(ZHE Opinion) — We warned previously that something big is coming in Syria as the final showdown for al-Qaeda-held Idlib looms with the Syrian Army and Russian aerial and naval forces taking position. Pentagon and US officials continue pushing the gambit, setting the stage to play the “Assad is gassing his own people”card should so much as an inkling of a White Helmets allegation […]
The constant stream of lies, disinformation, and misinformation has many people supporting and praising establishment figures responsible for criminal acts. (CR Op-ed) — In recent weeks a trend has emerged which finds activists, journalists, and news pundits showing their true state-worshiping colors as they celebrate political figures with their own dark past. Individuals who once questioned and challenged […]
John McCain’s allegiance was to the very system that leeches money away from American workers to the pockets of billionaires and multinational corporations and that sustains itself off the spilled blood of innocents killed by an insatiable war machine. (MPN Opinion) — Since his passing Saturday afternoon, the late Arizona Senator John McCain has been the subject […]
(ZHE Op-ed) — In what was the biggest economic news of the day, Donald Trump concluded bilateral trade negotiations with Mexico, a deal which he called the US-Mexico Trade Agreement (profiled previously) and which will replace the trilateral NAFTA which has – for now at least – been scrapped until Canada also comes to the negotiating table and hammers out […]
Russian interference in American politics is totally welcome so long as it helps turn public opinion against “multipolar” Putin. (CN Op-ed) — The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was ostensibly a conflict between two ideologies and two socio-economic systems. All that seems to be over. The day of a new socialism may dawn […]
The truth is this: outside of government-backed cartels like law, academia, and medicine, no company has ever actually required a degree. (FEE Op-ed) — Google, IBM, and Apple have stopped listing college degree requirements on their job descriptions, but everyone is missing the point when they say that this is some revolutionary, bold new direction in hiring. It’s not. You Never […]
If the paeans to John McCain by diverse political climbers seems detached from reality, it’s because they reflect the elite view of U.S. military interventions as a chess game, with the millions killed by unprovoked aggression mere statistic. (CN) — As the Cold War entered its final act in 1985, journalist Helena Cobban participated in an academic […]
(CJ Opinion) — In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a comatose state. They live their whole lives in that virtual […]
(ZHE Op-ed) — Here we go again. Did Bolton just give jihadists facing imminent final defeat under Assad and Russian bombs an open door invitation to initiate a chemical provocation? As CNN and others warned this week that Syrian and Russian forces are closing in on the “last rebel stronghold” in Syria in the country’s northwest pocket of Idlib province, US […]
