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The Government Shouldn’t Feel Vindicated Over the Begum Verdict

Patrick Cockburn • February 26, 2021

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A former Isis fighter once complained to me that western volunteers who travelled to the so-called Islamic State in northeastern Syria were a burden because they did not speak Arabic, had no military experience, knew little about Islam and had often come because they were bored or unhappy at home. He said that their main... Read More

America’s Absurd Foreign Policy

Paul Craig Roberts • February 26, 2021

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On February 24, General Tod D. Wolters, who leads the US European Command, gave a speech that should disturb everyone on earth. There are a number of reasons we should be disturbed. General Wolters claims that the projection of American force abroad “is about generating peace” and that the US must take on Russia in... Read More

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Biden’s Journey: Change Is Imperceptible

Philip Giraldi • February 25, 2021

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Biden has been a major disappointment for those who hoped that he’d change course regarding America’s pathological involvement in overseas conflicts. The new White House Team has been in place for more than a month and it is perhaps time to consider where it is going with America’s fractured foreign policy. To be sure, when... Read More

The Ukraine’s Many Ticking Time Bombs

The Saker • February 23, 2021

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While the Ukraine has mostly been out of the news, there were bigger stories out there, things have gone disastrously wrong under “Ze” (Zelenskii) and the Ukraine is now looking at several time bombs which could explode at any minute. Here is a partial list of problems which the Ze administration will have to deal... Read More

What to Do About Israel?

Here are some suggestions

Philip Giraldi • February 23, 2021

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Critics of U.S. policy with and about Israel like myself have been relatively successful in describing the considerable downside in the bilateral status quo. We have demonstrated that the lopsided relationship supports absolutely no U.S. interest and that, on the contrary, considerable damage is done to the American people, to include involvement in armed conflict... Read More

Biden: No New Cold Wars or Democracy Crusades

Pat Buchanan • February 23, 2021

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"What is America's mission?" is a question that has been debated since George Washington's Farewell Address in 1797. At last week's Munich Security Conference, President Joe Biden laid out his vision as to what is America's mission. And the contrast with the mission enunciated by George W. Bush in his second inaugural could not have... Read More

The Art of Being a Spectacularly Misguided Oracle

Pepe Escobar • February 22, 2021

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The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded as nothing but a war criminal. Brzezinski never achieved the same notoriety. At best he claimed bragging... Read More

France: Macron Government Looks to Outlaw More Anti-Immigration Activist Group

Eric Striker • February 20, 2021

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Two Jewish organizations in France, CRIF (Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions) and LICRA (International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism), are lobbying the embattled Emmanuel Macron government into beginning the process of outlawing Generation Identitaire (GI), a group that uses art and symbolic gestures to protest against globalization and immigration. According to French media, Macron... Read More

Is Biden Prepared to Lose Afghanistan?

Pat Buchanan • February 19, 2021

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Is President Joe Biden prepared to preside over the worst U.S. strategic defeat since the fall of Saigon in 1975? For that may be what's at stake if Biden follows through on the 2020 peace deal with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by May 1 -- just two months from now.... Read More

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Russia Holds the Key to German Sovereignty

A more sovereign Germany closer to Russia and China may be the straw that breaks the US hegemon’s back

Pepe Escobar • February 17, 2021

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Last week we traced the necessary historical and geopolitical steps to understand Why Russia is driving the West crazy. And then, last Friday, right before the start of the Year of the Metal Ox, came the bombshell, delivered with customary aplomb by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In an interview with popular talk show host... Read More

AP and Atlantic Council Anoint Me “COVID Conspiracy Super-Spreader”— and Erase Ron Unz

Kevin Barrett • February 16, 2021

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The bad news is that two of the most powerful institutions in America have anointed me a “COVID super-spreader.” The good news is that I stand accused of super-spreading “COVID conspiracy theories,” not the actual disease. But the worse news is that the way things are going, “conspiracy spreaders” may soon be quarantined in COVID... Read More

ICC to Investigate Israeli War Crimes

United States will punish ICC

Philip Giraldi • February 16, 2021

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Well, as usual, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has finally received authorization to proceed with the investigation of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel-Palestine, to include both the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and also Hamas in Gaza.... Read More

Is a Revolutionary Movement Developing in Europe?

