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by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE In an interview with Joe Rogan, Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist revolutionary who became an anti-extremism activist, discusses the manufacturing of consent around things that aren’t true Nawaz believes we’re in a hybrid war where information is the primary weapon Relativism, the idea that truth is relative and personally subjective, […]
Wow! This is excellent. During a pre-fight interview, UFC rising star Bryce Mitchell gives an honest and unfiltered opinion on the Ukraine-Russia conflict that is more informed than most corporate media pundits. Bryce, an Arkansas native, knows something doesn’t smell right, and he ain’t taking our politicians’ bait. Smart young man. Respect. From Glenn Greenwald, […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy This morning I am going to play Armchair General. I will say upfront that I have little doubt, unless the Kremlin changes its mind, the Russian military operation in Ukraine will be successful, but not the success it could have been. I also admit upfront that whereas I […]
by Patrick J. Buchanan via Buchanan.org Ukraine’s independence is not vital to the United States. While a desirable goal, it is not worth our fighting a war with Russia to preserve…. Indeed, had we given Putin assurances that NATO was closed to Kyiv, we might have prevented what has happened, because that was the first […]
by Matthew Piepenburg via Gold Switzerland In the tragic backdrop of the Ukraine war, we consider the hard yet ignored math of failed financial systems which restrict (and hence weaken) otherwise stronger political options and make the sad road ahead a path straight toward gold. Despite tough-talking headlines, sanction cries and moral grandstanding, we discover […]
By Allan Stevo via LewRockwell.com I have never said to you “Pay attention to Sacramento, Springfield, Lansing, or Harrisburg, without first taking care of your face, your home, and your community.” And you know what, I can promise you this much — your face, your home, and your community are not all being well handled. […]
How malleable, ignorant, clueless, and downright hypocritical are the Western masses? If US government is interested in defending any border, perhaps it should start with its own. After the endless lies and propaganda used to manufacture consent for our disastrous pursuits in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, and Syria, why would anyone now believe the drivel […]
by Nick Giambruno via International Man The rules-based international order… The liberal international order… The international community… You undoubtedly have heard the media and politicians use these strange and vague phrases. They are describing the current world order or architecture for international political relations between countries. World orders are nothing new. It’s how the big […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Chris Hedges introduces his latest article for Scheer Post, titled “Chronicle of a War Foretold“, with the following: “After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex […]
by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute When the Bush Administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea. Nearly two decades after the end of both the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War, expanding NATO made no sense. NATO itself made no […]
by Jeff Thomas via International Man Throughout history, political, financial, and military leaders have sought to create empires. Westerners often think of ancient Rome as the first empire. Later, other empires formed for a time. Spain became an empire, courtesy of its Armada, its conquest of the New World, and the gold and silver extracted […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Begin by reading Michael Hudson’s explanation that the sanctions actually fall on Germany and serve the interests of the three interest groups who rule in Washington. https://www.unz.com/mhudson/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/ The sanctions do far more to serve Washington’s interest than to hurt Russia’s. For Russia the main burden […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy I will leave it to Glenn Greenwald to tell you how small the chance is of avoiding war– “War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless” The American people are too brainwashed and disinformed to have any idea of what is about to happen. […]
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. via LewRockwell.com Events in Ukraine are happening very fast, and if I tried to predict what will happen there, my prediction would soon be overtaken by events. But one thing is certain. We need to understand the background of the crisis, and we also need to remember the basic principles […]
by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org Whatever we may think of Putin, he is no Stalin. He has not murdered millions or created a gulag archipelago. Nor is he “irrational,” as some pundits rail. He does not want a war with us, which would be worse than ruinous to us both. Putin is a Russian nationalist, […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly. I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation. Today I will update the military situation […]
by Bruno Venditti and Nick Routley via Visual Capitalist Map Explainer: Key Facts About Ukraine The modern state of Ukraine was formed nearly 30 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, the country has often made headlines due to political instability and the looming threat of a Russian invasion. […]
by Daniel McAdams via Ron Paul Institute The media and the war machine (or do I repeat myself?) want us to take sides in the Russo/Ukraine war. To those of us with long histories in military conflicts in which the US foreign policy establishment, media, and military have an interest, the terms are always framed […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe. Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in […]
by Daniel McAdams via Ron Paul Institute “Bad” Vlad Putin only “took over” part of Ukraine because of President Biden’s weakness. So says many in the US right wing. A “real man” president would have imposed costs so prohibitive that Putin would never have dreamed of recognizing what has been de facto reality since 2014: that […]
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article Post-Iraq the US has zero moral authority. The narrative managers aim to suck you in to arguing about the minutiae of the inner workings of the latest target of the empire, when in fact a simple “Shut the fuck up, it’s none of your business” […]
by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy US President Biden claims Russian troops continue “encircling Ukraine” even as Moscow says they are withdrawing. The Russian soldiers were never there for the purpose of invading Ukraine. They were in Belarus as part of a training exercise akin to the ones NATO continually conducts on […]
by Ryan McMaken via Mises.org In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it’s “Time to Increase Defense Spending.” Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine War to push for funneling ever more taxpayer dollars into military spending, Mead […]
by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute Over the weekend we heard that the US is evacuating its embassy in Kiev for fear of a Russian invasion. We also heard that Russia is evacuating its embassy in Kiev for fear of a US-backed provocation in eastern Ukraine that may lead to a Russian military response. […]
by Fast Rope Apparently not too much. According to a recently released study from the Department of Defense (DOD) written in 2013, the Chinese Communist Party believes that United States’ preoccupation with multiculturalism can be exploited and will ultimately lead to the demise of the U.S. Chris Menahan of Information Liberation explains that although the […]