Truman

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On November 18th, the great economic historian Michael Hudson decimated the Nobel-Prize-winning (neoliberal-neoconservative, or pro-imperialism libertarian) economic theorists, in a conversation with the great geostrategic analyst Alexander Mercouris, by explaining something that all of those (all pro-imperialism libertarian) economic theorists (the mainstream economic theorists and pontificators) don’t even notice (which […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On November 1st, Christopher Black, who is one of the world’s leading international lawyers, headlined “The Collapse of International Law” and made his case that (and how) it was destroyed by the increasing hypocrisy that exists throughout The West and that is actually being applied by The West (though pervasively […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) INTRODUCTION America’s war against Russia started on 25 July 1945, when the new U.S. President, Harry S. Truman, accepted the advice of his hero, General Dwight Eisenhower, to accept the viewpoint of the UK’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill (an admirer and follower of the imperialist Cecil Rhodes), who was saying […]

Counterpunch, August 4, 2023 Korean Armistice at 70: Redefining Atrocities as Victory by James Bovard       Last week was the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting between North and South Korea.  In a low-key commemoration, the White House Press Office issued a statement from President Biden calling to “renew our […]
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a plan to prevent World War Three, but he died right before he could implement his plan. It needs to be implemented now. First: here is what caused FDR to come up with his plan: He had become the leader of America at the […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government and its ‘allies’ or vassal-nations lie in order to present themselves as democracies, as-if any imperial power, or any of its vassal (or colonial) nations, can even BE a democracy: that is impossible because none of the vassal-nations possesses sovereignty over its own land, and because the […]

https://twitter.com/LibertarianInst/status/1686109801804095488   Libertarian Institute, July 27, 2023 Remember the Atrocities of the Korean War, Not the Propaganda by James Bovard Today is the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting between North and South Korea. Almost 40,000 American soldiers died pointlessly in that conflict. If politicians and policymakers were honest and prudent, the […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On July 26th, Russia’s RT News headlined “Putin makes Africa sovereignty pledge: The Russian president has addressed the continent’s leaders on the eve of a major summit in St. Petersburg”, and reported that, “In a welcome address to participants of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg, scheduled […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) World Wars I and II were contests between empires, and so America’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was determined that after WW II, all empires would be outlawed and all international relations (between nations) would be controlled only by a global all-inclusive federation of nations, which in 1941 he referred […]

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Here’s how that happened: When Truman met Stalin at the Potsdam Conference (17 July 1945 to 2 August 1945) where the post-WW-II future would be decided, Churchill immediately tried to persuade Truman that the U.S. must commence and lead the world in a cold war to end communism, but Truman […]