Soviet Union

In 2008, shortly after Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about a Russian academic named Igor Panarin, who predicted that the United States would breakup in 2010.

IMAGE: Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

U.S. government policy in the Middle East has been consistently idiotic for more than a third of a century.  Here’s  the first article I wrote calling for U.S. military withdrawal from that area – an “opposing view” to a USA Today editorial board position.  Some Reagan administration officials had the bright idea of placing U.S. […]

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture
Modern jihadism was co-invented in 1979 by Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud, and U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, working together, and here is the background for it, and the way — and the reasons — that it was done:

Via Patrick J. Buchanan…
How great a burden can even an unrivaled superpower carry before it buckles and breaks? We may be about to find out.
Rome was the superpower of its time, ruling for centuries almost the entirety of what was then called the civilized world.
Great Britain was a superpower of its day, but she bled, bankrupted and broke herself in the Thirty Years War of the West from 1914-1945.

A closer look at the events surrounding Bari Weiss’ resignation suggests she omitted some critical details about her toxic presence…
The post Did neocon cancel queen Bari Weiss stage her NY Times resignation to fuel her career? appeared first on The Grayzone.

Russia Today and the BBC both report that the Hagia Sophia (The Church of Holy Wisdom), the single largest Church in Byzantium, is to be repurposed as a mosque. This move ends 86 years of the building serving a “neutral purpose” as a museum, where neither Muslim nor Christian was allowed to pray in open sight. This move is understandably tragic for Orthodox Christians, particularly the Greeks, but there are several ways to understand this situation.

It’s a bone of contention which regularly features in today’s debates between the political left and and conservatives: who was the biggest mass murdering political leader of the 20th century? 
Many might assume that it is Nazi Germany’s mercurial Adolf Hitler with the Holocaust, while others might opine its communist icon and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, whose terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust.

How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the latest outbreak of the novel coronavirus? You think this is an absolutely insane question? However, before you dismiss it, think twice. There are similarities how they are being portrayed. There[Read More...]