made no sense at all and upon closer examination it turned out to
be a tiny raptor, not even a foot long from beak to tail, standing on a much larger dead
chicken and ripping flesh off of it I ran out back toward the chicken yard and the mighty
little slayer flew off the poor hen had a good part of her back flesh removed
Pretty amazing that such a tiny bird could take a chicken easily ten times its weight --
the sharp shinned hawk weighs just 200-400 grams
So while I certainly despise the useless eaters that agitate for war while having not
the slightest idea what combat of any kind is about, I always cringe at the degradation of
the word 'chickenhawk' a mighty little predator whose good name should not be sullied in
association with such human detritus
Notable quotes:
"... Maybe I am overestimating the intelligence of MIC profiteers, but my impression is that those thieves know that their loot is only useful as long as they are alive. There is a lot of silly hostile talk against Russia and China, but have you noticed how the US military always makes sure that there are no direct confrontations with countries that can turn the US into radioactive dust? The profiteers want huge Pentagon budget to steal from, but not the war where they lose along with everyone else. ..."
AnonFromTN , says:
December 26, 2018
at 10:37 pm GMT
@Harold Smith
Maybe I am overestimating the intelligence of MIC profiteers, but my impression is that those thieves know that their loot
is only useful as long as they are alive. There is a lot of silly hostile talk against Russia and China, but have you noticed
how the US military always makes sure that there are no direct confrontations with countries that can turn the US into radioactive
dust? The profiteers want huge Pentagon budget to steal from, but not the war where they lose along with everyone else.
As to the wall, it is one of the silliest projects ever suggested. Maybe that's why it was so easy to sell it to the intellectually
disadvantaged electorate. There are two things that can stop illegal immigration.
First, go for the employers, enact a law that fines them to the tune of $50,000 or more per every illegal they employ. Second,
enact the law that anyone caught residing in the US illegally has no right to enter the US legally, to obtain asylum, permanent
residency, or citizenship for life, and include a provision that marriage to a US citizen does not nullify this ban.
Then enforce both laws. After that illegals would run out of the country, and greedy employers won't hire any more. Naturally,
the wall, even if built, won't change anything: as long as there are employers trying to save on salaries, immigration fees, and
Social Security tax, and people willing to live and work illegally risking nothing, no wall would stem the flow.
Unfortunately, no side is even thinking about real measures, both are just posturing.
geokat62 , says:
December
26, 2018 at 10:44 pm GMT
@ChuckOrloski
Am wondering in which prosperous U.S. Zionist "career" field has John Yoo landed?
He is a distinguished professor at Berkley Law, UC. Here's his bio:
Professor Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law and director of the Korea Law
Center, the California Constitution Center, and the Law School's Program in Public Law and
Policy. His most recent books are Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons
Change the Rules for War (Encounter 2017) (with Jeremy Rabkin) and Point of Attack:
Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Professor Yoo is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a visiting
fellow at the Hoover Institution
From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of
Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving
foreign affairs, national security and the separation of powers.
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/john-yoo/
Notice how they gloss over his diabolical activities as deputy AG for the Bush II
Adminstration "where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and the
separation of powers."
And, oh, yeah, he cobbled together legal statements that gave the Bush Admin carte blanche
to engage in "enhanced interrogation techniques," more commonly known as "torture." He was
about to be in big dodo for his crimes. but just like the 5 dancing Israelis were rescued by
Chertoff, a guy named David Margolis managed to get Yoo off the hook:
The Office of Professional Responsibilty (OPR) report concluded that Yoo had "committed
'intentional professional misconduct' when he advised the CIA it could proceed with
waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques against Al Qaeda suspects,"
although the recommendation that he be referred to his state bar association for possible
disciplinary proceedings was overruled by David Margolis, another senior Justice department
lawyer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
Anyone familiar with David Margolis? Is he a MOT?
Notable quotes:
"... . Wouldnt it be nice if that Satanic 'fellow' was harrased at home like, unfortunatley, Tucker Carlson was. (Instead of Carlson) ..."
MAGAnotMISA ,
says: December
25, 2018 at 10:21 am GMT
My impression is, ISIS is a mossad-Jewish lobby creation to win the PR war against Muslims
and to keep the US attacking and "containing" Israel's geopolitical adversaries and eternally
occupying Arab lands, and well, to Make Israel Safe Again ™
Apart from the questions raised by some from the alternative media:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-is-a-us-israeli-creation-top-ten-indications/5518627
The fact is the mossad could easily pull this off, having so many Israelis from
Northern-African and Middle Eastern extraction, fluent in Arab and looking exactly like well,
Arabs. They could infiltrate and recruit Arab salafist patsies and easily organize terrorist
attacks without executing the hits themselves. And it is actually a genius move:
1) Create a terrorist thread in Europe, making Westerners wary of Arabs, ie more likely to
understand Israel policies towards Palestinians and side with Israel (message being:
apartheid State? what else can we Israelis do? Palestinians are all gropers, misogynists,
homophobes and potential terrorists FYI)
2) Hit the countries with the most Jews (France, Germany and UK) so they are more likely
to start packing up to make Aliyah, so Israel's demographic problem is at least temporarily
solved, retaining a majority population of Jews.
