There's a John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 that's going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that western actions would lead to the destruction of Ukraine are coming horrifyin
Russia is done with the West. The divorce is nearly complete. In the past few days we've heard from all major Russian leaders the same thing, "The West will play by our rules now."
• https://greenwald.substack.com by Glenn Greenwald
Biden's immediate abandonment of his 2020 vow to turn the Saudis into "pariahs," and his increasing support for the regime, shows the core deceit of U.S. propaganda.
• https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com by Caitlin J
One of the great sources of distress in people's lives is that we don't get to be the narrator of other people's stories about us. That we don't get to control what other people are thinking and saying about the things we do and the kind of person we
• https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com by Caitlin J
None of the world's worst people are in prison. Most of them are fabulously wealthy and widely esteemed. Our systems are not set up to reward beneficial action and punish wrongdoing; at the scale that really matters, they are set up to do the exact o
• https://thenewamerican.com, by Veronika Kyrylenko
President Joe Biden "needs to rest" because his "offhanded comments" and "outdated" perception of foreign affairs undermine both his presidency and U.S. "standing" on the global stage, believes a former Obama...
Imagine a US without a "foreign policy," asks RPI Director Daniel McAdams in a recent speech to the Mises Caucus of the Libertarian Party at the LP national convention. But who would save us from the Chicoms? Putin would send missiles! McAdams stress
Generals who are more intent on pleasing politicians than warfighting are responsible for introducing woke initiatives and undermining U.S. military prowess, according to the Marine who was drummed out of the service for his public criticism of the b
• https://www.globalresearch.ca, By James A. Lucas
After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche.
The pounding, daily western narratives on 'Ukrainian wins' and 'Russian losses' underpins the lack of an actual, cohesive Grand Strategy against Moscow.
President Biden signed off on a plan to redeploy several hundred troops to Somalia, reversing an order from President Trump that withdrew the 750 troops that had been stationed there to fight terrorism.
• https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com by Caitlin J
Antiwar libertarian hero Scott Horton has a viral tweet going around which reads simply, "Biden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history."
It is also becoming increasingly clear that U.S. officials, either wittingly or unwittingly, are inexorably pushing Russia into resorting to tactical nuclear weapons to achieve victory in Ukraine.
The United States has warned the Solomon Islands' leadership that it would "respond accordingly" if a military installation on the Pacific Islands nation is allowed under the terms of the Solomon Islands-China security pact.
The hyperbolic language westerners use to describe fairly normal modern warfare in Ukraine suggests they've invested exactly zero thought in what their own governments have been doing in the middle east for the last two decades.
Core CPI came in slightly softer than expected at a still elevated 0.3% (0.32 unrounded) mom. As noted earlier, the miss owed to a 3.8% plunge in used auto prices, which sliced 20bps from the monthly core drop.
Friendly reminder that it's impossible to get a clear understanding of what's going on in the world without accounting for the fact that very powerful people within your own society are actively working very hard to manipulate your understanding in t
• https://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. Buchan
Several weeks into the war in Ukraine, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked President Joe Biden if he agreed with those who call Russian President Vladimir Putin "a killer."
How many examples of "regime change" blowing up in our faces do we really need before realizing that it's a disastrous policy? Will we really try it with a nuclear-armed adversary?
Four weeks ago, I predicted, "American taxpayers are going to be regaled with propaganda about the need to increase military spending in reaction to Putin's invasion and accede to even more troops deployed overseas."
President Biden's denial that the U.S. government is committed to regime-change in Russia is a lie. Ever since its inception, the core mission of the U.S. national-security establishment, specifically the Pentagon and the CIA, has been regime chang