… We alerted you to the dangers inherent in formulating a policy toward Russia built on a foundation of Russia-bashing. While we continue to support the analysis contained in that memorandum, this new memo serves a far more pressing purpose. We wish to draw your attention to the dangerous situation that exists in Ukraine today, Read more

CIA Director William Casey told President Ronald Reagan in 1981 that “we will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American people believe is false.” Cook writes that, since Casey uttered those statements, the CIA has been working with the rest of the national security state, including government supported think tanks, mainstream media Read more

While candidate Obama came to office pledging to end George W Bush’s wars, he leaves office having been at war longer than any president in US history. He is also the only president to serve two complete terms with the nation at war. President Obama did reduce the number of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan Read more

The causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it. In other words they probably would Read more

The Hidden Architecture of Empire: How Covert Regime Change Serves the Money Power Behind the sanitized narratives of humanitarian intervention and democracy promotion lies a darker truth that Lindsey O’Rourke’s “Covert Regime Change” illuminates with forensic precision. Her comprehensive analysis of 64 covert operations during the Cold War reveals not the bumbling incompetence of rogue Read more

Economist Michael Roberts reports that by 2026, the US cuts to development aid and those of its allies in the G7 group of rich countries will be 28% less than the amount allocated in 2024. In fact, very few developed countries have ever fulfilled the commitment they made since the 1970s to allocate 0.7% of Read more

However, the reality is that the core of MAGA is oriented to American—or Anglo-Zionist—global hegemony. This brief excerpt captures the essence of the predatory nature of the Anglo-Zionist empire and the centrality of financial interests. But those financial interests are tied in to Jewish Nationalism’s determination to use American power for its own purposes—against Russia, Read more

“In the West’s eyes, Russia must be destroyed. That leaves us (Russia) no choice.“ By Dmitry Trenin, a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). For Russia, the Read more

World War II was the “Good War”—right? We all know that the good guys—us—kicked the bad guys’ butts—them. We know who the bad guys were—the Germans and the Japanese. Thousands of war movies have told us that. And we taught the bastards a lesson, didn’t we? It was mainly the British who firebombed the major Read more

MacGregor and O’Dowd – authors of Two World Wars and Hitler: Who Was Responsible?1 – have created a narrative that could make you sing were it not for the tragedy and evil wrought by the perpetrators of what was, in effect, a 30-year war on Germany. That last sentence in no way exonerates Hitler and his Read more