Strategic Culture

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.

Trump’s personality is not one that appreciates actual history, but only that which he dreams up in his head, “creating facts” by whimsy.

In killing General Soleimani, Trump has echoed Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Cry ‘Havoc!,’ and let slip the dogs of war.”

Wayne Madsen writes on how historical facts are being discarded and replaced with alternate chronicles of humanity’s past across the world.

Bougainville, which possesses significant natural resources in copper and gold, is more prepared for independence than were current Pacific region members of the UN, including Tuvalu, Niue, and Kiribati, Wayne Madsen asserts.

The drift of traditional conservative parties to the far right and neo-fascism and the insistence by traditional social democratic and working-class parties to adopt pro-business and anti-labor positions is why large blocs of voters feel abandoned.

With the ouster of progressive governments throughout Latin America and their replacement with right-wing neo-fascist regimes, Israeli counter-insurgency advisers, better known as “merchants of death,” have returned to Latin America with fervor.

Donald John Trump has turned back the clock in the Western Hemisphere to an era that saw coups and political unrest as the order of the day.

Future historians, if they exist, will look back in amazement at the leaders of three nations in particular, Wayne Madsen writes.

Around the world, right-wing politicians who promised to “drain the swamp” of public corruption and to otherwise “clean house” have been shown as the very champions of swamps and financially dirty houses.