Russia-Iran Relations Take a Quantum Leap
President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tehran on Tuesday is invested with great importance, as Iran is becoming one of the most consequential relationships for Russia
Patrick Lawrence: The Imaginary War
It began when the Biden regime and the press misrepresented Russian aims in Ukraine. All else has flowed from it.
Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Artless Dodgers
Mark 6:4 There is the case of Seymour Hersh, the great investigative reporter whose work vaults across the years from the My Lai massacre to the dirty war in Syria.…
Hedges: NATO — The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
Media Support ‘Self-Determination’ for US Allies, Not Enemies
A self-determination claim that accords with Russian interests, and diverges from the US position, is concealed from the public.
Patrick Lawrence: This Week in Fake News / Blurred Truths
A veteran journalist's weekly critique on the state of mass media
The American Right Is Scarier Than Putin
As a human rights activist who spent years working in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, I can say that I’m now more afraid of the hair-trigger responses of right-wing Americans than I…
Abolish the CIA
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of…
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons
It would be foolish to imagine that, in this more complex information age, the U.S. and U.K. intelligence services’ influence over journalists has diminished. Both Carole Cadwalladr and Paul Mason’s…
Joseph E. Stiglitz: How the U.S. Could Lose the New Cold War
Since the United States seems serious about confronting China in an extended contest for global supremacy, it had better start getting its own house in order. Other countries will not…
Craig Murray: US Prolongs Ukraine War
By Craig Murray / CraigMurray.org.uk I was in Turkey to try to further peace talks, as an experienced diplomat with good contacts there and as a peace activist. I was…
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Patrick Lawrence: Will Biden Provoke War with China?
Host Robert Scheer speaks with veteran foreign correspondent Patrick Lawrence on his criticisms of provocative US and NATO policies — and his subsequent ban by Twitter.
Taibbi: Bush is Biden is Bush
George W. Bush returns to the news with a tad too much honesty, lifting a veil on Washington’s dirtiest open secret: the Biden Democrats have become the Bush Republicans.
When US Pivot Is Seen as an ‘Expansion’ Into Asia
It’s time to talk about what we can learn from NATO in Eastern Europe and its lessons for U.S. policy towards China.
The New Iron Curtain
The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment.