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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…

Sizing Up Trump and Putin, by Paul Craig Roberts

Sizing Up Trump Approaching a year since Trump’s third election as president, how do we sum him up? He has done good things. He has closed the border. He is attempting to deport some of the many millions of illegal immigrants that the Democrats brought into our country. He freed the January 6 protesters framed…

And the Chinese Five-Year Caravan Strolls on, by Pepe Escobar

In the global chessboard, Beijing will keep stressing the power of the “multilateral trading system.” As in the absolute opposite of Trump 2.0. Four days in Beijing. The fourth plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was really something to behold. Methodology matters. What happened these four days is that…

Guillotine Song, by Caitlin Johnstone

Pentagon profiteer plutocrats Genocide gigolos and Raytheon rats Build robot armies and robot cops Boil our water for AI slop Poison our oceans and blacken our skies Enslave our minds with hatred and lies Well hey man I know something nicer Let’s put their melons in the melon slicer Steal our wages and crush dissent…

They Tell Us to Fear Muslims While the US Empire Terrorizes the World, by Caitlin Johnstone

The other day I published an essay titled “Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It’s Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel,” based on the conspicuous overlap between virulent Israel supporters and people who promote hatred of Muslims. What I didn’t know at the time until readers alerted me was that Drop Site News had put out…

A Nation At War, by Philip Giraldi

We are nine months into the Donald Trump presidency and the road ahead seems pretty clear. There is an unsustainable one trillion dollar Pentagon budget supporting a newly renamed Department of War and Washington is engaged in conflicts that could escalate in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. If it were possible to stage a…

There Will be No Ukraine Peace Deal: Putin Should Quickly Win the Conflict Before It Leaves His Control. Otherwise, a Big War Is in the Making, by Paul Craig Roberts

One wonders how much longer Putin and Lavrov will take it or even if they comprehend the situation. For four years Putin and Lavrov have demonstrated enormous interest in ending the conflict by resolving the basic cause. The West has never bothered to understand that the basis of the conflict is Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy…

Clearly the Military/Security Complex Does Not Expect Trump to Deliver Peace, by Paul Craig Roberts

Gilbert Doctorow and I have pointed out that Putin’s effort to prevent wider war has caused wider war. The White House’s cancellation of the meeting of Trump with Putin in Hungary is powerful evidence of Putin’s strategic blunder of pretending that the war the West has declared on Russia was merely a limited military operation…

Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It’s Easier Than Getting People to Like Israel, by Caitlin Johnstone

Have you ever noticed how whenever you see someone promoting hatred toward Muslims, nine times out of ten it will be someone who supports Israel? There’s a reason for that. Zionists promote Islamophobia because convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel. Support for Israel is a hard sell. On…

Desperation Row, by Patrick Lawrence

What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval Office last Friday. The Ukrainian president (who is no longer legitimately the Ukrainian president) arrived for another summit with President Trump with a shopping list of air defense and weapons systems worth $90 billion. Yes, $90 billion. This compares with…

Can the Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Succeed?, by Paul Craig Roberts

The meeting between Trump and Putin in Hungary, assuming the pre-meeting negotiations between the envoys of the two presidents get that far, is likely the last chance for peace instead of war. An agreement between the two presidents will require large adjustments in position for one or the other or both. Either Trump would have…

The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways, by Caitlin Johnstone

Cristina on Twitter asks, “Can you please write another of your beautiful posts about hope. I am not sure I have any left. We need hope.” I don’t understand how anyone can be without hope right now, personally. The imperial propaganda machine is crumbling in ways we’ve never seen in our lifetime. They wouldn’t work…