Paul Craig Roberts • February 16, 2021

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US media provides little news of Europe. What is provided is strictly “narrated.” Consequently, Americans are unaware of what seems to be a spontaneous, leaderless, popular uprising against mandated lockdowns and masks. There are large demonstrations in Germany, and they have spread to Vienna and to Copenhagen. The people have more sense than the public... Read More

The Great Covid Conspiracy of Silence

Godfree Roberts • February 15, 2021

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Because Coronaviruses have been with us for as long as conspiracies, it’s natural for people to link them. But the history of epidemics offers better explanations than any conspiracy theory and useful advice to those who study it and respond appropriately. This is the story of two civilizations: one that studied history and one that... Read More

The Arab Spring Failed But Rage Against Misery and Injustice Continues

Patrick Cockburn • February 13, 2021

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Ten years ago, people across the Middle East and North Africa rose up in protest against their rulers, demanding freedom and democracy. Despotic rulers were toppled or feared that power was being torn from their grasp in countries across the region, as millions of demonstrators surged through the streets, chanting that “the people demand the... Read More

The Tycoon Plot

Israel Shamir • February 11, 2021

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Millionaires want to make money. Billionaires want to make history. We may add that multi-billionaires take it further; they want mankind to adapt to their needs and wishes. As for people who control trillions, why, they care about our wishes as much as we care about ants while sweeping the garden. We do not apply... Read More

The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticising US Military Aid to Israel

Jonathan Cook • February 11, 2021

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The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise. He is only the latest in a long line of journalists, myself included,... Read More

Muslims in France: Some Data

Guillaume Durocher • February 11, 2021

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In contrast to the situation in the Anglo-American world – where detailed racial data gives a good sense of most groups’ educational and socio-economic performance, criminality, voting patterns, etc. – there is no systematic collection of such data in France. This means that we have to estimate the general situation using proxy data, such as... Read More

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Would a “Russian Dissident” Do Better in the “Free World?”

Gregory Hood • February 11, 2021

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Most Western media call Russian dissident Alexei Navalny a hero. Mr. Navalny is now in a Russian prison, and our most prestigious newspapers are cheering his anti-Putin crusade. These are official editorial statements from leading publications. “The Times view on Alexei Navalny’s bravery: Russian Hero,” The Times, December 23, 2020 “The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei... Read More

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Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments

Philip Giraldi • February 11, 2021

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The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East. The extension of the nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States and the decision to stop directly supporting the war on Yemen may have been the only good... Read More

Return of the War Party

Carl Boggs • February 11, 2021

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The new Joe Biden presidency is being celebrated across the political and media culture as an epic change from Trump dictatorial madness to Biden democratic normalcy – a time when honesty, decency, stability, and, yes, science finally return to American politics. But just what “normalcy”? In reality Biden will rule over the most concentrated matrix... Read More

Prominent Left Wing Columnist Fired By the Guardian for Tweet Criticizing Israel

Eric Striker • February 10, 2021

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Socialist writer Nathan J. Robinson, a fixture in the Bernie Sanders movement, has been fired from his job at the "progressive" newspaper The Guardian after authoring tweets criticizing Congress for prioritizing military aid to Israel over COVID relief for struggling Americans. The Guardian prides itself as one of the most left-wing mainstream media outlets in... Read More

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Why Russia Is Driving the West Crazy

Pepe Escobar • February 10, 2021

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Future historians may register it as the day when usually unflappable Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov decided he had had enough: Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, on an official visit to Moscow, had to take it on the chin. Lavrov, always the perfect gentleman, added, “I hope that the strategic review that will... Read More

The Headless Chicken and the Bear

The Saker • February 9, 2021

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Introducing the headless chicken The EU has a major problem: it is run by a comprador class which is entirely dependent on the United States. Okay, that by itself is not the problem I am referring to. The problem I am referring to is one we could call the problem of the decapitated chicken: a... Read More

Another Zionist Joins the Biden Team

Neuberger will make our cyber secure?

