By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | March 26, 2021 After six years of blowing up Yemen and blockading its southern neighbor, the Saudi rulers are now saying they are committed to finding peace. The move is less about genuine peace than economic survival for the oil kingdom. The Saudi monarchy say they want […]
By Stephen Lendman | March 26, 2021 On Wednesday after talks with interventionist Blinken, EU foreign policy chief Borrell said the following: “We agreed to coordinate our efforts in addressing Russia’s confrontational behavior (sic) and encourage Russia to abandon this path (sic).” No Russian “confrontational behavior” exists — how the US-dominated West operates, not Moscow. […]
RT | March 26, 2021 Responding to American criticism of its recent missile launch, North Korea has accused Washington of denying its right to self-defense, even as the US holds war games at the country’s doorstep and tests advanced weaponry. “It’s a gangster-like logic that it is allowable for the US to ship the strategic […]
By Stephen Lendman | March 26, 2021 US hostility toward North Korea is all about its freedom from imperial control. It’s unrelated to alleged threats from its ruling authorities that don’t exist. Since the Korean peninsula was divided post-WW II, the DPRK never attacked another nation. It threatens none now — except in self-defense against […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | March 25, 2021 I’m not sure what good it did for the Cold War to end, given that the U.S. government has done everything it could since then to gin up hostilities, tension, and conflict with the communist and former communist world. When Russia expressed a desire to […]
Sputnik – 25.03.2021 A US cargo ship docked in Ukraine’s Odessa port carrying 350 tonnes of military equipment and vehicles for the country’s armed forces, local media reported on Thursday. The cargo ship under the American flag entered the port on Wednesday evening, Dumskaya news agency said. Among 350 tonnes worth of military equipment, the […]
BY GREGORY ELICH | CounterPunch | March 25, 2021 In a Washington Post opinion piece, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spelled out their objectives in visiting Japan, South Korea, and India. “The United States is now making a big push to revitalize our ties with friends and partners,” they wrote. The […]
Tales of the American Empire | March 18, 2021 Soon after American combat troops arrived in Vietnam, a strategy debate began. One faction wanted American combat forces to only protect large cities and dispatch units to rural areas only when enemy forces converged to battle local forces. American aid would focus on improving the economic […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | March 19, 2021 The Washington Post has published a long piece calling for NATO to take on a new official enemy — China. The piece is written by Sara Bjerg Moller, an assistant professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. She argues […]
teleSUR | March 18, 2021 The U.S. forces present in Syria, without the authorization of the country’s legitimate government, intensified their destabilizing actions and sent more reinforcements to their illegal enclaves, in addition to transferring thirty Daesh terrorists to the east of this Arab nation, according to local news agencies. According to state television, the […]
