Despite the seemingly escalating risks of war, last week also produced an unexpected drift toward the mahogany table. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News There was no shortage of alarming incidents in and around the Persian Gulf last week.…Read more →
The war between the United States and Japan began with a US-enforced oil embargo against the Japanese Empire.
Right now, in the United States, huge detention camps are being constructed for the increasingly criminalized refugee and migrant population, a campaign of government-sponsored domestic terror run by a supposedly temporary, “acting” head of the department created by the ever-Orwellian 9/11-era Bush administration, Homeland Security.
Donald Trump will ultimately have to remind his national security adviser and secretary of state who is president if there’s to be progress on North Korea, says Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Special to Consortium News There is hope for…Read more →
RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss US President Trump’s latest series of tweets that slam Iran as “ignorant” and “insulting”.
In an about face from last week’s restraint to go to war with Iran, Trump’s recent tweets warn of total and complete “obliteration” should any further attacks on American assets occur.
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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss talks taking place in Jerusalem between the security chiefs of Russia, US, Israel on the remaining conflict in Syria.
With the G20 right around the corner, these security talks aim to pave the way for critical geopolitical diplomacy in Japan, and a possible meeting between Trump and Putin.
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by NoahSomeone needs to send Godzilla the GPS coordinates for Mar-a-Lago. That would make for the biggliest movie of the summer. Seriously, though, Gulf of Tonkin, WMDs in Iraq, and now this? And a president who lies every minute of every day. Humans are just too damn dumb to learn from history.Last night I had a dream that Godzilla put John Bolton on a stick and toasted him like a marshmellow.
The recent escalation of conflict between the United States and Iran threatens another US military quagmire that would create crisis and chaos in Iran, the region and perhaps globally as well as costing the US trillions of dollars. The US needs to change course — a deeply wrong course it has been on regarding Iran since the 1950s, escalating since Iran declared its independence in their 1979 Revolution. There is a path out of this situation, but it requires leadership from President Trump, which will only come if the people of the United States mobilize to demand it.
The more reified the world becomes, the thicker the veil cast upon nature, the more the thinking weaving that veil in its turn claims ideologically to be nature, primordial experience.
— Theodor M. Adorno, Critical Models, Columbia University Press, 1963
Year after year
On the monkey’s face:
A monkey’s face.
— Basho (translated by Earl Miner)
Nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
— Raymond Williams, Culture and Materialism, 2005
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris examine the reasons, and the many theories being debated, as to why US President Trump decided on a more measured and cautious response to the downing of an American Drone by Iran.
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