January 25, 2020
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EU Is Showing Its ‘Cracks’ Already as Boris Now Shows It the Whip on Trade Deal
by Martin Jay
The threat of Britain leaving the EU with no ‘free trade deal’ in one year’s time as the only way to get a decent deal with Brussels is ringing true.

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Beware of the Scheming Trotskyists
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Beware of the Scheming Trotskyists
January 25, 2020

Trotskyists are performing the same factionalized politics today that pervaded the 1930s and gave rise to Adolf Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy, and Francisco Franco in Spain, Wayne Madsen writes.

Wayne Madsen
What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say ‘No!’ Now to Its Start
January 24, 2020

If EU breaks away from US and joins with the rest of the Eurasian continent instead, at least the possibility will exist for avoiding a hellish future of continued and accelerating vassalage to the US regime for the entire world.

Eric Zuesse
What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say ‘No!’ Now to Its Start
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‘Racist’ Trump Supporters Should Lose Their Vote, Says NBC. Guess Who Decides They’re ‘Racist’?
Society
‘Racist’ Trump Supporters Should Lose Their Vote, Says NBC. Guess Who Decides They’re ‘Racist’?
January 24, 2020

What exactly do White Americans – who opened the floodgates to immigration in 1965 – need to do these days to prove they are not natural born racists?

Robert Bridge
Poland’s Disgraceful Denial Over Holocaust Commemoration
January 24, 2020

Remembering the Holocaust, the WWII and its causes is of crucial importance. It was a product of fascism, European collusion and cynical appeasement.

Poland’s Disgraceful Denial Over Holocaust Commemoration
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The Troubling Decline of International Law
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Trump at Davos Challenges Malthusian Agenda: Cites Renaissance Principle as Key to Humanity’s Future
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Post-Brexit Britain eyes new forceful role in Asia
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How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
January 22, 2020
In the Name of ‘Security’ Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding
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The Latest and Most Reckless US Imperial Act
Putin Calls for a New System Guided by the UN Charter… But Is It Possible?
Security
Putin Calls for a New System Guided by the UN Charter… But Is It Possible?
January 23, 2020

Anyone looking with sober eyes upon today’s world and the feeble economic and geopolitical underpinnings holding the system together must accept the fact that a new system WILL be created.

Matthew Ehret
An Army for Hire: Trump Wants to Make Money by Renting Out American Soldiers
January 23, 2020

U.S. military personnel is expected to be serving as human shields for the Saudis, to deter possible Iranian attacks. Will Americans tolerate this?

Philip Giraldi
An Army for Hire: Trump Wants to Make Money by Renting Out American Soldiers
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Target Orthodox Church: NATO’s Eastern Crusades
Society
Target Orthodox Church: NATO’s Eastern Crusades
January 22, 2020

The pressure that has been brought on the Church in Montenegro is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a “broader pattern.”

Stephen Karganovic
The United States: a Record-Holder in Political Assassinations
January 22, 2020

There is a big difference between assassinating Al Qaeda and Islamic State leaders and the commanders of government military forces of United Nations member states like Iran and Iraq.

Wayne Madsen
The United States: a Record-Holder in Political Assassinations
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The War for the Memory of WWII is Entering a Hot Phase
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The Libyan Civil War May Finally Be Coming to an End
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17 Years After 'Liberation,' Iraq Again Designated US 'Enemy'
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Democrats Will Not Give Up Their Russophobia
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Propagandists Ponder Plunging Popularity
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Is Trump’s aggression towards Iran dangerous, delusional or some kind of 3D chess?
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Wahrheit Macht Frei… Truth Sets You Free
History
Wahrheit Macht Frei… Truth Sets You Free
January 22, 2020

Polish authorities are denying the objective historical record which assigns complicity to their predecessors in unleashing the Nazi monster.

Finian Cunningham
How Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Journalists’ Propagandize for More U.S. Aggressions
January 21, 2020

Anyone who places any trust whatsoever in American billionaires’ ‘news’-media is either ignorant or else stupid, because the facts are conclusively the exact opposite.

Eric Zuesse
How Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Journalists’ Propagandize for More U.S. Aggressions
World
The Motherhood Penalty Needs to be Overturned
Society
The Motherhood Penalty Needs to be Overturned
January 21, 2020

Motherhood and a stable population are critical for any sort of future other than grey cultureless atomized Globalization.

Tim Kirby
Poles and Jews Before WWII
January 21, 2020

Some facts that may shatter the unblemished image of Poland of 1935-1938 are worth reminding.

