Jeffrey Sachs

British govt funded plan for censorship of factual NATO criticism

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 […]

What Richard Nixon’s Letter to Bill Clinton Revealed About Them Both, And Also About Jeffrey Sachs

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) —— https://www.patreon.com/posts/president-nixons-86543361 https://archive.is/LZt6I [Here’s the original. It was ‘reported’ in the WSJ on 21 July 2023. Boldfacings are my emphases.] EYES ONLY                       RICHARD NIXON March 21, 1994 577 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD WOODCLIFF LAKE, NEW JERSEY Dear Mr. President, [[That’s […]

Add Homo sapiens to the Endangered Species List

Preventing extinction of species is a major concern of many countries in the world today. Legislation to accomplish this is usually based on an endangered species list. Such a list should include any animal or plant species that has been deemed likely to go extinct in a few generations. Listing would normally trigger protective actions to […]

Killing the Story: Bakhmut, Nick Cohen, Kakhovka, Nord Stream, and Piers Morgan

The late writer, broadcaster and wit Clive James formulated what he called the ‘Barry Manilow Law’: ‘Everyone you know thinks Barry Manilow is absolutely terrible. But everyone you don’t know thinks he’s great.’ (James, cited Martin Amis, Inside Story, Vintage, 2020, e-book, p.74) A Media Lens version of this might read: ‘Everyone you know thinks […]

Vienna’s International Summit for Peace in Ukraine Issues a Global Call for Action

Photo credit: Medea Benjamin During the  weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to demand an end to the fighting. In a formal conference declaration, participants declared, “We are a broad and politically diverse […]

Can the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?

In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the United States was facing after a century of international dominance was “relative and not absolute, and is therefore perfectly natural; and that the only serious threat to the real interests of the United States […]

The First US Onslaught to “Weaken” Post-Cold War Russia

The first post-cold war assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of NATO. It took the form of a U.S.-induced economic depression in Russia that was deeper and more disastrous than the Great Depression that devastated the U.S. in the 1930s. And it came at a time […]
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