The seeds of the current crisis were sown several decades ago, when Washington decided to double-deal with Moscow By Professor Alfred de Zayas | RT | January 30, 2022 The current and rapidly escalating tensions between the US and Russia over Ukraine have dominated international headlines and moved stock markets in recent weeks. In reality, […]
New book shows how the American general’s contempt for ‘the racket’ was born during his service in the 20th century ‘small wars.’ Review by Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft | January 28, 2022 Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history, and by the end of his life he was also […]
My dream is to invite a reader into a room and pour a nice cup of tea . . . and then nail the door shut. — author Charles Bowden, 2010 NPR interview There is so much daily that expresses so much about the slippery slopes we are in globally because of predatory-penury-parasitic-pugilistic capitalism. In the […]
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One of the most disturbing features of the contemporary political scene is the almost complete absence of any difference in the foreign policy stance of the Coalition and Labor parties. It was not always so. The Whitlam government of 19 72–75 tried very hard to demonstrate a foreign policy that distinguished them from that of […]
With a bold and completely self-sabotaging diplomatic blunder, one which fails on every level including the least rigorous sanity test, this past Wednesday the U.S. was one of two nations to vote against a UN resolution designed to discourage the glorification and promotion of Nazi ideology. The other nation was Ukraine, which currently is overrun […]
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Suddenly Washington wants something from Hungary, after seeking to isolate and humiliate Budapest… Viktor Orbán via Reuters By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | January 28, 2022 It’s been revealed that the United States approached Hungary this week to ask the country to host a temporary troop deployment related to the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter […]
Unlike Trump who was an outsider in American politics and derisively sneered at as “toddler-in-chief” by the US national security establishment, Biden is a typical establishment Democrat unabashedly playing into the hands of the deep state throughout his maiden year as president and escalating the conflict with Russia in Ukraine and with China in the […]
By Marcus Stanley | Responsible Statecraft | January 27, 2022 Yesterday the U.S. State Department submitted written responses to Russian negotiating positions in the ongoing U.S.-Russia negotiations over the Ukraine crisis. The exact text and details of the responses are confidential. However, Secretary of State Blinken’s statement regarding the content of the U.S. response is disturbing. At […]
RT | January 28, 2022 With tensions running high between Russia and the US, Moscow’s top diplomat has insisted that his country does not want a full-blown conflict to break out, but also warned it will not stand aside and watch well-flagged security concerns be ignored. Speaking to news outlets as part of a broadcast […]
By Eli Clifton | Responsible Statecraft | January 28, 2022 According to chief executives of the top taxpayer-funded weapons firms, their balance sheets will benefit from the U.S. engaging in great power competition with Russia and China, the recent escalations in the Yemen war, and the potential for a Russian invasion of Ukraine. But at […]
