The Five stages of (Imperial) grief: Anger
When dealing with a bear, hubris is suicidal
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] Assuming mankind finds a way not to destroy itself in the near future and assuming that there will still be historians in the 22nd or 23rd centuries, I bet you that they will ...
Read More »Trump, May, Merkel and Macron issue joint statement blaming Russia for Sergei Skripal poisoning
Business Insider reports: full statement (emphasis added) We, the leaders of France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom, abhor the attack that took place against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, UK, on 4 March 2018. A British police ...
Read More »5 Seconds Until World War 3
On March 13, US President Trump ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, and announced he would replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the CIA director. At the CIA, Pompeo will be replaced by the current deputy director, Gina Haspel. ...
Read More »Lavrov: U.S Strike On Syria Will Have “Grave Consequences”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on March 13 that a new US strike on Syria [Washington threatened to do this on March 12] will have “grave consequences”. “If a new strike of this kind takes place, the consequences will be ...
Read More »‘You are fired’:Trump retires Rex Tillerson, Appoints Mike Pompeo As Secretary Of State
US President Donald Trump just announced that Mike Pompeo will replace Rex Tillerson as the Secretary of State. On the same time, Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA. Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become ...
Read More »9/11 and the Green Scare: It’s High Time for a Paradigm Shift
By: Amir Nour[1] “War: A massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other” (Paul Valéry) A nation and a world transformed Until recently, historians have looked ...
Read More »Newly revealed Russian weapons systems: Political Implications
[This analysis was written for the Unz Review] For those interested in the military implications of the recent revelations by Vladimir Putin about new Russian weapon systems I would recommend the excellent article entitled “The Implications of Russia’s New Weapon Systems” ...
Read More »Dred Scott The First Freedom Fighter !
Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the ...
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