Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state. By Chris HEDGES The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by five Black Memphis police officers should be enough to implode the...
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A Memo and Balloon Help Media Inflate China War Hype
By Ari PAUL The shooting down of a Chinese balloon near Charleston (New York Times, 2/5/23) and an Air Force general’s prediction of a war with China (NBC, 1/27/23) have ignited media talk of the possibility of confrontation between the two nuclear powers. It’s scary...
Scott Ritter: I’m Not a Traitor… Lying Politicians and U.S. Government are the Real Traitors
Former Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter answers his critics who accuse him of being a “Russian stooge”. Former Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter answers his critics who accuse him of being a “Russian stooge” and an “anti-American traitor”...
U.S. Declares War on Turkish Tourism Economy
The U.S. State Department has issued warnings and threats to Erdogan if he follows through on his plan to have a neighborly relationship with Syria. On February 3, the Turkish interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, blasted the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Jeffry L. Flake,...
Russia’s Strategic Aims – In Consequence to a Collapsing U.S. Empire
Weak leadership has lifted the lid on the European Pandora’s box, Alastair Crooke writes. Things are getting psychotic. As you listen to EU leaders, all parroting identical ‘good news’ speaking points, they nonetheless radiate basal disquietude – presumably a...
U.S. Surrounds China With War Machinery While Freaking Out About Balloons
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE In what Austin journalist Christopher Hooks has called “one of the stupidest news cycles in living memory,” the entire American political/media class is having an existential meltdown over what the Pentagon claims is a Chinese spy balloon detected...
In Douma Cover-Up, OPCW’s New Smoking Gun Backfires
In a new phase of a multi-year cover-up, the OPCW has accused Syria of a chemical attack in Douma. But to make the case, the OPCW breaks its own rules and offers an argument that its own findings undermine. By Aaron MATÉ In the latest chapter of an international...
In Grim Symbolic Gesture, Germany Sends 14+88 Tanks to Ukraine
In early February, Germany decided to supply Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 and 88 older Leopard 1 battle tanks, prompting speculation about the symbolism of this move. 14/88 is a notorious neo-Nazi slogan extensively used in acts of white supremacist terrorism and...
They’re Not Worried About ‘Russian Influence’, They’re Worried About Dissent
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the...
All the Pitiful Pitfalls of the Pseudo Plan by Macron-Scholz Circus for Serbia
The scenario offered with the Macron-Scholz cocktail for Serbia looks rather bleak and grim, which would cost us dearly historically, politically, geopolitically and economically. As the basis for the ‘new’ agreement between Belgrade and Priština, the German-French...
Ukraine’s Reckless Nuclear Response
By Linda Pentz GUNTER The ongoing war in Ukraine is not exactly a conducive environment to building new nuclear power plants. Obviously, if your country has been invaded by a foreign power, putting your 15 commercial nuclear reactors at risk of destruction that could...
Will U.S. ‘Interests’ Become Sacrificed on Altar of New Indo-Pacific Strategy?
The Anglo-American foreign policy hawks imagine that the world is yearning to be liberated from Beijing’s nefarious agenda to end poverty As the trans-Atlantic world is pulled into the vortex of a McCarthyite nightmare with a renewed wave of anti-Russian and now...