Written by Ron Paul; Originally appeared on ronpaulinstitute.org Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands ...
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by Paul Craig Roberts Russian president Vladimir Putin’s speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Conference last weekend shows the Russian government’s ensnarement by neoliberal economic policy. Putin defended globalism and free trade, and he warned that crisis will result from ...
Read More »Neocon buffoonery reaches a new level
Step one: the DPRK destroys its nuclear testing facility Step two: Trumps cancels his meeting with Kim Jong-un Step three, just read this masterpiece: Amazing, no? The fact that the North Koreans requested the meeting is irrelevant, Trump’s red button is ...
Read More »Making sense of Russian political ambiguities
[This article was written for the Unz Review] Introduction: the world is not Hollywood The past couple of weeks saw a number of truly tectonic events taking place simultaneously in the USA, in Russia, in Israel, in Syria, in Iran and ...
Read More »Random Comment: The Big Sulk – The US Is The Spoiled Brat At Every Party
This comment was chosen by moderator HS from the post “Ramin Mazaheri interviewed by Sputnik on US breaking JCPOA” . The moderator felt the comment is a take on the breaking of the Iran deal by the US that adds an interesting ...
Read More »Disgusting beyond words! (There is MAGA at work)
The art of breaking a deal
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times by special agreement with the author) Donald Trump’s decision to leave the JCPOA will not open the path to an Iranian nuclear weapon Breaking the unwritten rules of global diplomacy, the Trump administration is now ...
Read More »The War-makers
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] Between the US strikes on Syria in April and the recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, we are in somewhat of a lull in the Empire’s search for a new war to start. ...
Read More »Syria SITREP: How the Russian General Staff is fooling the US and Israel
How the Russian General Staff is fooling the US and Israel Source: https://cont.ws/@vitimbabi4ev/928860 Translated by Eugenia The day before yesterday, the world media have published the new of the meeting in Sweden of the Western European UN representatives regarding implementation of the ...
Read More »Each “click” brings us one step closer to the “bang!”
[This column was written for the Unz Review] Trump pulled the trigger, but instead of a “bang!” what the world heard was a demure “click”. Considering that we are talking about playing a most dangerous game of potentially nuclear Russian AngloZionist roulette, ...
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