Philip Giraldi • February 9, 2021

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It does not require any particularly perspicacity to realize that the President Joe Biden Administration has been loaded with Zionists who not only believe in their own vision for Greater Israel but also in some cases have strong and enduring ties to the Israeli government itself. The new Secretary of State Tony Blinken comes from... Read More

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The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror

C.J. Hopkins • February 8, 2021

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If you enjoyed the Global War on Terror, you’re going to love the new War on Domestic Terror! It’s just like the original Global War on Terror, except that this time the “Terrorists” are all “Domestic Violent Extremists” (“DVEs”), “Homegrown Violent Extremists” (“HVEs”), “Violent Conspiracy-Theorist Extremists” (“VCTEs”), “Violent Reality Denialist Extremists” (VRDEs”), “Insurrectionary Micro-Aggressionist Extremists”... Read More

Proof That the US November Election Was Stolen Exists in Abundance

Paul Craig Roberts • February 8, 2021

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The official narrative that there was no election theft is likely the largest lie ever perpetrated on the world. The lie is so vast and so fragile that everyone who disagrees with the official narrative is suppressed, deplatformed, kicked off social media, ostracized, and fired from their job in order to protect the lie from... Read More

The UK-EU Clash Over Northern Ireland Will Have Grave Consequences

Patrick Cockburn • February 7, 2021

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Get your retaliation in first,” is a cynical old saying in Northern Irish politics that means you hit your opponent whenever you can without waiting for a provocation. It neatly captures the violent traditions of the province and explains why the political temperature there is always close to boiling over. Imagine then the pleasure of... Read More

Burmese Days, Revisited

Pepe Escobar • February 5, 2021

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It will be fascinating to watch how the (Dis)United States will deal with post-coup Myanmar as part of their 24/7 “containment of China” frenzy. The (jade) elephant in the elaborate room housing the military coup in Myanmar had to be – what else – China. And the Tatmadaw – the Myanmar Armed Forces – knows... Read More

Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End

Pat Buchanan • February 5, 2021

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When it was learned in 2016 that Russia may have hacked the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and passed the fruits on to WikiLeaks to aid candidate Donald Trump, mighty was the outrage of the American establishment. If Russia's security services filched those emails, and a troll farm in Saint Petersburg sent tweets... Read More

No, It's Not Too Early to Criticize Joe Biden

Ted Rall • February 5, 2021

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Censorship in mainstream corporate American media outlets is subtle. It's not so much that they spin the truth. It's that they omit pertinent facts and exclude relevant points of view. So it is with politics. Among the tools available to messaging and framing experts is "flooding the field" — dominating the news with a blizzard... Read More

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Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media

Philip Giraldi • February 4, 2021

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Pandering to Israel as part of the political process in the United States has become part of the DNA of both major parties. The job of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must have some kind of curse on it as it seems to attract a type of woman who seeks to prove her suitability... Read More

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Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe

Jewish Control, Zionist Subversion and the “Contradictions” of Anti-Semitism

Tobias Langdon • February 2, 2021

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Parasite’s grin: Bibi Netanyahu greets Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish spy who did huge harm to his “own nation” of America on behalf of Israel Like all decent people, I stand unshakably with the powerless Jewish community against the vile scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish racism. And in order to better defend cowering Jews against their... Read More

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XI and Putin Make the Case for Win-Win vs. Zero-Sum

Pepe Escobar • February 2, 2021

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So the Davos Agenda has come and gone. That was the virtual Great Reset preview, hosted by Kissinger acolyte cum World Economic Forum (WEF) oracle Herr Klaus Schwab. Still, corporate/political so-called “leaders” will continue to wax lyrical about the Fourth Industrial Revolution – or its mild spin-offs such as Build Back Better, the favorite slogan... Read More

Israel Cracks the Whip

Netanyahu tells Biden how to deal with Iran

Philip Giraldi • February 2, 2021

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Anyone who persists in believing that the United States is not Israel’s poodle should pay attention to the comedy that is playing out right now. Joe Biden was president for less than a week when the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government announced that he would soon be receiving a possibly unwelcome visitor in the form... Read More

Russia’s President Putin Warns That Censorship Is Killing American Democracy

Is There Anything Left of Our Country?

Paul Craig Roberts • January 31, 2021

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Russia’s President Putin last week at the World Economic Forum called out America’s Big Tech Monopolies for preventing free speech and attempting “to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves what stance to express freely. We’ve all seen this just now in the US, and... Read More

The Scottish Independence Movement Will Now be Very Difficult to Stop

Patrick Cockburn • January 30, 2021

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Predictions of the break-up of the UK may be reaching a crescendo, but they are scarcely new. In 1707, Jonathan Swift wrote a poem deriding the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which had just been passed, for seeking to combine two incompatible peoples in one state: “As if a man in making posies/... Read More

A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead

What makes the current state of war against “terrorism” so dangerous is that the national security apparatus has...

