By Paul Robinson
The sudden collapse of the USSR in 1991 created many weak countries without a unifying national identity and a strong central state. Yet conflicts will continue until the world is willing to recognize the realities on the ground.
Thousands of Greeks have come out to protest the expansion of U.S. military bases in Greece, arguing this will further destabilize the region and perilously enmesh Greece in endless imperialist wars. Since the arrival of Geoffrey Pyatt as the American ambassador to Greece in October 2016, the government in Athens, to the ire of many […]
[On September 10th, the New York Times characteristically titled its lead editorial: “Support the Brave Protesters of Belarus.”[*] With the country in turmoil, FOIA Research, our sister European research group, explores the people and entities behind recent protests and exposes the covert action that goes unreported in the Western media.—Editors] In Western mainstream media, the […]
On August 15, 2020, the Trump administration announced that it was sending 1,000 troops to Poland as part of the new defense cooperation agreement signed on the anniversary of the victory of Poland in the Polish-Soviet war of 1920. The new troops added to the 4,500 that were previously deployed by President Barack Obama following […]
[Prefatory Note: The text below is a somewhat modified text of an interview conducted by Daniel Falcone, and published in Counterpunch on August 11, 2020. I am increasingly worried by the either/or quality of the U.S. November elections effectively suppresses concerns about a bipartisan drift toward a second cold war focused on China as geopolitical […]
With backing from the US government’s regime-change arm, an Operation Mockingbird-style website called Coda Story is attacking American journalists who have punctured Washington’s sensationalist narratives against China. By Ben Norton A shadowy neoconservative website called Coda Story has launched a smear campaign against American journalists who challenge new cold war propaganda. But what this publication […]
An extended interview with Julian Assange’s father John Shipton, who condemns the US, UK, and Australian governments for their “11…
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A conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD. And the…
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A new wave of media reports on Chinese forced labor relies almost entirely on a series of dubious studies by…
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In the final analysis, ‘facts don’t care about your feelings,’ or so they say. In the case of UkraineGate, the facts have been largely discarded in favour of a prescribed foreign policy narrative, one that’s custom-made to drive forward a New Cold War for the 21st century.
