The common opinion, at least in the West, about the starting date of the current crisis that might escalate into nuclear WWIII is February 24, 2022, with Putin’s “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine. However, many unbiased observers believe that it began with the Western-backed regime change coup in Ukraine eight years earlier. Victoria Nuland, at that … Continue reading "‘Mother of Maidan’ To Resign"
Jared Kushner, a former US official whose relationship to power is that he married the wealthy daughter of a man who was later to become the US president, once attempted to teach Palestinians how to handle their own struggle for freedom. In 2020, he advised Palestinians to stop ‘doing terrorism’, summing up the Palestinian problem … Continue reading "On Solidarity and Kushner’s Shame: How Gaza Defeated US Stratagem, Again"
My debut on the New York Post You Tube channel, complete with an obscene Seinfeld outtake and enough Biden cookie jokes to choke Sesame Street PHOTO OUTTAKE FROM VIDEO COVER
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Michel DéonLetter to Paul MorandTranslated by Euan Cameron See also excerpts from the World War I journal of Michel Corday: I’ve been dipping into Journal d’un attaché d’ambassade (1916-1917), that contemptuous indictment of one of the myths of our … … Continue reading →
On June 13, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia and Ukraine had “reached an agreement in Istanbul” and that the agreement had been initialed by both sides. On June 17, Putin held up the draft agreement and showed it to a delegation of African leaders. Representatives from each side of the negotiations have … Continue reading "Putin’s Draft Treaty Between Russia and Ukraine Did Exist"
Good work, Mr. President Biden. You have managed to do what America’s enemies have not – creating widespread hatred for the United States around the globe. Your destruction of the Gaza refugee camps has inflamed antisemitism everywhere. There is widespread disgust and anger at the US government over your decision to give Israel’s new far … Continue reading "Murder in Gaza"
New York Post, March 6, 2024 Joe Biden’s State of the Union ‘shrinkflation’ swindle Since Joe Biden became president, the dollar’s purchasing power has shrunk by 18% as Americans suffered the worst inflationary ravages since the Carter era. But that plunge is trivial compared with the nation’s real affliction: Snack companies “charge you just as […]
As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with masterminding the 9/11 attacks proceed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the government continues to stumble with its own witnesses. In hearings last week, government lawyers tried to demonstrate that statements the defendants made to CIA … Continue reading "The Torturers’ Poor Memories"
The Two and Only — Brian Wilson and James Bovard S 3 Ep 10 Mar 5, 2024 Say the name Duncan Lemp. Brian’s best line of the show was on the limits of the Constitution: “I’ve never relied on a piece of parchment to stop a bullet.” Listen or download the podcast by clicking here […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Jules Romains: Selections on war ==== Jules RomainsBreaching the Frontiers (Violation de frontières)Translated by Gerard Hopkins The house in which I lived (the same house in which I had been born) was situated at one corner of the fatal rectangle. … … Continue reading →