Philip Giraldi • January 28, 2021

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President Joe Biden has already made it clear that legislation that will be used to combat what he refers to as “domestic terrorism” will be a top priority. That means that his inaugural speech pledge to be the president for “all Americans” appears to apply except for those who don’t agree with him. Former Barack... Read More

Why the US Deep State Won’t Forgive Russia and Iran

Pepe Escobar • January 28, 2021

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In a stunning interview to the Beirut-based al Mayadeen network, Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah has outlined how Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani – assassinated by an American drone strike at Baghdad airport a litle over a year ago – was instrumental in convincing Russia to help Syria militarily in its war against Salafi-jihadis. Here is the... Read More

With "Biden" in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear

The Saker • January 27, 2021

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First, a clarification. When I speak of "Biden" I don't mean the fungus (to use Tom Luongo's apt expression) which was recently planted in the White House, I am referring to the "collective Biden" which I defined here . With this caveat, now let's see why Russia might want to change gears in 2021. First,... Read More

How Long Before Washington’s Demonization of Russia, China, and Iran Leads to War?

Paul Craig Roberts • January 27, 2021

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Biden, the current occupant of the White House, and President Putin of Russia have had their first telephone meeting. President Putin stressed that it is in the interest of the US, Russia, and the entire world for the tense relationship between Washington and the Kremlin to be normalized. Biden apparently, was noncommittal on this overriding... Read More

America Descends Into Virtual Night

Israel Shamir • January 26, 2021

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At 78, after a prolonged illness and without recovering consciousness, Joe Biden succumbed to the Presidency. The last hopes of the last QAnon believers vanished like smoke in the night, with Biden assuming the mighty US throne. This is truly a dark day for America and for the world, as the US example will be... Read More

Coexistence or Cold War with China?

Pat Buchanan • January 26, 2021

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"The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States... does not challenge that position." Thus did President Nixon, in the Shanghai Communique of 1972, accept China's territorial claim to the island of Taiwan.... Read More

XI Reads Multilateral Riot Act to Virtual Davos

Xi shows the contrast between Asia's relative serenity and the chaos engulfing the West’s top power centers

Pepe Escobar • January 26, 2021

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The virtual Davos Agenda is finally on, from Monday to Friday this week, promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF). No, this is not The Great Reset. At least not yet. The Agenda is the aperitivo towards the Great Reset apotheosis at the WEF’s Special Annual Meeting, which will take place this coming spring in... Read More

Trump's Unpardonable Pardons

Another disgraceful performance from “Israel’s president”

Philip Giraldi • January 26, 2021

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One keeps hearing that former President Donald Trump will be judged well by the history books because he was the only American head of state in recent memory who did not start any new wars. Well, the claim is itself questionable as Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, managed to avoid entering into any new... Read More

Dijjywan—Dijjydo or Dijjydon’t?

Questions for My Betters

Fred Reed • January 25, 2021

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China is now vigorously testing a digital yuan and threatens to have it ready for prime time for the 2022 Winter Olympics. This seems, to me anyway, important. It will be a real, workaday yuan, not a speculative cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. It will use a digital wallet via a cellphone app, and will not require... Read More

The ‘humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War

Jonathan Cook • January 22, 2021

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The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones reveals in a column today on the plight of the Uighurs at China’s hands. The “humanitarian war” instinct persists even after two decades of the... Read More

Why Azerbaijan Is Unfit to Rule Over the Armenians of Artsakh

David Boyajian • January 21, 2021

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Corrupt, sadistic, and run by a hereditary dictatorship, Azerbaijan is unfit to rule over others, least of all Armenian Christians. Yet that iniquity could materialize due to the recent 44-day war by Azerbaijan, Turkey, and terrorist jihadis against the Artsakh Republic (Nagorno-Karabagh) and Armenia. The November 9, 2020 armistice could force democratic, Armenian-governed Artsakh (pop.... Read More

Another Mega Group Spy Scandal? Samanage, Sabotage, and the SolarWinds Hack

Whitney Webb • January 21, 2021

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The devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on Russia by US intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage, a company whose software was integrated into SolarWinds’ software just as the “back door” was inserted, is deeply tied to Israeli intelligence and intelligence-linked families such as the Maxwells. In mid-December of 2020, a massive hack compromised... Read More

Pompeo’s Last Stand

Philip Giraldi • January 21, 2021

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