United States

The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation

John & Nisha Whitehead “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” HL Mencken First came 9/11, which the government used to transform itself into a police state. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, …

“A Good Investment”: The Ukraine War and the US Arms Racket

It all tallies.  War, investments and returns.  The dividends, solid, though the effort expended – at least by others – awful and bloody.  While a certain narrative in US politics continues in the vein of traditional cant and hustling ceremony regarding the Ukraine War – “noble freedom fighters, we salute you!” twinned with “Russian aggressors […]

The Real Threat From China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are

The Biden regime’s robotic procession to Beijing proceeds apace. Following Antony Blinken’s fruitless visit in mid–June, we have paid Janet Yellen’s airfare for another fruitless visit, and following Yellen it was the same for John Kerry. This week it is Gina Raimondo’s turn. The secretary of state, the Treasury secretary, the chief climate envoy, and the commerce secretary: What is […]

Elliot Abrams Was a CIA Agent According to Daughter of CIA-Mafia Liaison

Appointment of Abrams to Public Diplomacy Commission Shows President Biden’s Close Ties to the CIA In September 1998, Desiree A. Ferdinand gave a sworn deposition, in a case filed with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, detailing the career of her father, Colonel Albert V. Carone, an army intelligence officer in World War II who […]

In the U.S., Investigative Journalists Are Blacklisted, Ostracized and Even Jailed; in New Zealand, They are Honored

Nicky Hager received major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and exposing other state crimes Julian Assange has, thus far, spent years in a British prison, awaiting extradition to the U.S., where he faces charges under the Espionage Act, for which he could […]

The Coup Against the Third World: Chile, 1973

In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the 11 September coup against Chile’s Popular Unity government, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Instituto de Ciencias Alejandro Lipschutz Centro de Pensamiento e Investigación Social y Política release a new dossier analysing the coup and its effects on the Third World and non-aligned countries. On 11 […]

Educating the US Imperium: Australia’s Mission for Assange

An odder political bunch you could not find, at least when it comes to pursuing a single goal.  Given that the goal is the release of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange makes it all the more striking.  Six Australian parliamentarians of various stripes will be heading to Washington ahead of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s October visit […]