3) Make the US, through the Jewish lobby in the US, attack strategic countries such as
Libya, Iraq and Syria, creating a migrant tsunami to flood Europe, making Europeans even more
wary of Arabs and understanding of Israeli's treatment of Palestinians (Arabs) and also
making European Jews even more likely to make Aliyah. I even have heard of Israeli NGOs
funded by the Israeli Ministry of FA operating in Lesbos and helping "refugees" to flood
Europe. After a public outcry the Ministry logo vanished from the NGOs sponsors page.
Even the Cologne issue with the gropings, and I am getting too conspiratorial here, could
have been a group of Israeli provocateurs kickstarting the whole assaults wave. Let's say, a
group of mossad operatives, composed of Israelis from Northern-African and/or Middle Eastern
extraction, with false documentation and fluent in Arab, start groping and assaulting German
women, taking advantage of the total chaos offered and facilitated by moronic Merkel. They
get caught? no problem, false passports or even no passports at all, just give false names
and disappear. Not that Arabs need that much help to make themselves look bad, after all some
American reporter was assaulted *live* and for what I have read the lecherous groping of
women walking alone is a well documented problem in all the ME. But maybe thanks to a little
push by provocateurs, an incident big enough was engineered and the image of Arabs in the
West reached historic lows thanks to the Cologne affair.
And creating phoney terrorist groups to use them for false flags is not something new at
all for the mossad, let's all remember what the FLLF was and how almost executed an US
Ambassador.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Lebanon_from_Foreigners
I'd like to hear Mr Giraldi's take on the matter, though I don't think he will ever write
about it.
Merry Christmas to all.
Anonymous [386] Disclaimer , says:
December
25, 2018 at 10:22 am GMT
@Durruti
Kucinich is far from being a real American. Where are the the people that do not want to
take?
Art , says: December
25, 2018 at 10:58 am GMT
Filmmaker Rob Reiner tweeted on Thursday that the president is a "childish moronic
mentally unstable malignant narcissist" who is "committing Treason" against the United
States.
Oh my – the Jew "meathead" is a "childish moronic mentally unstable malignant
narcissist" who is "committing Treason" against the United States.
Some things never change.
anon [202] Disclaimer , says:
December
25, 2018 at 11:10 am GMT
"Filmmaker Rob Reiner tweeted on Thursday that the president is a "childish moronic mentally
unstable malignant narcissist" who is "committing Treason" against the United States."
He and fellow tribesmen are welcome to sign up and go fight Israel's wars themselves, just
not with white male republican blood. The guy is good at border skirmishes, too. He led an
effort to keep poor Mexicans out of his rich Malibu neighborhood back in 2014 by refusing
Whole Foods a building location. Like most of his kind, he's a sociopathic hypocrite and a
liar.
Moi , says: December
25, 2018 at 11:52 am GMT
Further proof that we are nuts.
jilles dykstra
, says: December
25, 2018 at 12:06 pm GMT
@MAGAnotMISA
What I miss is destroying white cultures through mass immigration.
Though what I miss in this theory what exactly is the objective, is it whites and Muslims
annihilating each other, or just divide and rule ?
But maybe thinking in this way has not gone far enough.
Bernard Baruch's world domination plan failed miserably, but he even failed to understand
that it had failed, otherwise he had not in 1946 pleaded for a world government.
One must not underestimate the enemy, but also not overestimate him.
Jewish policies for the last 2000 years can hardly be seen as a success.
Judaism lost the battle with christianity, bolsjewism failed in Russia, getting equal rights
in W Europe led to the WWII deportations, with or without gas chambers, Israel succeeded in
surrounding itself with enemies, as neighbours, and all over the world, and jewish puppet
Hillary was not elected.
The latest statements by Netanyahu confirm my idea of a complete idiot.
Montefrío
, says: December
25, 2018 at 12:08 pm GMT
I continue to be amazed that anyone gives any credibility whatsoever who claims US Mideast
military involvement is in the best interest of the nation. The above-mentioned commenters
must almost inevitably more about self-interest than anything patriotic. As for appearing
profound, well, there's Rob Reiner!
jilles dykstra
, says: December
25, 2018 at 12:19 pm GMT
@anon
In the idea that the USA is the new zion Trump indeed commits treason.
Before Israel was established many USA rabbis were against zionism, because in their view the
USA already was zion.
As to
childish moronic mentally unstable malignant narcissist
, the use of such words for me means utter confusion, rational analysis no longer
possible.
Arthur Koestler was of the opinion that yiddish precluded sensible discussion.
The mentioned words show that he was wrong about the cause.
RVBlake , says:
December
25, 2018 at 12:21 pm GMT
If there were any group that deserved rebuffing and blindsiding, it is most assuredly Trump's
advisers and military commanders.
APilgrim , says:
December
25, 2018 at 12:43 pm GMT
President Trump has ERASED the terrorists supported by Obama & McCain.
His 'deconfliction' with Russia was instrumental in the Daesh Extermination.
If Congress passes an AUMF, we shall stay. Otherwise, Adios!
