NATO

How Putin’s Explanation of Why Russia Invaded Ukraine Facilitated or Even Caused NATO to Win 2 New Members: Finland and Sweden

NATO’s having won Finland as a member is the worst blow to Russia’s national security in decades, and it wouldn’t have happened if Putin had played his cards right. This fact will be explained here: No one is perfect; and, as I’ve explained elsewhere (such as here) I believe that Putin’s track-record during his now […]

How Much Longer Can Danes Snore While Their Security and Democracy are Being Stripped away and Danish Politics Increase the Risk of World War III?

It’s a damn good thing we have Washington to inform the Danes about what’s coming, right before Christmas when people are thinking about everything else. The procedure is completely obscene: An agreement is first signed (as with Norway, Finland and Sweden), and then it must (possibly) be approved by the Danish parliament: How on earth […]

Enslaved by Nonprofits: How NGOs Colonize Developing Countries

What's happening in Sarajevo provides a uniquely palpable demonstration of the enfeebling impact and influence of Western NGOs abroad, which offers obvious and grave lessons for developing countries everywhere, Kit Klarenberg reports.
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Biden, Blinken and Austin Threaten to Send US Troops to War If Ukraine Doesn’t Get $60 Billion

Republicans withheld money to Ukraine, and the military industrial complex (MIC), by demanding restrictions at the US - Mexico border. Democrats have refused to stop mass immigration. Biden, Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken, representing the MIC, are now threatening to use US troops to fight in foreign wars.

NATO is not a defense organization.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Anyone who is seriously interested in international affairs knows that ‘the news’ (such as about ‘Saddam’s WMD’ in 2002, and about Israel-versus-Palestine ever since 1948) is full of lies — that’s outright lies, not merely errors. And everyone knows that the public on both sides of international-affairs issues believe the […]

FOI raises further questions about Bellingcat coordination with Western intelligence 

An extraordinary email uncovered under freedom of information laws raises serious questions about whether Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies. Editor’s note: On December 22, The Grayzone received an email from Bellingcat founder and editor-in-chief Eliot Higgins threatening legal action if this story was not removed from the internet. Attempts to respond to Higgins produced an out of office automated reply, noting he was now […]

Hostile takeover: NATO’s annexation of Montenegro

NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to US global hegemony. On October 31st, Montenegrin lawmakers formally approved a coalition government comprised of pro-European, pro-Russian and pro-Serbian parties. Immediately, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic declared his intention to ramp up Podgorica’s effort to join the European Union. The coalition hinges on support from a party alliance called For A Better Montenegro. The bloc’s leader, Andrija Mandic, agreed to support Spajic’s government in return […]

The Greatest Threat to World Peace? A Review of Daniele Ganser’s ‘USA: The Ruthless Empire’

Marilyn Langlois, via the International Center for 9/11 Justice If you regard the United States as perhaps flawed but overall a force for good in the world… If you scoff at the notion that the US, a republic founded on principles of freedom and democracy, has morphed into a world empire, perpetrating assassinations, coups d’état, …