by Eric Margolis https://ericmargolis.com (July 28 2018) President Donald Trump and his neocon advisors have been trying to provoke a war with Iran and Syria for many months. The neocons are echoing Cato the Elder's cry, delenda est Carthago!. Iran must be destroyed. So far, Tehran and its ally Damascus have refused to respond to … Continue reading The Looming War Against Iran →

... Point towards a New "Big Three" or World War Three? James George Jatras Strategic Culture Foundation (July 28 2018) On July 22, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bizarre speech on Iran. Delivered from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and ostensibly addressed to the Iranian-American community, the speech's … Continue reading Will Next Steps on Iran … →

by Howard Lisnof CounterPunch (July 23 2018) I receive so many emails and pitches for one cause or another that I am not able to cite them all. Some of those emails call attention to the fact that there is virtually no protest against the US-backed Saudi-led war in Yemen {1} that has killed an … Continue reading How We Got Sold on Endless Wars →

... is Nothing Compared with America's War on Democracy https://www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AP_18198051335109-1.jpg Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP by Paul Street Truthdig (July 22 2018) The noted North Korean political commentator Kim Jong Un got it right last year: Donald Trump is a "mentally deranged dotard". Consider the US president's bizarre performance next to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin … Continue reading “Putin’s War on America” … →

by James Howard Kunstler Kunstler.com (July 27 2018) Zero Hedge (July 27 2018) The political insanity roiling the USA only gets worse, with no end in sight. On Wednesday, Senator Ed Markey (Democrat, Massachusetts), made the astonishing statement on CNN that "the American people wanted a confrontation, not a conversation", between Presidents Trump and Putin … Continue reading Round the Bend →

Ten Lessons From History That Will Destroy Your Trust in the CIA by Tyler Durden Zero Hedge (July 20 2018) A somewhat recently declassified CIA memo unearthed by the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") collective MuckRock shows that in the midst of the historic Church Committee hearings which attempted to bring various shocking and illegal … Continue reading Democratic Institutions? →

... if It Weren't for These Eight Myths by Lee Camp Truthdig (July 25 2018) https://www.truthdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/American-Society-Myths-Worker-1024-850x567.jpg studiostoks / Shutterstock Our society should've collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a "Star Wars" movie). Sixty-three percent … Continue reading American Society Would Collapse … →

The New Slavery is Digital by John Pilger http://johnpilger.com (March 14 2013) What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form … Continue reading The New Propaganda is Liberal →

by Michael Krieger https://libertyblitzkrieg.com (March 27 2013)   In 1977, Carl Bernstein, famed for his Watergate reporting, disclosed that more than 400 journalists and executives of mostly liberal US media organisations had worked for the CIA in the past 25 years. They included journalists from The New York Times, Time magazine and the big TV … Continue reading How Hollywood Became “Propagandist in Chief” →

Don't Believe Them by Paul Craig Roberts https://www.paulcraigroberts.org (July 23 2018) For two decades the offshoring of American jobs to Asia and Mexico has destroyed the careers and incomes of tens of millions of US citizens, the pension tax base for state and local governments, the federal tax base for Social Security and Medicare, and … Continue reading More Lies from the Corrupt Elite →