In speech to the annual Munich Security Conference, President Biden emphasized that the United States had returned to its customary role as leader of NATO after four years of Trumpus interruptus. His stance is based on the assumption that the Western alliance was in fine shape before Donald Trump became president and …
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Trillions of Our Tax Dollars for New Nuclear Missiles? Let’s Stop the Omnicider!
It’s hard to imagine a more colossal waste of money, energy and human ingenuity, especially with the pandemic and climate chaos bearing down on us.
Read More »Biden’s Journey: Change Is Imperceptible
Biden has been a major disappointment for those who hoped that he’d change course regarding America’s pathological involvement in overseas conflicts. The new White House Team has been in place for more than a month and it is perhaps time to consider where it is going with America’s fractured foreign …
Read More »Secretly, Biden’s Foreign Policies Are Trump’s Foreign Policies
Biden’s foreign policies are putting Democratic Party lipstick onto the Republican Party’s pig. That’s his ‘change’, on U.S. foreign policies. Though U.S. President Joe Biden is publicly critical of Donald Trump’s foreign policies, he’s continuing almost all of them and is changing only minor ones. The changes are almost entirely …
Read More »What Planet Is NATO Living On?
NATO’s failure to seriously examine its own role in what it euphemistically calls “uncertain times” should therefore be more alarming to Americans and Europeans than its one-sided criticisms of Russia and China, whose contributions to the uncertainty of our times pale by comparison.
Read More »NATO’s Expanding Role Hides the Reality of a US Empire in Decline
NATO’s willingness to underwrite US military deployment in Europe and expand its reach to include the Pacific demonstrates that its current purpose is more about propping up America than securing peace. The recently concluded virtual meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense ministers has been billed as President Joe Biden’s first …
Read More »Ten Years Ago: “Operation Libya” and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa
Author’s Note: The following article was published almost ten years ago on March 9, 2011, at the outset of the US-NATO “humanitarian” military intervention in Libya. Libya’s crude oil reserves in 2011 were twice those of the United States. In retrospect. the 2011 US-NATO led war on Libya was a …
Read More »Chemtrails or Contrails? Why the white lines in the sky might be harmful
Mystery Wire – The so-called chemtrail conspiracy has morphed into one of the largest and most enduring beliefs in recent years. With so many of us stuck at home, more people than ever are looking up during the day and wondering why there are so many skinny white clouds. It …
Read More »Biden’s Post-Trump NATO Reset Points to Failing U.S. Global Power in Multipolar World
The more the US pushes NATO as its vehicle, the more it is apparent that the battery of American power is running flat. A month after his inauguration, President Joe Biden’s administration formally engaged on the international stage this week to set out key foreign policies. His Secretary of Defense …
Read More »The American Century Ends Early
Like Gregor Samsa, the never-to-be-forgotten character in Franz Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” we awoke on January 7th to discover that we, too, were “a giant insect” with “a domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments” and numerous “pitifully thin” legs that “waved helplessly” before our eyes. If you prefer, …
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