Imagine, if you will, a world in which the rules and institutions of global governance actually reflected the underlying distribution of power on the world stage. In such a world, the major powers wouldn’t be locked in a struggle for outdated ideologies or clinging to an order built for a …
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When US Officials Show You Who They Are, Believe Them
“When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.” That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you who they are, time after time. Officials running the Pentagon and State Department have been in overdrive for more than 250 days in support of Israel’s …
Read More »The American Amnesia — US War Policy
In 1953, at British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s urging, the Eisenhower administration carried out a coup overthrowing a democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh and replaced him with a puppet named Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1979, the people of Iran overthrew him. Ever since then, Iran has become our arch enemy. Was …
Read More »USAID translates U.S. national security and foreign policy goals into Agency priorities
While a great deal of controversies have arisen in the world-wide activities of USAID it may be worthwhile to explore its attempts of preventing individuals from finding information that challenges official narratives. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was created by the U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 3 November …
Read More »Biden’s Middle East Policy Is Horrific. Trump’s Would Be Even Worse
When it comes to the Middle East, the choice in November 2024 is clear enough. We may wish we had a different choice, but we do not. Recently, I attended a demonstration called by groups opposing the carnage in Gaza, where eight months of air, ground, and sea attacks by the …
Read More »‘The Abyss Is Beckoning’: Global Nuke Spending Surged to $2,898 a Second in 2023
Two new reports detail how the world’s nine nuclear-armed countries are spending aggressively to modernize and deploy weapons that pose an existential threat to civilization. A pair of reports published Monday show that global spending on nuclear arms surged to nearly $3,000 a second last year as nations expanded and …
Read More »A tale of two summits… elitist warmongering G7 and peacemaking multipolar BRICS
Now should be a time of diplomacy to bring the NATO proxy war madness in Ukraine to an end. But the warmongers of the U.S., EU, G7 and NATO have no such qualms about escalating the futile hostilities to a nuclear apocalypse. This week provided an instructive juxtaposition of summits. …
Read More »Landlord Greed and the Cruel Barbarism of a Housing Lottery for Children
The housing affordability crisis is a moral outrage of the highest order. So why does Los Angeles leave kids and adults to suffer? For California’s homeless population, it is a multi-generational affair. After decades of inaction and utter indifference, there are now hundreds of homeless children on the streets of Los Angeles. …
Read More »End of the EU Dream: Disengagement from Reality. America’s War against Europe
Election results of the European Parliament are the explict sign that the EU dream is coming to an end The European Parliament (EP) election results, which are not a surprise to those who follow the course of Europe closely, but are a surprise to many, actually reflect the footprints of …
Read More »On Poking Dragon
The US faces a formidable challenge in its confrontation with China. While America focuses on military spending, China leads in civil engineering, high-speed rail, infrastructure, 5G technology, electric vehicles, and more. I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the Us is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington …
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