In April 2022, M.L.R. Smith and Niall McCrae drew on their extensive Cold War knowledge to offer provisional analysis of the Russian war in Ukraine. Eighteen months later they look back at how their conclusions held up.
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On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC Pentagon correspondent, if he had any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supplying them to terrorists. Rumsfeld delivered a famous non-answer answer and said: Reports that say that something hasn’t […]
And, so, THAT Anniversary too is on my mind: 22 Years Ago, October 7, 2001, US-NATO Invaded Afghanistan: It Was Presented as “Act of Self Defense.” “America Was Attacked by an ‘Unnamed Foreign Power.'” From silly to serious, these national and international celebration days give pause for serious writers. Shoot, here are some powerful dates […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On October 3rd, Kajsa Ollgren, Netherlands’ Defense Minister, said that sending weapons to Ukraine “is about our security in Europe. It is very much in our interest to support Ukraine as they are fighting this war.” She was saying that Russia aims to expand into and take over Netherlands (so […]
Leaked documents reveal a British intel contractor singled out The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for online censorship, and seeks to redefine factual criticism of NATO as disinformation. This report was originally published at Jack Poulson’s All-Source Intelligence Fusion. Subscribe here. A leaked 130-page report made public here for the first time documents an international censorship campaign funded by the British government and led by a public relations contractor for U.S. Special Operations Forces. The basic strategy is to redefine “disinformation” to include even […]
The continued fires being lit in the Caspian Region between Armenia and Azerbaijan represent something much larger than either small country and have everything to do with destabilizing the largest, and arguably most strategic, mega-project in Eurasia connecting the Russian Arctic to Iran and India. Efforts to light geopolitical fires across Russia’s underbelly have been Read More...
Craig Murray joins MintPress to talk NATO, BRICS, pro-war mainstream media, Assange, America's forever wars and much more.
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Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Thousands of Druze in Suwayda, in the southwest of Syria near Jordan, have been protesting inflation and economic woes facing all of Syria because of US-EU sanctions, and the economic collapse after the long armed conflict. But, recently, they are calling for regime change, and the US is supporting […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On September 20th, the unelected President of the anti-democratic bureaucracy that runs the EU, the European Commission, who is the German aristocrat Ursula von der Leyen (pronounced like Lyin’, so that her name can be simplified, in English, to Mrs. Lyin’) introduced with high praise the extremely unpopular-in-Japan leader of […]
More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change.
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