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Roy Bourgeois, The World We Want: An Activist Dispatch From the SOA Watch Convergence read
John Pilger, Whether Clinton or Trump, Tensions Will Escalate with China and Russia Under Next U.S. President read
The Coming Plague of Poverty Among the Elderly: Clinton’s Plan For Gutting Social Security read
Western Leaders Grow Deaf to the Pleas of Palestinians read
America’s Late Stage Imperial Dementia: read
The War in Syria Cannot Be Won. But It Can Be Ended. read
Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: Engelhardt, Resurrecting My Parents From the Dead for Election 2016 read
Chuck Collins, Eight Ways to Strengthen Our Democracy Beyond Voting read
Caleb Crain, The Case Against Democracy read
Lawrence S. Wittner, How Many Nuclear Warheads Does the United States Need? Response to Frank von Hippel read
Robert Parry, Key Neocon Calls on US to Oust Putin — Carl Gershman. read
Jesse Singal, These Are the 3 Types of American Nationalism. New research on 4 styles of regard. read
M.K. Bhadrakumar, If Russia Wins Aleppo It’s the End of American Hegemony in the Middle East. read
Andrew Bacevich, What We Talk About When We Don’t Want to Talk About Nuclear War
Donald and Hillary Take a No-First-Use Pledge on Relevant Information. read
When Was America Ever Great? read
Washington’s Psychopathic WWIII Gamble : Information Clearing House : ICH. read
Michael Hudson, The Poisoned Chalice: From Eurozone to Dead Zone. “Opposing austerity is called “contagion,” as if prosperity and rising living standards are an economic disease, not national bankruptcy being enforced by the ECB and EU bureaucracy (and the IMF). To prevent Podemos in Spain and similar parties in Portugal and Italy from mounting a recovery from eurozone austerity, these financial institutions support right-wing governments while tightening the screws on Left governments. That is what happens when central banks are made “independent” of democratic
oral politics and parliamentary control.” read
U.S. Diplomacy: A Dangerous Proposal. “Whoever wins in November will face a world in which Washington can’t call all the shots. As Middle East expert Patrick Cockburn points out, “The U.S. remains a superpower, but is no longer as powerful as it once was.” Although it can overthrow regimes it doesn’t like, “it can’t replace what has been destroyed.””read
James Petras, Barbarism in Words and Deeds. Barbarism of U.S. Imperial Wars is Unmatched. “As so crudely displayed by the imperial rants of Ambassador Samantha Power, its oratory at international forums reflect the hysteria of mediocre functionaries: mindless barbarians raving among themselves in marbled echo chambers.
In the end, the imperial barbarians will be besieged by their own fleeing vassals and puppets. When they finally confront their own decay and internal dissolution they have to decide whether to engage in a last global conflagration or dismantle the imperial barbaric order and choose justice, law and civilization.” read
Russian MoD Warns US-led Coalition Not to Strike Syrian Army : Information Clearing House : ICH. read
Chris Welzenbach, The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi’s Murder. read
William Blum, Cold War, Today, Tomorrow, Every Day Till the End of the World. read
NATO Illegally Deploys AWACS in Syria. read
CJ Werleman, The American-Made Catastrophe in Yemen. read
Reaping the Whirlwind: Kerry, al-Nusra, Russia and Syria. read
Syria’s Destruction By Vicious Western Media. read
Michel Chossudovsky, Air Strikes against Syria: Who are the War Criminals? Who is Supporting Al Qaeda? Russia or America? read
Thomas Knapp, Surveillance State 2016: Orwell was an Optimist. “The governments which use those tools against us, on the other hand, aren’t quite so indispensable. Living without them would mean some adjustments, of course, but we’d be better off in the long run. Our rulers’ greatest fear is that we’ll notice — and act on — that fact.” read
Kate Aronoff, The United States Isn’t an “Idiocracy.” It’s an Oligarchy. On Mike Judge’s 2006 film. read.