APilgrim , says:
December
25, 2018 at 12:51 pm GMT
Today's Jerusalem Post had a link to this Kamala Harris political fund-raising ad.
https://action.kamalaharris.org/sign/181206-evergreen-ob/?source=ads_outbrain_181212_dint_all_desktop_000395c6d552e1c60c57e8e03fadb17b09
The cvnt.
Sarah Toga , says:
December
25, 2018 at 12:59 pm GMT
As I sat in Christmas Eve service last night, an adorable little boy played quietly with his
father in the seat next to us. The little boy was probably just under 2 years of age.
In the middle of one of the Christmas Carols the thought struck me,
"I wonder if we will still be in ___________ war 17 years from now, when this
little boy becomes enlistment age . . ."
That thought alone makes me favor Trump for re-election. I think (I could be wrong, I'm no
expert) we have less war and a lesser risk of war with Trump. The "establishment" policies
of: invade the world – invite the world – in hoc with the world; are horrifically
deadly and destructive.
Heros , says:
December
25, 2018 at 1:01 pm GMT
What great Christmas presents from Trump.
1. US withdrawal from Syria, and apparently all non-nato committed US troops from
Afghanistan.
2. Willingness to shutdown Government in order to force funding for the wall
3. Rumors of subpoena's being handed out at G.H.W Bush's funeral
4. Senate investigations into Clinton Foundation with auditors claiming jaw dropping
corruption
5. Grand Jury empaneled to investigate into 9/11
I don't know if Q is a psyop, but a lot of the things he has been saying appear to be
coming closer to reality. We can be certain that none of this would have happened had Clinton
been elected.
Meanwhile the deep state is not taking this lying down.
1. Netanyahu is threatening to increase operations in Syria. Perhaps he warned Trump to
get out because he is going to go nuclear or bio.
2. The global warming panic propaganda is being turned up to "broil" as weather warfare has
been unleashed across the planet.
3. Ukraine attempting to drag Nato into a war for the Kerch straight.
4. Stockmarkets tanking as the Fed keeps tightening while Mnuchin performs the "plunge
protection team rag"
5. Iran war threats and Persian gulf sabre rattling
6. Heeb financial war against Russia, Iran and China.
7. Heeb technology war against China (Huawei arrest)
Even if the US leaves Syria as Trump claims, they certainly will not just hand everything
over to Assad. The Damascus/Baghdad hiway re-opening through Al Tanf and the hand over of all
Euphrates river crossings to Syria would be indication of a true change of policy.
FelicityRules ,
says: December
25, 2018 at 1:18 pm GMT
As usual, Giraldi is spot on with his observations. I wish him a Merry Christmas and hope to
see a lot more of his articles in the coming year.
I find Rob Reiner amusing, if not occasionally annoying. After having spent decades up to
my nose with his tribe while working in LA in the entertainment industry I can guarantee
Hollywood Jews go completely apoplectic anytime they perceive their government, the
Jewish-occupied government that rules over us all, is not following their commands.
Come to think of it, apoplexy's first definition is a stroke, its second definition is: a
state of intense and almost uncontrollable anger. One can only hope that jerks like Reiner
who indulge so heavily in the second definition will end up experiencing the first, and good
riddance.
Cortes , says:
December
25, 2018 at 1:33 pm GMT
@FB
Well said.
I'd just add that few things would please me more than to have DJT draft the human
chickenhawks due to their indispensable expertise and place their backsides in-country to
dole out their words of wisdom there.
ChuckOrloski ,
says: December
25, 2018 at 1:37 pm GMT
The honorable & courageous American Man endowed with precision scientific/political
wisdom wrote, with special appeal to me: "Withdrawing from Syria is the right thing to do,
though one has to be concerned that there might be some secret side deals with Israel , that
could actually result in more attacks upon Syria."
Christos Razdajetsja, Philip!
Johnny Walker
Read , says: December
25, 2018 at 1:43 pm GMT
Call me crazy, but I'm still a bit leery, cautiously hopping this is not just another
charade. Is this just another way to allow the dissection of Syria to take another path?
Always remember if Trump is in opposition to his globalist master's he will be removed,
one way or the other.
Hunsdon , says:
December
25, 2018 at 1:53 pm GMT
@FB
FB:
Thank you for that! I now realize that the appellation chickenhawk used in reference to
the "let's you and him" fight gang is a slur on a fine little raptor. You have educated
me.
Anon [257] Disclaimer , says:
December
25, 2018 at 2:03 pm GMT
@anon
What's the battle cry of the Israeli army?
Onward Christian Soldiers
Merry Christmas every one
Tim K , says:
December
25, 2018 at 2:10 pm GMT
US out of Syria? Why were "we" ever in there?
anon [122] Disclaimer , says:
December
25, 2018 at 2:20 pm GMT
boot, nuland, shapiro, stephens, reiner, etc etc – one (((chickenhawk))) after another
Sparkon , says:
December
25, 2018 at 2:27 pm GMT
A mong hawks in N. America, Cooper's Hawk ( Accipiter cooperii ),
Red-shouldered Hawk ( Buteo lineatus ), and Red-tailed Hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis