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Everything that was once created for the common good turns into a farce nowadays. All words about international cooperation are just empty words. A case in point is the professed commitment of high-level politicians to combating cyber-crime when we have evidence that cyber-security organizations are being used as a cover for undercover espionage. The UN […]

If the donors to our politicians were cannibals, they would be eating us. This was said by a friend of his to Colonel Doug Macgregor. I have written of Col Macgregor before. He said America would be so unstable that … Continue reading →

As our readers doubtless are aware, the Special Military Operation is used by biased folks both for and against Ukraine / Russia / the Grays / the side of your own choice. Generally, my own bias is also clearly understood – my hopes are with the Russians. However, the need for flat, dispassionate reports is […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The West’s economic sanctions — and especially the secondary sanctions which the U.S. Government threatened to apply to countries that violate the U.S. sanctions — radically changed international-trade patterns in 2022, and now appear to have caused a decline in the world’s total private wealth for the first time since […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his plan to return Syrian refugees in Turkey to Aleppo. For many years he has proposed a plan to create a safe zone, or de-escalation zone specifically developed to hold the millions of Syrian refugees living in Turkey. The Erdogan plan, dubbed […]

President Biden speaks to General Mark Milley after his 2023 State of the Union speech. (Photo credit: Francis Chung/Politico) President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.” Ukraine’s fall […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) All U.S. plans to win World War Three (or WW III or WW3) start with a blitz nuclear attack against The Kremlin. It has to be within less than ten minutes in order to decapitate Russia’s ability to respond to it before being annihilated (and so responding). The ideal location […]

Mao Xuhui (China), ’92 Paternalism, 1992 In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade of pharmaceutical drugs. India was and is one of the world’s largest producers of various drugs, including those used to treat HIV-AIDS; Brazil and South Africa were both […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars each year in order to squeeze Russia hard enough to bring about the overthrow of Vladimir Putin and his replacement by a U.S. stooge. On August 17h, a front-page headline in the New York Times was “Niger Coup May Slow […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On August 14th, one of the Democratic Party mainstream ‘news’-media, NBC, deigned to do an on-air interview of RFK Jr., who is running in the Democratic Party’s primaries to be the 2024 Presidential nominee instead of Biden, and this occasion offered the best presentation I’ve yet seen of how radically […]