By Peter Van BUREN I rewatched Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9. The 2018 film is mainly a screed about all the bad things Trump was going to do as president. Time is a cold mistress: basically nothing Moore said four years ago about what was going to happen actually...
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In the War Between Judaism and Democracy in Israel, Anything Is Possible
Bibi is by nature cautious – even timid. His radical ministers, however, are not, Alastair Crooke writes. Michael Omer-Man writes: Almost exactly 10 years ago, a young star rising in the Likud party, spoke to an audience committed to the outright annexation of the...
Arresting Putin – Or Arresting All-Out Western Public Revolt?
If there were any genuine principles of justice, Biden should be in the dock facing war crime charges in connection with America’s illegal wars. Western propaganda outlets (also known as “news media”) are suddenly full of reports that The Hague-based International...
Illegitimate ICC
By Stephen LENDMAN Ill and unable to write but very able to think and reason. A quick rebuke of the empire of lies and forever wars for ordering the illegitimate ICC it controls to issue an illegal arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin — the world’s preeminent,...
Stop Calling The Iraq War A ‘Mistake’: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Stop calling the Iraq War a “mistake”. When you make a mistake, you make changes to ensure that mistake is not repeated. Nobody responsible for that invasion suffered any consequences of any kind, zero policy changes were made, and the unipolarist...
What Follows U.S. Hegemony
The United States remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order, writes Vijay Prashad. By Vijay PRASHAD On Feb. 24, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a 12-point plan entitled “China’s Position on...
How Covid Lockdowns Primed the Current Financial Crisis
The lockdowns and the stimulus required to keep the economy alive helped drive inflation. Then the Fed jacked up interest rates. And all hell broke loose. By Christian PARENTI On Friday March 10th, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) died of Covid. Alright, it’s a little...
Reuters’ Assistance With Italy’s Take on African Immigrants Represents a New Watershed
Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. The duplicitous role of western media in assisting NATO in its dark endeavours is nothing new. But Reuters may well have...
Troubling Questions Over U.S. Drone Crash Near Crimea… An Inevitable Collision Made in Washington
A $32 million drone buried unceremoniously at sea says a lot about a failing empire. A U.S. spy drone operating 8,000 kilometers from Washington on Russia’s borders, helping a Nazi regime at war against Russia, crashes into the Black Sea – and yet, insanely, Moscow is...
A Litany of Pride
Twenty years ago, we invaded Iraq at the counsel of detached wonks who have always been too impressed with themselves. By Doug BANDOW Two decades ago, the worst president in modern U.S. history plunged the country into a foolish and needless war. Thousands of...
It’s Good To Be Mean To War Propagandists
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields has published an article titled “We are not above criticism but these attacks go too far”, tearfully rending his garments over criticisms his paper’s three-part war-with-China propaganda series “Red...
EU Efforts to Reduce Russian Ruble to Rubble Have Made a Baerbock-ean 360 Degrees Twist
The Collective West on their steep downward civilization trend are doing their best to get their nanny state-addicted, complacent populations slowly used to the new age of a dysfunctional society. EU (and the USA) have repeatedly tried bulldozing anti-Russia sanctions...