Fariba Amini Informed Comment “Russia cannot be understood with mind alone” – Fyodor Tyutchev Fariba Amini writes: Almost a century ago, many Iranians were attracted to the idea of a…
Scourge of the Spin Machine War has always drawn in confident prophets. But if you wanted to design the worst possible system for discussing war, you would build one that…
Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for…
Joshua Scheer As Washington celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson argues that the real story is unfolding thousands of miles away in the Persian Gulf. In this…
Kit Klarenberg On June 15th, two young Ukrainians were found guilty of conspiring to carry out arson attacks on two homes and a vehicle intimately connected to former British Prime…
Ray McGovern and Peter Kuznick examine Europe’s accelerating military buildup, Putin’s warning that Russia is prepared for war, and why they fear diplomacy is giving way to a dangerous escalation…
Larry Johnson tells Glenn Diesen that the conflict in Ukraine has entered a dangerous new phase, arguing Moscow increasingly views NATO as a direct participant rather than a distant backer—and…
Mohammed Samaana Informed Comment Hypocrisy and double standard are the words that come to mind in relation to how the west in general deals with the plight of the Palestinian…
What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? Michael Brenner for Consortium News HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy…
Consortium News After their summit in Beijing on Wednesday, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new…
Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how in the mid-1990s, senior British political and military officials were well-aware NATO expansion into Central and…
Joshua Scheer Europe’s political class is sleepwalking into a catastrophe of its own design. In a sweeping, blistering conversation with Glenn Diesen, economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs lays out how…
Kit Klarenberg· The Grazyzone A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate…
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg for 90 minutes as part of his attempt to…
Juan Cole for Informed Comment Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday, “If they thought they could subjugate in a day or a few hours, they probably realise now just…