15 Years After the US Invasion, Afghanistan’s Opium Production Is at Near-Record Levels. read
How the Red Cross, UN, and Foreign Governments Made Haiti More Vulnerable to Hurricane Matthew. read
The United States as Destroyer of Nations. read
Mike Whitney, Pentagon Begins Low-Intensity, Stealth War in Syria. read
When Aleppo Falls, Will International Humanitarian Law Still Be Relevant? read
The Saker, Russian Options Against A US Attack On Syria. read
Patrick Buchanan, ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria. “As of today, there is no possibility that the rebels we back could defeat ISIS and the al-Nusra Front, let alone bring down Bashar Assad and run the Russians, Hezbollah, Iran and the Iraqi Shiite militias out of Syria.
Time to stop the killing, stop the carnage, stop the war and get the best terms for peace we can get. For continuing this war, when the prospects of victory are nil, raises its own question of morality.” read
Tom Engelhardt, The Age of Decline, Apple Pie, and America’s Chosen Suicide Bomber. read
The People Control Nothing : Information Clearing House : ICH. read
Arun, Hundreds of civilians killed in deadly bombing by Saudis. “You may hear a lot about atrocities by Syrian government forces and Russians in Aleppo. Both the American and Sunni Islamist media will highlight events there but they are less vocal about high civilian death toll in attacks by Saudis in Yemen.” read
Jack Burns, US Proves Its Allegiance to Terrorism by Threatening War With Russia All to Protect ISIS. “However, de-escalation is not likely when looking at the saber rattling the US has been engaged in with Russia for the last year. Couple this with the fact that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told an audience at theAssociation of the United States Army’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this week that he’s ready to go to war with Russia and we have a recipe for disaster.” read
Lauren McCauley. On Syria Policy, Critics Warn, Both Trump and Clinton Get It Very Wrong. read
Ray McGovern, Russia-Baiting and Risks of Nuclear War.”In 2016, as we deal with the West’s new hysteria regarding Russia – complete with rehashes of prior propaganda themes and military escalations – the pressing question is whether there are any adults left at senior levels of Official Washington who can rein in the madness before things spin entirely out of control.” read
James Petras, Propaganda Techniques of Empire. “A recent survey, published in Military Times, reported that the vast majority of active US soldiers oppose more imperial wars. They are calling for defense at home and social justice. Soldiers and veterans have even formed groups to support the protesting black athletes who have refused to participate in flag worship while unarmed black men are being killed by police in the streets. Despite the multi-billion dollar electoral propaganda, over sixty percent of the electorate reject both major party candidates. The reality principle has finally started to undermine State propaganda!” read
Chris Hedges, The Empire Strikes Back. “But the movements and governments in Latin America have fallen prey to the dark forces of U.S. imperialism and the wrath of corporate power. The tricks long practiced by Washington and its corporate allies have returned—the black propaganda; the manipulation of the media; the bribery and corruption of politicians, generals, police, labor leaders and journalists; the legislative coups d’état; the economic strangulation; the discrediting of democratically elected leaders; the criminalization of the left; and the use of death squads to silence and disappear those fighting on behalf of the poor. It is an old, dirty game.” read
Chris Hedges: It’s Our Bombs, Not Trump’s Comments, that Fuel Hatred Towards the United States. watch
Michael Kushner, American Politics: The U.S. Needs Repentance and Atonement. read
Jean-Luc Basle, The Russo-American conflict behind Syria. “Are we fighting to remove a dictator or to prevent the construction of an Iranian-Syrian pipeline? Are we fighting the jihadists or for some other ungodly reasons? Could the objective be to dislodge the Russians from their Tartus naval base in Syria? Or is Russia trying to defeat jihadists in the Middle East before they create turmoil in Russia? Information is abundant, overwhelming even. “ read
Dilip Hiro on the emerging multipolar world. “China and Russia are now trying to ensure that Washington no longer exercises unrestrained power globally, as it did between 1992 and summer of 2008.” read |
