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Dick Cheney Proves Old Proverb Is True, by Larry C. Johnson

Dick Cheney’s death, at the age of 84, is further proof that the proverb, Only the Good Die Young, is true. Cheney is a symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington. He became wealthy, not because he was brilliant or creative, but because he had the right connections. I know something of Cheney’s start…

Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage, by Caitlin Johnstone

Dick Cheney, arguably the single government official most responsible for the expansion of US warmongering and militarism in the 21st century, has died. The worst worst war sluts of the US empire have issued statements expressing their condolences, including Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Because if there’s one thing…

New Issue of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In the Shadow of the Empire, by Caitlin Johnstone

The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. Life under the empire is getting more and more dystopian. Everyone’s getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and less happy, and our rulers are offering us no solutions besides vapid distraction while our light fades and the planet…

They Tortured Lambs In the West Bank, by Caitlin Johnstone

Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals…

Trump Should Accept the Gift the Democrat Judges Are Trying to Give Him, by Paul Craig Roberts

Two Democrat federal judges are doing their best to give President Trump the budgetary authority that Congress refuses to use, and Trump looks the gift horse in the mouth. Instead of bickering with the judges, he should just accept their gift. It would allow a smooth transaction from a dysfunctional democracy riven with faction and…

American Pravda: Six Unknown Books Against a Century of Falsehoods, by Ron Unz

World War II was the most colossal military conflict in all of human history, and the shaping event of our modern world. As a consequence, over the last eighty years it has become the subject of hundreds of thousands of books and articles written in English, and an equally vast outpouring of electronic media content…

How the Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity, by Caitlin Johnstone

The Washington Post has published an article titled “Families shot down, held at ransom as they flee Darfur’s killing fields,” subtitled “Sudan’s RSF paramilitary and its allies have carried out mass ethnic killings and hostage taking in the captured city of El Fashir, survivors told The Post.” The article opens with a paragraph humanizing the…

The Peace President Prepares Another War, by Paul Craig Roberts

According to the Washington Post, President Trump is amassing 16.000 troops, eight warships and an aircraft carrier and submarine off the Venezuelan coast. According to US Senator Rick Scott, Maduro’s days are numbered. It appears there are plans to attack Venezuelan military bases on the grounds that they are narcoterrorist facilities. Director of National Intelligence…

Zohran Mamdani and His (Our) Enemies, by Patrick Lawrence

Well, the latest of these incessant polls concerning the Nov. 4 election for the mayoralty of New York are in, having arrived Thursday, Oct. 30, and if the story has changed it is only for the better. A new Emerson College survey puts Zohran Mamdani, front runner from the start, 25 percentage points ahead of…

“Stunning!” Apollo Moon Photos Too Good to be True?, by Kevin Barrett

Rumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News link Jason Farago, who appears to be a Deep State propagandist and pro-UkroNazi culture warrior, just published a New York Times interactive photo-video piece headlined “How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth.” Farago celebrates the alleged artistic genius of the Apollo moon photos, viewing them…

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence, by Caitlin Johnstone

Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writing. They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others. They can control the machines,…

Donald Trump the School Bully, by Philip Giraldi

Now that Donald Trump is President of the United States of America and is strenuously attempting to confirm his right to do “whatever I want to do” over the entire world, it is easy to forget that minus his inability to articulate a coherent sentence his predecessors suffered from much of the same delusion. George…

Trump, Xi and That G-2 in South Korea, by Pepe Escobar

China is not worried; the tech expectation is that they won’t need anything from the US in the spectrum of 2 to 3 years. So the latest incarnation of the much-hyped G-2 came and went. It did feel like a switch from Trump Tariff Temper Tantrum to Temporary Truce. Naturally there has been an avalanche…

Israel Continues Genocide Despite “Ceasefire”, by Kevin Barrett

Anna Kasparian of The Young Turks is a holocaust survivor. But she isn’t Israeli, so she doesn’t use purported holocaust survivor status as an excuse to perpetrate a holocaust. If you Google her, you’ll quickly see something like: Kasparian has been growing increasingly outspoken in her opposition to the ongoing genocide of Gaza. But she…

Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone

An article by Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp has highlighted the widely-ignored fact that according to AFRICOM the US waged a three-day bombing campaign in Somalia from October 26 — October 28, bringing the total number of US airstrikes in that nation this year to 89. What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a…

The Problem with the Little Idea’s Victory Over the Big Ideas in the End of History, by Jung-Freud

Francis Fukuyama’s End-of-History thesis struck a nerve at the end of the Cold War, not so much due to its originality or depth but its succinctness in conveying what many were sensing in the moment of great change. Despite the protestations of hardline anti-communist types(like Patrick Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, and George Will) who’d insisted that…

European Taxpayers Will Soon Have to Keep Zelensky ‘in the Fight’, by Ian Proud

The truth is that Russia has the money to fight on for as long as it takes and Ukraine does not. In yet another shift from European leaders, the strategy now towards the war is ‘keeping Ukraine in the fight’. However, the outcome – Russian occupation of all of Donetsk – appears inevitable, whether that’s…

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence, by Ellen Brown

There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its independence, to integrating its functions into the U.S. Treasury Department, to dismantling it and returning monetary policy to direct congressional or Treasury oversight. The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 1846 and S….

Iraq Faces First Quiet Election in Decades. Don’t Let That Fool You., by Ron Unz

The Russian Regret, by Ron Unz

The Russians are disappointed with Trump’s policy towards Russia. They have long given up hoping to partner with the US in building a just world order, and they are now giving up the hope that they might be treated fairly. The last person in Russia (if not in the world) still hoping to get along…

Two Hundred Years of US Trade with China, by Hua Bin

A reader referred to the Burlingame Treaty between the US and Qing Dynasty in the comment section of my last essay. This triggered a thought to do a look back at the trade relationship between the two countries through historical lens. Many things have changed but some patterns of behavior stick. It could shed some…

From Darwin to Deontology, by Jonas E. Alexis

Note to the reader: The debate will proceed as follows: I (JEA) will first summarize key points of tension and outline some of the central issues, after which James Fetzer will respond. A second installment—published later, which may be considered the rebuttal period—will follow the same format. JEA: Following the publication of my article on…

The Camp of the Saints Is Now Denmark’s Official Policy, by Paul Craig Roberts

Replacement of White Populations Is Now Official Policy of Governments of White Countries. Denmark’s State Television Has Ads Warning White Danish from Breeding with Other White People. The State TV Calls It Inbreeding and suggests it can result in a population with health problems. The official policy is to turn Danish ethnics into a chocolate-colored…

American Pravda: A Dozen Unknown Books and the World War II History They Reveal, by Ron Unz

During the early 1990s Germar Rudolf was a young chemist employed at Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Institute with a bright future ahead of him. But then he was hired to conduct a chemical analysis of the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp. One thing led to another and he spent the next thirty-odd years suffering…

Richard Hanania’s Economic Illiteracy, by Keith Woods

Richard Hanania penned an article titled The System Everyone Hates Is the One That Has Actually Worked, intended as a defence of every leftist college professor’s favourite ideological punching bag — neoliberalism. Hanania prides himself on attacking the populist beliefs of the left and right alike in favour of the “elite human capital” beliefs which…