Russia, Satan, and the Parviscient Crowd
Edward Curtin Ten years ago I had lunch with a man who vehemently insisted that Vladimir Putin was the satanic leader of an evil country and Hilary Clinton was a…
On the Edge of the Abyss: Putin’s Nuclear Warning, Trump’s Iran Brinkmanship and Europe’s Revolt
Consortium News This week: 1. Putin’s Warning; 2. New US Warship to Iran; 3. The Crisis of Europe: French Students Burn Their Schools PLUS: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty. Joe Lauria…
Craig Murray: Four Days in Ekaterinburg
Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk One could read the super-Russophobic Guardian in Russia anytime, with no VPN. That alone is sufficient to destroy the simplistic narrative of “free West vs. authoritarian Russia.”…
Iran & Reaping the Russian Whirlwind – Interview of Touraj Atabaki
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…
Prediction After Prediction Dies in Donbas
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…
Ukraine: America’s Enduring Proxy War on Russia
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…
Former CIA Analyst: Trump’s Iran Deal Was a Surrender—Now Washington Wants to Rewrite It
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…
Exposing The Keir Starmer Arson Mystery
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…
Europe and Russia Edge Toward Direct War as Nuclear Fears Grow
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…
“Russia Is Ready for War”: Putin’s Warning as Former CIA Analyst Says NATO Escalation Could Trigger Direct Conflict
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…
Michael Brenner: Hegemony?
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…
The Russian-Chinese Communiqué
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…
Declassified: UK Knew NATO Expansion ‘Would Provoke’ Russia War
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…
Jeffrey Sachs: New European Military Bloc for War Against Russia
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…