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by Marcus Godwyn for Oouarere via the Saker blog “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Walter Scott. Many many studies have been conducted, articles written, film documentaries made and many theories put forward, ...

[this column was written for the Unz Review] “Missing the forest for the trees” is an apt metaphor if we take a look at most commentary describing the past twenty years or so. This period has been remarkable in the number ...

A Bloody Fight broke at the Altamira Regional Recovery Center Prison in Brazil yesterday and a lot of inmates died in the process. According to intel, Gang members from a block in the prison stormed a rival gang block and ...

by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with Consortium News – by special agreement with the author) All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end ...

by Ruslan Ostashko Translated and captioned by Leo. A series of high-profile statements broke out in Seoul after Russian and Chinese aircraft conducted joint patrols over the Sea of Japan. South Koreans, licking American boots, tried to pretend to be ...

Based on the analysis prepared by Dennis M. Nilsen, PhD exclusively for SouthFront The Qods Force is the irregular warfare unit of Iran’s Corps of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enghelab-e Eslami).  Created during the Holy Defense to augment the capabilities ...

by Michael Hudson, posted by special permission on Ooduarere via the Saker blog * Keynote Paper delivered at the 14th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, July 21, 2019. Today’s world is at war on many fronts. The ...

[this analysis was written for the Unz Review] The recent elections to the Ukrainian Rada have yielded two most interesting results: First, almost all the nationalist parties failed to get even one representative elected to the Rada (Poroshenko’s and Timoshenko’s parties ...

The Libyan National Army (LNA) captured more areas around Zatarna village;Pro-LNA media claimed that the LNA shot down a Turkish UAV over the Ain Zarah area;Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti received the Libyan Ambassador to Italy Omer Al-Tarhuni to discuss ...