Amid the vacuum of creditable reporting by the mainstream media, Michael Brenner offers a briefing on the background of the neocon-inspired war in Ukraine and his view on the present strategic situation. By Michael BRENNER Never in memory has it been so daunting to...
We do not, as Madeline Albright did, think the price is worth it. By Doug BANDOW The world is a mess, but Washington is determined to fix it. The secretary of state flies around the globe issuing instructions to friends and foes alike. When foreign officials refuse to...
The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. By Scott RITTER Early on the morning of May 2, 1945,...
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in...
Although Seán Penn has loaned Zelensky his Oscar, Clown Prince Zelensky no doubt should have one of his own, Declan Hayes writes. Because NATO’s Oscar season looms, it is time to predict who will win this year’s prizes. Although some stray Holywood D listers now lead...
Syrians in Egypt face financial hardship and even violence as the suffering Egyptians lose patience. When the U.S.-NATO attack on Syria for regime change began in 2011, many Syrians began to leave the country for safer areas. After the Muslim Brotherhood candidate...
In our attempts at understanding such people who view themselves as the natural ‘ruling elite’, it is important that we never take a literal approach in our attempts to understand their desires and thus their motives. “[James] Burnham…the real intellectual founder of...
The 2023 Military Strength Ranking by Globalfirepower.com shows that the United States, Russia, and China have remained the world’s top military powers with China continuing its climb to the No.2 spot. (Click on the image to enlarge)
By Binoy KAMPMARK Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His electoral victory was fortuitous, aided by a number of factors, not least the conduct of his opponent and...
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the increasingly...
Eurasia is a sleeping giant that, once it finally wakes up, will be able to dictate its own rules to the US and its allies. The world is not only tired, but exhausted, at the very end of its civilizational vitality, and all this is a consequence of almost eighty years...
The British government covertly trained Jordanian security services in techniques known as “digital media exploitation” which has been used to monitor, manipulate, and disrupt dissent in the kingdom. By Kit KLARENBERG Leaked documents reviewed by The Cradle reveal...