Poles and Jews Before WWII
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Reading Sun Tzu in Tehran
Alastair Crooke
January 15, 2020
Iran – wisely – has eschewed direct, state-to-state military conflict, for a more subtle, and pernicious war on the US presence in the Middle East – a war, which if successful, will re-cast the region.
The Kerfuffle War - Trump’s Iran De-escalation Succeeds
Joaquin Flores
January 9, 2020
De-escalation requires that both parties save face, and can come away with tangible minor victories and agree that the real underlying dispute is resolved in the future.
The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani
Federico Pieraccini
January 8, 2020
Trump has evidently been convinced by someone that the U.S. can do without the Middle East, that it can do without allies in the region, and that nobody would ever dare to sell oil in any other currency than the U.S. dollar.
The Middle East Strategic “Balance” Shredded
Alastair Crooke
January 6, 2020
The strategic balance seemed more or less sustainable until its upending with the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and Al-Muhandis, ordered by Trump.
Western Campaign Against Orthodox Church Turns to Montenegro
James George Jatras
December 28, 2019
Maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised and Washington and Brussels will demand that their Montenegrin flunkies back off. Don’t bet on it though. There’s still a lot more of the Orthodox Church left to disrupt.
From Russia With Sense: Putin Says ‘Nyet’ to PC Radicals Replacing ‘Mothers’ and ‘Fathers’
Robert Bridge
December 4, 2019
Meanwhile the West is facing demons of its own making as victims of ‘sexual reassignment surgery’ want to change back to their original selves.
Rethinking National Security: CIA and FBI Are Corrupt, but What About Congress?
Philip Giraldi
November 21, 2019
The national security state should not be roaming the world looking for trouble and should instead only respond to actual threats.
The End of NATO? Macron Laments ‘Brain Death’ and Pushes for a European Military
Joaquin Flores
November 10, 2019
While Trump hides that the US simply can’t afford its empire, Macron hides that Europe has pushed for its own army even before Trump assumed office.
Can Trump Survive Ending Project Syria?
Tom Luongo
October 21, 2019
With Putin signing major deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, China welcoming Iraq into the Belt and Road family and Turkey all but leaving NATO, what are a bunch of feckless and politically spent neocons going to do?
The Russian Masterpiece in Syria: Everyone Wins
Federico Pieraccini
October 16, 2019
The world is now witnessing one of the greatest diplomatic masterpieces bringing closer the end of the seven-year-long Syrian conflict.
Drone Strikes Leave Innocent Widows and Orphans
Security
Drone Strikes Leave Innocent Widows and Orphans
January 21, 2020

The innocent widows and orphans are on the conscience of the world, but the drone attacks will continue.

Brian Cloughley
The End of U.S. Military Dominance: Unintended Consequences Forge a Multipolar World Order
January 20, 2020

The more aggressive the U.S. becomes, the more it reveals its tactical, operational and strategic limits, which in turn only serves to accelerate its loss of hegemony.

Federico Pieraccini
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Bernie Sanders Walks Straight Into the Russiagate Trap
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Bernie Sanders Walks Straight Into the Russiagate Trap
January 20, 2020

The New York Times article was about boosting Joe Biden, and its real target was his chief rival, Bernie Sanders. And poor, inept Bernie walked straight into the trap.

Daniel Lazare
The Many Matryoska Dolls to America’s Way of Imagining Iran
January 20, 2020

David Wurmser is Matryoska’s ‘doll’ within: no military invasion, but just a strategy to blow apart the Iranian Republic.

Alastair Crooke
The Many Matryoska Dolls to America’s Way of Imagining Iran
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Why Iran Should Ditch the Hopeless Nuclear Deal
Security
Why Iran Should Ditch the Hopeless Nuclear Deal
January 19, 2020

The false choice being presented by the EU to Iran of “returning to compliance” should be repudiated. Iran should henceforth direct its economic interests wholeheartedly towards co-development with Russia, China and the Eurasian realm.

Finian Cunningham
Flynn’s Guilty Plea Reversal Signals a Very Different Trump Second Term
January 19, 2020

It is unclear if Trump is selling out, buying in, playing 3D chess, or just very lucky, but the Flynn reversal on pleading guilty is another sign of success and stability for Trump’s Presidency.

Tim Kirby
Flynn’s Guilty Plea Reversal Signals a Very Different Trump Second Term
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Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military?
Security
Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military?
January 19, 2020

Trump, who is under attack from all sides within his own country, is not in a position to hold the CIA accountable for its past and future crimes.

Cynthia Chung
Soleimani’s Only Public Interview
January 18, 2020

Eric Zuesse analyzes Qasem Soleimani’s only recorded interview broadcast on October 1, 2019.

Eric Zuesse
Soleimani’s Only Public Interview
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